by d_w
Since 2014 I've been documenting every time I play a game and what I thought about it during that session. You can see all the previous lists here.
A session can be anywhere from a few minutes to many hours. Sessions that last longer than one block of time (illustrated below) are counted for each block individually. Sessions that cross over a block (like from 2:30 to 4) count towards the one that more time was spent in.
This will be unedited and likely full of typos and misspellings. The descriptions of my sessions may include story spoilers. Any spoilers will NOT be marked.
Here's the break down of the time of day:
| Time | Term | Time | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12am to 3am | Midnight | Noon to 3pm | Afternoon |
| 3am to 6am | Early Morning | 3pm to 6pm | Early Evening |
| 6am to 9am | Morning | 6pm to 9pm | Evening |
| 9am to Noon | Late Morning | 9pm to 12am | Late Evening |
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This is for all the various indie games that are not in the wiki yet. ~~~~~~ Witchcraft TD ~~~~~~ Played: 1/24. Late Morning. Enjoyed. Mobile. ~~~ Played: 2/1. Evening. PC Browser. ~~~ Played: 2/4. Early Morning. ~~~ Played: 2/5. Late Evening. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Whackerball ~~~~~~ Played: 2/8. Late Evening. Neutral. PC Stream. This game is an interesting match up but I found the controls difficult to wrap my brain around. I wonder if it has gamepad support. I'll probably play it again sometime. It'll be a good podcast game. ~~~ Played: 2/9. Late Evening. I'm just not sure how to play this game well. Like I don't know what the strategy is. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Ocean Axe ~~~~~~ Played: 2/10. Midnight. PC Stream. Mixed. The steam page said this game was a Metroidvania, but it's level based. Also the gamepad controls make you use the analog stick so the movement doesn't feel great. Nice graphics though, but definitely rough around the edges. I'll probably not play it again. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Dire Decks ~~~~~~ Played: 2/13. Midnight. PC Browser. Enjoyed. I saw this game going around twitter. It's alright. Really cool proof of concept if nothing else. ~~~ Played: 2/15. Midnight. Mixed. This game is OK but it really lack variety. Like there is set of cards that works the best. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Tower Tactics: Liberation ~~~~~~ Played: 2/13. Evening. PC Stream. Neutral. This is a Tower Defense mixed with a rogue-like. It seems very easy, but like I got a game breaking bug while I tried to place a tower and it persisted after reloaded my save. So I had to end my run. That sucks. ~~~ Played: 2/14. Afternoon. So I didn't have a game breaking bug this time and I completed a run. The game is very easy but it has some cool things going for it. ~~~ Played: 2/14. Late Evening. I just don't know how you could lose in this game... ~~~ Played: 2/17. Early Evening. ~~~ Played: 2/18. Midnight. I keep playing this and am waiting for it to get difficult. It's just such an easy game to veg out to while listening to a podcast. ~~~ Played: 2/23. Late Evening. I actually lost one! WOW. I tried the ascension level 1 for the basic deck. It's mostly came down to luck though. ~~~ Played: 2/28. Late Evening. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Ardein.Fall ~~~~~~ Played: 4/1. Afternoon. PC Steam. Mixed. This game has a cool premise but controls really poorly and seems really difficult. I didn't really like it. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Custodian: Beginning of the End ~~~~~~ Played: 4/1. Afternoon. PC Steam. Negative. This game seems to be trying to be a 2D dark souls type with very specific movement/etc, but it plays like shit and is largely annoying. I didn't like it. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Wizard's Way Out ~~~~~~ Started: 6/11. Late Evening. PC Itch. Enjoyed. This is a really cool and cute little block pushing puzzle game that is very clever. ~~~ Played: 6/12. Late Evening. I hit a wall last session and I don't think I can figure it out. Couldn't this time around. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Non-Stop Raiders ~~~~~~ Played: 6/14. Evening. PC Itch. Enjoyed. This is a fun little endless runner. It has some progression, but I think with it's scope and controls it maybe should have been a free game. It is fun for what it is though. ~~~ Played: 6/15. Late Evening. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Shadows of Forbidden Gods ~~~~~~ Played: 7/15. Early Evening. ~~~ Played: 7/15. Evening. Saw this game on Cohost and it's extremely cool. Gonna be playing a lot of it! ~~~ Played: 7/15. Late Evening. Restarted on a small map and WON. just by making the world covered in Darkness. The game is pretty cool but I wish there was a bit more too it. Definitely a good time sink though. ~~~ Played: 7/16. Midnight. Won another run with the first god. Never got to summon her, but did have a really cool Baroness that was just a hero Hunter, even killed the Chosen One. The game was over once I had the Monarch found the Dark Empire. Also the First Daughter is terrifying. I'll have to try to build towards her better. ~~~ Played: 7/16. Late Morning. ~~~ Played: 7/16. Afternoon. Lost because they killed the World Serpent. I did manage to make the Chosen One insane though. ~~~ Played: 7/16. Early Evening. I won one with the Laughing Tome, but I don't think I really understand victory conditions. ~~~ Played: 7/16. Late Evening. ~~~ Played: 7/17. Midnight. ~~~ Played: 7/17. Early Evening. ~~~ Played: 7/17. Evening. This massive map game is going surprisingly well. ~~~ Played: 7/17. Late Evening. Nope. Lost that one. haha. ~~~ Played: 7/21. Early Evening. ~~~ Played: 7/21. Evening. Played as the plant goddess. Her mechanics are interesting, but I don't really understand how they're supposed to work in the late game since they're effected by world panic and awareness. Also the game crashed. Ah well, I basically won that game anyway. ~~~ Played: 7/22. Late Morning. Finished up my game with the plant goddess and then played one as Mammon on a small map and it was SUPER EASY. I'll definitely play as him again on a much larger map. ~~~ Played: 7/22. Late Morning. Played a short game with the Hive Mind. They seem interesting. Took a while to get going, but once it did it really went fast. ~~~ Played: 7/22. Afternoon. ~~~ Played: 7/22. Early Evening. Won a game with Mammon on a 64x64 map. It was interesting and pretty easy. ~~~ ~~~~~~ The Wratch's Den ~~~~~~ Played: 11/25. Early Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Picked this up during the Steam sale. It's interesting but just kinda throws you into it. It's weird how you can only control one minion at a time. I wonder if I'm missing something. ~~~ ~~~~~~~ Otherwar ~~~~~~~ Played: 11/25. Early Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed. ~~~ Played: 11/25. Evening. This is an interesting if difficult/grindy TD/bullethell game. Seems pretty good so far. ~~~ Played: 11/26. Midnight. Mixed. I beat Normal and unlocked endless mode, but I think I'm done with this game. It actually became pretty easy (maybe hard is different) and the main challenge was just repeating the same exact waves over and over again. It wasn't very interesting in the end. I don't think I'll play it again. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Bosorka ~~~~~~ Played: 11/26. Late Morning. PC Steam. Enjoyed. This is a twin stick action roguelite sort of deal. It seems pretty good so far. I like the pretty witch lady and the music is real good. I do find some of the animations hard to read particularly for the boss of the first area but I suspect the game expects you to just be dashing away from an enemy if you're near one. I haven't really been doing that. ~~~ Played: 11/26. Afternoon. Beat the boss of the first area. The second area seems rough? I don't know what to do about those tornadoes. ~~~ Played: 11/26. Late Evening. Got to the Third Area! It turns out Souls are the universal currency but there's a lot you can spend on them during runs, which is interesting I guess. It does make reviving the familiars really costly. ~~~ ~~~~~~ Penny Blood: Hellbound ~~~~~~ Played: 12/14. Late Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed. This is in closed beta right now. It's an action roguelite, vaguely similar to Hades, but doesn't control as well. It's obviously drawing a lot of inspiration from Hades though. It's a side game to Penny Blood, which is a Shadow Hearts spiritual successor. I played about 2 hours of it. It's still pretty rough, but I think there is a lot of potential. I like the characters, art, and music (especially the music!!) The game calls the cast a group of "anarchists" and that made me cautious as I was wondering how they defined it. They do start the game with them bombing Wall Street, which is a thing anarchists at the time might have done and it is sick as hell. I am curious how much inspiration from historical anarchists they'll be drawing from if any or if they'll just be using the word is the more common way. So far the cast is pretty typical for this kind of fiction. They're bunch of weirdo murderer and criminals of various sorts. ~~~ Played: 12/16. Early Evening. Didn't come close to beating the first area yet. The metaprogression is very slow and not super well guided in this game as of yet. The main gameplay is pretty fun though. ~~~ Played: 12/16. Evening. ~~~ Played: 12/16. Late Evening. ~~~ Played: 12/17. Midnight. Beat the 2nd Area and thus the completed the current content. This game is A LOT of fun. Once you get stuff going you become very powerful. Unfortunately that takes a lot of runs right now. ~~~ Played: 12/23. Early Evening. Just wanted to do one run and had some fun. Once you get stuff upgraded this game becomes very easy with the melee characters. ~~~
Played: 1/7. Midnight. Enjoyed. PC Steam. Was finally feeling good enough to be awake a bit and play something. This is what I settled on. I did not do too well as the Ironclad. ~~~ Played: 2/2. Midnight. ~~~
Played: 1/7. Early Evening. Neutral. PC Steam. Finally broke down and bought this game. I don't think the tutorial is very good. ~~~ Played: 1/31. Midnight. Enjoyed. Ok I tried again and actually I'm doing alright. There's a lot I don't understand and am doing wrong, but I'm getting there and figuring it out. ~~~
Started: 1/19. Late Evening. Neutral. 3DS. ~~~ Played: 1/21. Evening. Mixed. I think this game is maybe not so good... Beautiful art though! ~~~
Played: 1/21. Early Evening. Mobile. Neutral. ~~~ Played: 1/23. Morning. ~~~ Played: 1/27. Late Evening. ~~~ Played: 1/30. Midnight. This game is not very good, I don't know why I'm playing it. I did get a new high score though. I guess that's something. ~~~ Played: 6/6. late Morning. ~~~
Played: 2/4. Late Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed. ~~~ Played: 2/5. Afternoon. ~~~ Played: 2/10. Midnight. ~~~ Played: 2/10. Afternoon. ~~~ Played: 2/10. Evening. I really love this game. It's so much fun. Once it matches you with people of equal skill, it's incredible. I just wish the weeklies and daylies gave me the GM because it's my favorite, but I'm enjoying the asshimar, turn A, and DOM now too. ~~~ Played: 2/11. Afternoon. ~~~ Played: 2/11. Evening. ~~~ Played: 2/12. Afternoon. ~~~ Played: 2/14. Late Evening. ~~~ Played: 2/16. Afternoon. ~~~ Played: 2/17. Midnight. ~~~ Played: 2/17. Early Evening. ~~~ Played: 2/18. Evening. ~~~
Played: 2/7. Afternoon. PC Steam. Enjoyed. This is a totally decent little matching game. It'll be a fine podcast game. ~~~ Played: 2/9. Late Evening. ~~~
Played: 2/8. Late Evening. PC Steam. Mixed. It's not my style of game. It's very much a "retro" platformer. Like you don't have variable jumping and you take a lot of unnecessary damage from silly things. I bet folks that like this sort of game really dig it, but it is not for me. I do not think I will be playing more of it. I find this style of game too frustrating. ~~~
Started: 2/10. Midnight. PC Steam. Enjoyed. This game seems extremely cool so far. A sort of mix between FE and Ogre Battle. I only played the first chapter and little bit after that, but it seems like my jam considerably!! ~~~ Played: 2/20. Late Evening. Finally got back to this game. Only played one more mission and messed with my party a bit. It continues to be really cool. ~~~ Played: 2/22. Late Evening. Oh no! the main character was betrayed and the rebels were actually the good guys!! Who could have seen this coming?! Trite story setup aside, this game is still very good and starting to get a little tough. The arena match was particularly tough. I'm also not sure how to make my non-main character units gain levels faster. They are so under powered. But maybe what you're supposed to do is have your main character level guys up and then cycle them out and give them their own units instead? I should try that!! ~~~ Played: 2/24. Midnight. My idea didn't quite work out like I thought it would, but that's fine. I now have a lot of units and am getting them leveled up pretty good. You really just have to look out for units with high LDR to make them squad leaders. ~~~ Played: 2/25. Late Evening. ~~~ Played: 2/26. Midnight. Lost my first battle because I put my hero in a bad spot. Whoops. ~~~
Played: 3/1. Evening. Mobile. Neutral. I knew this was going to be just another gacha game, but man is it one!! It even plays itself. I really like the art though. Probably won't play this much. These are not really my sort of game with how predatory they are once you get into them. ~~~