Update (2017-02-02)

I went through the replies to the application post, and counted 74 users who reported they finished games they played in the challenge! Great work everyone! Some of you finished several games, but I just counted you once, since one game was the only thing required to finish the challenge. Some might have finished games but not updated, or written about it in some other part of the thread, so the real numbers are probably even higher.

It's a shame I was away from home for much of the month and couldn't keep up with the topic, but I'm very happy about how many participated and played some won games!


Update (2017-01-04)

After 24 hours, I counted 92 replies to the application post, and it's great to know so many are up for playing some games won on Steamgifts!

If you replied with the game you intend to play in January as a regular reply to the thread and didn't reply to that specific post, add a reply there as well, since I won't be going through every page of the thread at the end of the month, I'll only check the replies to the first post when I do the end of the month count-up.


Original message:

Happy New Year everyone!

Now, most of us here have won some games on Steamgifts, and few of us have played through all the games we won. Some might not have played a single of the won games, so how about starting the first month of the new year with a little challenge, and try to inspire each other to play at least one game won here on Steamgifts?
Why?

  1. Playing games is fun (if you don't think so, isn't Steamgifts the wrong place for you? ;D)
  2. Some stranger you met on the internet (in most cases) was kind enough to buy a game for you, why not appreciate that gesture by playing the game?

Let's start out with a game that can be "finished" / "beaten". Games with a story mode, or even a simple puzzle game with a finite set of levels. The goal for the month is to play and finish this game. It's OK to play a game you have already started previously, but this time make sure to play the game all the way through.

Reply to this post with a comment about what game you intend to finish during the month. At the end of the month, reply to your own post, telling us about your progress. Bonus points for taking screenshots :) I'll try to add up how many games we managed to finish together at the end of the month. If you play more than one game, that's great, but only one needed for this challenge.

If you have limited time and want to know how much time you would expect to spend with a game before finishing it (to know if it's doable in one month) I recommend checking How Long To Beat.

If you can't remember which of your won games you have played and which you still have to finish, a good tool to use is this script by kelnage. Especially good to keep track of games with achievements, since it lists achievement progress for games, so you can see which ones you have started, not started, and likely finished, going by achievements.

I hope some of you will join in this month, have some fun and play some good games! Doesn't matter if you until now have played most of your wins or not a single one - every game played this month is one more game won on Steamgifts that got some love from its new owner :)

Advanced users who are ready to fight their backlog for real might be interested in joining BLAEO, a great tool that syncs your steam library and makes it easy to sort your backlog into lists with a slick drag-and-drop interface, accompanied by a great community and nice social functions, a real inspiration for getting a good start with playing one's backlog.

Since all challenge entries are posted as a reply on the first page, the rest of the thread can be used for discussion, maybe "suggest a game I should play" and whatnot.

Too keep the part with entry posts clean until I do the final count-up of finished games by the end of the month, I'll avoid replying too much to the entry posts.

7 years ago*

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The Talos Principle - thanks to Krogan and year three of SG Secret Santa! I've unlocked 45% of the achievements so far... and will 100% soon enough!

7 years ago
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Nice! Do you have the DLC too (Road to Gehenna)? It's required for 100% achievements.

I also won The Talos Principle here on Steamgifts, and had a great time with it. Don't have the DLC, and I did not get all stars, so not quite 100% achievements for me. I'll return to it with the DLC some day, it's supposed to be quite good :)

7 years ago
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I picked up the DLC almost immediately (since the winter sale was going... that was really cheap), but I haven't played that part yet.

7 years ago
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I have already done that several times. Whenever I win a game here I at least give it a try and if it turns out to be good, I complete it.

7 years ago
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That's great! You're not alone when it comes to that, but this thread is to inspire everyone, even those who don't play many of their won games. I have played 91 of my won games and finished 76. The ones I've played but not finished are all games I'll keep on playing and finish, so far I've enjoyed every one :) I have a few very nice games to get to as well, 2017 is going to be a fun gaming year.

7 years ago
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damn u have completed a lot of games you won. I completed just a few.

7 years ago
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Tick Tock Isle was completed, so was Dyscourse, Wrath of Anna was marked Hidden.
Continuing my journey with Never Alone.

7 years ago
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Great, don't forget to reply to the post where I'll do the counting from (if you haven't already).

7 years ago
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I never joined up for it. I just thought the topic was a good idea, and was already playing my backlog when I saw this.

Letting people know it can be done just might give them some encouragement.

7 years ago
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I itend to finish Lego Marvel's Avengers. I'm on the foruth or fifth mission :P

7 years ago
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Nice, but reply to the post on the first page so I'll have all the entries at one place :) Chances are that I will miss some if they are spread on different pages through the discussion.

7 years ago
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ive been planning on finishing Civilization 5 hahaha

7 years ago
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Hard thing to do!

Let's start out with a game that can be "finished" / "beaten". Games with a story mode, or even a simple puzzle game with a finite set of levels.

Even harder with those rules ;)

Still a great game that is a lot of fun to play. Just one more turn and all that :D It's my second most played game on Steam.

7 years ago
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ye just 1 more turn lol. im trying to finish psychonauts and assasins creed haha

7 years ago
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If they are SG wins, add them to the first post if you're in for the challenge.

7 years ago
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I'll play Oxenfree
Also Violett and the Witcher (I didn't "won" them here, but got them from some nice people)

7 years ago
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It needs to be a game won from Steamgifts to count for the challenge, and make sure to reply to the first post if you're in.

7 years ago
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ok

7 years ago
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had to restart hand of fate because it deleted my savegame with an update, don't know when but last time i played it was 1-2 months ago... made me extremely frustrated and angry. -.-

anyway, replayed all the stages/bosses and gonna try to finish it today.

yes, i should reply to the first post but it's a mess of comments there

7 years ago
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and done -.-

7 years ago
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I will put it as a single comment here aswell.:)
Small giveaway for game I choose myself for this challenge: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/VCpLo/gnomes-garden (level 2+ and ends in 35 minutes).:)

7 years ago
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Aww yeah, time for a 30 impossible levels marathon :P

7 years ago
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I've won Va-11-Hall-A few days ago. I'm not that familiarized with VNs, but this one looks pure gold, with amazing pixel art (even better with the scanlines effect) and one of the most beautiful/awesome soundtracks I've listened this year LOL 20 days. Overall, is a great press-next-simulator, but the characters and dialogs make this game a clear 10/10.

7 years ago
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Started Skydew Valley and love it... will take a long time as my 3 boys -children, are also addicted and there is only one computer...

7 years ago
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tell them to play outside and farm more

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7 years ago
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busy with doom now win from docam ❤️
such a great game. so much to unlock and "explore", way better than the originals.

7 years ago
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That's high praise. I thought the original DOOM and DOOM 2 were excellent (no nostalgia goggles here, I played DOOM for the first time in 2013).

7 years ago
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Well, I might have taken things a bit too literally :P 9 won games beaten this month.
Guild of Dungeoneering, Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters, Batman - The Telltale series, Warhammer Quest, Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon, Shadwen, Pitri 1977, Tormentum - Dark Sorrow and Battle Group 2.

7 years ago
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I managed seven games! I might be able to sneak in one or two more over the weekend but I'm currently trying to get a little closer to 100% in some games I finished. It will be interesting to see how many games we all finished in total. Also a bump to encourage any last minute entrants :D

7 years ago
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Finished Fahrenheit, a game I won long time ago. I remembered it pretty much everything from the good old ps2 days but I gained all of the achievements. All of them were extremely easy and you don't need to do different playthroughs.

I also finished the main story or main game or whatever of Lego Marvel's Avengers. It was nice and I enjoyed it but... I have the feeling nowadays Lego's games are everytime the same. They just change the skin of the characters and thats it. Game is also super short and they force you to buy several DLCs if you are an achievement hunter. Game is fun and recommended.

Played styx but didn't finished... Not at all... It's a little bit hard

7 years ago
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It's a little bit hard

you tell me -_- stupid insects, crossbows armored guards, useless jumps... i'm suffering so much.

7 years ago
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I've decided to go for quantity instead of quality. I've beaten 68 SG wins/97 games in total. You can see the complete list in this post.
I won't be able to repeat this numbers for a long time, maybe ever, so I tried my best. For anyone else strugling with a huge backlog, I just wanna say that it's possible!
Thanks for the post tso, It was the incentive I needed to do it!

7 years ago
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Month's almost over! How did it go, everyone?
I didn't join but I managed to beat 3 of them :)

7 years ago
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Not part of the challenge, but my latest win was for Beyond Eyes and I immediately played and finished it (100% achievements) - it was definitely very satisfying and I can only recommend it. :)

7 years ago
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bump for finishing doom and almost getting styx done 😁

7 years ago
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I won torchlight 2 :) I played it all the way through on outlander once. Pretty good games but for some reason it makes me think of fate. Didn't 100% the achievments yet but did get a full playthrough.

7 years ago
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Bad timing of me to be away for most of the month, but now I'm finally back, so this thread is up for some updates and comments from me tomorrow!

7 years ago
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Yay, end of Jan. Played a whole bunch of games. Mostly Stardew Valley.

7 years ago
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Just in time: I won and finished Shadowrun Hong Kong in January.

7 years ago
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SG wins completed this month:

  • Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
  • Mars: War Logs

Started another SG win last night, Elite: Dangerous. But it's open-ended with no achievements, so I likely won't record it as part of a BLAEO batch.

7 years ago
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January finishes (SG wins only) --

  • Kaboom Monsters (at least until they add the next map)
  • Dreamfall Chapters
  • Dungetris (again until they add more content)
  • Super Star
  • The Book of Demons (waiting on the 3rd character class)
  • Duke Nukem Forever
  • Refunct
  • Over the Hills and Far Away (may have been December?)
  • Leviathan Last Day of the Decade
  • and I think I may have missed a couple, but whatever.

Started in January (likely to be more) -

  • Concrete Jungle
  • CastleStorm
  • Cosplpay Maker
  • Deadbolt
  • Clash of Puppets
  • Highlands
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Closed 7 years ago by tso184.