In April there was plenty of backlog progress:

  • 2123 achievements have been achieved
  • 1045.9 hours have been played
  • 119 games have been beaten
  • 50 people have participated.

Great job everyone! Hope to see you again this month :)

Due to timezones/people not being online 24/7 I am still accepting any edits/applications for April for the next couple of days (till the April thread is closed).


The theme for this month is

May the 4th be with you

Games that qualify for it are:
Star Wars games
Space games
Sci-Fi games
Games that have a "4" in their appID - if you don't know how to check the appID see below this list
Games that take around 4 hours to complete according to HLTB - HowLongToBeat website. Any of the 3 times (main story, main + extras, completionist) can be used.
Games that there is 4 of them in the series - can be whichever game in the series
Games where there is a character named May in it (or any variant of it)
Games a 4 year old could play - aka children appropriate games
Games with 4 way co-op
Games with 4 in the name

How to know the appID of the game?
Go to the store page of the game and check the URL (for example: https://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/Borderlands_2/ ) the number between "/app/" and the name of the game is the appID (for example: 49520)

Since pretty much everyone should find something they could play there is no bonus non theme option this month. If you really can't find anything to play let me know and if your percentage of unplayed wins is low enough I will accept normal backlog games instead :)


Leaderboard

The leaderboard can be found as the first comment and I will try to update it every weekend.

Here is a sample formatting for a table that you can use for you comments that would show all the data nicely. Of course feel free to add any columns that you would like.

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
[Name of the game](link to the store page) [no. of achievement achieved](link to achievements) Hours played Space/Sci-Fi/appID/... Beaten/Completed/Unfinished

You can copy paste the formatting for your comment here:

Game | Achievements | Hours of Playtime | Subcategory | Status 
:-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: 
[Name of the game](link to the store page) |  [no. of achievement achieved](link to achievements) | Hours played |  Space/Sci-Fi/appID/...| Beaten/Completed/Unfinished

NEW: you can also link to a BLAEO list of games you would like to apply with in your comment instead of the chart, but in that case please link also link to your recently played list as well. If you need help with that let me know.


Theme for June

In the poll below you can vote which theme you would like to be the theme for next month. You can find the original comments here:

Through the eyes of a child
Board games
Music Day


Theme for July

Do you think you have a good idea for a theme for July? Leave it in the comments bellow. If I get more than 1 suggestion I will list them in the poll next month and the one with the most votes will become June's theme.


Giveaway

This month I will be giving away a copy of Finding Paradise to everyone who has beaten at least 1 win in May.

Samwise84 will also be giving away: Tropico 5 and Human: Fall Flat, thank you <3

You will receive the link(s) to the giveaway(s) at the end of the month.


Have already completed all your wins?

Then feel free to participate with your normal Steam backlog instead :)


Useful links:

Steam group - please don't bother requesting to join unless I told you to do so, you will get denied.
How Long to Beat
Do You Even Play, Bro? – kelnage’s script
BLAEO website - BLAEO application thread


Previous months:

2019: January - February - March - April
2018: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2017: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December


I think I have covered everything, if you think I have missed something somewhere, have any suggestions or questions please don't hesitate to let me know :)

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Which theme would you like to see for June?

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Through the eyes of a child - Games where the protagonist is a child, Family Friendly, Childhood favorites, Fantasy, Adventure, Cartoon, Retro, Pixelart, Classics, 2D games, LEGO games
Board games - Digital board games + puzzle/memory/paper games like sudoku, crosswords, world searches,...
Music Day - Rythme games, haracter being a musician/singer/bard, "blind" games using mostly sounds to progress, great soundtracks, games that "sound weird"

Just did a more proper update for the leaderboard :) and realized I am missing 2 people that are in the Steam group from my spreadsheet, time to go hunt those people down :D

If you find any mistakes looks at Cece let me know :)

Edit: hunted the 2 missing people down :)

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you are missing ninglor. We need to shame them for not starting their choices

4 years ago
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Nope, she didn't play either of her picks this month so far.

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this is why i said add to shame!

4 years ago
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Ahhhhhhh now I get it :D

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nice shame list i love it

4 years ago
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Shame on me! \o/
PoP consumed me o.o

4 years ago
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oh no you caught me trying to shame you. I saw you playing your pop for ages

4 years ago
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Still playing. Still ages :D
I'm ignoring the walk of shame happy

4 years ago
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well you did badly last month for pop since I saw your reaction it's no wonder you pick that from this. Either way you get a shame

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I shall bear (bare?) my cross :]

4 years ago
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Reminded me of this movie :D

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4 years ago
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I am not sure I wanna know if it is a movie where the mouse it is being hunted or if the mouse hunts thing :D ... or if it has actually nothing to do with mice :D

4 years ago
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It's about two idiots who try to catch a mouse, but the mouse is way too smart for them ;)

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Good good :D

4 years ago
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I had mistake in my table, just realized it. Achievements and playtime was okay, total games — 4 instead of 3. Thanks! ^^

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I was wondering about that one, but I decided to just go along with what your comment said since the playtime and achievements were up to date, fixed! Thanks for letting me know :)

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A "update your comments because it is almost the end of the month" bump and a little sneak peak

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There are some issues with the event website right now so bear with me if everything is a bit late today. Very related: anyone got any ideas about how to fix a part of a site not loading properly across 1 single network (aka loads for everyone just fine except for any device connected to my home internet, but as soon as you switch it to for example mobile internet it works fine)? Except the restart your router solution, that did not help.

4 years ago
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I'm really not an expert in networks, but it does look like a DNS issue. I would try switching to Google's DNS, to see if it helps.

4 years ago
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Nope, sadly not the issue :/

4 years ago
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Well one other idea is to try using a VPN in case it's because of your ISP's firewall.

4 years ago
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It is not the firewall 100% it worked 2 days ago and it is just a part of the site that it doesn't load. And I do not wanna login with Steam using a free VPN. If there is no way of fixing it by midnight I will probably just do what I have to do via mobile data on a phone.

4 years ago
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Mystery solved: it was Cloudflare cache. I wanna die now, took 4 hours to figure that out.

4 years ago
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Congrats on solving it!
Please don't die, we need our PAGYWOSG Overlord! :)

4 years ago
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The biggest punch in the gut was when I told my boyfriend what was wrong and the answer from him was: "oh, I thought you knew about that". Well thanks...I sure didn't and that would have saved everyone a lot of time T.T

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thats what happens when you put any sort of hope in a male, this is just another showing of how we females are the superior race even if we have smaller brains and from what I saw in my brain games episode we function so much better on less sleep then they do too

4 years ago
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Lmao, I sure did not expect this as a response. He is useful... sometimes :P

4 years ago
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Also how the hell did you manage to figure the link out and login?! I saw it earlier already but it is bothering me more and more how :D

4 years ago
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I found the closed post, sorry! :)
Couldn't resist checking out the site :)

4 years ago
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Ahhhhhh, it is not closed anymore ;D

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Thanks for the heads-up! :)

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Take your time :)

4 years ago
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The last month leaderboard will get done in the tomorrow (morning since it is past midnight for me) for sure, but with Junes event we are slowly getting there :)

4 years ago
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Ok, finally done with May. I know there are many many mistakes so scream and shout about it if I wronged you so I can fix it :)
Also if someone didn't get the giveaway links and they should please let me know too.

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God I am glad I never have to do all this manually again.

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My stats for May:

Game: D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Achievements: 24
Hours of Playtime: 6.2 hours
Subcategory: Games with "4" in the name
Status: Unfinished/Partially Completed

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The subcategory is "Games with 4 in the name" but added to the leaderboard :)

4 years ago
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Corrected.

Playing D4, the greatest challenge was working out how to play the game. The interface and control scheme were really awkward. I suspect the game was ported to the PC without any thought given to the platform.

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Closed 4 years ago by MouseWithBeer.