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📝:Humble Bundle May 2022 Humble Choice (#30)

There are apparently seven games included with Steam this time around.👀

Excited about this one, so I'll do my best to participate! Thank you for still doing this :D

• Black the Fall - COMPLETED (Achievement: Dead Man Walking) EXTRA PROOF
• Vane - COMPLETED (Achievement: Sacrifice)
• The Sexy Brutale - COMPLETED
• Mad Max - COMPLETED (Achievement: Downward Spiral Reawakening)
• Little Nightmares - COMPLETED (Achievement: The Lady's Quarters)
• Simulacra - COMPLETED (Achievement: You killed Anna)

1. Blasphemous - The Path of the Believer
2. Chicken Police - Paint It Red - Chicken Police is back together?!
3. Destroy All Humans - For the Glory of the Furon Empire!
4. Greak: Memories of Azur - Memories of Azur
5. Metro Exodus - Your Destination
6. Path of Giants - Archaeologist

Yay! I'm in

My fav from this run is Midnight Protocol. All others /except Paradise Lost/ are great games too
Thanks for a good push for my backlog! :D

after thinking about it, i guess i'll try to join and test my luck.

I've been watching this from the beginning and think it's finally time to join in! Here's my lineup:

[1] As Far As The Eye achievements: Chapter 1: Oku the Vigilant through Chapter 5: the Horned Chimera cover the five mini-campaigns that make up the tutorial/story mode. All other achievements are for unlocks, which are only awarded upon winning a normal game. (source)

[2] Path of Giants achievements:

• Beat the main game: Archaeologist
• Beat the bonus level: Gold!!!!
• Beat free Winterfest add-on: Ready for summer

Narita Boy: Despite a certain simplicity to the level design, I'm having a lot of fun with it. The only problem is that I started playing a day before the thread was posted, rendering it ineligible for this event. sadface

The Coma 2: Great game, enjoyed it just as much as I did the first one. I think it might have been a little easier to avoid Dark Song this time, but it didn't detract from the experience. Eagerly awaiting part 3!

As Far As The Eye: Deceptively difficult roguelike non-violent strategy game? My first tribe was wiped out by a persistent hailstorm--they barely managed to escape the storm and then promptly starved to death. Had better luck on my second try, but there were quite a few close calls!

GRIS: Gorgeous, meditative, lovely. Though I will admit the lack of direction and unsignaled points of no return really frustrated me at first. Even the ending caught me off guard while I was trying to explore! Luckily there's a chapter select so I can go back to see everything I missed.

Turok 2: I bought this purely for the nostalgia factor, and it delivered (despite never having played it before!). High points: the Lightship was just a fun level overall (despite its weird boss that didn't make any sense). Low points: infinite spider spawns in the Mantis Hive and majorly uncool rule changes in the final boss battle.

FRAMED Collection: Stylish light puzzle game. Fun, but the mechanics too easily devolve into trial and error rather than working it out. Struggled a bit with timing in the second half which wasn't great, but I managed. Didn't really understand the plot until the post-credits scene! but that was easy enough to forgive.

Chicken Police: I like it too much to play this month. HLTB says it's only 10 hours to finish, but I really want to take my time and enjoy it and my spare time is too limited to be able to do that in the time remaining. sadface number two

Path of Giants: Cute little puzzle game where three explorers have to cooperate to reach the treasure. The puzzle mechanics were better than those in FRAMED, but I still blew through it pretty quickly. There was hardly any challenge at all until I got to the Winterfest bonus campaign, which did require a bit of thought.

For Driftland, there are four campaigns (Human/Elf/Dwarf/Final). I finished the Human campaign, if that alone doesn't count, let me know and I will finish the others.

EDIT: Driftland is finished.

I may try, Tunic looks pretty. And has a fox!

Wow, Tunic is number 1 on my wishlist, I'll definitely give it a try! Thanks a lot for organising this once again.

Tunic? I'll give it a try.

Another month has begun! I always get so excited for these. Good luck everyone! Assassinate your backlog!
Bump~

Yay, Tunic^^ I'll see if I can beat some games this month too.

First Tuesday of the month is now CJ Day!
I am seriously looking forward to your Monthly event way waaaaay more than I am looking forward to the monthly reveal!

Daaaaamn they weren't kidding with the Difficult tag on Ring of Pain. Took me 14 hours to manage to finish a run... and it took many many runs.

I guess I should have taken a look at the reviews for Going Under and I'd never have played it right after. I thought Ring of Pain was hard? Jesus! Who the hell are the sadists who made this game? Haven't they heard of Hardcore Mode? There is no way the average completion time is 8 hours. The final boss took me almost 90 mn and 5 runs to beat! It's ridiculous. Only play it if you are not a completionist or if you are a masochist.

I draaaaaagged myself to the end of State of Mind because I hate to leave a game unfinished but ugh, that's probably one of the worst games I have played in the last couple of years. It was like being stuck on a date and having to sit through a 12 hour long boring movie. One pointless scene after the other. One unlikable character after another. It's only cyberpunk if you extend the definition to just anything featuring a robot.
Worst of all, it's a waste of a perfectly good premise, even though it's just a mashed up copy/paste job of everything from Bladerunner to Matrix, Humans and other games doing a better job of exploring it.

Darksburg was mindless fun but I won't play it again. Feels a bit empty.

All in all, I'm glad I played Do Not Feed the Monkeys, and most of all If Found, this month. The rest ranged from forgettable to mediocre to torturous.

If Found was a great way to finish the event and to start Pride Month. I'm not usually into visual novels because they just feel like reading a long boring novel written by a high school student most of the time. This really surprised me. The art was minimal but very well done and the way it was built as a game really kept you engaged with the story, which was well written. Nice indie.

1. Monster Sanctuary - April 2022

Welp, this is the first month that I was really interested in, only to discover I don't think I have enough games that are short enough for me to beat in a month [and I happened to start one of them Sunday]. Maybe I'll stalk past threads to make sure though to see what games are played in practice.

Actually, I think I might have enough short games if I actually focus on playing them. Finishing Forager for Play or Pay faster than expected helped as well.

Its been a while since I've completed so heres to another attempt!:

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I'm happy to finally have enough time to participate again! Thanks for always doing these, it's so fun to look through even in months I can't join but this time I'm in it to win it! =D

It's about time I return to this epic event.

It´s that lovely fox game as the prize! I´m definitely going to make it :D

1. Kathy Rain Completed
2. The Turing Test Completed
3. Broken Age Completed
4. Tacoma Completed
5. Bastion Completed
6. Evan´s Remains Completed

Thanks for the encouragement to tackle my backlog. Luv u. ♥

Hmm, I have Tunic wishlisted for a long time, so I'll join in.

Games started since the beginning of the event:

Framed Collection Completed (4hrs) Got a Light?
It wasn't what I expected, but I wasn't too disappointed. The game's artwork is gorgeous though. It plays a little like a comic strip in puzzle form, where you have to put the scenes in the correct order to advance.

Monster Sanctuary - Beaten (50 hours) Defeat Marduk Achievement
I had a lot of fun with Monster Sanctuary. Final boss was a bit of a nightmare, but worked out what I had to do to beat him in the end.

Iris and the Giant - Beaten. (9 hours) Unlocked Nightmare mode.
Weird story to this card game. It pretty fun though. Will require a few play throughs to get all the achievements I'd say. There's no "end game" achievement. Just have to replay it many times to get all of the achievements. Screenshot showing game completed for first time

Path of Giants - Now Completed. (7 hours) Archaeologist achievement is end game It's so cute and it's fun. I will go back and complete all the achievements and finish the bonus content later.

She Remembered Caterpillars (7.5 hours) Beaten, almost 100%. That last achievement is annoying. lol. Resilient

Evan's Remains (4.5 hours) Completed
Achievement:You did it