So, I’m trying to make sure my Steam Wishlist from 2024 (April-December) is small enough that I can play. I have about 250 hours at most (after repeatedly raising the limit).
Does anyone here have strong thoughts about any of these games that can help me decide? I’m in no rush to finish (since I’m a moderately patient gamer) but I figured some people here would have useful opinions.
Maybe one of these games has problematic developers, or maybe they’re just boring.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts.
- Vampire Therapist (18h)
- Tactical Breach Wizards (12-20h)
- Cryptmaster (11-14h)
- ANIMAL WELL (7-11h)
- Sorry We’re Closed (8h)
- Last Time I Saw You (3-7h)
- Still Wakes the Deep (5-6h)
- Neva (4-6h)
- Anthology Of The Killer (4-5h)
- INDIKA (4-5h)
- Completely Stretchy (3h)
- Tiny Glade (4h)
- NAIAD (3-4h)
- Mini Mini Golf Golf (3h)
- Dollmare (2h)
- Children of the Sun (4h)
- Botany Manor (4h)
- Grunn (5h)
- Chroma Zero (10h)
- Psychopomp (2h)
- Ten Bells (2h)
- Robot Detour (4h)
- Imaginary Friend Asylum (4h)
- I Am Your Beast (3-6h)
- The Powder Toy (NA)
- Prickle (2h)
- Squirrel with a Gun (5h)
- BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3 (2h)
- Already bought (76-96h): WEBFISHING (26-30h), Lorn’s Lure (10h), 1000xRESIST (11-13h), Valley Peaks (5-11h), Arctic Eggs (3h), Mouthwashing (2-3h), Lost Diskettes Vol.1 (2-3h), CLICKOLDING (1h), Dread Delusion (16-22h)
- Short (<2h): Void Whispers (0.5h), Lake Minnewaska (0.5h), Short Trip (Short), Backspace Backspace Backspace (Short), Egg Squeeze (1h), Buckshot Roulette (1-2h), PROXIMATE (1-2h), Miniatures (1h), Some Goodbyes We Made (1-2h), This Is Not Your House (Short)
- Free (Haven’t sorted yet): Classic Marathon Infinity, Seraphim Slum, Veil Transfer, Dreamline 404, Parts of the Elephant, Sandwich Sim, Finn Dorset’s Institute For Livestock Replication, Sarpedon, Until Oblivion, Wittle Mistakes - Prologue, Ignited Entry, Mirth Melody, DEAD LAMB WALKING, Bleeding Roots, Gorble, [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap, Krypta FM, you’re just imagining it, The Big Catch: Tacklebox, With Shining Eyes, Mimic Search, Escape 51, Dreaming After You
- Only if they add a demo: Heading Out (6h), Broken Lens (5-9h), Hauntii (8-11h), Starstruck Vagabond (16h), Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (17-20h), Fruitbus (24h)
- Only because they have a demo: Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure (6h), Cataclismo (6-10h), Liminalcore (Beyond my graphics card), Psychopomp GOLD, Dungeons of Hinterberg, Little Ghosthunter, 6-Sided Stories, Until Then (25h), HITM3 (4h), Zero-Sum Heart (7h)
Didn’t read the whole list, but Tactical Breach Wizards is amazing. It’s a must play if you’re into the genre.
Are y’all trying to lure me to the dark side (i.e. hermit life)?
But Tactical Breach Wizards, I played the Next Fest demo and enjoyed it but removed it from my wishlist because they took down the demo. More than games that just never put out a demo, a game that puts one out and then consciously decides to take it down, those tend to be bad more often than not.
They put the demo back up so now it’s back on the list. Not a fan of complicated time-travel plots, I’ve been burnt before with them, but I’m intending to give it the benefit of the doubt.
It’s been a minute since I last played it, but the time travel is mostly just a story reason for the ability to undo moves in-game. The story is more character driven.
Specifically I don’t like how time travel can render all the events of the narrative mute, and also because I just can’t imagine beating a chronomancer in combat (and the antagonist is a chronomancer according to the marketing).
If it’s just a maximum of 10-seconds of time travel then that’d solve both those issues.
Some of these games actually have demos you can try to get a feel for yourself if you actually want the full game or not.
That said, Tiny Glade isn’t really a “game” so much as a chill town/castle builder that you take screenshots of. It’s cool, it’s pretty, I have it, but only get it if you’re wanting something like Townscaper or Dystopika.
I’ve played a lot of the demos, but either I’m still undecided on a lot of them. After playing the Tiny Glade demo, I put it in my “undecided” folder and then moved it to my “want” folder. I don’t do well with structureless games but Tiny Glade really seems like one of those must-haves.
Tiny Glade is definitely gonna be one I need to think more about.
Why remove them? If they look good enough to buy, do it, and get around to the others eventually.
These are just the ones released this year. Next year there’ll be more. And there are games from last year I haven’t gotten to (and the classics on top of that). Leaving the list too big means I miss a lot of them and the ones I do play would be based on gut instinct.
Perhaps at this point there’s no better option than gut instinct, now that I’ve exhausted basically all other criteria. I guess there are more fundamental questions I should be asking myself about how to handle the post-scarcity world of art.
Yup. Personally now that I’m an adult and have Responsibilities, I spend less time playing games. I hardly even follow new games coming out, and just work on recommendations from friends, or stuff from developers whose games I’ve enjoyed in the past.
I’m into discovering those unexpected hidden gems, but I’m also into those recommendations and those Zachtronics or Bennett Foddy games. Combined with my limited time … I think I’m gonna have to “kill my darlings” … and of course I can’t even imagine doing that which is probably why I’m so stuck in life.
