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)
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.