Hello All,

It’s that time of the year again – my birthday is approaching at the end of the week. Therefore, here is the third edition of my game title association puzzle.

This year I have prepared 2 stages with 10 questions each. The main goal is the same as in the previous two puzzles – there is an image that I associate with a name of a game on Steam. All answers are direct association with the name of the games only – you don’t need any knowledge about the game or its storyline etc. The connections may be based on what you see on the image, but it may include synonyms, similar sounding words, word play etc.

Take a look at the previous two editions and their answers to get examples: 2013 and 2014.

Three non-bundle game giveaways await you – one after stage 1; and two after stage 2. The later two games have never been 75% off on Steam(at least according to SteamDB and IsThereAnyDeal). The giveaways end with my birthday at 10th May 23:59 GMT+3(in about four days from now).

No contribution level required.

The standard puzzle rules apply - do not share answers, hints, links or any other puzzle-related information!

Here is the puzzle link: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/kBhCqAFW

And here are two small bundle games for these people who are not keen on puzzles but have checked this thread:
Gumboy
Thomas Was Alone

Good luck!

PS: Stay tuned as I may drop hints for the hardest questions over the next few days.

Hints here

Solution here

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Bump for solved

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Bump for solved (that sensation when the answer turns green...)

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I just cant get stage 1 q3 and q9... jesus

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how come stage1 q9 isnt ducktales? god damn it

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lol, ok :D

9 years ago
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Oh my god you were, right.... god damn it... so dumb

9 years ago
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Damn! You are so clever with it! Best puzzle I have ever saw! Hope I will guess all of them.

9 years ago
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I'm stuck on P1Q5. Good there's still a day left

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Still can't figure out P1Q5 and 8. Tried everything I could think of for 5 and none of them work. 8 I just have no clue. I may just throw in the towel which is disappointing. Was hoping to at least mess around with P2

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Think of other interpretations. I was also stuck as I focused too much on the foreground.

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I've tried every interpretation I have for the entire picture. Without some form of a hint for those 2 I doubt I'll get them.

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Yea, I've got 3 and 5 to go on the first one.

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P2 questions 2 and 7-9 to go
Finally got Q2

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I'm still having trouble with puzzle 2, Q's 2, 7, and 9.

BUMP~!

EDIT: And now I have everything but the most-hard-to-solve Question 9!

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Yeah, I'm giving up. The hints don't help me at all, and I did like 250 guesses. Just over my head, I think.
Thanks for stage 1 though, that was fun.

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can't get Q7 at first puzzle :'(

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BUMP for solved on both~! Damn those second puzzles are hard!

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2, 7 and 9 are too hard for me even with hints :C Was so close. Anyway thanks for great puzzle.
@edit damn, only 9th left, I will said that again: best puzzle ever!
@edit2 i did it! :D:D

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Bump for finally solved !

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Bump for solved!

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Something is wrong, there are 47 solvers for the 1st part, but 70 players for the 2nd part...

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Can be multiple anonymous solvers on different browsers?

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If there was only a few more players, maybe, but it would be weird that half of the solvers decided to switch browser at some point during part 2

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I think that many people simply try to brute force Q9. After all, the puzzle has 3500+ guesses so I suppose that they are using multiple browsers as they do not want to wait 30 secs in between each attempt.

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I'm stuck on Stage 1, Questions 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 :( These are harder than other puzzles I've done on here.

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S1Q10 is impossible I think :(
Thanks for the puzzles though, they are great!

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Bump for solved + Happy Birthday!

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Finally got Q9. This one required a very abstract approach. Only Q7 left

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Now that the giveaways have ended, would you please post the answers?

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+1
I could only got 4 answers in P2
I thought Q4 would be Darwinia or Bioshock & Q9 would be The Escapists

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Fuck I totally forgot about this game, and it does not appear if you search the store for evolution

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i no have P1Q3 and P1Q5, no ideas

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Here is the solution:

Stage 1:

  1. Dead Island
  2. AudioSurf
  3. DiRT
  4. The Wolf Among Us
  5. Wasteland or The Waste Land
  6. Journey of a Roach
  7. LIMBO
  8. VVVVVV
  9. Thief or Tiny Thief
  10. Carmageddon

Link to ITH solution page with all acceptable answers for Stage 1: here

Stage 2:

  1. Risk of Rain
  2. Overlord
  3. Hard Reset
  4. Evolve
  5. Rocksmith
  6. Cave Story+
  7. Company of Heroes
  8. Dracula Origin
  9. FlatOut
  10. Transistor

Link to ITH solution page with all acceptable answers for Stage 2: here

Thank you to all that tried to solve the puzzles and congrats to all the solvers! Those who did not manage to finsh it - I hope I did not frustrated you too much.

Winners, your games are distributed. Please check your e-mails :)

Once again, thank you all for the nice wishes and for the great joy you gave me :)

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Closed 9 years ago by ZaknazaaR.