January is "play a game you won on Steamgifts" month - at least 74 users completed the challenge :)

Update (2017-02-02)

I went through the replies to the application post, and counted 74 users who reported they finished games they played in the challenge! Great work everyone! Some of you finished several games, but I just counted you once, since one game was the only thing required to finish the challenge. Some might have finished games but not updated, or written about it in some other part of the thread, so the real numbers are probably even higher.

It's a shame I was away from home for much of the month and couldn't keep up with the topic, but I'm very happy about how many participated and played some won games!

Update (2017-01-04)

After 24 hours, I counted 92 replies to the application post, and it's great to know so many are up for playing some games won on Steamgifts!

If you replied with the game you intend to play in January as a regular reply to the thread and didn't reply to that specific post, add a reply there as well, since I won't be going through every page of the thread at the end of the month, I'll only check the replies to the first post when I do the end of the month count-up.

Original message:

Happy New Year everyone!

Now, most of us here have won some games on Steamgifts, and few of us have played through all the games we won. Some might not have played a single of the won games, so how about starting the first month of the new year with a little challenge, and try to inspire each other to play at least one game won here on Steamgifts?
Why?

1. Playing games is fun (if you don't think so, isn't Steamgifts the wrong place for you? ;D)
2. Some stranger you met on the internet (in most cases) was kind enough to buy a game for you, why not appreciate that gesture by playing the game?

Let's start out with a game that can be "finished" / "beaten". Games with a story mode, or even a simple puzzle game with a finite set of levels. The goal for the month is to play and finish this game. It's OK to play a game you have already started previously, but this time make sure to play the game all the way through.

Reply to this post with a comment about what game you intend to finish during the month. At the end of the month, reply to your own post, telling us about your progress. Bonus points for taking screenshots :) I'll try to add up how many games we managed to finish together at the end of the month. If you play more than one game, that's great, but only one needed for this challenge.

If you have limited time and want to know how much time you would expect to spend with a game before finishing it (to know if it's doable in one month) I recommend checking How Long To Beat.

If you can't remember which of your won games you have played and which you still have to finish, a good tool to use is this script by kelnage. Especially good to keep track of games with achievements, since it lists achievement progress for games, so you can see which ones you have started, not started, and likely finished, going by achievements.

I hope some of you will join in this month, have some fun and play some good games! Doesn't matter if you until now have played most of your wins or not a single one - every game played this month is one more game won on Steamgifts that got some love from its new owner :)

Advanced users who are ready to fight their backlog for real might be interested in joining BLAEO, a great tool that syncs your steam library and makes it easy to sort your backlog into lists with a slick drag-and-drop interface, accompanied by a great community and nice social functions, a real inspiration for getting a good start with playing one's backlog.

Since all challenge entries are posted as a reply on the first page, the rest of the thread can be used for discussion, maybe "suggest a game I should play" and whatnot.

Too keep the part with entry posts clean until I do the final count-up of finished games by the end of the month, I'll avoid replying too much to the entry posts.