Monthly in a Month #22: The Holiday Edition

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Oooh nice, will make another attempt this month! Thank you for holding this event month after month :)

I'll add games once I play them. I have a category ready to pick from...

Edit: Yeaaah Sleeping Dogs distracted me a bit to much, then with visiting fam for about a week, not going to make it this month - oh well, success in finding a game I got sucked into and really enjoyed with Sleeping Dogs!

Got some holidays to claim at work till end off year, so I may try out for second time, but will take it slowly and not adding whole list of games at once to replace them every third day.

i think i'll join this month since i got some games that i haven't played yet. hopefully i got the time to play them all.

Bump ;)

Okay its been a while since I actually committed fully to this event. Should've waited a month to do framed dammit! But my recent win evoland fits so yay 2 birds with 1 stone! I saw you play marvel recently, was suprised by how short it was compared to how many achievements you gained

I got enough unplayed Humble Choice games to participate in this again, so let's go. I didn't get most of these from actual Humble Choice though - just bought them on sale in other places. I hope that's alright.

I'm in once again!

Yet have to pass this month.

Ooh, GotG!

Thank you for the continued Monthlies in a Month

My games this month:

Size Matters (May 2021)

Achievements - "True expert"

Size Matters has some amusing concepts, but it's hard for me to get into very "make-your-own-fun" type sandboxes which this mostly is. The settings offer some structure but it feels like the real fun is in the custom settings and trying to make your own challenges.

The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines (January 2021)

Achievements - "Forever Fractured"

The Ambassador is pretty much the definition of an okay game. It's a competent enough twin-stick shooter with pixelated art, with some bullet hell elements on some of the bosses. I did like the ability to flexibly travel between the main worlds to try different stages.

Assisted difficulty probably makes the game too easy since you can die repeatedly and not lose anything, but I did appreciate having it on some of the bosses, especially the final one.

Tiny Echo (June 2017)

Achievements - "Delivery Done"

The art and concept in Tiny Echo are novel, mixing familiar creatures with more bizarre ones. Some of what you have to do to proceed could get confusing, but it's a pretty small game so it's hard to knock it too much for that.

TSIOQUE (November 2020)

Achievements - "And they lived happily ever after...?"

TSIOQUE definitely suffers from that adventure-game syndrome of "clicking on this works, while clicking on this other unique thing does nothing." There are also a lot of game-over states and scenes that require surprisingly quick reaction time for an adventure game, but luckily the game's checkpointing and auto saving is generous so you can immediately try again.

The plot was something that I could predict, but was still charming in its execution.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (November 2021)

Achievements - "Turnip boy"

Some of the humor is a bit too... online, even for me (a random NPC recites a modified Navy Seal copypasta at you, and that's it; that's the whole joke). But the humor that does hit is charming, and the music is full of bops. Combat is a bit simplistic, but works well enough to sustain the game for its runtime.

Lethal League Blaze (September 2020)

Achievements - "Clear skies"

For the story mode itself, it's a pretty standard fighting game story mode; not too engaging, but ultimately short enough that it's not too bad. The game has some interesting concepts, and I wonder if Knockout City was at all inspired by some of the mechanics in Lethal League, but I don't have the patience or internet connection to join the small Discord community and play Lethal League competitively.

Gonna try for this month. Haven't done this in a long while!

1. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
2. FRAMED Collection
3. Minoria
4. The Spiral Scouts
5. The Survivalists
6. Lacuna

I actually have the game this time so I can take a break! I will probably try to keep it up in terms of backlog clearing but focus on some non hb games this month, goodluck to everyone else bump ^^

been a while since i've done this. really missed it tbh.

1. maneater
2. narita boy
3. quantum break
4. wildfire
5. owlboy
6. [some game]()

Thanks for another community event this month! Happy Holidays!

1. Hiveswap: Act 1
2. Size Matters
3. The Stillness of the Wind - Credits
4. Timelie
5. Tohu
6. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Happy holidays Cj! Had this lineup planned for a bit (but with a surprise addition for me).

edit: Might be busy these nexy few days so need to swap one or two things out for shorter games.

I am here again, for the last event of the year, same as last year. :D
Happy holidays and thank you for the challenge. :)

Mobius Front '83 - November 2021 - Unfinished
Figment - September 2018 - Unfinished
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion - November 2021 - Unfinished

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

Little Nightmares

198x

A Short Hike

Catherine Classic

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York

Thank you for the event Cj!

Been a while, but here i go:

1) Sniper Elite 3
2) Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion