This is up a tiny bit early, but the other option would be very late tomorrow so I will pick this instead.

In January 25 people made their way to the leaderboard by playing their wins for 475.9 hours, achieving 1029 achievements and beating 53 of them. Congrats to everyone who participated! I hope to see you again this month :)


The theme for this month is

Love is all around

(Big thank you to Moony1986 for coming up with it!)

Games that qualify for it are:
Games about love - Any game that incorporates love in any way shape or form
Wishlisted games - Games you have won that were on your wishlist
Game you won from a friend or whitelisted user - Self explanatory
Games won in a whitelist giveaway - Also self explanatory

Since not everyone will have a game that will fit in the theme, you can also join with other wins but:

  • please mark them separately in your charts (for example under the subcategory write in "non theme",
  • you will have to beat 2 of them to be able to join the giveaway.

Leaderboard

The leaderboard can be found as the first comment and I will try to update it every weekend.

Here is a sample formatting for a table that you can use for you comments that would show all the data nicely. Of course feel free to add any columns that you would like.

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
[Name of the game](link to the store page) [no. of achievement achieved](link to achievements) Hours played Love/Wishlisted/Whitelist Beaten/Completed/Unfinished

You can copy paste the formatting for your comment here:

Game | Achievements | Hours of Playtime | Subcategory | Status 
:-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: 
[Name of the game](link to the store page) |  [no. of achievement achieved](link to achievements) | Hours played | Love/Wishlisted/Whitelist | Beaten/Completed/Unfinished

Theme for March

In the poll below you can vote which theme you would like to be the theme for next month. Since I did not want to make the poll options to long I have added a link to the comments where they get explained more in detail, but here is also a quick rundown:

Marching on (Games with war topic, Shooters, Walking Simulators, Survival games, Fighting games, Long wins)

Rule of three (The third oldest win, The third newest win, Games that have a "3" (or its variations) in their title, Games that have a "3" in their app ID, Games with exactly three playable characters, Games where you have to obtain exactly three of something (three parts, elements, special magic items), Games with cats in them :3, Any three SG wins)

Lent (play a game with the worst steam score)


Theme for April

Do you think you have a good idea for a theme for April? Leave it in the comments bellow. If I get more than 1 suggestion I will list them in the poll next month and the one with the most votes will become April's theme.


Giveaway

This month I will be giving away a copy of Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered to everyone who has beaten at least 1 win (or 2 if they don't fit the theme) in February.
This month we also gave 2 bonus giveaways for Little King's Story from Sylom and The Painscreek Killings from samwise84 (thank you very much to both!). People that fulfill the requirements will get the links to them it along with Fahrenheit.

Only other requirement is that you have made at least one public giveaway in the past to make the link delivery a bit easier.


Have already completed all your wins?

Then feel free to participate with your normal Steam backlog instead :)


Useful links:

Steam group - please don't bother requesting to join unless I told you to do so, you will get denied.
How Long to Beat
Do You Even Play, Bro? – kelnage’s script
BLAEO website - BLAEO application thread


Previous months:

2019: January
2018: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2017: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December


I think I have covered everything, if you think I have missed something somewhere, have any suggestions or questions please don't hesitate to let me know :)

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Which theme would you like to see for March?

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Marching on - https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/tE8sb7N
Rule of three - https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/NZs0vQr
Lent - https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/WJL3lxk

Updates on weekends. Last updated: Feb 23, 2019
If I missed something please come yell at me. Also if I screwed up somewhere.

Leaderboard

SG username Number of achievements Hours of Playtime Games beaten
GarionPR 61 117 2
Mikoy7 204 92.7 4
samwise84 88 70.5 4
Kyrrelin 66 47.8 3
Timobkg 21 42.3 1
Noxco 101 35.4 3
Moony1986 127 30.2 5
Saucisse 10 25 0
akwilla 55 24 1
enigma9q 40 21 2
Charlie22 41 14.8 1
Aldowuj 16 14.8 1
SASsoldat 24 14.6 4
ghidy77 0 11 1
Evilblacksheep 9 8.7 1
jimmy09172000 22 6.1 2
NoSenses 4 5.1 0
cece09 5 3.6 2
Smollo05 40 3.4 1
Aethyna 0 3 1
MouseWithBeer 8 2.3 2
roflanWozmak 2 2 1
Sylom 13 1.9 1
ThePonz 7 1.7 1
JaffaCaffa 2 0.8 0
Total 966 599.7 45
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Reply to this comment with the games you are going to play this month.

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All my games were wishlisted so I'll be going with the love/wl themes

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Status
Twilight City: Love as a Cure N/A 2.8 hours Completed - Love
Beauty Bounce 5/5 0.8 hours Completed - Love
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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Yakuza 0 38 / 55 103h Love Playing
Layers of Fear 11 / 27 7.0 Wishlisted / Love Beaten
Doorways: HMoF 12 / 12 7.0 Wishlisted Completed
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Damn that playtime :D From what I looked up it seems like you are just missing one more story achievement (if I am wrong let me know) so I hope you will make it till the end of the month :)

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Thought the same thing when I saw the leaderboard however it being Yakuza it makes total sense for that many hours

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Yes, this game have a long playtime! =D
I'm already at the final chapter, all that I have to do is finish it. If I could return time, I would vote for this game for the best of 2018.

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Just saw that you played Layers of Fear. How was it? Do you recommend it?

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Yes. I love it. Already played before the gog version.
The game is a psychological terror, even if you know that "it's just an illusion of his mind" the game still scares you. I recommend caution if you get scared easily, the effects can be disturbing sometimes.

The story is good, everything you'll do will lead to an ending. The main character is a painter that is driven to finish his masterpiece, and for that he will journey into his mind's home. Also a sad story of love in this one. ;]
I will not spoil the story, but the events change accordingly to what you see / pick up or if you ignore something.

Again, it's worth the trip. I recommend the game.

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Sounds really interesting. I'm not the biggest fan of jump scares (mostly because they bore me after a while). Well I most likely won't play it alone at nightshift to pass some time then, if it is that scary. Nightshift in a big empty building/campus can be scary enough sometimes 😱

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Try your first playthrough when you're not in a tense atmosphere to feel the game. Maybe you will not be that scared.
I'm also curious if you will like it. =]

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I'll see what I can do and if I remember I will let you know what I think about it afterwards.

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I enjoyed Layers of Fear very much! It has great atmosphere, also the art and music is really fitting.
But I can't play these games alone and even then when it's night I get stressed. XD As GarionPR says, for your first run I would suggest to play it during day time. ;)

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I'll just leave this here to remind me to fill it later.

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Axiom Verge ending screenshot 8.4h Wishlisted Beaten
Injustice 2 34/74 11.6h Wishlisted Beaten
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series 48/48 11h Love Completed
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Reminder? 😉

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Thanks! I completely forgot about this. xD

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I'm going to reserve a spot here as well while I dig though my wins for a suitable game :)

Edit: Got one - just won a HOG in a giveaway and I'm in the giver's WL. Err, but the game doesn't have any achievements though, which is weird. Will that be okay?

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Dreamscapes: The Sandman No achievements 3 hrs Whitelist Beaten

Updated: Completed the game in a single season and I think I found out why there are no Steam achievements for this HOG - apparently, the in-game achievements aren't registering either (a notification will pop up saying I've earned an achievement but when I check my achievements collection, there is nothing there).

Love what you're doing Mouse! Please keep these events going ^^

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The game should have a credit screen at the end so just screenshot that and it will be fine ^^

I shall keep doing it till people are willing to participate :)

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Gotcha, I'll take a screenshot after I've beaten the game then. Thanks a lot! ^^

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Yup. Anything that is on Steam and its not software or video counts :)

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Loved that one, won it here too. Enjoy!

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Definitely go for the werehamster guy. Because werehamsters are awesome.

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I'll give this a go, I've won to many games I haven't played much of.

Is it hours played in feb, or total hours of the game played over time?

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I try to list only the hours played in February in my leaderboard, but sometimes some slip and turn into the total playtime accidentally.

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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Alwa's Awakening 12 / 15 10.6h Wishlist + Friend win Beaten
AER Memories of Old 20 / 20 5.8h Whitelist GA + Wishlist + Friend win Completed
Animal Lover 24 / 24 0.8h Love Game Completed
Army Gals 30 / 30 2.4h Love Game + Friend win Completed
Aporia: Beyond The Valley 41 / 41 10.6h Friend win + Wishlist Completed
The Room Two 🔙 7 / 7 3.2h Wishlisted + Friend gift Completed
The Room Three 🔙 10 / 10 7.4h Wishlisted + Friend gift Completed
The First Tree 🔙 14 / 14 5.9h Wishlisted + Friend gift Completed
The Stanley Parable 🔙 8 / 10 2.0h Wishlisted + Friend gift Beaten
127 30.2h 5
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List added =) Really looking forward to play those games :D "Alwa's Awakening" I just won yesterday :)


Just for me for later calculation:
Alwa's Awakening - 3,1h
AER -2,5h
Army Gals - 2.0h

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👍👍 for doing the math :D And I hope you will enjoy the games! ^^

Btw if you would like to join the group of the event for some random giveaways here and there you can request to join it here :)

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So as I'm almost done with my list, I added a game to each area :) Let's see how far I get with them ;)

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So I'm done with this month and really enjoyed it =) Looking forward to next month

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I will reserve my place here too. :3

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 41 / 41 41.0 Whitelist win Completed
Eventide: Slavic Fable 25 / 25 3.6 Won from Whitelisted user Completed
Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena none 3.2 Won from Whitelisted user Completed
The Silent Age 24 / 24 5.3 Non theme Completed
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New game added! :D

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And non theme game added. I am not sure yet, but maybe I will manage one theme game on Thursday! But only time will tell. ;)

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Okay, last minute update done! :D
Can't wait for another month. :3

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I'm going to start with one game for now. Unbelievably, this particular game (Yakuza 0) fits all four subcategories perfectly! The game was in my wishlist, I've had the user in my whitelist for some time and it was itself a WL giveaway. I'm obviously not spoiling myself the story to verify in what form the game incorporates love but chapter 16 is called Proof of Love and I hope that's enough proof of love! :)

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Love-Related Screenshots Status
Yakuza 0 10/55 27 Fits everything! 1 2 3 4 In Progress

P.S. I hadn't noticed the group before because I'm blind. I've sent a request!
P.P.S. The table template is missing one more "| :-:" but it works anyway. :)

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Wow! Nice one :D

I will hopefully accept the request/invite the rest of the people on the weekend :)

Pshhhh it works ;)

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Just a heads up, your request has been accepted :)

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I'll definitely participate, I'll have to see what fits the theme when I come back home next week tho, just keeping a spot for now.

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Even the Ocean 9/21 9h Won from friend Beaten
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Let's Pokemon Go.

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Subsurface Circular 13 2 Wishlisted Completed
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ABC!

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Hidden Folks (5/7) 5.6hr Wishlisted beaten(no dlc)
Find this! (17/17) 10min whitelist beaten
Bunnyrama achievements broken 20min whitelist Retired
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This theme is pretty much all of my wins/gifts. :)

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Theme Status
🎁 Warhammer: Vermintide 2 3/26 (+3) 5.3 hrs Wishlisted & Friend/WL Currently Playing
The Flame in the Flood 4/36 (+2) 0.8 hrs Wishlisted Currently Playing
🎁 Planet Alpha 16/16 (+16) 6.8 hrs Wishlisted & Friend/WL Completed

(Total not including gifts is +2 chieves / 0.8 hrs) But really happy I got to Planet Alpha, which was my SG Secret Santa gift. :)
One of my most anticipated for over a year and despite the "mixed reviews" I overall enjoyed this one a lot. Definitely some frustrating/tedious moments and can see how it's not for everyone, but absolutely gorgeous & immersive sounds. Gave me the
same feel-good vibes and sense of wonder as ABZÛ in the regard.

I was also gifted Warhammer: Vermintide 2 this month and have been having a lot of laughs with my brother. Excited to continue
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Wooo \o/

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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Majesty 2 no achievements total: 15.6 h, February: 4.6 h Whitelist Completed
Hero of the Kingdom II 48/48 7.2 Love Completed
Robot Squad Simulator 2017 9/12 12.5 Whitelist Beaten
The Painscreek Killings 33/33 14.4 Backlog game 🔙 Completed
Yooka-Laylee 31/35 46.2 won from whitelisted user Beaten
Luxor 3 no achievements 11.2 SG win Completed
- 88/95 81.7 total Beaten: 2 Completed:3 Unfinished : 0

[Name of the game](link to the store page) | [no. of achievement achieved](link to achievements) | Hours played | Love/Wishlisted/Whitelist | Beaten/Completed/Unfinished

Not sure that I have won anything that fits in one of listed categories. I think the closest I can get to the "Love" theme will be Hero of the Kingdom II, in which a brother needs to rescue his sister, who was kidnapped by pirates. And I guess he loves her, otherwise why bother rescuing her ;)

Edit: Just realized that my PA win for Majesty 2 was also a Whitelist GA and therefore the last 4.6 hours of my completion time from this month were added to the chart.
Edit 2: Beaten all missions in Robot Squad Simulator 2017, won't be completing it. I would have to search for some stupid logos in each level and photograph them, but honestly the controls are too bad for that to be fun.
Edit 3: After finishing The Painscreek Killings (really nice game, but take notes), I've started Yooka-Laylee, another SG win.

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Good enough, I will accept it ^^

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Found another one that was a whitelist GA win :)

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\o/

PS: I saw your group join request, it will be approved once you beat one of the games this month :)

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Thanks. Will start playing the first game in a day or two. Need to play my PA wins first ;)

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Good good, I don't want to have to pull out any ban hammers ;) I have approved the last unapproved win (Husk) so you are free to play whatever you want now :D

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No need to pull out any hammers with me :-p I'll try to always honor my commitments. And I've got 2 weeks of uninterrupted vacation time starting today. So time enough to play all the games I want \o/

P.S.: Thanks for approving my last win.

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I am glad! :) Enjoy your vacation and have fun with the games! ^^

No problem at all :)

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By the way, I found out while playing the first win. The hero finds his true love while searching for his sister. The princess of the kingdom, who was also kidnapped by the pirates. So it fits the love category perfectly. There is even an achivement for that. I think it should be something like "In love" in english.

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Oh wow you 100%ed that already, congrats! Will probably update the leaderboard and approve your request tomorrow as I don't think I will get around it today Yup it is "In love - Meet your true love." so it definitely works fine for the theme ^^

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Yeah well, what can I say. Went to bed early last night around 8pm and got up at 4am this morning, so I had plenty of time for playing 😁

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Damn, I am jealous of all the time but I am sure not jealous of getting up at 4am (but I guess when you go to bed at 8 it is not too bad) :D

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I came out of night shift yesterday and only slept for 4 hours so going to bed at 8pm was not so bad XD I was actually so tired that I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.

And furthermore I'm on vacation right now. So I have all the time in the world :-p
But I think I earned that after 5 months of none-stop working (even during holidays).

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5 months of none-stop working (even during holidays)

How are you still alive?! I would have lost my shit ages ago. You definitely deserve the vacation!

Your group request has been accepted and I guess you noticed the links too :)

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Finished with everything. It literally took me over 6h to beat the final boss in Yooka-Laylee. 4 stupid stages in the boss fight and if you die you have to start all over again

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Congrats! Sounds annoying as hell :/ glad you made it in the end :)

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It was XD

I was about to quit a few times and I gave myself a deadline until 5 pm and shortly before 4.30 pm I finally made it.

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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
_dive / 0,4 hours Whitelist Completed
Replica 8/8 1,9 hours Whitelist Completed
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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Tacoma 0 yet Hours played Wishlisted/Whitelisted/Whitelist Unfinished
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having some issues with my pc lately, I'm choosing a light game :)

Game Link Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Amphora Achievements - 7/7 1.7 💙 FINISHED! (short but lovely puzzle game.. and love was also a theme in the story :D)
maybe soon™ --- --- ---
Total: 7/7
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Hope you get your issues fixed soon!

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🤞

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I have left unfinished my game from January so i will continue it this month. xD
And because the January thread is closed, thank you for the group invite MouseWithBeer

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Broken Age 27 (11 from before)/45 16 (4.4 from before) Love(a mother's love) Beaten
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES 3/16 4 Out of theme (but i loved MGS on PS1) Beaten
Life is Strange 9/60 8 (4.6 from before) Out of theme Unfinished
Pony Island 12/20 2 Out of theme Beaten
[Name of the game](link to the store page) [no. of achievement achieved](link to achievements) Hours played Love/Wishlisted/Whitelist Beaten/Completed/Unfinished
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This month I'm starting a Christmas win, I don't know if it's theme related, is pretty close: Detective, Noir: Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
*edit: Finished ! yey :) strange game indeed. a lot of dark humors. but fun until the end

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure [N/A] but I took screenshots 11 Whitelist Completed
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Will be taking part again this month, though sad to say won't make it to the GA this time. Well, making it there once was plenty. :)

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Alan Wake¹ 59/67 17.6 Love² Beaten
Downfall 30/30 13.7 Love² Completed
Tacoma 12/12 4.1 Wishlisted / Whitelist³ Completed
101 35.4 3

¹ Technically a replay since I've completed the game before, but this is the first time I played it through on PC.
² These games are characterized as 'horror' but the driving motivation to keep going for both protagonists is the love for their wives.
³ Giveaway was joined group/WL, but hey blue heart icon was still present!

In addition I also started and beat a fourth game (F.E.A.R. 3) this month. It doesn't fit the theme in any way so I didn't add it here but damn if I am not proud of myself for managing to juggle four games! :D

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Why would you not make it to the giveaway? :o

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I'm steadily running out of wins again! So if I'd commit to beating more than one for the month I'd have to stop participating in this fine event sooner and I don't want it to be over. :D

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Ohhh I see. But if you beat all of your SG wins you can always participate with your normal Steam library instead :)

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... Okay, now I feel like a bit of a dunce because that didn't even occur to me as an option, haha. Library cleaning it is! :D

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From the main post:

Have already completed all your wins?

Then feel free to participate with your normal Steam backlog instead :)

:P

Feel free to complete all your SG wins now :D

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Not only am I a dunce but I also can't read apparently!

View attached image.
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It is a huge wall of text so I can not blame you at all for not seeing it :)

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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Spec Ops: The Line 28/50 9.2 Wishlisted Beaten
Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY 27/47 12.6 Wishlisted Beaten

I have won Fahrenheit already, but this seems fun anyway :)

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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
The Lion's Song 40 / 86 3.4 Wishlisted/Whitelist Beaten
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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 43/58 117 hours Wishlisted/Whitelist Beaten
Battle Chasers: Nightwar 3/48 11 hours Wishlisted Unfinished

I'm going to keep plugging away at Assassin's Creed Odyssey (which was both on my wishlist and a whitelist giveaway). I'm apparently 91% of the way through the main quest, so it's likely that I'll complete it this month. It's been a long, but wonderful, journey. And after that I'll resume Battle Chasers: Nightwar - I don't think that I'll finish it this month, but if not then next month.

Edit: Alright, 3 months and 117 hours later, I finally beat AC Odyssey. It was great, except for the ending (there are three main questlines and three endings, and depending on the order you finish them in the ending can feel really unsatisfying). I'll have to go back and explore the remaining areas, but first onto Battle Chasers.

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Oh, that's because there was an issue with the giveaway.

The creator got the key from a grey-market site and it was no longer available when the giveaway ended, and the creator was going away on vacation, so he wanted to quickly buy an alternate key from an authorized reseller. But then we ran into an issue where all the sites he would normally buy from were region restricted to his region, and weren't authorized as a reseller in my region. So I helped him find a site that had the game available for my region, and he bought it from there, but in our haste we missed that it was a Uplay key instead of a Steam key. So in the end he had to delete the giveaway, but he did gift me the game so I still consider it an SG win and am prioritizing it as such.

But if you don't want to count it in the leaderboard, that's fine. I'm doing this to play through my wins and fulfill what I view as my obligation to the gift givers, not for leaderboard competition. :)

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Ohhh I see, thank you for explaining and sorry you had so many troubles with it :( I wont go edit the last months leaderboard since it wouldn't make much difference since you did not beat the game yet, but I will count it in this month for sure :) And there is way better reasons to beat your wins than just to end up on a list :)

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Do you have an estimate about how many of those hour and achievements Assassin's Creed Odyssey are for February since clicking on your link just redirects me to the main Ubisoft page?

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Oh, wow, they don't make it easy to find. Achievement details are apparently only visible on the local Uplay client, and time played only on save files, but I fortuitously had a save file right at the start of February.

32 hours, 16 achievements in February.

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All I can say it is Ubisoft ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for the info! I will add you to the leaderboard and do the rest in a minute. You can also request to join the group here if you wish :)

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Thanks, I will do so. :)

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Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered 55 / 79 24 Wishlisted games Completed

I won this 2 looong years ago as a wishlisted game, and I finally beat it. It was overall good, although some battles were really annoying. (And I did a run that fiinished with romantic ending, so thats counts too, isnt it?)

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Yay for playing old, neglected wins :) glad to hear it was mostly good. I guess if you wish you can list it under love too then :)

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Rescue Love Revenge 2/2 2 Love)) Completed
Oxenfree 0/13 3 (3 before Feb) mb love, i don't sure Unfinished
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 16/24 14.8 wishlist finnished
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Added you on Steam to send the giveaway links since I can't hide them well in your giveaways :)

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Reply to this comments with your ideas for April's theme.

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How about "Overachiever's Run"? How many games you can 100% within a month. =]

It will be crazy to me 'cause I will be in college. But it can be fun.

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I think that would prevent a lot of people from successfully completing a game depending on what wins they have but it will for sure go into the poll as I might be completely wrong ^^

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Not all games are that hard to beat. Casual / HO games are fairly easy and the last days there were a lot of GA of these games.

We just have to take care of cheaters, some ppl never learn.

I miss some of those X360 days.

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Yea but not everyone is interested in winning those and not everyone is interested into 100%ing their wins. But like I said it might actually be what people want (and I don't mind it myself either, I always go for 100% myself), so we will see at the end of next month with the poll results :)

Not only do they never learn, they tend to also make it obvious as hell Source: been a Playing Appreciated admin for a while and have seen some stuff that made me faceplam hard

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I've seen that, unlocking achievs with ZERO gameplay, that's hilarious. =D

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👍 Shall add to next months poll :)

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games that are considered gag gifts.

Like genital jousting, are you my dad etc.

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Not sure how many people would have those in their wins, but I will add it to the poll and see what the others think ^^

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My suggestion would be: "Girls just wanna have fun"

Because it's April Fool's day and April is also a girls name

Eligible games:

  • Funny / Joke / Humorous games
  • Games with female protagonist
  • Games you won from a female steamgifts user ;)
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Is it on purpose that your suggestions are named after songs? ;D

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Yes it is 😀 nice that you noticed it 😉

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Gotcha! ;)
Also I have one great game that would go well with your suggestion, Longest journey. :3

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Games you won from a female steamgifts user

I think this might be a little bit hard to know but thanks for the suggestion and see you in the poll :)

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"I like trains"

might be to narrow tho for a theme xD

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So only train simulators? :D

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well when i search for "train" on steam i get 126 pages of stuff...
in a broader approach you can also train your dragon...or other people/animals

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Hmmm games you have won from a train could also work :D

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so just....play anything xD

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April's Fool: Humorous games

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NoSenses suggested "games that are tagged as funny on steam or are famous about its humor" which is very similar to your suggestion, so I guess I will just merge both together in one option for the poll if you don't mind :)

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Games about animals/ fighting games/ ninja games.

Why? Because of April O'Neil of course

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I have no idea who that is, but sure, I will take it :)

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Oh nice theme, should've guessed love wouldve been it since valentines

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Yep, can't think about anything more iconic for February than valentines :) The credit about coming up with the specifics goes to Moony1986 tho :)

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Oh noticed the game youre giving away. fits the theme, has some love scenes in it.
How do you decide what counts anyway for the leaderboard since according to moonys chart last month they did 15 for the theme + 2 extra games yet they got 17 overall.

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I didn't even know :D
Lets pretend that you didn't see anything because that 17 is simply a result of my inability to count properly. I only count theme and I have fixed it now.

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good thought i was gonna have to call out favouritism

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Nope, no favoritism, I just cant count :'(

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I'd like to join in, but I'm already full of love.

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Can I somehow check what was on my wishlist? o.O I am not sure with some of my wins if I had them there or not. O.o

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Hmmm only way I could think of is with the Wayback Machine but

Wayback Machine doesn't have that page archived.

Sorry :(

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Oh, that's okay, thank you. ;)
Some of my wins I reaaaaaaaaally wanted but I am not sure they were on my wishlist. X)

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Take your best guess on those :) or maybe try to see if you can fit it under another subcategory ^^

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Picked one game, will see about others later. ;)
Good luck with yours too! :D

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Thank you, good luck to you too! ^^

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a question, or two in fact:
do I have to 100% achievements to qualify? I'm not an achievement hunter, I largely don't even care about them and way too often games have achievements that are bollocks in some way - require years of mindless grind, have weird conditions (play on X date) or are simply too hard (I admit it, I suck at games). fahrenheit is actually on my wishlist. I was hunting it a while ago when there was an influx of it's gibs but I failed to win :(
does a game I won in WL GA but without beeing in the creator's WL (it was also a group GA at the same time) count?

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  1. Nope, just simply beating the game is more than enough.
  2. And yes it counts :)
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Only win 140 and American Truck Simulator

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Well, this month is easy, Resident Evil 2 all the way. I do not think I can even finish all in-game challenges this month.

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I recently won Skullgirls, so i will probably try that out

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Game SteamGifts/Backlog Achievements/Screenshot Status
Battleborn SteamGifts Achievements finished
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition Backlog Achievements finished
A Way Out Backlog What an amazing game! finished
Sunset Overdrive SteamGifts Achievements finished
GRID 2 SteamGifts Achievements finished
Injustice™ 2 SteamGifts Achievements finished
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Updated!

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Updated too! I hope I did the math correctly :/

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Updated! February closed!

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How can I know if i played a game in this month if its only show last 2 weeks on steam and I dont remember the correct time?

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Dark Arcana: The Carnival 10/19 2.2 hour Won it about 2 day ago, beated instantly Completed i guess
Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Twisted Lands Trilogy Collector's Edition [0/0] () 7,6 Won it 7 month ago Completed all 3, bonus chapter and all

Also does non-steamgift won games count? because I beated 4 of those in february but im not sure if they could count

Update 2019.02.22:

Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Sacrifice Dungeon [0/0]() 2.9 hour won it a year ago Completed
Game Achievements Hours of Playtime Subcategory Status
Dracula's Legacy 14/16 1.9 hour Won it 2 months ago Completed
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Well considering we are still in the first 2 weeks of February it shouldn't be a problem? Otherwise you should be able to tell by achievement unlock times and also the Steam library shows you when it was the last time you have played the game under the hours.

No, unless you have beaten all your SG wins, non-sg doesn't count.

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Allright ill stick to steamgifts wins then, I kinda doing a whole steam "purge" thing, completed 40 games since december, because i feel like i own way too much game compared to what i actually played. If I complete anymore steamgift games, should I update my comment, reply to this one, or reply to the first comment in the thread made by you?

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Ideally you should have replied to the first one in the thread in the first place but just updating this one will do just fine :)

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list updated

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Updated! Sorry for missing it the first time around :/ If I recall correctly my brain just assumed they were non SG wins because they were under the "Also does non-steamgift won games count? " and I didn't notice the text in the sub category, my bad!

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now that you mention it, I can understand where that confusion came from. I'll try to be more clear next time

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No it is alright, I should have looked more carefully and not be in such a hurry to update the list. It is 100% my fault for not seeing it.

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Sent you a friend request on Steam so I can send you the links to the giveaways because I can't do it otherwise.

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Updated my post! :D
Will try to add another game as it's still time. ;)

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Updated my post too :) Congrats! ^^

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Ah, so instead of adding some new game I have played the Pillars again. It's a shame that I have completed it, would love to play it once again. X) Oh well, the book is waiting for me. ;)
And still some time for another win! ;D

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Nice one! Well you can always relock the achievements and do it again :P Enjoy :)

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What is relock achievement? Can i clear achievements in games?

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Yup, but it is not something you can normally do in the Steam client tho. You have to download a tool that lets you unlock/relock any achievements you want.

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Finished my 2nd and last game so have a bump

Be interesting to see what next month will be since marching on has been as far as I've seen pretty much winner from the start however rule of 3 could pull through. You better start thinking of how many hours count as a long game, if you decide to include that detail as well

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Have a last minute addition to the leadearboard then for this weekend :)

They have been very close together the whole time I think. If it ends in a tie I guess I will change my vote and pick one since my vote right now is on Lent >:D I think 15 hours (main story on HLTB) would be a good time for long. It used to be the time for long games last years "play a game you won on Steamgifts" and it is the time for long games for the Play or Pay group too.

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Yeah they have been close the whole time. Personally I picked the rule of 3 since I know I could take part, other then that I would've also gone for Lent since everyone can go for that. Well as long as you don't have 100+ wins and are stuck playing really rubbish games because you just wanted everything.

I agree on 15 hours though, anything more and no one would pick anything long. Considering my wins I most likely wont even go for it and just skip the month theme wise and just play some random wins

Oh btw you got my time wrong. Think that little rush job got you a bit messed up xD

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Unrelated but its funny how things work out, you just bought a Bunny Bounce trading card from me :D Thanks for the 0,05€ :P

Rule of 3 would be my pick in the case of tie as it gives you a lot more options. There is half a month left, so we will see how it will turn out in the end :)
If Marching on wins I will leave the option open for people to play something else (just 2) too like this month for sure so you would still be able to participate with the random wins :)

I took the time from the hours played in the last 2 weeks from the achievement page, that is why it is wrong. I will fix it :)

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Oh damn, you could've just given it to me! Cost me £0.07. The insanity one cost me 0.21 each. That badge made me poor

Ah thats how you figure out the times, maybe I should put down my achievements page then if you do it like that, surprised you bother to mark down my non-achievements games then since I don't take screenshots.

Plus I guessed it was from that since I had idle time, apparently it was during the last 2 weeks I started idling that one.

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Well if I knew you wanted them I would have D: I did not get the Insanity one so I could not have helped there anyways.

Generally I just put in the time you list in the comment, but sometimes I do take the ones from the achievement page if I can tell that the comment time has idle time in it. Sometimes you just can't tell without way too much effort put into it. In your case I saw your comment notification while I still had a page with the non updated comment open (in hindsight I should have refreshed the page checked your update) with the time so I just went to your profile and got the time from there.

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Ok, I feel super bad for not participating in a while. I shall improve with next month! Promise!
Thanks for doing this! :*

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You better! ;)
My pleasure :)

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I better see 23 people doing war games next month! If not banish them all

Just counted the leaderboard consists of 23 people xD
So we all got to work together to do that

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Count me out, I ain't doing any war games, probably gonna do long games :D

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Well I dont have any. We both cant leave. We need 23 people since 23 people voted for that terrible option! I love the story behind it but it doesnt fit my games. Guess banishing will have to happen. We need to hack into the poll, figure out who voted it and if they refuse to play a win BANISH!

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Or make multiple steam accouns
Spend a bunch of money on each
Register on SG
Vote manipulate the poll
Get banned for multiple accounts
???
Profit? Wait...

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Perfect but next time put it in spoilers so no one sees the plan
lets get started

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I sense some scheming here! O_o

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You see nothing.

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Ouch. X_x

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Reminds me of when someone tries to talk to you and you put off your sunglasses instead of pulling your earphones out of your ears :D Happened to me way more times that I care to admit...

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Mouse theres been 3 more votes for it :'(
Why do they hate us!

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Haha actually I like the theme from Saucisse and wouldn't mind if it wins. I'm quite surprised with the current results to be honest :)

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Yep yours is winning so far. Be interesting to see your theme suggestion next month

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I like both (and I am super grateful to you for taking your time and coming up for with a theme each month so far), I just prefer Rule of 3 due to it having more variety in the games that qualify. Gonna host and participate in the event no matter which one wins ^^

My vote is currently (and will stay there unless there is a tie in the end) on the best theme of them all tho - Lent. I would have loved to see what kind of awful stuff people have won on here :D

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Don't mind this cat, just leaving a bump! ^^

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Best bump! Thank you :)

Cg closed the other thread so I can't answer there, but you got access to SG at work but not Steam ???????????????

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Just when we had some fun!! :P And luckily SteamGifts is never logging you out for some magical reason <3

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I actually wonder what made him close it in the end was the unrelated spam :D
Note to self: SG is still the best place to get attention from you :P
The group tool should also never log you out wink wink ... yes, I know, we talked about this before c:

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>what made him
now you're kinda worrying me.
...
also, why we keep using these hiding things here? cause he's the Admin? ...

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the gifs :D
I hid the first one because it was unrelated to the bump, after that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pretty sure admins can still read stuff in spoilers :P

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small bump because I finished my game

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Leaderboard updated as of the 28th of January at 21:38 UTC +1. If I missed/screwed up somewhere please let me know and I will fix it as soon as I can. From now on I will only update the leaderboard on request, so if you finished something last minute feel free to let me know in a comment reply and I will be happy to update your stats for you ^^

The March thread should be up shortly.

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I like pointing our your mistakes so have another one according to my findings Sam only did 4 themed sg wins. 1 non themed and 1 backlog You however put down 5 which would be fine if earlier you didn't tell me that non theme weren't counted. I should start charging you for the work I'm doing in making sure your leaderboard is correct :P

Also Kyrrelin updated theirs

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You can make the leaderboard for me if you want :P But yup you are right thanks so much! I took the numbers listed at the bottom as it seemed to add with the listed ones minutes the backlog one but I didn't notice that one of the games had listed "none" under theme. (nevermind this part, it is listed differently now than it was before when I updated stuff)
I did actually count non theme games as long as they were SG wins and they played 2 or more of them due to the exception of play 2 non theme games to get them counted and not enough people playing non theme to warrant a second leaderboard. But I should have made that clearer and I will note it down for next month.

Fixing it now :)

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Oh that would be good for the people who cant take part with a themed game, so basically sg non theme counts as 0.5 of a win

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Yup, you can do that for March if you wish since I know you are not the biggest fan of what end up winning ^^

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Its like you what you put, I preferred the other because there was more variety and I knew I would have a theme game. Since its thanks to you I'm going through my games. I only enter for the games I want but when I do win them I know I'll go ehh another time but with the themes I've been able to do 2 wins at a time. I am totally happy for moony that their theme won I just cant take part without going for a 50 hour long game but I'll make sure to try for another 2 non theme never the less

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I stalked your wins a little and it seems like you got quite a few nice unplayed HOGs, so if you want to hear my 2 cents I would say try and play a couple of those and you shouldn't have too many problems finishing them :)

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Oi spying on my hogs. I cant help I'm hogging them all. Even managed to win 5 of a whole set in just over a week. We will see what I get for play or pay first

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:D

I might be just oh so very slightly jealous of your Lost Grimoires 2 win as I missed the bundle with it T.T

Good luck with PoP!

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Kyrrelin still needs an update with theirs since they did 1 last minute game

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You have eyes everywhere! O_O

Sorry for my late update, MouseWithBeer! :3

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Someone has to make sure the leaderboard is right XD

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No problem at all :) As I said I am happy to update someones stats, I just don't wanna go through all of them :D

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I can see how it can be a little overwhelming. XD
Thank you for your hard work! <3

Edit: Oh, I responded to myself. Lol. XD

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Nope, you answered to me :D And my pleasure ^^

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Updated, let me know if I fucked up again :P

And thanks for the headsup :)

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MOUSE CHANGE THE THEME WE GOT TIE VOTE!
Was not ment to be in caps but looks more dramatic now
-_- well now I said that it has 27 votes. How are these people doing this

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I think it is a little bit too late now :P but yea, not a tie anymore anyways

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I don't do competitions for this kind of thing, but I did manage to play one of my wins. That was my real goal for February, and your thread helped, so thank you for that. )

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Glad to hear that and congrats on completing the win! :)

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