Montague's Mount - It's a mix of Dear Esther and Eleusis. But the game itself is below average. Exploring the island is pretty nice and there's a good melancholic atmosphere present but that's it when it comes to pros. The game is very, very, very slow, graphics are outdated, the protagonist walks very slowly, the plot could have been presented in a better way, voice acting is bad, cut-scenes are very slow, boring, don't even mean anything and you can't skip them, there are bugs present and it's short. I've played worse games but still, this one isn't good. 4/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
Melissa K. And The Heart Of Gold: Collector's Edition - I have no idea why this game gets such good reviews from Steam players. It's one of the worst hidden object games I've ever played. Let's start with what's good about it. If you get used to it the gameplay isn't horrible, most backgrounds are real life places and music isn't bad. What's bad about it? Well, terrible voice acting, ugly and uninteresting backgrounds, cut-scenes don't run smooth, very bad dialogues, stupid plot, the game's boooooring and on the highest difficulty level (I don't know about the rest) there are no indications that some places are clickable, so you basically end up clicking everywhere hoping for the best. I've never seen such things in hidden object games before, it makes the game so tideous and annoying. 3+/10
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - I played the PS3 version. A short but fantastic shoot-and-shit-one-liner them up that will lead to laughs and 'Ahhh! I see what you did there!' moments to any fan of 80s and 90s action movies. Really enjoyed it, and it's currently available for a great price. If you like shooting stuff and ridiculousness this thing will not be a waste of money, especially if you're looking at getting FC3 or 4 and want to know if you'll like the gameplay mechanics, because they're very similar.
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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - Again, I played on PS3. I'm a huge fan of the Western genre (thanks, Dad!) and always liked the Call of Juarez series, until Cartel came out and it was a barely functional mess of vague racism and bad mechanics. So I was tentative about picking this one up until I saw some gameplay videos and they convinced me. I was not disappointed. It's about as shallow an experience as you can get, and it works. The pace is fantastic, the shooting works well, there's enough reward through the points-as-exp system, a sort of very shallow Borderlands-lite RPG skill tree, to make you feel like you're progressing into an epic Wild West gunslinger, but the main thing I loved about it was the campy Western dime novel storyline (which you progress through with rapidity!). Featuring a who's who of characters from Western stories, riding with Billy the Kid, meeting Pat Garrett on the way, staring down Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid make appearances. If you like Westerns or you just want some short (took me about 6-8 hours in all) sharpshooting fun give it a go, especially since it's usually very low priced.
These were my break from big games, as I'm also playing through Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remastered, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch and Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies...All pretty huge, and with far too few shootouts at high noon or weird oversized lizards with magic blood...
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Such a gorgeous looking game. Loved it.
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Enigmatis: The Ghosts Of Maple Creek - Collector's Edition - Another very good hidden object game developed by Artifex Mundi. It's not as technologically advanced as their new games but it's still very good. 8/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
Enigmatis 2: The Mists Of Ravenwood - Collector's Edition - I'm amazed by this one. Very professional, well thought and beautiful all around. I guess it's my favorite hidden object game as of now. I recommend this to everyone, not only to the fans of the genre. This game is impossible to dislike. 9/10
PS: I unlocked all achievements in it.
Shadow Warrior (2013) - While worse than the original and it has a few flaws it's still a very good game. Fans of Hard Reset and Serious Sam will like it for sure. Let's go over pros and cons. Pros: A lot of fast-paced action, nice atmosphere, good music, very fun sword slashing, nice humor, pretty good plot, it has nice cinematics (the hand drawn ones), it's pretty long for an FPS game and sometimes graphics are really beautiful. Cons: On the other hand some elements of scenery (like grass for example) look terrible, original is better, shooting isn't as fun as I had expected, monsters look mediocre, their design could have been better and optimalization! This is the worst optimized game I've ever seen. No matter how I would set settings (I spent like an hour playing with that) there were plenty of moments when game would slow down and FPS would drop. Plus devs should have given players the option of turning off dynamic lightning cause it doesn't do squat for quality but takes up a lot of memory. They said in an interview they used it but I didn't see any option to turn it off and I even edited config files. Anyway, very good game but has some flaws. 8/10
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Deponia: The Complete Journey, I'm still very upset about how the series ended
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Gone Home - Pretty nice game but in no way as good as people make it out to be. What's good about it? Well, people who like exploring places will love it. The atmosphere is rather nice and it's a nice homage to the 90's. But the plot isn't as good as I had expected. It's mediocre. And after a while it's very predictable. It's a nice game but not great. 6/10
Spoiler Alert - Pretty nice platform game in which we do everything in reverse. It's fun and original. The only problem is that every level can be finished in just one "right" way so you have to be very precise with jumping for example, but it didn't bother me much. Also, plot is almost non-existant here. And the game is very short. But I had fun. 6/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
Imagine Me - Bad game. It tries to be rogue-like and platform game but in reality is neither. It's poor in terms of gameplay, content, there are bugs present, it's boring and it's very short (it takes one hour to collect and do everything and then you're basically done with the game). Not recommended. 3/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
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Batman Arkham Asylum - Very Good 9/10
It has excellent atmosphere and detective work but the fighting is repetitive and collecting stuff is grindy..I'm skipping collecting all the little bits since I have finished it and I have Arkham City and Origins to play.
The Walking Dead Season 1 (Telltale Games)- Fantastic in every single way 10/10
It has great art/story/atmosphere/character DEVELOPMENT, playing Season2 at the moment which is amazing, if not has started better. It's a MUST have like other games by Telltale games (Back to the Future, The Wolf Among Us, Borderlands, Game of Thrones).
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The Moon Sliver - Short and not really special story told in the form of a "walking simulator". It's not bad but it's not good either. Exploring is fun and all but the area the player can walk around is small, graphics are outdated and the game is very short. Very mediocre in general. 5/10
Love - Good platform game. The essence of how such a game should look like. Pixels + jumping + good controls + nice gameplay = good platform game. Unfortunately I can't rate it high because it's very, very short (around 20 minutes). I wish it was way longer. 6/10
The Cat And The Coup - Pretty nice presentation/experiment/game which includes some fun with physics. It's free so give it a shot. It could have been longer though. 6/10
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Tribloos 2 - Fun little Time management game, all stages have a time limit to earn extra points but you can play past the limit to finish the stage. Nice game to chill out to . Would recommend 8/10
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Fallout: New Vegas - No words needed for this game, I'm just a bit late beating it :D
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Namariel Legends: Iron Lord - Collector's Edition - Very good hidden object type of game but without hidden object scenes. So it's basically a casual adventure game. Good, steampunk atmosphere, nice music, nice backgrounds, nice cut-scenes and fun gameplay. The game contains language errors throughout though, bad voice acting and totally ridiculous speaking/lips movement coordination during cut-scenes. Also, it's very easy. But it sure is damn fun. 7+/10
Fall Of The New Age: Collector's Edition - Game from the same company that the one above. This one contains hidden object scenes though but it's also worse. I think it had been created earlier than Namariel, it sure looks like it. The gameplay is nice, music is nice and some of the backgrounds are nice but some are not really interesting plus the game contains all the cons of the one above so I'm not gonna repeat myself. Also, outro of the additional adventure (which is the true ending to the game really) is the funniest outro I've ever seen. And not in a positive way. But if you like such games you'll enjoy this one as well. 6+/10
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Whispered Legends: Tales Of Middleport - Hidden object game that receives terrible Steam reviews due to bugs. I encountered only one bug during my playthrough so maybe they fixed it. Anyway, it's an average game. Gameplay is pretty nice and graphics are not bad but plot is bad, it's impossible to reset puzzles, the game is very short and in general it's average. 5/10
Black Rainbow - Weird game. Looks and plays like Myst from way back. But it's also worse. Music is rather decent and some backgrounds remind me of Myst series. On the other hand graphics are not really good, dialogues and plot are terrible, puzzles so easy it's laughable (most can be solved in a matter of seconds) and it seems like the devs didn't exactly know what they wanted to make. It's pretty weird and cheap but at the same time kind of enjoyable if you're into such things. 5/10
The Beast Of Lycan Isle: Collector's Edition - Hidden object game but from the "worse" kind. I can't say many positive things about it. If you get used to it gameplay isn't that terrible and voice acting was actually decent. But graphics are horrible, backgrounds are horrendous, characters' models are ugly as hell, there is no fast travel option (in some HO games it's not necessary but here it was) and the game's very easy. Play only if you're a hardcore HO games addict. 4/10
Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief - Collector's Edition - Nice hidden object game. Not very good but decent. It's very easy and short but pleasant and enjoyable. 6/10
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The Clockwork Man - Good and well done hidden object game. Gameplay is very pleasant, backgrounds are nice looking, voice acting is good and the protagonist is nice. Some objects are really small though so one has to pay close attention to details and the game's harder than your average game from this genre. Also it's very short. But it's worth checking out, I had fun. 7/10
The Clockwork Man 2: The Hidden World - Ultimate Edition - It's even better than the first one. Atmosphere is very nice (especially in the second half of the game), gameplay is fun, backgrounds are very nice looking, voice acting is good, protagonist is nice and it's a little bit longer and more vast than the previous one. Like I said, it's longer than the first one but still short and in the second part of the game there's a huge spike in difficulty which I didn't like very much, I admit. But the game's worth it, really fun, short, little gem. 8/10
Transistor - At the beginning I was rather thrown off by it. I came around after two hours in game. It's different than Bastion and not really player-friendly. You have to figure out everything on your own, there's no tutorial, no hints, plot is shown in an indirect way and you have to put pieces together and you also have to interpret many things for yourself. Even weapon upgrades are confusing at the beginning. This is a game to which you just have to get used to. Also, fighting is very mediocre at best. Mix of turn-based and real action combat is not good, just annoying (same as in Fallout 3). However, the atmosphere is absolutely amazing, music is superb, voice acting is very good, graphics are beautiful (screenshots don't match what's in actual game at all, I was very pleasantly surprised during the playthrough), game world is cool, plot is very good and ending is great. It's not without flaws but they really don't matter much amidst all the good things about this gem. Worse than Bastion but still one of the best indie games out there. Strongly recommended. 9/10
Secret Files: Sam Peters - Spin off to Secret Files. Better than the third one but worse than the first and second ones. It's a little, short adventure game and if you take it for what it is you should have fun. I know I have. Atmosphere is pretty nice, backgrounds are nice, plot is pretty good and there are two endings to choose from. It's very short though and it doesn't stand out at all which makes it easily forgettable. But if you like point and click adventure games you should give it a try. 7/10
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The last game I've beaten was Gunpoint: http://www.pentadact.com/category/conwaysblog/?K=36&U=33&C0=1&E1=2&C1=4&E2=1&C2=1&C3=2&C4=3&C5=2
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Boson X - One of the best indie games I've ever played. It's Dark Souls of runners. Very hard, fast and crazy with simple yet riveting gameplay. Very addictive. It leaves you very satisfied once you manage to finish it. 9/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
The Evil Within - Basically it's Resident Evil 4 v.2.0 :) If you liked RE then there's a big chance you'll like Evil Within as well. Me? I liked it very much. Let's start with pros: Great, dark atmosphere, interesting plot, tons of "mind fuck" aspects, places we visit are differentiated, very good design of enemies (The Keeper!), good music, each chapter is different, there's no place for boredom, counting every bullet which is something I appreciate in horror games, the game's long and all in all it's a mature game full of blood, guts and craziness and nowadays those are a rarity (especially when it comes to AAA games) so such titles are always welcome. What I didn't like: Some textures are ugly, sometimes graphics are acting strange, I can't even explain it but the game looks on screens better than during the actual gameplay, controls are similar to the controls from RE which means they're not very precise and they are pretty outdated and stealth bits could have been done in a better way (sticking to the wall and peeking around the corner would be very welcome here). Anyway, I had fun. We need more AAA games like this one! 8+/10
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Darksiders 2 - Well, to be honest almost everything is better in the second game from the well known series. Pros: Great atmosphere, very good music (Jesper Kyd!), nice graphics, great gameplay (a mix of everything, fighting, jumping and puzzle solving), very big world rich in secrets, the game's very long, the protagonist is nice and finishers are amazing (especially the ones executed on bosses). Cons: Plot is worse than in the first Darksiders game and this game is bugged as hell. One bug is ridiculous, if you save game file reaches 300kb then you'll get "Darksiders2.exe has stopped working" error all the time. Logic is flawless, we have year 2015, game weighs around 20GB but let's limit the save file to 300kb. Great thinking there, THQ. Thankfully fans came up with a fix for this. Anyway, great game, I recommend it to everyone. 9/10
Darksiders 2: Death Rides DLC - This DLC is incorporated into the main campaign. It just offers a few missions. It's nice but nothing really special. Those missions don't stand out in any way, you mostly just look for items or kill enemies in previously visited locations. 6/10
Darksiders 2: Argul's Tomb DLC - Another DLC, this one is the best of all. Offers new places, new missions, new items, new bosses, new story and so on. Very good add-on, worth playing. 8/10
Darksiders 2: Abyssal Forge DLC - Another good DLC. Not as good as the one described above but still good and definitely worth playing. 7/10
Darksiders 2: Demon Lord Belial DLC - Worse than two previously described DLC's but still pretty nice, especially for fans of the game. I'd say give it a shot. 6+/10
Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends - Hidden object game developed by the creators of horrible Sinister City. Thankfully this game is on a whole another level. It's pretty nice actually and I enjoyed it. Nothing amazing but worth playing for fans of the genre. 6/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
Left In The Dark: No One On Board - Hidden object game published by Artifex Mundi. It's good but that's it. Worth playing though. 7/10
PS: I also unlocked all achievements in it.
Empress Of The Deep 3: Legacy Of The Phoenix - Third part of the hidden object game. This one is on the same level as the second one. Pretty good but nothing really special. It has a flaws as well but in general it's good. 7/10
Shovel Knight - One of the best retro platform games I've ever played. It's a must play for everyone! Pros: Great atmosphere of NES classics, great gameplay (Duck Tales mixed with Megaman), nice humor, nice music, good level design, places we visit are differentiated, good control over the character, good boss fights (although they could have been harder) and a lot of secrets to find. Cons: Well, fighting gets very easy fast and 95% of times we die it's because of falling into pits. It could have been ballanced better. I strongly recommend this game to everyone. 9/10
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The last game I have beaten is Luna: Shattered Hearts: Episode 1
Can't really recommend it unless you want to spend several hours of killing 3 different enemies over and over and over till you got enough drops to advance in the story. Though that 1 time you have to kill a boss.
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I don't recall seeing this thread around here and I think it's a pretty cool one. You can either recommend someone a game or advise someone not to waste one's time on it. I'll start.
Mark Of The Ninja - A very good stealth-action game. It's like Splinter Cell but in 2D. Although I admit there were times when I was a little bit bored. Overall it's a very good game. Solid 8/10.
Edit:
Here's a collage of all games I've beaten over the years on PC:
Part 1
Part 2
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Part 4
Here's a collage of games in which I've got all achievements (100%):
Part 1
My AStats 100% achievements profile
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