Steamgifts review 2020 (GA ended)

Created some giveaways and the games are being played so that has gone alright. Managed to reduce my personal backlog by a decent amount this year. Should be in balance next year. Also reached the last level so only missing content is beating the end game boss.

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You could say that I did well, so far I have won a total of 6 games, this week I have won 4 times :)

I really enjoyed graveyard keeper for the first ~24 hours but the gameplay ended up getting too monotonous for me and I couldn't bring myself to finish it. But my best win this year was probably roller coaster tycoon 2, not too shabby if I do say so myself (:

Won three games but then my gpu started messing with me and only recently I got a new one and of course had to play some "waited for this so long" titles first, but I'll get around soon.

Amusingly enough, I just realized I've only won 1 giveaway in 2020 - Slay The Spire on January 5th.

It was a good one, played 63 hours so far, and still play it occasionally to this day.

I won Persona 4 and that's enough for me!

Back to steam and SG after 2 years MIA. Won my first gift of the year and gave away 6... so i guess that will be my state for this year.

Although i won many games (i am a member in some small groups) and some AAA ones i would choose NBA Playgrounds 2 for my win of the year. I played it with my 10 year old nephew and we had a great time together.

My year on SG was perfectly fine, I was lucky enough to win several wishlisted games (my favourite one so far was an awesome VN Along the Edge - I despise anime VNs, but don't mind well-written western ones at all). The last 10 days were particularly lucky for me, I won 2 "big" games: Empire of Sin and Metro Exodus.

Is it the best game I have won this year?

The Outer Worlds
Ended 3 weeks ago
Tower Unite
Ended 2 months ago
SUPERHOT
Ended 2 months ago
Planet Zoo
Ended 3 months ago
Kappaking
3 months ago by HiroHiro
God's Trigger
Ended 4 months ago
Train Valley 2
Ended 4 months ago
Seven: Enhanced Edition
Ended 7 months ago
Dex
Ended 8 months ago
Tyranny - Deluxe Edition
Ended 9 months ago

σ(-Θ-` )Umm..　
Not applicable as I have just started playing.
However, this can be expected in many ways.
The Outer Worlds
(Received at Christmas)

Games that you can enjoy cost-effectively
Seven> Dex> Train Valley 2

If you like being strong and wanting to start over, evil.
Tyranny

I really wanted to have a different life from someone else.
Tower Unite
(I don't recommend it very much. Reason: "Real Health 👀(Some human beings cannot physically log in to this world and return.)")
I just want to keep looking at the animals.
Planet Zoo

SUPERHOT!
SUPERHOT
(💻SUPERHOT💻)

My SG year has been really fortunate. I won 6 games, which is a lot more than I was expecting.

My win of the year is MO:Astray - it was absolutely delightful, and I loved almost every moment of it (but not the rotating box puzzle, that was really hard). I feel very fortunate to have won it and been able to play it.

My most anticipated win to play is Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus - I loved the original, so really looking forward to playing it.

My most disappointing win is Neoverse - I thought I'd like it as I love Slay the Spire and similar deckbuilding games, but it didn't click with me at all. I'll have to give it another shot, but the run I did felt rather tedious.

Biggest surprise is looking over my wins and discovering that 6/32 wins are from people who now have me on their blacklist. /boggle

Ok I'm impressed. I didn't feel that it was particulary good year until I checked my winning page - 21 games! Wow... 8 of them were from Playing appreciated group, but most were from regular normal gifts.

I played 12 of them. The best was definietely Finding Paradise, but Eagle Island was cool too. The worst... I would say Spiral Scouts. Gameplay was quite good, but I hate the story.

About 9 games I didn't play... Three were won during last month, so I don't feel guilty. I want to finish a game I'm playing now, and then go to them. One - I'm honestly waiting for the end of early access - I absolutely love the concept, I just don't like to play EA games. The five that were left... yea - shame on me... I had busy time at work so I didn't play as much as I wanted.

And my luckiest win - MO:Astray - out of 2500 entries. I finished this game. It was good. Nothing groundbreaking but a good platformer.

At the same time - I gave away 31 games. Quite a lot from Lootboy - I won a lot of small indie games there. Looks like my biggest giveaway was Niche - a genetics survival game - 1200 entries.

Most of my wins are group-related. Outside the group, I think the main thing I got this year was Call of Cthulhu.

But, the real lucky break was to win Duke Nukem Forever. Then, like a week later, I won the DLC Hail to the Icons, and 3 days later I won the second DLC: The Doctor Who Cloned Me.

What are the odds? ;)

I've registered 3 months ago and already won 4 games. That's not bad I think.

I haven't been active much and also own a lot of games I'm actually interested in already, so winning two seems quite alright!
You could even say I got really lucky if you look at that last win – a public no-level gib with 4,106 entries. I think that's actually my luckiest win ever.

I didn't win much this year, but AWAY: Journey to the Unexpected was quite a fun game and i'm happy I got to play it.

Shout out to the person I won Mafia 3 from in december 2019 last year. That game was really fun!

Review me, review me!

This year, I won Opus Magnum. I have a bit of a bad relationship with puzzlers but Zachtronics really knocked it out of the park with that one. Would have been nice if there was more oomph to the story, but the lower key approach worked well enough. Just thinking about it has my brain trying to recall the soundtrack again. Brb, gonna hit that up on youtube and chill for a while <3

LOL i gave away a lot and barely won about 10 gifts this year, this was the worst ever to me.

I'm stuff

I solved the puzzle, at the end I did everything according to the instructions, and now what?