Monthly in a Month #16: The Teamwork Edition

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YES!! I have been mentally preparing to do one of these events you host! I am so down for this and will complete 6 games this month for sure! Your previous game choices have been a bit too action-oriented for my style and I always have stuff come up anyway but this is perfect timing. I’ll try not wimp out with tiny games like Eliza or Frog detective either. Edit: I was WAYY overeager including Opus Magnum, Autonauts, and Wargroove originally... I got super into Forager and loved it but I feared the same thing would happen with those. Maybe not put ALL of the games I'm especially looking forward to in one month, gotta save some for next month of course!

I have no playtime on any of the following games before June 1 of this month.

i think i'll join this month. but aw, i don't have a lot of short games to play.
EDIT: i might not have time to finish this - just realized that my current game takes a long time to finish. I'll just leave it in here in case i want to go for the challenge next month.

Hey Cj, just want to confirm if DLC is good? I want to play the Civ 6 DLC but played the original during a free weekend. Is it still applicable under your criteria?

Thanks again for great event big help to the backlog slaying.

warstone td : Beaten
darksburg: Beaten
going under: Beaten
Family man: Beaten
serial cleaner: Beaten
MO astray: Beaten

nice! reserved-- just 100'd the metro games, Exodus is next!

Metro Exodus: Done
Warhammer Chaosbane
Ikenfell: Done
Project Warlock
Through the Darkest of Times: Done

Bump!

Hi CJ. Hope all is well. Im unsure if I'll complete it this month, but It Takes Two is on my wishlist so we'll see. I'll update as I finish things if I can :D

I've been saving a win for this very moment incase but as I got no one to play with I'm not gonna take part.
I wish everyone luck and I hope the winner enjoys it as much as it looks

Thank you for another continuation of the event! :3

[1] I played the whole game (Hellpoint) in co-op mode with my friend. I always connected to his world and we fought bosses together there, but only he got the achievements for them. (his achievements) We also tried playing a while in my world (and we rushed some bosses) but my internet connection is quite bad so it crashed a lot and we gave up after a few reconnections. So we completed the full game and reached the ending only in his world, I made a few screenshots along the way at least: weird guy, breach, friendly talk with final boss, beaten final boss. Hopefully its enough as a proof^^ I really enjoyed the game and since I'm not an achievement hunter I didn't mind much not being able to get those even though I killed each boss with my friend.

I really enjoyed Tales of the Neon Sea and I'll definitely have to play it in the future again and try to get all achievements. I knew that I'll like this game a lot when I saw a few videos/screenshots from it but I loved it even more than I though I will. This game goes in my "top games" list now for sure^^

June is here! I'm going to play cool summer games! or something ;)

Whew I made it out of Alcatraz! I had a lot of fun but also some intensely frustrating moments. Let's just say that the crafting and the planning are fun but when it comes to the stealth elements of the game, they are made exceptionally (and unnecessarily) difficult by the sheer randomness of everything. I have played quite a lot of stealth games and AI controlled elements tend to follow patters, which helps strategize and execute but who would want guards following rounds that can be cased and foreseen, right? :P
The once a day save was also a pain in my butt. All this being said, I have to go escape from Santa's Sweatshop. See ya later ;)

So I finally played Undertale and all I can safely say is "I don't get it". But hey at least now it's something crossed off the bucket list or something.

Aaaaaand I finally gave in and jumped feet first into the Matrix. I mean Hacknet. I have been putting it off for so long because I was afraid to get sucked in a little. I'm now writing from deep deep inside the rabbit hole and I already played the game about 4 times, and there are workshops mods too. Oh boy. I may never surface to play another 3 games before the end of the month but I'll send postcards from Zion.

Just finished Milky Way Prince. Hmmm what did I just play? I honestly couldn't tell if I liked it or not right now. I felt compelled to finish it to see how many bad ways this could end but I don't know if I'd ever play it again. I need to think about it some more.

Update #1 (6 June): Beaten Going Under.
Update #2 (11 June): Beaten Saints Row IV.
Update #3 (27 June): Beaten Darksburg. Huge thanks to Rinocap for the tips that let me finally get through a level where I was stuck for a long time.
Update #4 (28 June): Beaten Indivisible. I hated that last boss, though.
Update #5 (03 July): Beaten Trüberbrook.
Update #6 (04 July): Beaten Q.U.B.E. 2.

If I play a game that doesn't really have an ending, how do you decide if it's beaten or not? Do you ask a minimum % of achievement? 100%?
I think about Sheltered by example.
Sorry if the question has already been asked

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not sure if i'll be able to finish the challenge but started it anyway, progress so far:
Finished:
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game(December 2020)
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard(December 2020)
Beyond Eyes(November 2016)
Path of Giants(December 2020)
Paw Paw Paw(June 2021)
Ongoing:
Blasphemous(December 2019)

Hopefully I'll get around to this one ^-^

First time participating here so just hope i can beat 6 games in time :)

1. 11-11 Memories Retord - I didn't think i would enjoy this one as much as i did.

2. Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

3. Kimmy

4. Purrfect Date

5. Last Day of June

6. Night Call

Let's go another round x)

weird question, do games that have been bundled with keys outside of steam count for the challenge, for example ac origins which was an uplay key would count as one of the six games if you bought game on steam and start playing it now?

1. Pathfinder: Kingmaker / The Story's End
2. Path of Giants
3. The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines / Forever Fractured
4. Not Tonight / Beat the Game
5. Still There
6. Truberbrook / Hans Tannhauser's Final Repose

I didn't expect to finish Pathfinder so quickly but I really got hooked, a great game. A good big surprise for me. I strongly advise it ;)

Okay, I decided I had to try because my Sister said she’d totally play It Takes Two with me, haha.

I’m not entirely sure what would qualify as an “end” for Size Matters or Civ VI, but I was playing Civ anyways, and was gonna do some Size Matters as backup before I realized there was no “story” mode at all. Anyways, I might have time for another still if I need to.

1. Going Under (I’m Unemployed now)
2. Vane (I guess I sacrificed myself?)
3. Family Man (I was an Angel in an end)
4. Morkredd (My dad and I were team players, and apparently fast?)
5. Paw Paw Paw (Not sure why the end is a question)
6. Effie (Such a slow final boss…)
7. Civ VI (Did a few scenarios, maybe it counts?)
8. Size Matters (Completed a few runs of this, not 10 though)

I liked Going Under a lot, and did most of the game without using the assistance options, though I suck at Imposter mode so I’ve been using them pretty heavily there.

Vane was just weird and not really enjoyable for me, a weird camera zooming in and out randomly while I just fly around waiting for stuff to happen? And then it just gets weird…

Family Man wasn’t too bad, but I was getting kind of annoyed by some of the stuff like how little I could actually do in a day and my kid calling me to ask me to come home when I’m literally right outside the door but now have to wait until she’s done talking to come in… Just like being a real Dad, I guess?

Morkredd was pretty cool, I enjoyed those puzzles and accidentally killing/getting killed with shadows.

Paw Paw Paw I thought was kinda cool, definitely trying to be Castle Crashers, but I liked some of the additions, like the actually different characters and their skill trees, and the boss drops were kinda cool (sometimes), but it seemed like it definitely expected you to play coop, and some of the stuff was getting pretty infuriating…

Effie… Was interesting. I thought I was going to like this one more than I did, but combat was really lackluster, every time you pulled a switch or hit a button, there was a 10-second “cutscene” showing what you triggered, even if it was literally right in front of you… And the final boss was so slow, you fight a few enemies, stand on a button, watch the “cutscene” then repeat… It takes way longer than it should, and if it follows the pattern of the other boss “fights” you would have to start it all over if you die (which thankfully I didn’t). Plus with no chapter select of any kind, going back for the relics I missed would require another whole play through, so that probably won’t happen.

Civ VI, is Civ VI, I don’t know that I have too much to say about it, but I’m pretty excited to try the Pirates and Red Death modes with friends/family, which weren’t on the Switch version, as far as I’m aware.

And finally, Size Matters was a lot more enjoyable than I expected. I didn’t think I was going to like it, but there’s a lot of options to play with, and even the default difficulties (that I’ve tried so far) don’t seem as stressful as I was expecting.

Also just noticed that I’ve played 90+ hours in the last 2 weeks, about 60 of which were these games, haha.

Again my deadline of the huge assignment I'm doing is on the 28th. I'm planning to go full gamer mode after that so challenge accepted again :'3