2.2 was a very special day, Groundhog Day!! I have prepared a special Maru-style puzzle for you, all drawn by me. Enjoy!! And yeah, Maru-style puzzle is an official term from now on, it means a puzzle involving crazy and time-consuming artwork as the major aspect.

Here's the story:

Did you know there are no games about groundhogs in Steam?? Just one DLC. Well, there is this evil groundhog warlock who isn't happy about that. So he's put a curse of groundhoggification on Steam on 2.2. All the characters in Steam games are slowly turning into groundhogs. All is not lost though, it will take one week for the curse to take full effect. This is your chance. To prevent the curse from taking permanent effect you must recognize the games that have already suffered the fate of groundhoggification. Shout out the names (or write them in the puzzle, that should also work) of all of these games to break the curse. You shall be rewarded if you succeed. You have one week, until 9.2.

tl;dr: name the games these groundhoggified (I'm sure that is an official term), characters are from. The games, not the characters themselves.

Here's the puzzle. Go for it, save Steam!!

The usual puzzle rules: no hints (here or in other sites), no answer sharing, no giveaway link sharing. Come on, I've worked on this puzzle for months, the least you can do is follow my rules. I will be giving out hints if I deem it necessary. Some questions have multiple correct answers, if those characters have been in many games.

Hint 1: all the games are available in Steam

Hint 2: there will be no more hints. There are already over 200 solvers so I guess my puzzle was pretty easy for most of you. My next puzzle will be a lot harder and multi-staged (I'm even considering including an "impossible" stage to it, that none of you will be able to solve :P).

Good luck everyone!! Break the groundhog's curse before it's too late!!

SOLUTION (sorry, I forgot to post this D:)

  1. Bastion
  2. Super Meat Boy
  3. Team Fortress 2, Garry's Mod
  4. Dungeon Defenders
  5. Cave Story+
  6. Assassin's Creed
  7. Half-Life
  8. Sequence
  9. Ys I, Ys II, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Ys Origin
  10. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Skyrim
  11. Devil May Cry 4
  12. King's Bounty: Armored Princess

Thank you for participating in my puzzle. More Maru-style puzzles will be coming in the future!! ^^

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Well that was a fun puzzle. 6 actually gave me the most trouble, not because I didn't know what it was, but because I thought that was the first thing I guessed.

11 years ago
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I swear I've seen the character from 8 somewhere before...
but I seriously can't recall.

11 years ago
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Stuck on 5 and 8:P

11 years ago
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Solved. Nice work! Fun, original, and some of them were rather tricky. Wouldn't have gotten #8 without that hint you posted.

11 years ago
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That's some really awesome artwork!

11 years ago
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8, 9 left
i have no idea

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VERY cute. I got about about half instantly, and I've got all but 8 and 9 now. I think 9 looks like Fire Emblem, and I have no idea about Green Pockets there. :P

11 years ago
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its only games available on steam!!

11 years ago
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Yeah, I know. I just think it looks like Roy from Fire Emblem. http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Roy

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That's what I thought at first too.

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Awesome puzzle and amazing artwork! Unfortunately, I must be a complete dumbass, as I'm missing 5, 8, 9, 11, and 12. I know I've seen 5, but can't place it, and 11 I'm almost positive I know, yet it says I'm wrong.

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Keep in mind that these are games, not series. So if it was an adorable ground hog Vaas, you couldn't enter Far Cry, it would have to be Far Cry 3.

11 years ago
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I swear to god I tried that before and it didn't work...tried it again now just to be sure and it worked. itstoohard was lagging for me in its responses earlier, so maybe that was the issue. Now I'm questions all the guesses I've done for the other ones. damn. lol. Thanks though!

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Welcome!

11 years ago
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Very nice puzzle, awesome drawings! stuck on 8 and 9...

11 years ago
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LOL, nice!

11 years ago
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ahaha awesome puzzle! ;D

btw I'm missing 5 and 9, though I'm pretty sure I've alredy seen them..

11 years ago
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de-groundhoggification complete! :D

11 years ago
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Working on 9 and 11 still, but thanks :)

11 years ago
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Bump for solved! =D

11 years ago
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Do you maybe have Deviantart account?

11 years ago
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No I don't. I'm a busy critter and I rarely have any time to draw. I wouldn't be able to keep an account alive if I made one, unfortunately. It would be abandoned most of the time.

11 years ago
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OMG, nice puzzle! :3 I love all the pictures, so adorable~

11 years ago
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Can't solve Question 8 and 10 :<

11 years ago
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Ughhhhhh, I recognize the character from Question 8 but I forgot what game he's in ._.

11 years ago
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Solved!

11 years ago
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Great puzzle, great drawings :)
stuck on 8 like a lot of others... Though I swear I saw that guy somewhere

Made me think of http://thekittencovers.tumblr.com/

11 years ago
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Hahaa, that is great. Those kitties are so cute, it made my day!! Yeah, I know the way I draw groundhogs makes them look a lot like kittens, many people have pointed that out. ^^

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SWEET DRAWINGS! Dude, make more. You have talent.

That said, got them all in one try, but I'm stuck on 9.

(;一_一)

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Really cool pix .. Stuck on 8 though. Really bugging me cause I swear Ive seen that before but just cannot play it

11 years ago
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Darn 8, it's too hard!

11 years ago
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Solved.

11 years ago
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Spent last 4 hours looking for 9. >_<

11 years ago
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The drawings are well done. Good job.

Only need Q8, and Q12.

EDIT: only Q8 left. The jacket looks damn familiar. :/

EDIT2: Solved. :)

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Sympathy bump for awesome puzzle!

11 years ago
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I'm stucked on 8 for hours XD

11 years ago
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Love this kind of puzzle. If I'll do mine it also will be drawing ^^

<strike>Only 8th left and it looks familiar but probably it's not... Maybe it's Hitman aka Agent 47 in disguise? Any hint, Marumisu? :( </strike>

E: Don't know how to strike text in syntax so I'll just say that sexy one is guessed! ^^

E2: 9 was lucky shot but I feel like Sherlock Holmes :D - only 8th to go.

E3: DONE! What a relief! :p

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Closed 11 years ago by Marumisu.