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!! ^^

11 years ago*

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Solved q8, just one more left :)

11 years ago
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damn, I can't get Q5 though I'm sure I've seen this guy before...
also this jacket at Q8 looks familiar but I doubt I'll fihure it out.
rest was quite easy. with two question I was quite confused 'cause you want a specific part of the series put in but I got them on second try.
I wouldn't do Q9 but you said that they're all from steam and it helped ;)

11 years ago
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Got most of the questions, stuck on a few...

11 years ago
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Oi...finally got 8 after thinking a dozen times that couldn't be it. On the plus side, somehow my searching lead me to an awesome shirt.

Fantastic artwork and fun puzzle! Thanks!

11 years ago
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bump for solved, question 9 was the hardest to answer for me :P

11 years ago
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HAHAHAHAHA lots of people are stucked on nr.8, that's what you get for not playing an awesome game lol

11 years ago
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Thanks. Your game list helped.

11 years ago
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Gah, I give up. 8 has defeated me for the past two days! Looking forward to the answers, thanks for the quiz. I love the drawings :3

11 years ago
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Finally found the Q8, I knew I've already seen it, 'couse it's a game I wanted to play..., but I had in my mind only the top part of the character so I always thought it couldn't be it...

11 years ago
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Great Puzzle Marumisu!! I'm actually stuck on Q9, hope i get it cleared!!

11 years ago
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It seems that Q9 is the hardest one.

11 years ago
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May I have a hint for Q9? Its a bit generic.

11 years ago
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After days and days, I finally solved 8.
9, 12 left.

11 years ago
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Bump-for-solved

11 years ago
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Oh, I finally got 8! Just 9 to go.

11 years ago
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I think I may have found the game for #9, but it won't take it for an answer. Am I not typing it right or something? Because I'd be surprised if it isn't this game.

Edit: Nevermind, apparently had to use a different yet similar game (and looking back, I apparently didn't type it right)

11 years ago
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Solved it! Q8 was giving a hard time coz I knew that I have seen that character before but didn't remember from which game. Then I browsed the Steam store and then I remembered! ^^

11 years ago
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OMG THE PICTURES ARE SO CUTE~! T_____T

11 years ago
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Aww I know, you're cute too!! Maybe not as cuddly as a groundhog (because let's face it, they are the single cutest species in the existence), but you're still very adorable. ^~^

11 years ago
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<3 If only I knew what they all were :3 scrunches face thinks hard

11 years ago
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Bump4Solved ^____^ <3

11 years ago
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I did it! It took me some thinking to figure out the ones I haven't played, but that didn't take too long.

Great artwork, and I really like your taste in games, btw.

11 years ago
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Thanks for the original puzzle. I'm impressed by your drawings and the amount of effort that was expended. (^)

Unfortunately, over the 6 days I couldn't recall where I saw the jacket from Q8. It looks very familiar, but my memory let me down.

In any case, thank you for the fun! I hope other ppl will save the Steam for me too. (^_^)

11 years ago
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I solved it, yay!

Bump.

11 years ago
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Bump for solved (finally). Have almost everything from the pack (maybe one DLC missing), but oh well at least it was fun.

11 years ago
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Solution for 8?

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11 years ago
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Ys: The Oath in Felghana

11 years ago
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Found out about this puzzle too late, nice pics tho :D

11 years ago
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Thank you for the puzzle, very nice drawings. Not solved due to Q9.

11 years ago
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Closed 11 years ago by Marumisu.