Which theme would you like to see for January?
As cece said, as long as you finished the game this month and it is a SG win (backlog only counts, when all qualifying wins already have been played), feel free to enter it on the website. Though please note down all the achievements gotten/time spent on the game before the beginning of this month event.
And rewards are invite only giveaways (normally around a handful or however more are provided by other users at the beginning of the next month). This time around we have an Advent calender, which means there will be 1 GA every day until the end of Christmas (and beyond, depending on donations). Links to these GA's will be provided on the website, once the game has been approved (mouse and myself are doing this as fast as we can, but we are both working full time, so that means usually after working hours in CET are over).
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the game must necessarily be won in SG?
Not exactly! If none of your SG wins (from an 8 years old win to a recent one) qualify for the monthly theme then you can play any game from your steam backlog that fits the monthly theme. If nothing fits, then you can play any unfinished game from your steam library instead.
You have to play the game in the corresponding month. For the Dec theme, playtime should be in December.
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Basically what sens said. This cryptic acronym PAGYWOSG stands for "Play A Game You Won On Steam Gifts", meaning the main goal of the event is to encourage people to play their wins. It does not matter how long ago the game was won, as long as it is not finished and it fits the theme, you can play it.
There are 3 possibilities when you can play a normal backlog game (a game not won on SG) for the event:
Under any of those circumstances you can play a game from your backlog that fits the theme.
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From the website:
I'm not sure if I still have games that fit the requirements like won on SG.
You have plenty, I only looked at your very most recent wins and found at least 4 therefore I can't accept Guacamelee! 2.
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At least you beaten it, I gave up on it. Approved btw :)
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Try again, it's pretty good, begging is unbalance and unforgiving, once you'll get healing items and pick up some health it would be not that hard.
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I will give it another go at it at some point for sure, but don't think it will be any time soon :/ Congrats on getting the good ending!
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1st of all, have some patience please. Writing to me the same thing again after I already answered you on the first one won't make any difference. Second of all you are still missing the achievment to beat the game. So either get that or provide some other proof that it has been beaten.
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As Cece said, definitely colourful. As for the completing part, you don't need to 100% complete it for it to get counted. A decent try is enough for it being counted as beaten ->HLTB main story playtime should give you an idea around how much playtime would be expected for a decent try.
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Hi rodasa,
I cannot find Beat Hazard under your SG wins. Was it part of a bundle you've won? If not we cannot accept it as an entry for the event, since you have a bunch of qualifying, unplayed (idiling for cards does not count as played) SG wins that you could play instead. Playing a non SG win for the event is only possible if you have played all qualifying SG wins first. Here is a short list of qualifiying games:
2D:
Mystery:
Colorful:
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For those lists I go off tags most of the time myself, unless I know the game myself so that I can judge it properly. But that is way too much work for someone with a backlog like our mouse.
Sometimes if I come across a game that I would like to play, I will try to fit it in in one of those other categories, if at all possible.
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Hi all, I didn't understand exactly this event but last week I won Hard West. I already started it. If I finished it in this month, can I join? Does the game fit the requirements and theme? Thanks in advance.
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Hello there.
I didn't understand exactly this event
This event aims to give people the motivation to play games they won and also provides an opportunity to win some more games as reward :) Once you've finished at least one game, that fit the theme of the month - you get acces to some invite only giveaways.
You can participate even if you started the game before the event, as long as it's not like 90% finished.
The thing is that I'm not see how this game (Hard West) fit the current month theme, if only you not received it as steam gift (not a key, but gift through steam directly).
I took a quick look at your wins and find few games that fit the current theme:
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Hi,
SpiderDen can't "let you in" because he is not an admin, just a nice helpful person :) Only me and Samwise84 can, but you need to add the game to the website first.
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Please ignore this message, it is just so I have it on record for myself: join request was sent.
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Just a quick note: I have cleared through all the overdue join request now and they should all be approved for people who participated. Big sorry to the people who have been waiting for that since the end of November :/ If anyone is missing a group invite or their join request has been declined please do let me know and I will sort it out as soon as possible. Now excuse me as I am off to drive trucks around Europe :3
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Welp, the safely part didn't work out all that well, I just crashed pretty badly because I was paying too much attention to the Youtube video I was watching D: before anyone goes full WTF mode, I am playing Euro Truck Simulator 2, not actually driving a truck
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Simple, as sad and embarrassing to say this in public: I'm a game addict with no real life.
Hell I could have topped the few months I have participated here if it weren't for Origin, if you remember seeing a thread here on Spring there was an ASUS rewarding site was giving out free 1 month Origin Access Basic ,, well I got myself 14 months out of it and most of the year I have been gaming hard on Origin farming its achievements as much as I can.
But since this month is the ending of a decade I'm hell-bent on topping the leaderboard here, especially that a Steam friend donated me Hitman 2 Gold Edition during the Steam Autumn Sale
Cheers!
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while I certainly cant hit that many hours in such a short time I play my fair share. I have absolutely 0 life since I only leave the house on monday and every other saturday. So while there's not many hours I have a lot of times done 10 games in a week and that my life. At least you are making the most out of the origin access thing. I did see it but I only use steam so I don't really look into my details about that, xbox game pass or the free stuff on epic
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I wish I had that amount of time :( When 40 hours of your week is working, 42 is sleep, you only have 86 hours for gaming and the rest of stuff that needs to be done that week including some very basic stuff like eating and showering :/
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I would prefer somehow have a million Euros out of somewhere so I just don't have to work another day in my life instead.
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A normal giveaway (like the ones we have every month) has been added to the website :) There will be another one from me as well, but I will figure out what it will be during Christmas time ;)
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I actually didn't find that game too bad (at least from what I remember from 2014 when I played it) :c
Approved!
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It's... more meh, with bad design choices. Also potato laptop and stupid weather system meant I spent like half of the game playing in black and white, with 10- fps :C won't review it because laptop problems were the source of a lot frustration.
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I have a general question! When we say a tag needs to be applied to a game for it to be eligible, does the tag need to appear on the store page? Or is the longer list of tags you get by clicking through to see which are popular enough?
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Either is fine. And when it does not have a tag, but you think it would fit a category, just write a short explanation why into the comment box. If it is convincing enough, it will probably get approved. Without a comment and when it is not really apparent how it could fit, it might not get approved.
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So I'm seeing an average of 6 games per event... New record this month apparently then I didn't even realise I was doing that
Now I feel like I should keep up the 6 per month but thats way to many games!
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You are not doing bad yourself if you already finished 19 this month o.o
I hope you will enjoy whatever you will end up playing :)
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Just finished army gals so 20 now with 3 games dropped which is rare for me to do
hmm lets see what ive done. as far as I can tell theyve been pretty good. Yeah I would say those games are on the pretty good side. Got a good contender for game of the month as well
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i dropped another game...
thats 6 i seriously need to question if im just in a mood or something but im pretty sure im not.
correction 7 games. Gonna drown in the red sea!!!! It's taking over meeeeee
This is what I get for trying stuff that I wouldn't have done normally! Dont branch out of your comfort zone or u drown in red
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its been 3 days and ive dropped 7. what is going on. I'm not even kidding here they are all games that arent in my library. see only the best games belong in my library since i play them. considering im gonna ruin my stats with the sale coming up i need to work at it. still dont know properly what im getting though. at least ive completed 3 games this week already so im not at a total lose if i just stopped trying which I wont. Gotta finish my hyperdimension and remember me
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eve had awkward gameplay making eve and adam dropped
amplitude i just didnt want to try to wrap my head around
anti opoly confusing.
winters tale stupid controls and tiny
always remember you stupid name of dead beat bf
anaheim stupid translation
basically dont touch anything you dont own or you get stupid games like these. even if eve was pretty good
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we love seeing your random games! it lets us know what to avoid its a good thing :D Plus dont worry the family share I'm using has tons of terrible games too but only you get praise for it since you review them. also yeah I realised that with the anti-opoly. should've been simple but it confused me so much. i still dont know what c and m meant!
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Anti-opoly is literally just monopoly but the UI is awful.
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IT was just a random number I picked up from the top of my head. It really isnt that far from what i usually do so its another reason why I went for 30. I mean last month I did 27 and the month before that 50. So far I'm up to 19 this month but I'll probably finish off army gals today so lets just say 20
Since I started gaming back I havent really been stressing over anything then usual stuff so i'm fine for that. Even this month I took a day off pretty much
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I have a question regarding my playtime for Gardens.
The event page shows 18 hours even though I played it for 23 hours until I got every in game achievement and yeah, it really took me over six hours to complete the game after beating it. X)
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Yeah they don't always sync up. Who knows what goes on behind the scenes!
It's just easier to hide their secrets and say wait for the update. Then before you know it mouse appears and goes it's sorted now :D
Being serious there, go back to old events and you find a few people asking the same question as you and mouse is always lurking
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Who knows what goes on behind the scenes!
I do :D
I will blame Samwise on this one for approving games without running an update on the playtime because she can't :P kidding Samwise, don't hate me <3. And I am indeed running a playtime update right now :)
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Quick heads up: there have been quite a few post Christmas giveaways added so feel free to check those out too :)
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So how does this event/group work and how can I attempt to join it?
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This is PAGYWOSG, which stands for Play A Game You Won On Steam Gifts, so you have to beat a game you won on SG (or from your backlog, if you do not have qualifying wins) that fits the monthly theme (Which you can find in the first post of this thread.
The theme for this month is
Gift Wrap
Games that qualify for it are:
Games with mysteries
Games with gacha/lootbox mechanics
Games with 2D graphics
Games with the word "paper" in their titles
Colourful games
Games where you can change characters' appearances or outfits
Games that were sent to you as Steam gifts - Please provide some kind of proof, this can be either a screenshot of your licences page, a screenshot of the email from Steam telling you that your received a gift or a link to your Steam review for the game.
Games that look different on the outside than they are on the inside - please explain how you think the game you choose fits under this category
Games where you decorate something
Games with unlockable graphical styles/changes
Then go to the event page and enter the game of your choice, that is a SG win and fits the theme:
https://pagywosg.xyz/events/7
After you have beaten the game and it is approved by either me or MouseWithBeer you will find the GA links on the webpage.
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Some games that would fit the monthly theme:
2D:
I just went through the last two pages of your wins, so there are probably many more that would fit the bill too.
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Welcome to the first ever PAGYWOSG ADVENT CALENDAR EDITION (yeah we are crazy enough to try this).
From Dec 1st, there will be a new GA every day, running until the end of that day. This will obviously be going on until the end of Christmas (it's an advent calendar after all). When is the end of Christmas you ask? Since Mouse's most favourite slave is from Germany and we celebrate until December 26th, this event will run until then.
We are also starting a day early so you have a bigger chance to finish a game in time to join every single giveaway you would like :)
And don't forget to take a look at the Steamgifts-Community-Christmas-Calendar 2019!
The theme for this month is
Gift Wrap
(Thank you to APocketfulofStars for the suggestion!)
Games that qualify for it are:
Games with mysteries
Games with gacha/lootbox mechanics
Games with 2D graphics
Games with the word "paper" in their titles
Colourful games
Games where you can change characters' appearances or outfits
Games that were sent to you as Steam gifts - Please provide some kind of proof, this can be either a screenshot of your licences page, a screenshot of the email from Steam telling you that your received a gift or a link to your Steam review for the game.
Games that look different on the outside than they are on the inside - please explain how you think the game you choose fits under this category
Games where you decorate something
Games with unlockable graphical styles/changes
You can submit this months games you are going to play here:
https://pagywosg.xyz/events/7
(this month only on the website due to the logistics of sending out giveaway links, next month we are going back of not needing to use the website, sorry for the inconvenience)
FAQ
What GA's can we expect?
Well take a look at the comment bellow. You should find a list of all games in this calendar in there, obviously not in the order they will appear, what would an advent calendar be without surprises.
But wait, where are the games for the Christmas days?
Those are kept secret until the day of the GA, but we will tell you this much: they are from the top of the PAGYWOSG groups wishlist.
How can I qualify to take part in this calendar?
This is PAGYWOSG ADVENT CALENDAR EDITION, so you have to beat a game you won on SG (or from your backlog, if you do not have qualifying wins) that fits the monthly theme for the GA links to be revealed on the event webpage.
EXCEPTION: The very first day of this calendar will be accessible to all participants, who have beaten a game in PAGYWOSG November event.
I also want to sponsor a GA for the PAGYWOSG ADVENT CALENDAR EDITION. How can I go about this?
Please let your intentions be know to us in the event thread. We decided that in the case of extra GA donations for this special event, those will be added to the days after Christmas until new year.
Congrats to everyone who successfully participated last month, here are the final statistics:
Hope to see you all again this month :)
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