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chuckroI periodically look at my Steam collection (which I’ve sorted into various buckets of games I played and liked, games I played and disliked, games I paid real money for and should actually invest time in, etc.) and notice that I have a bunch of games that I’ve lost track of their provenience and really am not interested in playing them. Here’s a selection:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - First person survival horror. Given I hated A Machine For Pigs, I think I can safely file this away.
Crazy Machines - This came in its own bundle with both the sequel an assortment of DLC; it's a brainteaser game based around building Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions. I’ve sat on it for years because I initially found the controls clunky and the puzzles non-intuitive. I’m not going back.
Infinite Air with Mark McMorris - This is a snowboarding simulation game. I haven’t a goddamn clue where it came from.
Skullgirls Endless Beta - This came with the bundle that gave me Skullgirls, and I didn’t like that enough to test their new stuff for them.
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones - A stealth platformer that’s been on my list forever and I’m not going to play.
Abyss Odyssey - I exchanged this Steam key with somebody on Talking Time for some other Steam key; it seemed vaguely appealing as a Metroidvania about searching through a vast abyss (apparently dreamed into being by a sleeping warlock). What really turned me off was the controls, which are much more like a fighting game—enemies have a lot of durability and require a variety of attacks to get past their guard. I can see that working for somebody else, but it doesn’t do it for me.
Tempest is an open-world 3D “pirate action rpg” that I’m guessing I missed in a bundle at some point, but I’m not enthusiastic about it.
(I think I’ve been getting a bit overwhelmed lately by the amount of backlog I have that I’m not actually that strongly interested in. I’ve played a lot of what’s available for cheap on Steam over the past few years, including a lot of crap, and I’ve clearly grown tired of “Yeah, I’ve seen this before, I don’t like it, next.” I’ve been buying fewer bundles because fewer of the titles seem new or interesting.)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - First person survival horror. Given I hated A Machine For Pigs, I think I can safely file this away.
Crazy Machines - This came in its own bundle with both the sequel an assortment of DLC; it's a brainteaser game based around building Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions. I’ve sat on it for years because I initially found the controls clunky and the puzzles non-intuitive. I’m not going back.
Infinite Air with Mark McMorris - This is a snowboarding simulation game. I haven’t a goddamn clue where it came from.
Skullgirls Endless Beta - This came with the bundle that gave me Skullgirls, and I didn’t like that enough to test their new stuff for them.
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones - A stealth platformer that’s been on my list forever and I’m not going to play.
Abyss Odyssey - I exchanged this Steam key with somebody on Talking Time for some other Steam key; it seemed vaguely appealing as a Metroidvania about searching through a vast abyss (apparently dreamed into being by a sleeping warlock). What really turned me off was the controls, which are much more like a fighting game—enemies have a lot of durability and require a variety of attacks to get past their guard. I can see that working for somebody else, but it doesn’t do it for me.
Tempest is an open-world 3D “pirate action rpg” that I’m guessing I missed in a bundle at some point, but I’m not enthusiastic about it.
(I think I’ve been getting a bit overwhelmed lately by the amount of backlog I have that I’m not actually that strongly interested in. I’ve played a lot of what’s available for cheap on Steam over the past few years, including a lot of crap, and I’ve clearly grown tired of “Yeah, I’ve seen this before, I don’t like it, next.” I’ve been buying fewer bundles because fewer of the titles seem new or interesting.)
