Main ListPrevious Listbold games are games that have been beaten, previously beaten, or are unbeatable.
italicized games are in progress.
standard games are games I am not currently trying to beat.
strikethrough games are games that have been abandoned.
133.
Little Nightmares (PC)
I played this game originally years ago on PS4, after my wife played it, shortly after release, at my wife's behest as she had played the game and really enjoyed it. I do sort of miss the days of her playing games and then recommending them to me, not a common thing anymore. I'd say not at all these days. Anyway, like other instances like this I breezed through the game quite quickly as I was aware of all of the things and I think I didn't bother trying to get any of the side stuff. Originally my plan was to play the enhanced edition as that had released before I had started playing this but getting cards and getting percentages to work like I want did convince me to play the original over the enhanced edition. I may give the enhanced edition a go at some point, but I am irked by the lack of inclusion of the DLC. I'd have to check what my original rating was, but I didn't enjoy this game and I don't recall enjoying it the first time either so I don't suspect that I gave it a better rating than I'm giving it now. I do need to play 2 and 3 one day though.
Rating: Soft pass
134.
Last Time I Saw You (PC)
At a glance I get this game and Until Then confused, I wouldn't even call them overlapping in so many ways, but I suppose they kind of do in some ways. I'm kind of bumming myself out that I can't recall the plot of this game. I feel like it was pretty good and I enjoyed it, but I can't recall much. I remember a lot of daily life drama which can be enjoyable when paired with good gameplay and a decent story, this game nails that pretty well, so the daily life stuff is semi-memorable and enjoyable and easy to get attached to. Unfortunately I can't really recall the plot of the game other than typhoons and deities and such, which makes me sad as the game was enjoyable, but I suppose not memorable.
Rating: Soft pass
135.
WWE 2K19 (X1)
Played this years ago only doing the Showcase mode, which was a thing for me at some point as I would just do the "story" content and be done with the game, and now I'm going through the franchise and trying to get as many achievements as I can and get as much done as I can be bothered to do. So lots of just doing random matches in Versus mode and then starting up MyCAREER which is a CAW story mode, pretty entertaining and makes me realize I should definitely be checking it out, but who knows if they'll keep it as good as previous years MyCareer was handled awful like. Anyway, like all sports games, they aren't really worth the time as there is no definitive release and the rosters and stories change and they lose their replay value almost immediately. I do miss the days of trying to run a "federation" with friends via gameplay planning out matches and tournaments and PPVs and such and having a biggish get together to play through together, but those days are long gone.
Rating: Soft pass
136.
Undying Flower (PC)
A gift to be played, I really didn't know much going in... or going out for that matter. Kind of point and click, kind of walking sim. Very touching, thought provoking story, but I as always I don't remember the hows, just the whys. A girl in regret of memories of her grandfather, reliving moments, changing history, coming to terms, etc. Powerful tale, kind of boring gameplay, beautiful art. Overall not a great game and probably undeserving of your time, but could definitely be better or lead to something better as it has a lot going for it.
Rating: Soft pass
137.
Painkiller: Black Edition (PC)
Achievementless games almost never get played by me these days unless I'm forced to for one reason or another. I always expect that I'll like boomer shooter games because I enjoy shooter games, but I think I absolutely can't stand level based games in general, it just doesn't meld with my ADHD. I sit down, I get through a level, it has a natural break or stopping point, so I don't want to continue, I want to use the opportunity to do something else, and if I do stop, I don't want to pick it back up. Something about that loop deters me from playing in general and continuing to play once starting. Painkiller is a super generic level based shooter with simple exploration and "puzzles", very akin to old Doom/Duke Nukem games, later levels get convoluted where a guide might be necessary. Game definitely has an issue with ammo acquisition from what I recall.
Rating: Soft pass
138.
Painkiller: Battle out of Hell (PC)
More of the same, though the story continues and has its little swerves and whatnot. Time progresses and I forget more. I really didn't enjoy these enough. I recall in my youth enjoying boomer shooters and finding all of the secrets and whatnot, but I just can't be bothered, I don't know if it's a lack of care or disinterest in the world or genre, but I just push myself through these games and skip over most optional content.
Rating: Soft pass
139.
Nine Sols (PC)
Now this is one that I wish I had written more recently than I am deciding to write. Quite a good souls-like metroidvania game. I don't usually enjoy the 2D soulslike games, but I've grown accustomed to them since I started with Blasphemous last year or whenever it was and then playing a few more 2D soulslike games. This one was quite enjoyable, the combat was fluid, the art style and animations are gorgeous, the story and characters are interesting and largely existent. Some 2D soulslikes lean on the lore of text like Souls games and that can be grating, but this game does well putting all of that in dialogue and the world and gameplay and not just via notes found around the world.
Rating: Solid recommendation
140.
Ridge Racer 6 (360)
I've never actually played a Ridge Racer game before and this was played to fill out a year in my game by year thing I usually do, though I probably won't bother with it in 2026. It's definitely a hinderance to my gaming, but it does force me to find a game to play from odd years, which I appreciate because it forces me to work on older games, but I find year over year it's always the same years I get stuck with having to find a game and it gets miserable, generally mid PS2 era if I happen to go that far back, and mid 360 era. The '03-'05 and '09-'11 years. Everything else generally falls into place on its own. Anyway, on topic... this game was actually quite enjoyable and I loved learning the mechanics of the drifting, absolutely joy to play through this game and even though I mostly powered through the story to get credits, I'll plan to go back and do more in the game because it was that enjoyable.
Rating: Soft recommendation
141.
Need for Speed: Carbon (360)
Another game to fill out a year. I had played this on PS2 way back in the day and I recall enjoying it, but it being a definite let down after Most Wanted. The game takes place almost entirely at night and I do recall that I have an awful time with night time driving in games in general, maybe it's my astigmatism, does that even make sense for gaming? I don't know.
Rating: Soft pass
142.
Rogue Warrior (360)
For a game I played less than 6 months ago, it's wild that I really don't recall the game at all, but honestly that is appropriate for this forgettable game. This game sort of feels like a modern take on Duke Nukem, like here's this man's man doing army things. It's kind of awful, like a fever dream for a MAGAt. Honestly, just an absolutely awful game, but I seem to always pick these up.
Rating: Hard pass
143.
Piczle Cross Adventure (PC)
I enjoy picross immensely so I had been looking forward to playing this game. I'm familiar with the franchise as it's the same universe as the Piczle Lines games, not familiar with the lore if there really is any, but familiar with the characters. Lots of walking around the world and completing puzzles to rematerialize objects that got zapped away. So puzzles with purpose a little bit. Honestly quite enjoyable if not a little annoying from time to time.
Rating: Soft recommendation.
144.
TNA Impact! (360)
While I'm continuously making progress on my WWE franchise run, which will require me to go back and play the pre-Smackdown games eventually, occasionally I think about the non-WWE games of the eras that I missed out on because I wasn't interested in other promotions. TNA has this one and maybe another, AEW has fight forever, and there are some NJPW adjacent FPW games. Ah, the six sided ring... something that probably could've been cool, or made to be cool, but was really just a thing that complicated things and probably made things harder for wrestlers given they were likely trained in a 4 sided ring. I really don't recall a lot about this game other than being super frustrated with the story mode and the difficulty in getting things done. I feel like I recall really having to cheese/cheat to win tag matches or something because the AI was just so broken. X division matches were infuriating until you figured out how to essentially cheese the match making it trivial. Overall, the game sucked real hard, but makes sense given it was made by a subpar developer
Rating: Hard pass
145.
Fallout: New Vegas (PC)
I've played through New Vegas so many times, even on PC, but I had never 100%d the game on Steam, so this was my opportunity to finally correct that... plus check out the latest mods. Oh my, I just realized that I streamed my playthrough of this and Piczle Cross Adventure. I need to add links and build playlists. I don't recall what all I was missing achievement wise, but I know I had planned accordingly to get through what I needed to get through and to meet some other requirements from the beginning. Both games were part of a bingo event on a discord that I took part in. Most of it was find this, do that kind of stuff, but it required streaming the whole process so they could vet you really did the request. I think after I met all of the requests I stopped streaming and just kept playing on my own until I 100%d the game. I'm not going to rewatch my streams for info, but I will glance at my list of mods for an idea. So I installed Russell (no clue) and Willow companions, Willow being a favorite companion of mine from way way way back in the day, such a better companion experience over the vanilla companions. Various tweaks like perk every level, expanded weapon mods, 100x intense training, unlimited level cap, and more perks. Also did the same thing I always do and downloaded SomeGuy's mods (NV Bounties, NV Killer, and the Inheritance). I really want to check out some of the full overhaul mods that give you completely new campaigns and stuff, but I stuck with what I had and I've been running out of hard disk space, so I can't grab anything too crazy. Hope to maybe check that out once I get a new computer.
Rating: Highest of recommendations.
146.
Post Void (PC)
Don't quite recall why I decided to play this, but boy was this game freaking weird. There are a lot of these really weird games and I keep buying them and sort of regretting it. Roguelike FPS games. I don't mind iterative gameplay as long as subsequent loops get easier and most of these games don't offer that. Not my jam. This one is relatively short if you can get gud, it's length comes from sucking so it didn't actually take me that long to get through the game, but boy did I not enjoy it.
Rating: Soft pass
147.
Balatro (PC)
I had previously played the game a year or so back and I decided to hop back into it for some reason. Boy is this game super easy to get addicted to, so easy to just do runs and stuff. I really need to come back to it too since I hear about a lot of the newer features the game keeps adding.
Rating: Solid recommendation
148.
Silent Hill f (PC)
This one was a slow play for me. I just couldn't get into it. I love the idea of rural japan and stuff, but spooky games don't click with me very well. This one is also full of degrading weapons and the kind of creepy stuff that kind of gives me nightmares. Not really, just the kind of stuff that really disturbs me. I won't go into spoilers but I will say the ending wasn't for me. I also know lots of people give this game shit because it's called Silent hill but it's not in Silent Hill and the story technically predates Silent Hill and also the game is a side story so it's not really canon. Lots of mind fuck stuff going on in this game and I liked the idea of the souls-like style combat, but it just wasn't satisfying like I was hoping it would be.
Rating: Middle of the road, maybe soft recommendation.
149.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC)
This is another slow play for me, it took me well over 15 hours just to get through the tutorial/introduction before Chapter 1 really started, or was it getting through Chapter 1? I can't recall, regardless I didn't get my first achievement until over 15 hours into the game. Story and characters were pretty good and as the story progressed I definitely got more and more invested in the characters and their stories. Even though it's a hella old game, I hadn't been spoiled so the ending caught me a little off guard. I'm super interested to play through the rest of the franchise, but I don't own many of the games and with the Trails in the Sky games getting remakes, I very well may wait and get those on steam and replay this one. It was slow to start for me, but this game grew on me and I really enjoyed my time with it.
Rating: Solid recommendation
