I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
June 24, 2023 - Day 175 - NewPlay Bonus Review
Total NewPlays: 194
Game: Century: Age of Ashes
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Dec 3, 2021
Library Date: Jun 24, 2023
Unplayed: 0d (0d)
Playtime: 25m
Oops, I did it again.
While my chances of playing through all of my unplayed Steam games & keys by the end of 2023 were slim to begin with, adding new games to the pile does not help in the slightest.
Why would I do this to myself?
Century: Age of Ashes is a free to play multiplayer third-person aerial combat game. By aerial combat, it means dogfighting with dragons.
The visuals are gorgeous, as you dodge and weave between castle in a mountainous Nordic landscape, shooting fireballs and spears at the other dragoneers.
I'm not sure on the long-term viability of the game, given the whole "free-to-play multiplayer" thing, and I've only played a couple of matches. It does the whole battle pass thing, and I'm not paying for a battle pass, which means grinding, and I have no idea what the grind is like.
Century: Age of Ashes may well go the way of so many other F2P PVP games this year, but it's free, and did I mention how cool it is to dogfight on fricking dragons?!?