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.
February 15, 2024 - Day 411 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 447
Game: Fantasy Blacksmith
Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 16, 2019
Installed: Feb 1, 2024
Unplayed: 14d
Playtime: 33m
Rating: 1 - Nope
Fantasy Blacksmith is a first-person work simulator, where you get to play as a blacksmith in a fantasy setting, making swords for adventurers.
If it sounds like an interesting idea, that is correct. It's an interesting idea.
The execution, on the other hand, will push you to build your first sword so that you can immediately fall on it, and put yourself out of your misery.
It's like the devs on this game thought of the worst possible way they could do every single thing in this game, and then found a way to make it buggy as well.
Some games are so bad, they cycle through to being some kind of perverse pleasure.
This is not one of those games. This is a game that makes Snowtopia look like a masterpiece of UX design and user-friendliness.
This is a game that will have you longing for pixel art, just so the game is actually bright enough to see what you're doing.
It feels like something that was coded by a repurposed Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser, producing something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a game.
Every single game element seems to be a psychological challenge to see how hard you can push a user before they break and throw their mouse across the room.
While it doesn't reach the nadir of Edge of Twilight - Return to Glory, it does put in one hell of an effort.
You do not play Fantasy Blacksmith. You suffer through Fantasy Blacksmith. It's a painfully obvious: