If you havent' broken your #gacha addiction yet I highly recommend it. At least for me just a week later I had already lost the daily urge to get my crap and realized "who cares there's no more possibility for a 'perfect game'."
And if you ever go back you'll noticed how disgustingly samey and grindy it all is. Like 40 daily actions you MUST perform and all of them largely boil down to navigating a menu, mashing through text and waiting.
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?!?
Shatterline is a multiplayer F2P co-op PvE & PvP FPS with some roguelike & extraction shooter gameplay elements.
Launching a F2P FPS into early access in 2022 was a huge risk in an already flooded market.
Launching a F2P FPS in 2022 when your development headquarters are based in Kyiv, Ukraine? They don't make risk-management charts that big.
The premise is interesting, and the intro is well done. Even the initial PvE tutorial level is great. The gameplay is smooth, and the UI is polished.
However, the problem with F2P multiplayer shooters is that there are so many options available that a game has to present something that's utterly unique to rise above the crowd, and Shatterline doesn't quite deliver that.
In this case, that's less my judgement of the game, and more that Steamcharts shows that the average players has gone down consistently every month since launch averaging 285 players per day over the last 30 days.
No matter how good Shatterline's design and gameplay is, with a game that's primarily multiplayer, without the players, a game is pretty much doomed to failure.
Unfortunately, as interesting as Shatterline's backstory is, and as nice as the gameplay is, I suspect Shatterline may follow in footprints of The Cycle: Frontier before too long.
Killer Instinct is a fighting game that went F2P last year as a teaser to get people to buy the Killer Instinct: Anniversary Edition DLC that provides balance updates, and everything available in the in-game shop.
I won't be buying it. It's pretty cheesy, and while the single-button combos make my button mashing a lot easier, my hands get tired far too quickly for this to be fun.
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