A Huge Pile Called The Ongoing Gaming Backlog

Not every video game I pick up manages to hold my attention long enough to reach the credits. There are many reasons for this: too boring, too long, not in the right mood, too difficult, too easy, my hardware platform suddenly failed, the friend I played it with stopped playing, … I realised today that I’ve got many of these so-called “dangling projects”. I’m making a list here to help myself get over the initial hurdle of picking them up again. Perhaps I dropped the game for the wrong reasons. Perhaps my mood or the context this time is aligned with that of the game. This backlog only lists games that are ongoing; meaning that I played at least an hour before turning my attention elsewhere. Shrink wrapped limited editions do not count (to my big relief). Void Stranger is a unique sokoban-like game with an emphasis on story and discovery. It’s best to go in blind—and I did—but the typical Sokoban-like puzzles that stand between me and the unfolding of the story ultimately made me quit…