Once again continuing the tradition started a few years back, below is my full list of games played in 2021. The list is largely reverse chronological, except where I did a poor job registering the date I finished the game on Grouvee (games marked with * are old games I continued from last year or replayed this year).
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Killzone: Shadow Fall
The Turing Test
Carto
Kentucky Route Zero
RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore
Super Crush KO
Sunset Overdrive
The Messenger
Super Mario Bros. 35
Void Bastards
Battletoads
Astro’s Playroom
Maquette
Ghost of Tsushima
Genesis Noir
Marvel’s Avengers
Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia
Afterparty
A Fold Apart
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
World of Demons
Psychonauts
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
Valheim
Townscaper
Spiritfarer
Minute of Islands
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Wild at Heart
Reigns
Space Jam: A New Legacy - The Game
KUUKIYOMI 2: Consider It More! - New Era
Alba: a Wildlife Adventure
Animal Crossing: New Horizons*
Mass Effect Trilogy (Xbox 360)*
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Röki
The Medium
Hades
Final Fantasy XIII*
Disco Elysium
Death’s Door
Concrete Genie
The Last of Us Part II
art of rally
Ruiner
Psychonauts 2
Islanders
Far: Lone Sails
Overcooked! 2
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Marvel’s Spider-Man
The Artful Escape
The Outer Worlds
Sable
Outer Wilds – Echoes of the Eye
Jett: The Far Shore
Next Stop Nowhere
The Dark Pictures: Little Hope
The Pedestrian
Little Misfortune
Good Job!
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Coffee Talk
Axiom Verge 2
I Am Fish
SkateBird
The Falconeer
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Timespinner
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Cyberpunk 2077
Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition
Prey
The Guildlings*
Echo Generation
The Matrix Awakens
Days Gone
Halo Infinite
Marvel’s Guardian’s of the Galaxy
The Gunk
And that’s that for my list of completed games. I’ll post my top 10s of 2021 shortly.
Here’s my list for this year. I’ve marked games I’ve yet to finish with *, games I replayed with ↻, games I started but abandoned or retired with , and games I play primarily multiplayer (so I don’t really have a sense of my progress) with . (I’m a unicode nerd. )
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My memory is awful fuzzy as time sorta bleeds all together, but I think…I can figure this out… * for replaying! Favs of the year get
Shining the Holy Ark
THE iDOLM@STER SP ************
THE iDOLM@STER: One For All
Re:Kinder
Angelique Special
Angelique Duet
Summon Night X: Tears Crown
Trace Memory
meesta drillah :)) ****
MYSTERY OF THE DRUIIIIIIIDDDSSSS!!!
Silent Hill *
Echonight *
Shin Seiki Evangelion: Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku with Asuka Hokan Keikaku
ZELLE
Monkey Puncher
The Legend of Legacy
Sol Trigger
Etrian Odyssey Untold millenium girl idk man
Monster Hunter Stories *
Wachenroder *
Theresia
Ore ga Omae o Mamoru
AIR
MOON.
Petal Crash
Evolution: The World of Sacred Device
End Roll *
Princess Maker 5 *
Blue Submarine No. 6: Time And Tide
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
25th Ward: The Silver Case *****
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 *
Sakura Taisen
All the Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side games, dear lord **********************
LovePlus ***************
Serial Experiments Lain
Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine
Man, that’s a lot. I’m tired of writing them all down. There’s definitely more, but I don’t care at this point… Make it stop…!
Some real stand-outs here. I got to know the Dreamcast and Ps2 library a bit better. I discovered the Blue Submarine game, which has been such a surreal experience, and I gained a new appreciation of various titles I didn’t care for in the past. Played way too much Idolm@ster. Had a near transformative euphoria finishing Trace Memory. Became obsessed with Angelique. Tried to enjoy Key visual novels, and failed.
Oddly through all of this, the most impactful game this entire year was Re:Kinder. A few hours long, looks like a deviantart photoshop disaster, filled with latin jazz and probably has the most jaw-dropping ending I’ve seen in…anything. Man. I think that game changed me, or at least gave me brain worms.
Less games played this year for this Jev, compared to previous year, as expected. I will go by the basic list of passed games (with a star for standout releases). In general, the games are played on Steam platform except where noted.
While the 2021 GC wasn’t as epic of a gaming experience for me as 2020 was, it was still pretty good. I got several games in that had been sitting around, such as Portal 2, Mirror’s Edge, Bastion, Transistor and Pyre. I finally played Dragon Warrior II (lol) and COMPLETED STALKER LOST ALPHA ( a game that i started in spring of 2018, and had to start over several times because they updated the game and I updated my system)
I played a healthy mix of different genres such as arcadey SHMUPS, janky Sims, retro RPGs and classic FPS mods… 2021 was a rather good year for those with everything from Romero’s SIGIL to Half-Life’s The Tower, to the official expansions for Quake. Not just mods but I even picked up the ARMA series, advanced in Sniper Ghost Warrior, Metro Redux, and Terminator Resistance (Did I mention i completed the most long-winded stalker game ever? lol) but hands down my favorite game of the year was Superhot: Mind Control Delete.
And while little of it was truly completed, lots of time was wisely wasted in various sim games such as Fishing Planet, Cooking Simulator, and PC Building simulator.
So all in all not a bad year of gaming, while overall less titles were completed, and i didnt force myself to tackle on retro systems as heavily, (or completing grouvee challenge tiers) it was a good time of cleaning out lots of stuff on the PC back burner (and just chiling by fishing for panfish, overclocking something, or trying to make the most ridiculous looking cookies or obscene cakes to display in the shop window!)
The year I got back into gaming! Well, gaming besides Old School Runescape, that is. Considering how I didn’t start until July, and that I had to learn emulation and old game mechanics and more difficult games than I traditionally play (e.g., the old Legend of Zeldas, Castlevanias, etc.), I’m surprised at just how many games I did complete. Here’s the list in order of completion:
Dragon Warrior (1986) - July 27, 2021
Legend of Zelda (1986) - July 28, 2021
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (1997) - July 31, 2021
Zelda II: Adventure of Link (1987) - Aug 8, 2021
Dragon Warrior II (1987) - Aug 31, 2021
Link to the Past (1991) - Sep 20, 2021
Link’s Awakening/DX (1993/1998) - Oct 2, 2021
Adventure (1979) - Oct 6, 2021
Castlevania (1986) - Oct 8, 2021
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (1987) - Oct 9, 2021
Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (1989) - Oct 11, 2021
The Goonies (1986) - Oct 15, 2021
The Goonies II (1987) - Oct 18, 2021
Pitfall! (1982) - Oct 24, 2021
Superman (1978) - Oct 25, 2021
Wizard (1980)
Sea Hunt (1978) - Oct 26, 2021
[Official Start of My Chronology Project]
Hamurabi (1972) - Oct 28, 2021
Oregon Trail (1971) - Oct 28, 2021
Maze War (1974) - Oct 30, 2021
Lemonade Stand (1973) - Oct 30, 2021
Bowling (1977)
Breakout (1976) - Nov 2, 2021
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) - Nov 2, 2021
Depthcharge (1977) - Nov 3, 2021
Voodoo Castle (1978) - Nov 5, 2021
Star Trek III (1978)
Stuga, the Cottage (1978) - Nov 5, 2021
Pirate Adventure (1978) - Nov 7, 2021
Beneath Apple Manor (1978) - Nov 7, 2021
Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio (1978) - Nov 7, 2021
Eliza (1964, 1978) - Nov 7, 2021
Adventureland (1978) - Nov 7, 2021
Secret Mission (1978) - Nov 8, 2021
Super Breakout (1978)
Space Invaders (1978) - Nov 9, 2021
The Count (1979) - Nov 9, 2021
Acheton (1979) - Nov 13, 2021
Mystery Fun House (1979) - Nov 15, 2021
Pyramid of Doom (1979) - Nov 15, 2021
Strange Odyssey (1979) - Nov 15, 2021
Pong (1972) - Nov 22, 2021
pedit5 (1975) - Nov 22, 2021
Moria (1975) - Nov 29, 2021
DND (1975) - Dec 9, 2021
Highnoon (1970)
Orthanc (1975) - Dec 13, 2021
Wander/Castle (1974) - Dec 14, 2021
Two Heads of the Coin (1979)
Special Sampler (1979) - Dec 19, 2021
Local Call for Death (1979)
Music Composer (1979)
Dog Star Adventure (1979) - Dec 21, 2021
The Wizard’s Castle (1979) - Dec 28, 2021
Avatar (1979)
Oubliette (1977)
Hunt the Wumpus (1973) - Dec 28, 2021
Head On (1979) - Dec 29, 2021
Space Battle (1979)
Heiankyo Alien (1979)
Showdown in 2100 A.D. (1979) - Dec 29, 2021
Galaxian (1979) - Dec 30, 2021
Manbiki Shounen, Shoplifting Boy (1979)
Dungeon Campaign/Wilderness Campaign (1978) - Dec 30, 2021
Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai (1979)
Asteroids (1979) - Dec 31, 2021
Important year for playing a lot of classics I’ve always vaguely played, heard a lot about, wanted to play, found too challenging, etc. Got fully back into gaming! I never knew text adventures were so important to early gaming. And I found out I’m a bit of Konami fanboy! Oh, and that I like arcade games more than I like to admit.
Lol omg I just realized I specified 2021 on each playthrough date… as if that wasn’t implied… and I should’ve listed what platform I played them on. Welp, I know for next year ha.
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