Alphabet Backlog Challenge

Refreshing to see a new kind of challenge to inspire picking your next game through the year. I’m more than half-way on this list, even if there’s plenty of games I’ve done sharing some of the same letters.

  • A - Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield
  • B - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
  • C - Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection
  • D - Dragon Princess Anastasia
  • E
  • F - Final Fantasy VII
  • G - Grip: Combat Racing
  • H
  • I
  • J - Junkyard Simulator
  • K - Kids Of Hellas: Back To Olympus
  • L - Little Inferno
  • M - My Mundane Life Is Threatened By Tropes Of An RPG!!!
  • N
  • O - One Piece Pirate Warriors 3
  • P - Purrfect Apawcalypse: Purrgatory Furever
  • Q - Quake 4
  • R
  • S - Stick It To The Man
  • T
  • U
  • V - Volcanoids
  • W -
  • X - X-Blades
  • Y
  • Z
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What if you started a game last year but finished it this year?

I’ll do what others have done and make a list here and will edit as I go along. Not sure what I’m gonna do for some letters like Z, X, Y etc. :sweat_smile:

  • # - 80’s Overdrive
  • A - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L - Lunark
  • M - Metal Gear Solid
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S - Street Fighter 6
  • T - Tomb Raider (1996)
  • U
  • V
  • W - Warhammer 40K: Boltgun
  • X
  • Y
  • Z
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@Roach

Thank you for making the challenge!

Personal rules:

I added numbers to the letters. I will ignore the word “the” at the beginning of a title because too many of my games start with that. Games I tried and pushed to a final shelf that is not “played” will count too (for example the shelf “Not for me” or “motion sickness”), but I will not put them on the list with a link. Ongoing games that are put aside for the moment, that I will come back to again and again though, will be cursive.

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Doesn’t matter when it was started. If you played it this year, it goes on the list! So many of you have already made so much progress. I feel like this challenge will take me much longer to complete…

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  • A - Animal Crossing: New Horizons (in progress)
  • B - Bayonetta (in progress), Baldur’s Gate 3 (in progress)
  • C - Countess in Crimson
  • D - Dorfromantik, Dance Dance Revolution
  • E
  • F - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (in progress), Final Fantasy XIV (in progress), Fujiwara Bittersweet
  • G - Grimm’s Hollow
  • H - Hidden Cats in Spooky Town
  • I - Inertial Drift (in progress)
  • J
  • K - Kingdom: Two Crowns (in progress)
  • L - The Letter, A Little to the Left, Little Nightmares II, Lovebirb, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Life After Magic (in progress)
  • M - Moose Lost in the Woods, the Monster Inside
  • N
  • O - Our Life: Beginnings & Always, OnlyCans
  • P - Party Animals (dropped), Pixel Paint Together (in progress)
  • Q
  • R - Rain On Your Parade (in progress), Rock Life: the Rock Simulator, Rec Room (dropped)
  • S - Snipperclips, Star Ocean First Departure R (in progress), the Sims, the Sims Bustin’ Out (in progress), Sheepy: a Short Adventure, a Shopping Trip to Eklan Tor, Scribble It!, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (in progress), Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2
  • T - Toem, //TODO: today, Tabletop Simulator, Top Shop (in progress)
  • U - Usagi Shima (in progress), UNO
  • V - Virtual Cottage, VR Chat, Viridi (in progress)
  • W - What Remains of Edith Finch, a Warmer Shade of Summer (dropped), We Were Here
  • X
  • Y - A Year in Springs
  • Z - Zodiacats
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Stealing this from @shinespark (I see I’m not alone :joy:).

  • A: Aladdin, Alan Wake Remastered
  • B: Blasphemous; Batman: Arkham Knight
  • C: Cult of the Lamb, Control
  • D: Dragon’s Dogma II; Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen; Desta: The Memories Between; Dungeons of Hinterberg, Dustborn
  • E: Everything
  • F: FFVII Remake Episode Intermission: Yuffie; Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth; Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
  • G: Granblue Fantasy: Relink; Gotham Knights
  • H: Hollow Knight;
  • I: Indika
  • J: JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time
  • K: Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
  • L: Lone Fungus, Liminal Gallery
  • M Mediterranea Inferno
  • N: Nine Sols, No Man’s Sky
  • O: Ori and the Will of the Wisps; Open Roads
  • P: Palworld
  • Q: Quantum Break
  • R: Return to Grace
  • S: Saints Row, Slay the Spire, Shinsekai: Into the Deep, Star Wars: Outlaws
  • T: Thank Goodness You’re Here
  • U: Ultros
  • V: Viewfinder
  • W: Wanted: Dead
  • X: XGIII: Extreme-G Racing
  • Y
  • Z: Zenless Zone Zero

My corresponding Alphabet Challenge shelf on the Grouvee main site.

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Play some X-Men, Yakuza, and Zaxxon!

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You forgot a letter. :joy:

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I suppose I’ll join in! I added a couple of rules for myself: I have to fully complete the game and no ‘idle’ games. For as many games as I have, I don’t have very many x and z games.

#. 20 Small Mazes
A.
B.
C.
D. DoronkoWanko
E.
F. Frog Detective 2
G.
H. Hidden Through Time
I.
J.
K.
L. Landlord of the Woods
M.
N.
O.
P.
Q.
R.
S.
T. Tacoma
U. Underground Blossom
V. Venba
W. Watson-Scott Test
X.
Y.
Z.

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What do you consider an idle game?

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A game that requires almost no interaction at all. For example, I finished ‘Idle Farm’, which you really only need to open and click some upgrades once a day. Then there are clicker games, which are also considered idle games, but since they take a lot more interaction and attention, I wouldn’t group them with the idle ones. An example of one of those would be ‘Gnorp Apologue’.

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I don’t trust myself with challenges, but I can use this to get through Epic Games. Though, I’ll allow myself to drop a game.

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I: Inscryption
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z
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Sounds like an awsome challenge.

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Right now I’m working on finishing Star Ocean and FFVII Rebirth, which will gain me one more letter since I already have an S game in there. Last night I got Family Sharing enabled on the Steam Deck so I was exploring my library. I started playing Zodiacats, which seems to be a fun, chill puzzle game, and What Remains of Edith Finch which is a walking simulator that’s been fun so far. Those should add two more letters for me.

I made a dedicated shelf and assigned a game to each letter but I’m much too moody of a gamer to stick with it. I like making lists more than sticking with them.

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This sounds fun, I’ll join in though I’m very far away from completing this challenge. I’ve mostly played some practically infinite games like FFXIV or Eternal, but I’ll add them all here.

  • A - Alan Wake 2

  • B

  • C

  • D

  • E - Eternal

  • F - Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XVI

  • G - Galactic Civilizations IV

  • H

  • I

  • J

  • K

  • L

  • M

  • N

  • O

  • P

  • Q

  • R

  • S - Shadowverse

  • T

  • U

  • V

  • W

  • X

  • Y

  • Z

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I’m starting to worry I’m never going to add another game to my list because I’m never going to stop playing Dragon’s Dogma II, lol!

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It’d be super funny if it was the only game on your list, hahaha. Honestly it’s great to find a game that’s got you that hooked. Glad to hear you’re having fun.

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Just change your list accordingly lol.

A- Adragon’s Dogma
B- Bragon’s Dogma
C-Cragon’s Crogma
E-Eragon’s Eroge
F - Fragon’s Frogma

Etc etc etc lol

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I was going to just not count games I’ve already played to challenge myself…but then I decided that was dumb. Numbers might be overambitious. we will see lol.

  • A - Assassin’s Creed (100%'d)

  • B - Balan Wonderworld

  • C - Citizen Sleeper

  • D - Dragonball Z Kakarot (Plus DLC)

  • E - Evil West

  • F - Fallout 76

  • G - **

  • H - Hat In Time (Plus DLC)

  • I -**

  • J -**

  • K - Kids Next Door: Operation Soda

  • L -**

  • M - Mafia Definitive Ed

  • N - **

  • O - **

  • P - Part-Time UFO

  • Q - **

  • R -**

  • S -SSX 2012

  • T -**

  • V -**

  • W - What Remains of Edith Finch

  • X -**

  • Y - **

  • Z -**

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  • 5 -**

  • 6 -**

  • 7 -**

  • 8 -**

  • 9 -**

  • !?$ -**

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Is Anarcute fun? I’m curious about it but never quite bite the bullet to check it out even though it goes on sale pretty frequently.

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