Counts for the year’s end:
Official Grouvee Challenge Format: 14
Steam Tags: 20
Console/Platforms: 1
Total: 35
Of those 35 games:
BONUS CRITERIA:
Grouvee Retrogame Club Picks/Top 250/Horrible 100: 2
Completed Backlogs: 1
Backlogs/Abandoned Attempts/Current Playthroughs in Limbo (Both Current and Prior): 15
New Backlogs/Abandoned Attempts/Current Playthroughs in Limbo: 5 (of that 15)
(I write-off endless games as wash and not count them for either my Played shelf or Grouvee Challenge or as penalties for abandonment. Had a few of those.)
I added several gems from the current Grouvee Top 250 list to next year’s challenge, and keeping current (and new backlogs) bound to their slots. (perhaps that might make for an incentive to play them?)
GROUVEE 2021 CHALLENGE SLOTS
SETTING
Spider-Man Super-Hero World
GRAPHIC STYLE
Broken Reality Surreal or Dreamy
SOUNDTRACK
Brutal Legend Rock & METAL!
SKILLS & THINGS WE WANT TO POSSESS IN REAL LIFE
Cloudpunk Powerful Vehicle
Mirror’s Edge Ninja / Parkour Skill
NEWS HEADLINES
ArmA Combat Operations War & Natural Disasters
Terminator: Resistance Futurism & Technology
Kill It With Fire Mental Health/Psychology
EARTH/NATURE
Metro Redux Caverns/Underground
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Lost Alpha Weather Changes
PLOT/STORY
Bastion The Quest
Pyre Voyage And Return
LIFE
A Short Hike Road Trip (driving / traveling game)
Duke Carribean: Life’s A Beach Vacation (casual game)
STEAM TAG SLOTS
Superhot: Mind Control Delete FPS
Quake Mission Pack No 2: Dissolution of Eternity Violent
Quake Mission Pack No 1: Scourge of Armagon Gore
Gaiares Shoot 'Em Up
Sigil Mature
Dragon Warrior II Hidden Object
Observer: System Redux Cyberpunk
Shadow Complex Metroidvania
Sniper Elite 3 World War II
The Red Solstice Real-Time With Pause
BattleTech Mechs
TMNT: Fall Of The Foot Clan Ninja
Hellsign Supernatural
Duke It Out In D.C. America
Vostok Inc Capitalism
Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts Sniper
Portal 2 Artificial Intelligence
Transistor Dynamic Narration
Necromunda: Underhive Wars Underground
CONSOLES/PLATFORMS SLOTS
Crusader of Centy Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
RUN PROGRAM (Official Challenges completed for the year): 14
-DEVELOPER MODE (Unofficially completed challenges): 20
//LEGACY HARDWARE (Challenges counted towards platform-specific slots): 1
0xBUFFER OVERFLOW (Challenges attempted but Backlogged, Abandoned, or Unfinished): 5
EXECUTION ERROR (Challenges planned for the year but never started): 83
EXTENDED CLOCK PERIOD (Challenges counted from existing backlog or began playing in prior year): 1
SUPER.hot (Challenges of games discovered in (or selected by) the Grouvee Community): 2
+14 (Official slots)
+20 (Unofficial slots)
+1 (Platform slots)
[35]
*BONUS MODIFIERS *
-5 (Backlog additions)
+1 (Backlog Completions)
+2 (Grouvee Discoveries)
FINAL SCORE: [33]