Cleaning out my backlog, Part 1 (Blog Post)
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Do you ever feel like you have nothing to play?? I do! Every time I log onto steam I see new games that I want to try out. Right now Pineapple Smash Crew and Dear Esther are calling out to me. I recently lost my job so clicking the buy button isn't an option but I still need something to play. So I’ve decide to go through my backlog and write about each game. This way I get to play games, that at some point I must have wanted to play, and work on my writing voice. This second part will be stressed when explaining to my wife why I’m not applying to jobs but playing games all day.
According to steam I have 201 games tied to my account. I’ve played 38 of those games. I can no longer say I have nothing to play. I own 163 I’ve never even tried, I don’t even want to think about my console backlog yet. So I have some extra time, I’ll try them, write about them and maybe someone will be bored enough to read along.
I was thinking I would start with my installed games. I have 44 games installed and I haven’t played 27 of them. I think I should play at least an hour of a game before moving on. Best case was spending two hours on each game. Games in my list I have less than two hours played I counted as never played. This seems like a good way to start clearing out my backlog and get back into writing.
I was thinking of just going down the list alphabetical. For each game I’ll try to remember when/why I bought it and how it just kinda got away from me. I’ll try to play two games a day and have a write up each night but let’s be honest…that will slip. Also PAX East is coming up so what better way to gear up for it then by playing games nonstop. Has anyone else out there done something like this?? What were your experiences?? Let me know!!!