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Steam Challenge 2013

A challenge I found on Reddit (by user FragCakes), with the goal of working through your Steam library, a lot of which, in a lot of our cases, haven't been finished, or even played. I have around 350 games on Steam, and no faith in my ability to finish them all, but it sounds fun to try.

The rules:

  1. You must beat every single player game from start to finish on any difficulty. With large games like Skyrim, the main story-line and the main story-line of the games' DLCs. Game without an ending: 10 hours. Games too difficult to complete: 15 hours.
  2. Multiplayer only games: 7 hours or have beaten every co-op level.
  3. You can work in descending or ascending order alphabetically. Games can be skipped if you cannot play them for whatever reason. Games that already comply with rule 1 or 2 are optional. Duplicate games can be skipped. Games can be played in an alternate order if part of a series with chronology or if you'd prefer to play them in order or release. New games should be returned to -if you've passed them- and completed.

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  • Date: 08/12/12

    Date Purchased: 08/08/12 on Steam with Soundtrack for £5.99

    Notes: Beat the game

  • Date: 09/12/12

    Date Purchased: 18/06/11 on Steam as part of the Steam Indie Variety Pack for £6.69

    Notes: Beat the game.

  • Date: 10/12/12

    Date Purchased: 18/06/11 on Steam as part of the Steam Action Indies - Summer 2010 for £6.79

    Notes: Beat each level.

  • Date: 10/12/12

    Date Purchased: 27/12/11 on Steam for £1.74

    Notes: Skipped as it's a remake of "A Reckless Disregard for Gravity", albeit with some extra levels.

  • Date: 10/12/12

    Date Purchased: 04/01/12 on Steam for £3.75

    Notes: Beat each campaign.

  • Date: 12/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 22/09/11 on Steam for £1.50<BR>

    Notes: Beat the game.

  • Date: 12/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 23/12/09 on Steam<BR>

    Notes: Played 7 Hours of multiplayer.

  • Date: 13/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/12/11 on Humble Bundle as part of Humble Indie Bundle #4 for $15<BR>

    Notes: Finished the game. Pay no attention to the fact that I may have missed Amnesia slightly.

  • Date: 14/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 04/08/11 on Steam for £3<BR>

    Notes: Finished the game on Casual. Pay even less attention to my skipping Amnesia yet again, I'll get to it.

  • Date: 22/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/06/11 on Steam as part of the Indie Variety Pack for £6.69 with 4 other games.<BR>

    Notes:

  • Date: 22/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 17/09/10 on Steam for £12.99<BR>

    Notes: I finally finished it, it took over two years. This and Arx Fatalis had held up my progress for a while, hopefully I can get back into the swing of things.

  • Date: 24/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 26/12/11 on Steam for £3.89<BR>

    Notes: I own Bastion on XBLA and Steam, and have for a while now. I always thought the game was good, and had amazing music, but never stuck with it to the end until now.

  • Date: 28/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 26/07/11 on Steam for £3.75<BR>

    Notes: I like the game a hell of a lot more than Arkham City; as much as I love this game I kind of hate the sequel.

  • Date: 29/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 10/07/11 on Steam for £5<BR>

    Notes:

  • Date: 30/12/12<BR>

    Date Purchased: 27/12/12 on Steam for £1.99<BR>

    Notes: Short. I also started messing with the order.

  • Date: 02/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 27/12/12 from Green Man Gaming for £3.50<BR>

    Notes: A lot more solid than I'd have thought, perhaps expectation management led to me liking this game a whole lot. It'd have ended up in my top 10 of 2012 if I'd played it even a few days ago.

  • Date: 04/01/13 (Just past midnight)<BR>

    Date Purchased: 22/12/11 from Steam for £3.74<BR>

    Notes:

  • Date: 07/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/12/11 from Humble Bundle as part of Humble Indie Bundle 4 for $15(pay what you want)<BR>

    Notes: Can barely believe I finished this game, 1-11, 3-10 and 3-11 were the hardest levels by far for me for some reason. I really didn't think I'd get far after 1-11 gave me so much trouble, and I assume the last level would be impossible, but for some reason it was easier than those preceding it.

  • Date: 07/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 01/07/11 on Steam as part of The Rockstar Collection - June 2011 for £27.99 with 11 other games.<BR>

    Notes: Almost gave up after my 3rd or 4th crash, that and a few other major glitches cost time and progress; but after finishing Bit.Trip Runner I felt like pushing on with Bully.

  • Date: 08/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/12/12 from Get Games for £4.99<BR>

    Notes: Shorter than I'd expect at 5 hours, but really impressive nonetheless. Oh, and clearly I'm starting to diverge heavily from the alphabetical order, like many others - I just don't feel like playing through some puzzle games or dumping hours into music games.

  • Date: 10/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/06/11 from Steam as part of the Indie Value Pack for £6.69 with 4 other games<BR>

    Notes: A little frustrating at times, but otherwise not too problematic.

  • Date: 11/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 22/12/11 from Steam for £1.74<BR>

    Notes: A short, beautiful game; more than happy to play through it again.

  • Date: 12/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 24/12/12 from Steam as part of the Sonic Hits Collection Holiday 2012 for £21.99 with 11 other games.<BR>

    Notes: I wasn't sure when to add this. I'd considered going for the 10 hours, or perhaps beating all the Grand Prix or Missions. I've decided to stop after beating each Grand Prix on Advanced (the middle difficulty) in 1st place - after it showed the credits once I'd done so.

  • Date: 14/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 01/12/12 from Humble Bundle as part of the Humble THQ Bundle for $15 (Pay what you want)<BR>

    Notes: Despite a few crashes it went quite well - looked pretty good and ran fine. I've all but given up on any order - and I've noticed that completing a game's story is a lot more appealing to me than just putting in 10-15 hours.

  • Date: N/A<BR>

    Date Purchased: 04/07/2008 from Steam for $11.74 (first game I bought on Steam)<BR>

    Notes: I've only played about 4 hours of it, rather than the 10 the rules stipulate. But I feel I've got my money's worth and would have so little fun grinding 6 more hours of it, I feel okay skipping it for now. Maybe if I finish the rest of the list I'll come back to it, but I'd rather leave it here than just leave the .exe open for another 6 hours.

  • Date: 15/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 23/04/12 from Steam for £3.74<BR>

    Notes: Not a fan. Used a RNG to decide what to play, and I'm glad I found a game that satisfied a few criteria: a game I didn't want to play, one I'd made progress in and still had my save and one I'd be able to finish relatively quickly.

  • Date: N/A<BR>

    Date Purchased: 10/08/11 from Steam for £2.12 as Beat Hazard Complete<BR>

    Notes: I've decided to skip music games after a decent chunk of playing time, I'm not really willing to dump 10 hours into them. I might set the same rule for other games without clear endings.

  • Date: N/A<BR>

    Date Purchased: 23/06/12 on Steam for £2.99<BR>

    Notes: Skipping. I think the challenge will still be worthwhile, without "playing" many of these games for 10 hours. Maybe I'll come back when enough, more meanwhile progress has been made.

  • Date: 17/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/07/12 on Steam for £3.49<BR>

    Notes: Had trouble getting it to work at all. I gave up after doing everything I could think of - but it seemed to work when I randomly launched it a while later. It ran really well considering all that - one of my absolute favourite games.

  • Date: 20/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 25/06/10 on Steam for £9.99 (It's just been sitting in my library for over two and a half years!)<BR>

    Notes: Again, some technical problems at first. Namely that the game doesn't support controllers - which seems like a definite oversight. Quite fun though - I would've finished it a few days ago, but I've been busy drinking, seeing the gf and getting snowed in away from a computer.

    Edit: I've also finished Minerva's Den, just after midnight, technically the day after finishing the main game.

  • Date: 21/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 10/07/11 on Steam as part of the Dead Space Pack - Summer Sale 2011 for £14.99 with one other game<BR>

    Notes: Great game, I had a few technical issues though. Mouse controls don't work right, so I used an Xbox 360 pad; the game froze on me at one specific instance, which lost me a good amount of progress and happened another two times, exactly the same before relenting on a fourth try for no real reason. About three times the game bugged out when I landed from a zero-gravity jump and just killed me - also frustrating.

  • Date: 22/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 10/07/11 on Steam as part of the Dead Space Pack - Summer Sale 2011 for £14.99 with one other game<BR>

    Notes: Ran well, a game I really enjoy - and finished in one sitting. I used mouse & keyboard for this one - luckily this didn't have the same control issues as Dead Space; which isn't too bad, because I wouldn't want to play Dead Space with the precision and high sensitivity I did Dead Space 2.

  • Date: 22/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 03/09/11 on Steam for £5<BR>

    Notes: Looks great, ran at a good frame rate. Hate the game though, and it froze on me a good few times not to mention the numerous bugs - and general gameplay I never liked. Played with mouse & keyboard. I've only beaten Assault on Dark Athena, not the included Butcher Bay - which I might come back to.

  • Date: 24/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 10/07/11 on Steam for £7.50 (GOTY edition)<BR>

    Notes: Ran perfectly, an awesome game, if a little dull at times.

  • Date: 26/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 18/12/12 on Gamers Gate for £3.08 (unlocked on Steam)<BR>

    Notes: Had several technical issues. Frame rate was junk with maxed out settings, and still too inconsistent on lower settings. Eventually it ran at "about 60FPS" which is just about acceptable, if it wasn't for the constant pop-in. This was the best looking game I'd played on Xbox 360 at the time, now, on a pretty powerful gaming PC, it just looked kind of ugly and ran worse than the vast majority of games I've played lately.

  • Date: 27/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 30/12/12 on Green Man Gaming for £1.19 (unlocked on Steam)<BR>

    Notes: Ran perfectly, looked great.

  • Date: 28/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 26/01/13 from Game (Retail) for £29.99 (unlocked on Steam)<BR>

    Notes: Ran perfectly, this is the first time in this list I've wanted to just keep playing a game after finishing it.

  • Date: 30/01/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 01/07/11 from Steam as part of the Super iD Software Pack for £19.99 with 22 other games (some are expansions)<BR>

    Notes:

  • Date: 02/02/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 22/12/12 from Steam for £14.99<BR>

    Notes: Ran well - I was surprised how low I had to set the setting for a solid 60 FPS, perhaps the changes are subtle though - and it was a good looking game.

  • Date: 04/02/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 22/12/12 from Steam - Came free with Hitman: Absolution<BR>

    Notes: Not a game - more a short demo.

  • Date: 07/02/13<BR>

    Date Purchased: 28/01/13 on Green Man Gaming for £29, (Limited Edition) unlocks on Origin<BR>

    Notes: I don't know whether to include non-Steam PC games. I'm considering it, because they're still games in my collection that I haven't played yet on PC. Besides, I wouldn't play Far Cry 3 or Mass Effect 3 for years otherwise.

  • Date: 09/02/13

    Date Purchased: 27/10/11 on Steam as part of the Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death VII Double Pack for £1.33

    Notes:

  • Date: 06/03/13

    Purchased: 01/03/03 on Steam for £26.99.

    Notes:

  • Date: 27/03/13

    Purchased: Given as a gift

    Notes:

  • Date: 29/03/13

    Purchased: 27/11/12 on Steam for £5.99

    Notes:

  • Date: 08/04/13

    Purchased: 16/09/12 on Steam for £29.99

    Notes: I still kind of hate Dark Souls. I'm not sure why I've played it through about 4 times or bought the PC version.

  • Date: 08/04/13

    Purchased: 27/06/10 on Steam for £3.49

    Notes:

  • Date: 09/04/13

    Purchased: 01/06/11 on Steam as part of The Rockstar Collection - June 2011

    Notes:

  • Date: 15/04/13

    Purchased: 01/06/11 on Steam as part of the Rockstar Collection - June 2011

    Notes: Finished the Ballad of Gay Tony
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