That must be Abzu

yep, your turn!

Since mockturtle ceases their turn, here's the next one:

HATCH is a game I gave a 10, but I'm the only reviewer. I think I'm probably an outlier with my feelings towards the game, given its pretty short and simple, but I thought the idea it has was cool and executed in such a cool way. I'm glad the developer has worked on even more climbing focused games and is even going to release a bigger project soon (Lorn's Lure).

Not necessarily my favorite, but An Untitled Story is pretty great and has a single review. It's made by the creator of Celeste and can be directly downloaded from the dev's website.

Another I like is times infinity. In this case I'm the only reviewer among 3 completions. Good if you like weird games.

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This makes me want a sort by popularity and sort by number of reviews in the games list page (its nice you can do it on your whole list using the "isolate my Games" option on the main search though.

OH, is this Wuppo?

Correct! Nice one.

Ok, final hint is same game, but more obvious image.

Lacuna?

Nope.

Game name starts with "W"

CreaterCrate?

no

Kentucky Route Zero perhaps?

nope.

Hint: The main character is in the image, just a bit hard to see. There aren't really humans in this game.

Good Luck.

Grapple Force Rena?

I don't recommend doing this, it just adds a lot of not needed software to your Steam account.

Totally agree. For that I do like using the "only view content for your owned game" option to add any potential free dlc for my games to my library.

First time trying a daily.

Daily Challenge - 2024-07-09
Score: 165 / 300
🟧🟧🟩 ⬛ = 48 | S | Jak 3
🟥🟧🟩 🟥 = 48 | P | Blasphemous
🟩🟦🟧 🟧 = 69 | R | Prodeus

Play @ https://howlongtobeat.com/play

A little zoom in :)
Sorry for the delay.

Probably wrong but...

Assassin's Creed Odyssey?

The contract thing just makes me think of that thing in AC2 where you recruit assassins to do stuff for you. Also the icon makes me think of Assassin's Creed.

Could some system where you can see games made by the same/similar developers/publishers? Pretty sure you can set it up so it can automatically detect if some string is found (i.e. EA -> Electronic Arts; all games with EA or Electronic Arts as publisher are categorized automatically and you can look at the list separately)

Sounds a bit obscure, but doable

+1

Also, when I was typing the message above, I clicked on the search bar and then close, only to realize my message was gone. Feels weird because I'd only expect that to happen if I navigate out the edit page.

Site Update:

User Games
- New Multi List mode called "Intersection" that only displays games that are a part of all selected lists.

Quick Add - Collections
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to attempt submitting to an empty list. You will now be prompted to add a name to the Collection.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Intersection option. Thanks!

Seems nice. Couple of use cases I have are "Retried + Backlog" to look at games I would reconsider playing, "Completed + Backlog" for games I technically beat, but might want to play extra content or DLC of.

I also have a list tab of games regarding sequels/prequels of games I've completed but only the ones I own are in my backlog so now I can see only the ones I own. A difference option in that case could be kind of cool so I could see the ones i don't own at the moment.

I can also see it as a good way for kind of tagging games, but I'd rather that be it's own thing for filtering rather than dedicating a list tab slot to becoming a tag.
This also made me think it would be cool to have filters in general. I guess we already have that with "Isolate my Games" (I kind of forget this is a thing), although I feel like it would be nicer to have those options directly in the list view, and that would be nice to use on a particular list, rather than all my games (like if I want to play a game of a certain genre, I only want to see the games in my backlog, not the ones i completed).

This site helps me complete games since there is a satisfaction in adding another game to the "Completed" list. Using the "Retired" list seems to help me not feel like I have to fully complete games, as I can still put it somewhere and still have that time logged. I still really want to beat a game if I like it because I would like it in the "Completed" list, but I had played some pretty hard arcade games not too long ago (Wonder Boy), and while I did have fun, I knew I wouldn't enjoy completing them, but I also felt I experienced a good enough chunk of the game, so to the "Retired" list it went.

Using the times to beat and seeing my current time progress also helps me with the decision. I log my times after every session, so I get to see my total play time every time. As I see the time go up, if I'm also thinking "wow, I've played this game X hours, and I don't even enjoy it much", I'm ok just retiring. Helped a lot with a couple of mobile games I logged here, which usually are hard to tell how much time those games take up due to playing them in small bursts, but the total logged time makes it very clear.

I personally just do the timing manually with my phone, although on occasion if the game has a timer and that timer is close to mine, I'll replace the final time with that.

I don't use the steam times as there are times I've launched games to test them out, fix settings or setup controls. If I quit a game and want to restart it, the time also then becomes useless. Also, when I manually record times, I am able to easily stop the timer if I happen to idle for a bit and it also makes it easy to add the hours I played on that day.

In-game times sometimes don't count restarts from a save which can remove hours of actual game time and can also not handle the idling case (glad when games with timers don't count on pause for this reason). For example my Donkey Kong Country save file said I played about 3h, but my recordings said I totaled around 5.5h. This is a tough game where I had to start from saves a lot, so I'm not too surprised. If I just used the in-game time 45% of my true playtime would have been erased.

Since I didn't manually record game times in the past though, in those cases I tried to use steam/in-game recorded times as the times (but decided not to use them if I didn't feel confident in their accuracy).

On occasion I've mistakenly started my timer late or forgot to time my session, but I can usually guesstimate by figuring out the time I probably started playing. Since I add times every session, any errors should mostly smooth out.

You pretty much summed me up on how I view these things. I tend to value honesty and effort more than anything else. If you just give a game a 10 and don't explain why, I'm just going to ignore and write you off but if you are just one of those guys who are easily impressed and can at the very least go into detail then that's cool. A lot of the reviews I read on this site tend to be less than a paragraph, I try to friend people who at least put effort into what they write, no matter how much I can disagree or find some of their criticisms to be vague.

I also tend to respect people who are easily impressed and are honest about it, they know they aren't super demanding from what they play and they are fine with it. People who are easily impressed but aren't seeking approval from others are people I tend to like.

That's something I want to work on, and I think I've been better about it recently, but sometimes I almost feel a bit overwhelmed with the idea of writing my thoughts on a game I enjoyed, procrastinate, and then feel like it's been too much time from then to write something. In that sense, I'm not surprised that most of my writings are in the 6-7 range rated games. Sometimes I even feel I have some sort of obligation to write those as a 6-7 might seem bad as a rating on its own and I want my explanation to show, that I did indeed have fun and such a rating shouldn't cause writing off the game and that the game has tons of potential. I also feel like I have just the right amount of thoughts that I don't feel too overwhelmed to write out those thoughts.

I've heard its good to write out your thoughts and that it helps lengthen your memory about the experience, so I do want to write more.

I have 65/697 (9.3%) as 10s currently.

I personally use 10/10 to be more like 9.5-10 out of 10, and I personally associate it to a game that feels special to me personally to the point my biases almost wash away the flaws of the game. If it was meant to represent a perfect game, I'd never use it. In general I also try to use the whole range of the review spectrum too, so anything 5/10 is something I overall enjoyed and use 4/10 to indicate mixed, in contrast to professional reviews where a 7 seems to be seen as an average/ok game (that's 5/10 for me).

I also have gone back and reviewed my review scores on occasion and usually my 10s and 9s and 8s stay pretty firm, while I feel many in the 5-7 range is where I feel most unsure.

One thing that does surprise me though is that I have more 10/10s than 9/10s.

I'm not surprised that I have low numbers in the 1-3 range as I generally don't review games I quit before completing (can give arcade and multiplayer a bit of an exception), and don't go out of my way to look for and complete bad games.

Narcissu?

Correct

SHUMON YUU

nope (although that seem like the name of a developer, not a game). Regardless, not a game they worked on.

This hint should make it easy:
It's free on steam but has a paid anniversary edition with the ability to buy more stories in the same world as the game.

Also the image I shared is reflective of how the game pretty much looks through out the whole playthough.

Sorry, I forgot. :S Drakengard?

Nope.
Hint: Its a visual novel

Hopefully ok to jump in since its been awhile.

I'll go :)

Ghostrunner?

This is a completely random guess though, since I never played the game, but the first person view and robot hand make me think of it.