One man’s quest against his spending habits

I buy video games.

I mean, I buy a lot.  Worse, I have completionist tendencies; I hate that feeling of putting a game away that I haven’t finished, and I (generally) hate moving on to a new game unless I think I’m going to finish it at some time in the foreseeable future.

That means I have a backlog.  Quite a backlog.

So I’ve decided this – no new video games until I finish my backlog.  This could take quite a while…so I’ve created this blog to chronicle my ongoing fight against my past spending habits.  I’m going to aim for one update each two weeks.

So I give you: the list of games.  First, the PC games:

• Abzu
• Avernum
• Avernum 2
• Avernum 3
• Avernum 4
• Avernum 5
• Avernum 6
• Baldur’s Gate 2
• Blades of Avernum
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Divinity II: Developer’s Cut
• Divinity: Original Sin – Enhanced Edition
• Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition
• Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
• Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures
• Gateway of the Savage Frontier
• Husk
• I have No Mouth and I Must Scream
• Icewind Dale
• Icewind Dale 2
• Kentucky Route Zero
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (remastered)
• Little Big Adventure
• Master Reboot
• Menzoberranzan
• Mount & Blade
• Neverwinter Nights Diamond
• Neverwinter Nights 2
• Okhlos: Omega
• Planescape: Torment (original)
• Torment: Tides of Numenera
• Treasures of the Savage Frontier
• Pools of Darkness
• Quest for Glory 5
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• Sim City 2000 (special edition)
• System Shock (original)
• System Shock 2
• Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
• Tex Murphy: Overseer
• Tesla Effect:  A Tex Murphy Adventure
• Ultima VII – The Black Gate + Forge of Virtue
• Ultima VII – Serpent Isle + The Silver Seed
• Ultima 8: Gold Edition
• Ultima 9: Ascension
• Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams
• Uplink
• Vangers
• Wasteland 3

And now the games for consoles:

• Dante’s Inferno (PS3)
• Fallout 4 (PS4)
• Final Fantasy VI (PS1)
• Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
• Final Fantasy VIII (PS1)
• Final Fantasy IX (PS1)
• LA Noir (PS3)
• Last of Us (PS4)
• Link’s Awakening (GB.  No I don’t mean DS or GBA or even GB Colour.  Yes really.)
• Metal Gear 2 (PS3)
• Metal Gear 3 (PS3)
• Metroid Prime (Gamecube)
• Ocarina of Time (N64 and/or Gamecube)
• Ocarina of Time – Masterquest (Gamecube)
• Portal 2 (PS3)
• Resident Evil 3 (Gamecube)

And the games I have finished since this project started:

• Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
• Alien Breed: Impact
• Alien Breed 2: Assault
• Alien Breed 3: Descent
• Amnesia: the Dark Descent
• Armada 2525
• Baldur’s Gate (original)
• The Bard’s Tale II:  The Destiny Knight
• The Bard’s Tale III:  The Thief of Fate
• Bard’s Tale IV: Barrow’s Deep
• Battletech
• Beyond Divinity
• Blade Runner
• Blood Bowl (PSP) (close enough to finished)
• BloodNet
• Calculator (iOS)
• Choices (DNF – started ok but I just can’t stand it anymore)
• Civilization III
• Civilization IV
• Civilization IV: Warlords
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
• Civilization IV: Colonization
• Curse of the Azure Bonds
• Decromancer
• Device 6
• Dex
• Detroit: Become Human
• Divine Divinity
• Double Dragon (NES)
• Dungeons & Dragons – Tower of Doom
• Dungeons & Dragons – Shadow over Mystara
• Dungeon Rushers (iOS)
• Dust: An Elysian Tale
• Dr Mario World (close enough to finished)
• Etrian Odyssey IV
• Eye of the Beholder (2nd runthrough)
• Eye of the Beholder II (2nd runthrough)
• Eye of the Beholder III
• Felicity
• Flight of the Amazon Queen
• Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
• Galactic Keep (iOS)
• Gemini Rue
• Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins (PSP)
• GNOG
• Guild of Dungeoneering (iOS)
• Hand of Fate
• Kid Icarus (NES)
• The Hex
• Her Story
• Hillsfar
• Mario Kart 8 (Switch – finished enough)
• Metroid (NES – via Switch)
• Mighty No 9
• Mini Metro (iOS)
• Opus: Rocket of Whispers (iOS)
• Out There (iOS)
• Out There Chronicles (iOS)
• Out There Chronicles: Volume 2 (iOS)
• Phasmophobia
• Planetfall
• Pool of Radiance
• Project Highrise
• Quest for Glory I: So You Want to be a Hero
• Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
• Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
• Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
• Returnal
• The Silent Age
• The Stanley Parable
• Secret of the Silver Blades
• Simon the Sorcerer II:  The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
• Simulacra
• Simulacra 2
• Steamworld Dig
• Steamworld Dig II
• Strider (PSP)
• Stories:  The Path of Destinies
• Steamworld Dig
• Steamworld Heist
• Super Mario Bros
• Super Mario Bros 2
• Super Mario Run
• Super Mario 64
• Surviving Mars
• Talisman: Digital Edition
• Templar Battleforce (iOS)
• (Tex Murphy) Mean Streets
• Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
• Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
• The Legend of Zelda:  a Link Between Worlds
• The Suicide of Rachel Foster
• Thea: the Awakening
• Total Recall (NES)
• Ultima IV:  Quest of the Avatar
• Ultima V
• Ultima VI
• Ultima: Savage Empires
• The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
• Warlords (1990)
• Whispers of a Machine
• Wizardry 1
• Wizardry 8
• X-Com 2
• Zork I
• Zork II
• Zork III

And games I am currently playing (as of 28 March 2022), which includes a few I haven’t touched for a bit:

• Wizardry 2: Knight of Diamonds
• Quest for Glory V (Paladin and Mage runthroughs to go)
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild

You can also see the archive for an index to every post on this blog.

These lists are going to be updated as I stumble across more games that I’ve bought but forgotten about.  Yes, that is a thing, I feel a bit like a nerdier and less-wealthy version of Imelda Marcos.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my quest.  Wish me luck!