This morning I went to a Discord1 server I haven’t been to in probably over a year. They added a gaming channel (or maybe it was always there, I’m not sure), and someone was talking about their issues playing scary games, so I chimed in. My main problem with these games is that they stress me out (that’s kind of the point, right?), and I wanted to add my own list of horror games I want to get back to.

As I was looking at my list of games I included, I wanted to write a few lines about my more recent games in general — Just to keep track of what I’m playing, what I played, and what I want to get back to. Steam allows that, to an extent, but I know a better place: Backloggd.

I had it integrated into my blog before, but its RSS feed is not reliable enough to count on and it doesn’t always go through. Still, it’s a good site, the only one of its kind I know. It contains the option to write a game “journal” as you go along, and because it’s not Emacs, it motivated me to write only a quick comment and get the hell out of there before getting flashing-ads-in-your-face outrage (that’s just how it is out there I guess).

I managed to write briefly about two games I’m currently playing, and I’m happy about that. Writing about games is a struggle, and I’d take anything that helps, even if it’s an annoying flashing ad for a few seconds. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, here’s the list of horror (or horror-ish) games I want to get back into:

  • Dredge
  • Signalis
  • Fran Bow
  • The Beast Inside
  • Still Wakes the Deep
  • Duskers

  1. I don’t like Discord as a platform, but, like Reddit, this is where good discussions take place. It’s a necessary evil. ↩︎