Overall: I can't do 26 or even 25 hours anymore

Just 24. I'll have to come up with a new reward for meeting my goal

Fresh game impressions:

Riven

It's Riven!

With slightly new stuff

very pretty

It's weird to me that the humans are 3D models now

and not live action

I walked around and went "hmm"

moved water around through pipes

recalled the D'ni numbering system

we spent a lot of it going "what the fuck is Gehn's problem"

Baby Steps

I understand what this game is more now

It is, broadly, a little easier than GOI

but the thing about it is that most things have both an easy way and a hard way to do them

and sometimes, your brain will make you do them the hard way

A guy told me repeatedly that there was nothing whatsoever at the top of a nightmare climbing tower

and every time he emphasized that there was absolutely no reward

it made me want to climb it even more

GOI is a game to hurt a certain kind of person

Baby Steps is a game to make those people hurt themselves

anyway not finishing that one later

Lifeslide

A curious game

You fly around as a paper airplane

very good game feel, very chill vibes

and then some lunatic in the design room went

"let's make it really hard"

obliterating the vibes

not all the time though. mainly 1-2 stages in the middle part

but it gave it a weird vibe

Sonic Triple Trouble

PEAK

Absolutely whips ass???

It was confusing and anxious for like 1.5 runs

but when we all locked in it was incredible

I want to go back. I want to beat this fucking mountain

did you eat any of your friends on the mountain

You have my cooked coconut half

no

wait can we eat each other for food?

I did at one point have a stamina bar that was 90% poison

Wildfrost

apparently if your hunger gets low enough, you start seeing each other as food

It's decent

holy shit

for one wild moment

i thoguht you were calling sonic triple trouble peak

An STS-like with different mechanics that I'm not sure I ever quite really got my head around

I made a deck around a tiny girl with a snowball the size of the moon

that was fun

I didn't beat any runs

Escape Simulator 2

An unexpected high point of the marathon

I was expecting to kind of tune out for that part

but it was gripping

team puzzle solving

I liked watching it

Jump Space

hoo boy

this game is not for me!

I would have predicted that before and I was right

as engineer I was confused, stressed, and frustrated

as gunner and pilot I was a little bored

I will not be playing more of it

CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

Whoof

I liked the demo more than the main game

as it goes on it becomes more and more about efficiently navigating dense, hard-to-parse 3D environments

which I suck ass at

wandering around the nightclub looking for five specific doodads was frustrating and I went down to easy for it

then the last stage I didn't finish

I don't know what to tell you, mind worm, it's a real fuckfest down there

Clickolding

Masterful

An hour-long exercise in

"How many times can we make the player feel even more uncomfortable"

Final tally: $1395

Children saved: Probably like 0.06

wait I can just play escape simulator

The power of the Steam Family system is truly game changing

We should form a team

for Escape Simulator

perhaps

but then only one person gets to be on the controls

and I wanna escape

isn't it multiplayer?

is it?

yeah

OK then

You can have multiple people moving around the same room

Peak was best in show

Overbringer: It's something you can disable but I think when you're really hungry your friends can look like chickens

I don't have any plans tonight so I would be down for either, hypothetically

MadarFoxfire also has Escape Simulator and rukafais also has Peak so we can form full teams, probably

not tonight I need to recharge

fair

escape escape escape

via steam family AF could also play but I want to play

hotandcoldaf can do the space level if she wants in but I have dibs on dracula's castle