The Games I (will) Beat This Year

Since 2020 and the arrival of COVID-19 and an era of quarantine, I began to worry about the importance of what goes on in life. Every day we make new memories, and create new stories to tell, but so much of those memories only pop up spontaneously for an anecdote or when we have to go through the mental files and remember the time we did go and see that movie, and we didn’t like it very much.

As a form of hopeful preservation of these scraps of memories I began working on my backlog of games. With this I can keep track of every game I start, finish, and, more recently, track the time it takes to beat most of the games on this list.

In an effort to write more non-fiction pieces, at the end of each month I’ll be releasing reviews of the games that I finish within that time. If I don’t finish any games in the month, I’ll just pick my favorite or the one that has been preventing me from moving on to finish anything else. I’ll most likely avoid giving these games numerical scores, and focus on how they made me feel and how much fun I had playing them. Most of these games will be blind experiences, so here’s to creating a plethora of new memories that can hopefully become more than just anecdotes when I tell people about how I beat the Abyss Watchers and then deleted Dark Souls III for my own sanity (only to miss it and reinstall the game a few weeks later).