Everyone who plays games has a backlog, and don’t try to deny it. There is always that one game that you might dabble in or buy on sale, ready to play when you find the time. But that time doesn’t seem to appear, and it sits there, waiting, eager to be played.
Naturally, BA has a few of those ourselves, so for this BA Presents, we are letting you know about some of our backlog games and maybe a little bit about why we just haven’t found the time to finally get them finished.
This article is part of BA Presents, a series of articles that feature collaborative and experimental topics and formats. The aim is to provide you, our lovely readers, with something a little more personal and maybe different than you might find elsewhere. Be sure to check out more of our BA Presents as we release them!
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Moonstone Island – Amanda’s Pick
Playing & guiding Moonstone Island has been a goal for… a very long time. It’s got those cozy pixel vibes I love with a creature-collecting component, which I also love. Plus, it’s just generally beloved by a lot of the people I’ve heard talk about it.
I did get started with it a while ago, and I really like what I’ve seen so far. But with everything else coming out, it just keeps getting pushed back. Trying to keep up with new releases means that older games like this just don’t always come to the front of the list for my gaming time, but I often think about how much I want to dive back into this one.
Persona 3 Reload – Cande’s Pick
Barring some cataclysmic event that forcibly frees up half a month of my life, Persona 3 Reload will continue to languish in my Steam library, gathering virtual dust—a pixelated cobweb slowly creeping over its gorgeous cyan cover.
I adore Persona and have zero doubt that if (read: when) I finally carve out the time, this game will shoot straight into my top JRPGs of all time. But with a 60-to-100-hour commitment and my irrational need for total, distraction-free immersion, that day is… not today. Probably not tomorrow, either.
The Witcher Trilogy – Matt’s Pick
Ok, so I’m kind of cheating, but when it comes to a series like this, you can’t just pick one, and when it’s a trilogy like this, it comes as a package.
Despite owning the Witcher 3, it took me 5 years, including two systems, before I actually played through the full game and its DLC, and that was thanks to COVID. Since then, I’ve had a real urge to go back to the whole trilogy, get the full story and see all my choices carry over and Geralt’s full tale unfold. So, I bought them all on Steam for £10-15. Bargain. Now, they sit there… staring at me when I load up my library, waiting for me to finally click play, and it just hasn’t happened yet.
I plan to change that this year, along with a certain D&D-inspired CRPG, but don’t hold me to that, I got a few more on the list.
Magical Delicacy – Ezra’s Pick
When it comes to backlogs, mine is prolific. It’s the nature of an editor’s job to either have games spoiled for you as others write about them or to start games and then have to move on before you get to dive down into them.
Unfortunately, Magical Delicacy falls into both categories.
To get around this, I usually wait a year after a release to play a game I don’t actively cover for guides and reviews. I am about to the point where I’ll be able to jump into Magical Delicacy and make recipes and explore the story without already knowing what is going to happen. And I am particularly excited for this adventure, as the entire game is just so different from other cozy titles with similar vibes.
Endless Legend – John’s Pick
A genre that I keep to myself as a guilty pleasure is 4X games. I bloody love spending 30 minutes agonizing over a turn, only to regret my decisions as soon as I lock them in. While there are giants of this category out there, I want to go and play through as much of Endless Legend as possible before its sequel is released.
The Endless series is really fascinating because it encompasses a couple of 4X sub-series and a couple of other games that are all wrapped up under one tight lore-linked universe. Endless Legend is technically where it all begins, or at least I think it is, so I want to explore everything I can there before diving into the two sprawling Endless Space games.
Amplitude Studios took a bold risk moving between fantasy and sci-fi 4X games with dozens of DLC packs, but it paid off. With over 14,000 positive reviews, I can’t wait to get to Endless Legend, but I need a solid couple of months to spend with it uninterrupted so I can get really good and beat every opponent before we get anywhere close to an ending. After that, I’ll know I’m ready for the sequel.
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