What's the next target in your backlog?

[McStabStab]

Every holiday season my workload winds down and I'm actually able to pour some serious hours into gaming. When Steam Replay did its thing last year, pretty much all of my gaming hours tracked in December / January.

Gearing up for some time off, I'm trying to make a plan of attack for my backlog. Here are some notable entries:

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Most of the way through the final act, need to finish the job!
2. Resident Evil 4 - Chapter 6 of 16 so far.
3. Dave the Diver - Chapter 3 of 7 so far.
4. Middle Earth: Shadow of War - Chapter 1... gods help me.
5. Aliens: Dark Descent - Only in Chapter 1 but I have not had enough time to sink my teeth into it.

What games are you itching to cross off the list? What games just need one good night of gaming to push you over the finish line? Do you keep buying games during the sale or do you wait until you've cleared some backlog? What games do you know aren't getting crossed off this year?

 

[Johnway]

An excellent question. besides yakuza 3, AOE2: definitive edition i'm not entirely sure. if i'm busy till January i need to pick... a january game. might be some indie game or something. Can't be an action adventure, strategy game or RPG (well, not until i play something else). Not sure what though... Wouldn't be surprised i'll play path of exile: my wildcard game. But heres hoping i don't have to...

 

[Frindis]

Similar game taste I see

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2. I'm playing with my nephews and we just arrived at the third act.
2. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It's scary as hell, but I have to eventually man up and finish it!
3. Alien Isolation. Playing it with my nephews and been a Christmas tradition for a few years now. Might even manage to play through it this Christmas and start doing Resident Evil 7: Biohazard with them instead of soloing that game.

 

[McStabStab]

Similar game taste I see

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2. I'm playing with my nephews and we just arrived at the third act.
2. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It's scary as hell, but I have to eventually man up and finish it!
3. Alien Isolation. Playing it with my nephews and been a Christmas tradition for a few years now. Might even manage to play through it this Christmas and start doing Resident Evil 7: Biohazard with them instead of soloing that game.

Hell yeah! Resi7 & A:I are two of my all time favs!

 

[Pifanjr]

I'm hoping I get motivated to play more Disco Elysium. I do also have a shortlist of games in my backlog I want to play, but I also often find myself playing something else entirely anyway, so I'm not sure what my next target will be if not Disco Elysium.

 

[Brian Boru]

I also often find myself playing something else entirely anyway

Yeah, tends to go that way for me too—a replay of an old friend can often look more relaxing and appealing than tackling an old newbie But on the In Play list:

♣ Iron Harvest—from scratch, forgot I had it.
♦ Sniper Elite 4—dropped it about a year ago, only a few hours into it.
♥ Ghost Recon Wildlands—have bounced off it twice now, and it's definitely worth finishing, or a full play for that matter.
♠ Command and Conquer 3—started a few months ago, got distracted…

On the other hand, smiling seductively from the Replay salon are Crysis, C&C Remastered, FC Primal and Civ4. We shall see…