• beaten
• ✔ completed
• unfinished, but not dropped; either on hold or continued the next month; includes unfinished releases (early access or demos)
• dropped, or nulled (in the case of, say, MMORPGs)

Progress overviews are a simplified version of Backloggery's Memory Card, allowing me to see my gaming résumé throughout the year(s). From 2021 onwards, they show what games I've spent time on each month, rather than when I finished a certain game or put it indefinitely on hold, i.e. games are now listed multiple times rather than just once.

Latest additions at the top. Overviews of previous years are stored in archive > videogames. Head to Backloggery for my gaming library, mini reviews and games I'm currently playing.

JRPGs

• Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC
• Fantasy Life
• Radiant Historia
• The World Ends With You
• Wild Arms 3
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy IX
• The Legend of Dragoon
• Grandia
• Terranigma

Visual Novels

• Gnosia
• Raging Loop
• 428: Shibuya Scramble
• The House in Fata Morgana: Dreams of the ...

A list of all localized otome games I have played. Dropped games crossed out. See my Switch otome overview for recommendations (last updated in May 2021 or earlier).

• 7'scarlet
• Amnesia: Memories
• Amnesia: Later x Crowd
• Bad Apple Wars
• Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei ❤
• Bustafellows
• Café Enchanté
• Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ ❤
• Code: Realize ~Future Blessing~
• Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~
• Collar x Malice
• Collar x Malice ~Unlimited~
• Cupid Parasite ❤
• Dandelion - Wishes brought to you -
• even if TEMPEST ❤
• Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome
• Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~
• Jack Jeanne

Games that messed up so bad, I consider them a disgrace to their genre or series. Not to be confused with bad/low rating games, which may annoy me and be a waste of time and money, but do not lead to streams of vitriol on my part.

• Bad Apple Wars
• Bravely Default
• Eternal Sonata
• Grandia III
• Ozmafia
• Shadow Hearts: From the New World
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Xenoblade Chronicles

December

• Fate/Samurai Remnant
• ✔ Virche Evermore -ErroR: Salvation-

November

• Virche Evermore -ErroR: Salvation-
• ✔ Radiant Tale

October

• Hollow Knight

September

• Radiant Tale

August

• Radiant Tale
• Jack Jeanne

July

• Jack Jeanne

June

December

• ✔ Triangle Strategy
• ✔ Trails of Cold Steel IV

November

• ✔ Lover Pretend
• Signs of the Sojourner
• ✔ Amnesia: Crowd (Amnesia: Later x Crowd)
• Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
• Overboard!

October

• ✔ Amnesia: Later (Amnesia: Later x Crowd)
• ✔ Fatal Twelve
• ✔ Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei
• The DioField Chronicle (demo)
• ✔ TOEM (Basto expansion)
• ✔ Strange Horticulture
• ✔ Murder by Numbers
• Cozy Grove

August

Sans select short indies. Less extreme feelings than 2021. Chicory was easily the standout game this year, whereas the second half of the year was held hostage by the awful ToCS IV.

LOVELY!!

• Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• Strange Horticulture
• Variable Barricade

CHARMING!

• Inscryption
• Misadventures of Laura Silver
• TOEM
• Slay the Spire
• Unpacking

ALRIGHT (lacking)

• Amnesia: Later x Crowd
• Fatal Twelve

Sans short indies and games still in progress (or on hold).

TRUE LOVE NOW AND FOREVER!!

• 428: Shibuya Scramble
• Cupid Parasite
• Gnosia
• Hades
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Raging Loop
• TAISHO x ALICE
• honourable mention: Spiritfarer

tbh I'd put any of these in god tier of their respective genre, and almost all of them are among the best games AND narratives I've played, which is particularly a joy re: VNs, of which there are 5 in this list. HECK YEAH VISUAL NOVEL YEAR.

MOSTLY GREAT WITH SOME SIDE-EYEING

• FFVII Remake
• Trails in the Sky the 3rd