The 365 Days 2022 Gaming Challenge - achievement unlocked.

[charlesr]

I'd say incredible, but you are a machine so... Congrats for ploughing on through to the ends. Time for a break?

[fishbowlhead]

Thanks for this Marty and a massive well done, ill miss the daily marks out of ten.

[QualityChimp]

Well done, Martino!
I liked to pop into the thread for the rating system and to check you weren't just posting "wibble" or "I am a fish" every day.

[MartyG]

Thanks all - it was definitely a challenge, and streaming every day without missing one did mean that sometimes the streams were prioritised at the expense of other stuff. I'm definitely not committing to doing two games every day this year.

Thing is, despite getting through 365 games (it was actually more as I did stuff outside of this), the net reduction is only about 150 games overall - due to sales and bundles, but I did find a few new favs.

There are loads of great indie games on PC and if we only ever look at the AAA publishers we really are missing out on some gems - some of these do get coverage, like Cult of the Lamb and Core Keeper, but others do not.

Games I added to the favs were:

Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Brotato
Circus Electrique
Clanfolk
Core Keeper
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Crusader Kings III
Deep Sky Derelicts
Dinkum
Dwarf Fortress
Elden Ring
God of War
Grid Legends
Legend of Keepers
Littlewood
Rogue Lords
Star Traders Frontiers
Staxel
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
V Rising
Vampire Survivors

I also like Yuppie Psycho and Circle Empires, Tetris 99, and some others, but there were also disappointments like Wizard Warfare, Black Mesa, Police Stories, Spacebase Startopia, Big Pharma, and particularly MegaFactory Titan that I really was hoping would be another Factorio.

Then there are games like War Hammer III & Gary Grigby's War in the East that I wish I could dedicate more time to, but that last one could take years to properly understand (and now there's GGWitE2 to replace it).

It was definitely worth doing and I'll be doing some more streaming weekly over on Twitch, just not every day. All the Twitch streams (bar a few earlier ones) are uploaded to YouTube as Twitch only keeps the last two months of them, so that's about 400 odd hours in this playlist

[gunrock]

Some crazy stuff, Marty! Amazingly, I had to check the 2nd page of this sub-forum to find out what your last entries were, as your monumental effort was already today's virtual fish 'n' chips wrapping.

Such is the ephemeral nature of forum discussion, I suppose, but now go and give those eyeballs a rest.

[MartyG]

Thanks, but there are too many games to play for that I think.

I've been doing more streams already, with Retro Gaming Monday and Free Gaming Wednesday (although I'm thinking Free Gaming Friday might be better), and there are still a couple of thousand things in the Steam library to go thru.

It's a never-ending cycle