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"My Digital Catalogue Challenge"

It may be extreme tiredness talking, or it may be me trying to get my money's worth out of my gaming, but I have decided to set myself a challenge to go through my digital gaming catalogue, starting with Steam, playing through each title (not necessarily to completion) and writing a review of each one based on my experiences.

I currently have 510 Steam games (I'm a sucker for Steam sales and Humble Bundles) so this will take me a while. If I ever finish it, I will move on to other catalogues, whether that's my PS Vita, 3DS, Origin (yuck, :)) or GOG, but I'm just interested in seeing how far I can go with this before I either burn out or lose interest.

Obviously some games are old, some are recent, so this will be quite varied. I'll put the list of those I've reviewed below incase anyone wants to follow this.

My limitations will be time (which is why this will take me a while). I have three children now - my youngest born almost two weeks ago, so I only get a couple of hours per night (at most) to play. And I will no doubt get distracted by other things. So again, this is more of a personal challenge.

Feel free to follow this and let me know what you think. My Steam ID is darkedgy if anyone wants to add me, just let me know who you are too. And perhaps I'll ask for suggestions on what to play next.

Every challenge has to have a start - so working alphanumerically, I'll start with 140.

(to give you an idea, I have also included total times played at time of review)

Edgy's Digital Challenge

Reviews on Freeola:
140 Steam - 1h 14m 2/9/2015
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Enhanced Edition Steam - 2h+ 3/9/2015
Age of Empires III Steam - 13h+ 25/9/2015
Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs (DLC) Steam - 18h 27/6/2016
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties (DLC) Steam - 11h 27/6/2016
Alien Isolation - In progress


HM's Digital Challenge

Reviews on Freeola:
The Escapists Xbox One 25h 3/9/2015
The Escapists: Alcatraz DLC Xbox One 25m 6/9/2015

I've completed the standard AoE III single player campaign. When I get a chance, I'll try out the multiplayer (if it is still active) and I'll have my review up.

I think I've got two expansions to try then, and once reviewed I can move on to Shadow Warrior.

Was it the remake, or the classic I was meant to be trying?

I'll have to get around to doing it!

Play time for escapists is probably around 25hrs in total (missions/resets and now for the glory, I'm aiming for 100% of the game...)

Alcatraz DLC - 25 mins

Escape Team when written, probably 4 hours (would have been less if I knew how to get through one of the doors...I was being very dense for most of the game...

I look forward to reading your reviews :)

I'm 8 hours into Age of Empires 3 - part of me wants to rush through it to start the next one, but the other part of me wants to enjoy it for what it is - otherwise I'm missing the point.

The Escape Team DLC has been completed. Now to try and find a great game in the catalogue to keep my interest for so long. I'll have to get reviewing...

pb, does your Xbox One review of the Forza 6 Demo count towards your own digital catalogue challenge?

pb - Hope you get to join us soon :) If you have any older games you want to do in the mean time (hell, my library includes games from the early 90s) then by all means do so :)

As for the Escapists DLC, very disappointed to hear how easy it was. But you would have been left wondering if you didn't try it.

I'm becoming a digital downloader on consoles and really must stop. Definitely enjoying the indie/small games available out there right now.

The Alcatraz DLC was poor (I was expecting something that would last a little longer than the 20 minutes...). Downloaded the other DLC soon after completing and still stuck on it - now that's value!

EDIT: Alcatraz review posted

Once I finally get enough for my graphics card replacement I'll join you. I was hoping it would be in time for my birthday but that came and went a couple of months ago.

I'm terrible for buying more games when I haven't finished my enjoyment of previous ones. But at least with PC games on Steam, it is very rare that they'll become unplayable on a current system so I prefer to buy games via Steam rather than console formats that may not be transferrable to the next generation of systems.

Console exclusives are a little different however (it's no secret I'm a big fan of Nintendo games).

Oh dear...downloading the Alcatraz DLC...

Note to self...COMPLETE MORE STUFF BEFORE BUYING MORE STUFF

Nope...still didn't get the message. Expect a review on this shortly haha!