Topic: Games Beaten, Completed, or Played in 2023

[M.K.Ultra]

With 2023 officially over it is time to start another year of gaming. What better time then to post your records of games played, beaten, or completed. Personally I like to hear what system the games were played on, how long they took, whether you beat them any% or 100%, and if they were first plays or replays. Of course, feel free to post as little or as much as you want.

[M.K.Ultra]

I finished 40 games in 2023. They are listed below by the system they were played on in the format
Title (play time, completion%, rating/10, replay)
All titles are first plays unless "replay" is indicated.

Nintendo Switch

• SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech (21 hours, 100%, 9/10)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (SNES version, 100%, 8/10)
• Mega Man 2 (1 hour 13 minutes, replay)
• Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (20 hours, 100%, 10/10, 8/10)
• Mega Man X5 (8.5 hours, 100%, 9/10)
• Tandem: A Tale of Shadows (5 hours, any%, 7/10)
• Double Cross (15 hours, 100%, 10/10, replay)
• Mega Man Battle Network (15 hours, any%, 7/10)
• Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes (11 hours, 100%, 9/10, replay)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (5 hours, 67%, 9/10)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (235 hours, 65%, 10/10)
• Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (25 hours, 97%, 10/10)
• Arcade Paradise (20 hours, any%, 9/10)

Wii U

• Hyrule Warriors (13 hours, any%, 8/10)
• Metroid: Zero Mission (7 hours, 53%, 8/10)
• Mighty No. 9 (7 hours, any%, 8/10, replay)
• Mass Effect 3 (38 hour, 100%, 8/10)
• Shadow Archer (2 hours, 100%, 7/10)
• NES Remix Pack (32 hours, 100%, 9/10)
• Zombi U (17 hours, 100%, 8/10)
• Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (9 hours, 100%, 10/10)

Other Nintendo Consoles

• Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (Wii, 10 hours, 100%, 7/10)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii, 21 hours, 100% complete, 10/10, replay)
• Nights: Journey of Dreams (Wii, 4 hours, any%, 6/10)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (NES, 3 hours, 100%, 8/10)
• Yoshi's New Island (3DS, 31 hours, 100%, 8/10)

Playstation 5

• Stray (7 hours, 60%, 9/10)
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure (57 hours, 100% complete, 10/10)
• Watch Dogs: Legion (71 hours, 72%, 9/10)

Playstation 4

• We Happy Few: Roger & James in They Came From Below (100%, 10/10, replay)
• Concrete Genie (? hours, 100%, 9/10)

Other Playstation

• Doom VFR (PSVR, 100%, 8/10)
• Jak 3 (PS3, 15 hours, 88% complete, 7/10)
• Zero Time Dilemma (Vita, 100%, 10/10)
• Catherine (PS3, 16 hours, any%, 8/10)

Xbox One

• Viva Pinata (50 hours, 100%, 9/10)
• Sunset Overdrive (? hours, 50%, 8/10)
• Sabre Wulf (2.5 hours, 100%, 7/10)

Other

• Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16, 100%, 8/10)
• Ecco the Dolphin CD (Sega CD, 100%, 8/10)

[ejamer]

Zelda Game & Watch:
* Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link

Wii:
* Deadly Creatures
* Medal of Honor Heroes 2

Steam Deck:
* A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
* Alwa's Legacy
* Bejeweled 3
* Blazing Chrome
* Epistory - Typing Chronicles
* Everybody Wham Wham
* Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
* Haiku, the Robot
* Half-Life: Source
* Half-Life: Blue Shift
* Half-Life: Opposing Force
* Human Resource Machine (beat on Wii U previously)
* Iconoclasts
* Immortals Fenyx Rising
* Ittle Dew
* Ittle Dew 2+
* LIMBO
* PAC-MAN 256
* PAC-MAN MUSEUM+
* Pang Adventures
* Panzer Paladin
* Reventure
* Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
* Sparklite
* Spinch
* SteamWorld Heist
* SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
* The Darkside Detective
* The Indie Mixtape
* The Inner World
* The Nonary Games (beat on 3DS previously)
* Toki
* Toki Tori 2+ (beat on Wii U previously)
* Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
* Vampire Survivors
* Yoku's Island Express

Genesis Mini 1 & 2:
I don't have detailed records about titles we beat on these mini-consoles... and can't recall if these were finished at the tail end of last year or the start of 2023. I'll add them anyway, as I really enjoyed the time spent playing them, but won't count them towards the total games completed.
* Beyond Oasis
* Castlevania: Bloodlines
* Shining in the Darkness

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Finishing 39+ games sounds like a lot... but some of these were pretty bite-sized experiences. In fact very little of my gaming this year came from blockbuster titles. Still had a lot of fun though!

Steam Deck kind of revitalized gaming around here at the start of the year, and browsing through our backlog of Wii titles has given some incentive to keep playing as we move into 2024. One thing I've realized is that my backlog has hit critical state. There is years of gaming to be mined there... 

My goal for 2024 is to cut down on some of the Wii backlog, while avoiding any further bloat by not buying any games that I don't have time to play. Haha. Right, like that's going to happen.

Favorite game(s) played in 2023: Yoku's Island Express; Shotgun Chess
Next game I'll be playing: The Last Story (Wii)

[Luigi Dude]

Everything I beat was on the Switch this year.

Games Beaten

Xenoblade 3
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (Maxim Mode)
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Julius Hard Mode)
Bayonetta 3
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
No More Heroes 3
Another World
Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Teslagrad
Kaze and the Wild Masks
Gradius (Arcade Japanese version)
Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Will of the Wisp
Salt and Sanctuary
Lost Ruins
Super Mario Wonder
Cathedral
A Hat in Time
Streets of Rage 4
Aggelos
Wonder Boy Returns Remix
Roar of Revenge
Super Mario RPG Remake
Disney's Aladdin (Virgin Genesis version)
Disney's Aladdin (Capcom SNES version)
Minoria

Games played but not beaten

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Miriam Hard Mode)
Gradius (Arcade Western Nemesis version)
Salamander (Arcade)
TYPHOON (A-JAX) (Arcade)
Thunder Cross (Arcade)
Iron Crypticle
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Shantae
Disney's The Lion King (Played both the SNES and Genesis version on the Collection)


So I did pretty good this year considering Xenoblade 3 and Tears of the Kingdom took up close to half of my overall game time for the year.