I admit, I stopped playing Guild Wars 2 not long after the last expansion came out. I like the game, but in between feeling lost when not playing it often and my chronic hand issues which prevent me from playing that game often, I lost the motivation to do much in the game other than logging in every other day.

Gaudete Theory suggested today's Blaugust Group Project: It's alive! Ancient Draft, Revived! I took a look at my drafts and decided to just go with the oldest one I have. It is this one here and I wrote the draft back in February 2013. Guild Wars 2 was merely half a year old at that point! ArenaNet did add housing with the…

Krikket gave us another writing prompt as part of Blaugust 2025. Share something about you that you don't normally talk about on your blog and you think your readers would never guess about you. I am a psychologist with a doctoral degree, but do not talk about my profession here or keep it really vague. In general, I do not share in what area I am working now.

The question how we are keeping track of our game backlogs came up in our Blaugust Discord recently. I have never heard of Backloggery or Infinitebacklog. I have Playnite installed, but have not been using it much. I mostly start up the client to check whether I own a game already (when there is a game bundle with one interesting game and I want to see whether other new ones are part of the bundle as well), because I do not usually check all individual libraries.

I love the "Find all" game series and recently realised that they have added a lot more games since I last checked. Hidden Object Games are fun to play once in a while. What I love about this game series most of all is the graphic style. Another neat feature is that once a part of the image is finished and has nothing else to find, it becomes coloured and animated.

Krikket gave us another writing prompt as part of Blaugust 2025. Talk about a tiny thing that makes you disproportionately happy. When our daughter was still a little baby, my mother-in-law brought us a really cute baby hat that she had crocheted herself. She had left me some wool, so we could decide whether we wanted tie strings and how long they should be.

After a few months of not writing about any of the games in Humble Choice, this month finally gave me several games to choose from that sound like they could be for me. My Time at Sandrock and Lil Gator Game are both games that look interesting. However, I decided to take a look at "Let's School" and write about it here.

Just when I was complaining to bookahnerk that gamescom (at least the opening show yesterday) has too many violent games about zombies and post-apocalypse or WWII or whatever else does not interest me at all and not much, if anything, that I care about - they officially announce Tropico 7! There is not much information in there. We know they plan to release the game in 2026 and we will have El Presidente!

I saw this from fellow Blaugustan Varun Barad and decided to join in as it seemed like a nice thing to do during Blaugust. So here are my answers to the questions. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I have always liked writing. And I loved reading blogs about gaming. The first blog I read regularly was…

After playing a bit of Tales of the Shire, I really wanted to pay a visit to Lord of the Rings Online again! On August 14, the Farmers Faire seasonal event started (running until September 2). Since I have been away for a longer time and can never really remember what to do at each of the game's festivals, I was hoping that my favourite event-guide-writing person was still active.

Ever since I first heard about Tales of the Shire, I wanted to have it! When it finally released, I still waited and checked the reviews before deciding to buy it. It is currently sitting at 80 % "Very Positive" reviews. But I usually don't trust the overall score. I actually particularly like reading the negative reviews. This gives me a chance to check whether the things that bother other people are things that would bother me as well.

I recently read an article about Kickstarter projects for MMORPGs in the past 13 years and whether they were successfully released or not. It is a German article, but I am not going to write about all these MMORPGs now anyway. The author concludes that out of 24 games, only 3 were actually released. Three more are in Early Access. 12 games are offline with apparently 7.5 million Euros raised and subsequently "lost" - although the money did partly end up with people's wages being paid, after all, so it's only a loss in the sense that we can't play these games.

I needed a few ideas what to blog about and asked ChatGPT. I asked for prompts about indie games, cozy games or MMORPGs. This one was a fascinating question. Can a game be cozy as well as challenging? I, personally, get bored easily when a game does not pose any challenge whatsoever (although I do enjoy the "Two Point" games…

Every once in a while, when I look at the growing number of items on my Steam Wishlist, I tell myself that I will go through that list soon and remove some. This day finally came yesterday after ge…

It is this time of the year again! Welcome to Blaugust! In short: During Blaugust, we come together (“we” being anybody who wants to blog!) and try to each publish 31 posts this month. …

It seems that we are getting the Steam Next Fest with hundreds of demos every four months. Writing about all the demos I tried gets boring, to be honest, which is why I haven’t really done an…

Back in 2022, I was wondering whether a game like Defiance exists. I have not found one. Until now. Apparently, the game that is like the Defiance that gamigo closed is: Defiance! It looks like Faw…

Old World just released a new DLC, Wrath of Gods, Tropico 6 is releasing the DLC “Return to Nature”, Anno 1800 was available for a really good price (the base game for 4,80 €) and Two P…

Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master is part of February’s Humble Choice bundle. I actually bought this game in November 2023 but hardly played it. So this month, I offered to write about this g…