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What a crazy year! While in 2019<\/a> I didn’t play much, this changed completely in 2020: Several lockdowns caused childcare to close, so it was a lot of playing at home with the little one. Of course not video games, but loads of time was spent outside. After the double shift of childcare (morning or afternoon) and work (afternoon or morning) and the evening routine, I was just too exhausted to work on private projects<\/a> or Medium posts<\/a>, so I “wasted” the evenings playing. 2020 gaming in review is sharing what I liked and disliked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I caught up on several titles that already had been in my library for a while, and also discovered some hidden or not so hidden gems. Oh and while doing that I got curious about how much money I have already spent on Steam<\/a>. Of course I even finished some of the games I played and added 21 (!!!) of them to my list of perfect games on Steam<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Paper Train Traffic<\/a><\/li>
  2. Deponia<\/a> – an older point and click adventure that I wanted to finish for years.<\/li>
  3. Ironclad Tactics<\/a> – a nice little tactics game with an “American Civil War<\/a>” story line plus Mechs!<\/li>
  4. Driftland The Magic Revival<\/a><\/li>
  5. Merry Glade<\/a> – a horrible game the developer should be punished for \ud83d\ude42<\/li>
  6. LYNE<\/a> – draw the line puzzle game<\/li>
  7. Lovers Smiles<\/a> – drawing plus physics puzzle game<\/li>
  8. Barro<\/a> – little indie racing game, similar to “Micro Machines”<\/li>
  9. RUNNING WITH RIFLES<\/a><\/li>
  10. Zup F<\/a><\/li>
  11. Zup 9<\/a><\/li>
  12. 12 is Better Than 6<\/a><\/li>
  13. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth<\/a><\/li>
  14. Zup! S<\/a><\/li>
  15. Gravity Wars<\/a><\/li>
  16. Command & Conquer\u2122 Remastered Collection<\/a><\/li>
  17. Pirate Girls<\/a><\/li>
  18. Day of the Tentacle Remastered<\/a> – another point and click adventure classic I haven’t played when I was young. Great to catch up on that.<\/li>
  19. Card Hog<\/a><\/li>
  20. Last Resort Island<\/a> – casual match three game, nicely done, but nothing special.<\/li>
  21. Knight Swap<\/a><\/li>
  22. Catan Universe<\/a> – yes, you’re reading correctly: I love Catan so I tried the digital version. It’s a nice game, it’s got Steam achievements and I’ve got all of them.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    2020 Civ gaming in review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Aside of playing I’m happy to have caught up on missing blog posts regarding Civilization<\/a>. By now I’ve finished all posts for the Civilization 5 Scramble for Africa Scenario<\/a> that is for the 11\/12 civilizations with which I’ve won the scenario on Deity difficulty. I also finished most guides for the Civilization 5 Fall of Rome Scenario<\/a>, where most games had been played years ago. One of these guides even became my first Steam Guide: Fall of Rome Spec Ops – The Huns Deity Strategy<\/a>. In total that’s 61 blogposts on Civilization 5 on this site. Whew. The passion for Civilization V was fueled even more by my newly discovered passion for playing asynchronous Civilization 5 Multiplayer Games using the GIANT MULTIPLAYER ROBOT<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n