Steam Library A-Z Challenge

The challenge: To play through each of the games on my Steam library. The rules: I have to play at least 1 hour of each game, in alphabetical order. Chivalry: Medieval Warfare was released in October 2012, and is based on a mod for Half Life 2 called Age of Chivalry. I think the main reason we bought it at the time was because Mount and Blade was a big part of our lives, and we wanted more of the same. It plays very differently though, as (apart from the tutorial) it's multiplayer online matches only. In this game there are two factions within an army's camp - the Knights, who are loyal to the king (blue team) and the Order, who are loyal to the army's General (blue team). The gameplay is fairly simple - it's a first person medieval combat sim, where you can pick one of four classes, each with their own specialty. There's a bit more too it with customisable characters, but I found I really liked the spear wielder so I ended up playing him the whole game. Th...

The challenge: To play through each of the games on my Steam library. The rules: I have to play at least 1 hour of each game, in alphabetical order. Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 is a first person game where you take cars apart and put them back together again, with fixes as appropriate. I won't lie, I remember buying this game many years ago in a Steam sale. I've got a feeling I bought it at the same time I bought the Paradox Entertainment Pack, which has given (and is going to give) me hours of fun/pain during the course of this challenge. When you first load this game you're met with super loud electronic music, and an angry sounding revving engine - the kind of noises that make you cringe when you hear them blasting past you in the street. Also an ad for Car Mechanic Simulator 2015, which made me smile a bit. I wonder what improvements there are between versions? The music in this game is OK, but seemed to be the sort of music that was bad at helping you concen...

The challenge: To play through each of the games on my Steam library. The rules: I have to play at least 1 hour of each game, in alphabetical order. After having a break over Christmas and New Year (Who am I kidding, I've been playing Overwatch and The Witcher 3), I've made a resolution to try and blog at least once a week. So here we are again, and today's game is Call of Juarez. Call of Juarez is a fairly famous cowboy-themed first person shooter, perfect for people who's favorite time period is the old West instead of the future (Why??). The plot, or at least as much of it as I got from the hour I played, is that there's some possibly cursed gold in them thar' hills, and the lust for this gold is called, yep, 'The Call of Juarez'. The story alternates between two characters who are at odds with each other, a gimmick that I really liked. The first is Billy, a young man returning to his village after seeking (and failing to find) the gold, an...