Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III (Revisited)

For a few years, I had been wondering why the number of games I had achievements in wasn't matching between my Steam library and the achievement showcase on my profile: the showcase had 2 games more than I could find. Late last year the mystery finally started to unravel. I had figured that by playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III during a free weekend back in 2017, it had been added to my permanent achievements record, even though I had had access to the game only temporarily. And that indeed proved to be the case when I bought the game from a sale and it came with partial completion -- kind of mean for Steam to be like that.

Drakensang

There always seems to be another Dark Eye video game adaptation I hadn't heard of before, although in Drakensang's case it's because I had mixed it up with Drakengard, thinking they're the same game. And as I don't play Japanese games, I had ignored it until I happened to watch some video featuring less-known roleplaying games and I realized my error. Drakensang seems to have carried 'The Dark Eye' as its subtitle (the other way around in German: 'Das Schwarze Auge: Drakensang') but now the game is being sold without it.

Conan the Invincible, Defender, and Unconquered

Over his short life, Robert Ervin Howard (1906 – 1936) wrote pulp fiction in a wide variety of genres but is most well-known for creating the character Conan the Barbarian in the sword and sorcery subgenre whose father Howard is regarded as.

Industria

I recall vaguely watching Industria (or INDUSTRIA, as it is stylized in caps) being played. What I remember clearly, though, is that one of the game's few developers from Bleakmill was in chat and said that they had ran out of money and the finished product (funded by the Epic grant apparently) is a third of what they had wanted. I thought that was the end of Industria's story. But then a sequel was announced. I put the first game on my wishlist, Epic shortly after offering it for free.

The Claw of the Conciliator & The Sword of the Lictor

On the post for The Shadow of the Torturer, I seem to have thought that The Book of the New Sun was a trilogy. But it is in fact a tetralogy (that Gene Wolfe had written only to the level of a draft before the first volume's publication, not to full completion) with an additional fifth volume that acts as a coda. I'm not sure how the details got mushed for me. I'm also quite uncertain what the "as a coda" means -- kind of hoping it's 'not important' because the libraries here don't seem to have the fifth book.

Dolmen

I'm not willing to play every single, somewhat interesting-looking, third person soulslike action roleplaying game ever made -- not quite. There is a bar of quality and production value the games has to pass. But... the bar is pretty low: Dolmen passed it. It was developed by a small Brazilian team called Massive Work Studio -- who have disbanded now, I believe.

Inhibitor Phase

Had I read Absolution Gap right when it came out in 2003, it would have been a long 18-year-wait to see if Nevil Clavain's last wish would lead to anything like I suspected. But because I read Gap just last year, I only had to wait until now that I got to reading Inhibitor Phase (which was published in 2021).