What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

March 1st, 2026

I think that for my dumb project where I'm trying to cross stitch every Pokemon, I'll post the previous month's work at the start of the next one. With that being said, here's the six I finished in February. This is below 1% of all Pokemon, which is a little discouraging. I'm happy with what I got done, though! The Fennikin is the only design here I did myself, with the rest coming from Etsy, Pintrest, and a Japanese perler bead site. I'll have links to all my pattern sources once I start a little hub for this project! For now, my March goals are to do that and to hit 2% of Pokemon stitched.

Aside from stitching yesterday, I just played hidden animal games from Steam. Find 100 Frogs was cute, and I liked how the whole game was on a vertical scroll. It gave it a unique feel.

I played a couple stages of Cats Hidden Around the World, which is now titled Travellin' Cats Around the World, too. The individual levels are not crazy or innovative, but it feels like a good deal to have a handful of these in one package. I simply forgot I owned it until yesterday.

February 28th, 2026

My post tonight is late because I'm right on top of things and started watching Cherynobyl. I'm not very good at watching TV.

I played several games yesterday, but only for ten or so minutes each. During my lunch break at work, I was in a shmup mood. I went and hid away from my desk, playing a couple of stages in Darius Burst: Chronicle Saviors. It was too fun, so I turned it off, worried I'd run out my 30 minutes.

Counter-intuitively, I played a credit in DoDonPachi Daifukkatsu from there, and was lucky to play badly enough to get back to my desk in time. It seems really cool, but tough, from the few minutes I played!

Much later, I finished cataloging my Evercade/Super Pocket games on a Backloggery page, and having only cleared one out of the 77 I have between my cartridges, I decided it was time to tackle that mess. I started with my Super Indie Heroes cartridge, as at least some of the 14 games on it seemed pretty breezy. I went through about ten minutes of Quest Arrest, a swearing-filled cop RPG built like a Pokemon game, but decided 1 in the morning wasn't the right time to be dealing with all of that.

I also played some of Doodle World, a super cute 8-bit platformer, but it was too late for even something so cheerful and breezy. I will come back to this another day.

February 27th, 2026

At the start of the month, I decided I was going to cross stitch every Pokemon, and this morning, they just went and announced new ones. My plan has many flaws. I'd like to get ten smaller Pokemon stitched this weekend, though, to at least hit 1% done. I might post some here, but am not sure how to best show them off.

Anyway, last night I played Killer Instinct Gold a little, because I planned to play Super Valis and forgot what I was doing when I turned my Switch on. It was a very ok gaming experience, even if I only played for ten minutes. Sometimes, my heart's just not in it.

February 26th, 2026

I played games quite a bit last night, but wasn't having a great time. I got an actual household going in Tiny Life, but I felt like I couldn't get anyone to do anything. Achievement hunting in this'll be a chore if I can't even get any of my tinies to drink a glass of water. At least one of my tinies is a chaotic party boy, though, so there's plenty of fun ahead.

Before bed, I felt kind of overwhelmed by all the stuff in front of me in Disney Speedstorm and just jumped into races at random. It did help me relax, but I felt so scattered as I played.

February 25th, 2026

I am trying to clear some of the games I already have to save money right now, so last night, I tried Tiny Life, a pixel art life sim that I got in a bundle a couple of years ago. I only played for ten minutes or so, so I don't have much of an impression so far. It seems ok, though. I'd kind of like to get all of the achievements in this, but if I do, it won't be on the little file I started last night.

Later, before bed, I played a few races in Disney Speedstorm. I was excited to have unlocked Megara as a driver not due to any great fondness for Hercules, but because I have held tight to a McDonalds plate with her on it since I was in grade school. It's an amazingly long lived plate! I had a decent time playing, but playing as a character from my dish cupboard was definitely the most interesting part of the session.

February 24th, 2026

Last night, despite last week's Tony Hawk connection failures making me think it wouldn't go well, I played the start of A Way Out with one of my friends from work. It's a co-op prison escape game, and it was really enjoyable! I was kind of a wandering dolt, but everything is well synced and orchestrated enough that even my dippiest moments didn't cause a ton of trouble. Our guys still aren't out of the prison, but I'm looking forward to playing more next week.

I played some more of Disney Speedstorm, too, during my lunch break and before bed. It was something nice and mindless to play before bed, and I unlocked a new racer I'm interested in trying tonight.

February 23rd, 2026

I didn't want to think at all yesterday, so I enjoyed some spacey driving with Disney Speedstorm. I didn't do well at all, but the game still chucked XP and prizes at me, which I appreciated. It made me want to play something non-gacha, though, which I have achieved and will have more about tomorrow. I don't hate that it does have free to play bits, but bouncing between events and online and offline just feels so unfocused.

February 22nd, 2026

I'm kind of down, tired, and overwhelmed tonight, but not feeling so bad that I'll skip posting! It will be a lazy post, though. I'll just try to catch up tomorrow.

I played a lot of games yesterday, finishing two Steam freebie hidden object games. Hidden Corgi Mansion had some actual challenge to it, but some of that was down to the game not including a zoom in and out feature. It was cool that it has multiple rooms, though, and two different things to find. It was a bit above the typical hidden cat game!

100 Funny Cats, on the other hand, was another low effort cat finder. The cat art was really cute, with big round cats hangin' out at the circus, but the game just didn't match up to its own art.

In what will be the biggest future problem for this blog, I started Disney Speedstorm, too. I'm not sure what to make of this yet. It seems to have some nasty gatcha leanings, which is a danger in free games, but the racing itself is really fun. I don't know how the balance will shake out, so I don't know if I'll play it for long.

I sat around and ran Card Storm Idle while Disney Speedstorm downloaded, which I hadn't touched for a while. I figured out that clicks are way more effective than actual damage per second idling is in this game, so I might make some headway in this when I'm bored.

I tried Sky Survivors on PS4, too, which seems to be a totally fine Survivors-like. I like that it's platform based with a lot of vertical momentum, but I also unlocked every character in one fairly short sitting. I'm not sure how much content there is.

I have done my post, so now I can completely let my brain melt.