What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Carrot Survivors (Lenovo Legion Go)

August 25th, 2025

This is brutally lazy, but I had a crummy day at work and then ate too much spaghetti, so there's no screenshots today. I played a lot of games yesterday and I lack the energy to transfer and edit everything.

Yesterday, I set out to get the last two Steam achievements in Cat Survivors and finally get it off my plate. I got one, but the final achievement requires a lot of grinding. Right now, I'm playing the same level over and over, and I have so many upgrades it's not challenging anymore. I burned out fast.

Once that happened, I decided I was just going to chip away at some of the other Survivors-likes, or bullet heaven games, I have on hand. I got Replik Survivors, a more wave-based game going, but it kept crashing mid-run. Losing progress was much worse than being a little bored, so I gave up on that pretty quickly.

From there, I grabbed my Switch to play a bit of W.A.N.D. Project, another wave-based Survivors-variant. This game just doesn't click with me, though. The combat portions are fun, and I like the magical girl vibes, but the chip-based upgrading eludes me and makes me feel a bit dumb. I'll keep coming back to it, though. It's just neat enough that I want to hit my stride in it.

I did click with Legendary Heroes Survivors when I grabbed my Legion Go again. It uses a very RPG-ish progression and stage system, and I think that works well with this genre. Since I was moving through stages at a good clip, it had a nice feeling of progress. Plus, it had some cute monsters.

The last one I did a run in was Carrot Survivors. I like this one and think it's funny, but it makes me feel kind of overwhelmed and sleepy. I might take that knowledge and start using it to put myself to sleep at night, but last night, at 8pm, it just put me off games for the rest of the evening.

June 11th, 2025

I'm running late tonight because I did an oddly timed grocery run after waiting around to avoid a storm that never happened. This will be a quick post! I tried a Survivors-like I had stashed called Carrot Survivors because one of my friends saw the words "carrot quest" at work. It just felt like I was fated to give this game a try after that. It's really fun, and silly! You can make a pixel version of the Initial D car run over eggplants, and I like that in a game.

I did a few runs through the forest in Dragon Cliff, too, but was extremely sleepy and didn't finish any quests. Even though this is an auto-battler, it takes enough grinding that it's not exactly fast.

I worked a bit on my Bubsy puzzle, too! I'm hoping to finish this over the weekend and get back to the Jujutsu Kaisen puzzle.