The Almost Gone

The Almost Gone

isometric point-and-click

2023-12-30

Another day, another video game. Today's is The Almost Gone on the Nintendo Switch.

The game starts up saying it's best played with headphones and has themes that some players may find disturbing so you know you're in for something atmospheric.

It's a point-and-click adventure game. Pretty standard, story is told by clicking around and looking at stuff, collect things and solve puzzles. It has a weirdness to it that these games tend to have, like why were you locked in your room or stuck in this house and why is there a darkness outside and why must you get to the tree house, all with this tension between you and your parents.

The game is unique in that it's an isometric view of a room at a time. Part of the puzzle is you have to rotate rooms to find some of the details. This all gives the rooms a toy doll-house quality.

Overall a fun looking point-and-click.

I didn't really plan it this way, but it looks like I have precicely enough unplayed Switch games to take me to the end of the year, I have just one more for the last day of the year tomorrow. I actually did buy it, but it was on my wishlist and was on deep discount for a few bucks and I can never pass that up. I didn't realize it would bring me to exactly the end of the year with Switch games until after I bought it. Then starting in 2024 I'll start on the year's worth of game-a-day of unplayed games in my Steam library.

This unplayed-game-a-day for a year wasn't a new years resolution. But after looking at all my new books and movies from Christmas, and doing some cleaning and finding plenty of unstarted projects, I now have a new years resolution:

Nothing new.

I'll only do what I already have, because I already have far more than I could get through. The unplayed-game-a-day obviously already fits into this, and I'm not even playing through the games. No new books or movies because I have more than I could get through in a year (I'm thinking I'll start cataloging them on this site as well). I certainly have plenty of unfinished projects, even unstarted ones. Now that I think about it, I also have a few unplayed board games.

So I will not buy any new media or projects for 2024, and go through only what I already have.

Except maybe Baldur's Gate 3. But THAT'S IT.