For the eighth consecutive year, I’ve counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has gone up, even as I played fewer games.
I’ve been keeping count since 2006, the year I didn’t just finish Suikoden V and Star Fox Command but also the likes of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode One. That was one high-quality year of gaming!
My full list runs below, but, as always, I need to explain how this list works:
- I only list games I played on my own, outside of any shows like E3 where I may have tried a new game on a demo kiosk. All of the games you listed are games I either bought or was provided access to. I played most of them at home or during my commute.
- I don’t play old games very often, but even if I do on rare occasion return to an old game, I only list games that I either started or finally finished in a given year.
- People justifiably get hung up on what I mean when I write that I “finished” a game. I basically mean that I got to the credits or storyline conclusion of a game. Not every game allows for that, of course. I don’t think you can “finish” SimCity. Other games have so much content that I can access after I’ve reached the end credits that “finishing” the likes of a Papers, Please or Assassin’s Creed IV has still left me with at least a dozen more hours to play in each game.
- Among the games that I did not finish are games I played for probably less than an hour (Gran Turismo 6, for example) and those I have played for more than 50 (Fire Emblem Awakening). There are numerous 2013 game, from Gunpoint to Luigi’s Mansion to Puppeteer, that I intend to finish in 2014.
- This was the first year since I started doing this that I did not have a Wii game to list. (It’ll come back in a way if I ever get around to trying Xenoblade: Chronicles and The Last Story), Facebook gaming is essentially dead to me. The biggest surprise to me is that my iOS gaming petered off. I don’t think it is a coincidence that, in the same period of time, my 3DS gaming picked up.
- Finally, a couple of embarrassing 2013 oversights: I never got around to even starting Metal Gear Rising and Mario & Luigi Dream Team, the latter of which is part of one of my favourite series ever. As much as I loved playing Skulls of the Shogun at PAX after PAX, I’ve yet to play it on my own. It’s waiting for me on my iPad. I also really, really need to play DOTA 2 and/or League of Legends. I feel badly out of the loop.
- UPDATE: Somehow I forgot to include The Last of Us when I initially published this. I’ve added it and corrected my maths.
On with the list!
My 2013 Games Played/Finished List
(Games I started listed below. Finished games are bolded. Games not from 2013 are noted as such)
3DS
(22 games played; 4 finished)
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf
- Bugs Vs. Tanks!
- Dillon’s Rolling Western: The Last Ranger
- Fire Emblem Awakening
- Flower Town
- Harmoknight
- Kokuga
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds -FINISHED
- Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins
- Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
- Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move
- Mario Party Island Tour
- Mii Force – FINISHED
- Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (also played on Wii U)
- Monster Manor
- Picross E1
- Picross E2
- Picross E3
- Pokemon X
- Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (2012) – FINISHED
- Sonic Lost World – FINISHED
- Warrior’s Way
DS
(1 game played; 1 finished)
- Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box – FINISHED
Facebook
(1 games played; 0 finished)
- Half the Sky Movement: The Game
iOS
(15 games played; 3 finished)
- Candy Crush Saga
- Colossatron: Massive World Threat
- Device 6
- Dots
- Duet
- Hundreds
- Knightmare Tower (also played on Ouya) – FINISHED
- Plants Vs Zombies 2
- Ridiculous Fishing – A Tale of Redemption
- Robot Unicorn Attack 2
- The Room Two – FINISHED
- Star Wars: Tiny Death Star
- Temple Run 2
- The Walking Dead Season One (2012) – FINISHED
- The Walking Dead: Assault
Mac
(1 game played; 0 finished)
- Leap Day (browser game; I played it on a Mac)
Ouya
(10 games played; 0 finished)
- The Amazing Frog
- Deep Dungeons of Doom
- Dub Wars
- The Little Crane That Could
- Monocle Man
- Mrs. Dad
- No Brakes Valet
- Shadowgun
- Towerfall
- Vector
PC
(15 games played;6 finished)
- Antichamber – FINISHED (um, with heavy use of walkthroughs)
- BioShock Infinite – FINISHED
- Cart Life
- Go Home, Dinosaurs
- Gone Home – FINISHED
- Gunpoint
- Kentucky Route Zero
- Monaco
- Papers Please – FINISHED
- Prison Architect
- SimCity
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist – FINISHED
- State of Decay
- The Stanley Parable
- Tomb Raider – FINISHED
PS3
(13 games played; 8 finished)
- Assassin’s Creed IV – FINISHED
- Disney Infinity
- DmC – FINISHED
- God of War: Ascension – FINISHED
- Gran Turismo 6
- Infamous Festival of Blood (2011) – FINISHED
- The Last of Us – FINISHED
- Ni No Kuni
- Papo & Yo (2012) – FINISHED
- Puppeteer
- Rain
- Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus – FINISHED
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (also played on Vita) – FINISHED
PS4
(6 games played; 1 finished)
- Doki Doki Universe (also played on PS3, Vita)
- Killzone: Shadow Fall
- Knack – FINISHED
- Lego Marvel Super-Heroes
- Need for Speed Rivals
- Resogun
Vita
(11 games played; 1 finished)
- 10×8
- Assassin’s Creed Liberation (2012)
- Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate – FINISHED
- Earth Defence Force 2017
- Guacamelee
- Jack and Daxter Collection
- Jet Set Radio
- Kickbeat
- Killzone Mercernary
- Rymdkapsel
- Tearaway
Wii U
(11 games played;4 finished)
- Game & Wario
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
- Lego City Undercover – FINISHED
- NES Remix
- Pikmin 3 – FINISHED
- Pokemon Rumble U
- Rayman Legends – FINISHED
- Sonic Lost World – FINISHED
- Super Mario 3D Land
- Wii Party U
- The Wonderful 101
Xbox 360
(5 games played; 2 finished)
- Ascend: Hand of Kul
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons – FINISHED
- Dead Space 3
- Gears of War: Judgment
- Grand Theft Auto V – FINISHED
Xbox One
(6 games played; 1 finished)
- Dead Rising 3
- Forza Motorsport 5
- LocoCycle
- Powerstar Golf
- Ryse Son of Rome – FINISHED
- Zoo Tycoon
The final 2013 tally is: 117 games played; 31 finished
That compares to:
2010… 195 played; 52 finished
2009… 165 played; 48 finished
2008… 135 played; 37 finished
2007… 118 played; 35 finished
2006…102 games played; 21 finished
I hope you got a chance to play a lot of great games in 2013 too. Finish many?
Comments
7 responses to “I Finished These 31 Video Games In 2013”
I think I’ve seen all the endings in The Stanley Parable, but it’s really hard to tell. Also don’t bother finishing Rain, the ending is kind of anticlimactic.
I finished Fez and Last of Us. It was my leanest year of all time. I played hardly any games too.
I finished boarderlands 2 (excluding DLC),last of us,GTA V,FFX 13(stopped playin about an hour or two before the ending and decided to finish it in 2013)
Started farcry 3,forza 4,dark souls,halo 4,medal of honor warfighter
most of my year consisted of BF3 both on PS3 and PC about about 600+ hours in total between 3 ps3 accounts (main account 480+hours) and about 107 hours on PC
I always seem to get 70-90% through a game and then just don’t play not from being bored or anything i just always always went back to playin bf3 and always just thought “I can’t be bothered changing the CD BF it is” lol and in saying that only bought something like 4-5 games during 2013 excluding steam. Steam just seems to have absolute access to my credit card even if I really don’t actually intend playin the game so weird lol.
Might have to do that this year, it will be a very depressing finished number I imagine
I recorded a list as well. X indicates completion
Xbone:
[X] Ryse
PC:
[X] Mass effect (twice)
[X] Mass effect 2 (twice)
[X] Mass Effect 3 ( Including Omega, Leviathan and Citadel)
Dead space 3
Crysis 3
Torchlight
[X] Guild wars 2 (lvl 80)
[X] Tomb Raider
[X] Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
[X] Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
[X] Bioshock Infinite
Dragon Age: Origins
[X] Deadlight
[X] Skyrim -140hrs
Batman: Arkham Origins
[X] DLC quest
360:
Fable 2
Viva piñata
[X] Injustice: Gods Among Us
[X] LA Noire
[X] Deadpool
[X] Rayman Legends
[X] X-men Destiny
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
[X] Red Dead Redemption
[X] Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
PS3:
[X] Heavy Rain
[X] The Last of Us
Ni no Kuni
Yakuza 3
[X] Ico
DS:
[X] Pokemon black 2
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Lego: Lord of the Rings
Monster Hunter 3
[X] Donkey Kong Returns
[X] Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney
Pheonix Wright: Justice For All
Pokemon X
Pokemon Y
For some perspective, here’s your completion rate in percentages ! Aren’t numbers fun !
They would probably make me sad though if I did this to my collection 🙁
2013 – 26.49%
2012 – 16.54%
2011 – 17.39%
2010 – 26.66%
2009 – 29.09%
2008 – 27.40%
2007 – 29.66%
2006 – 20.58%
Red Alert 3 (PC)
Doom 2 (PC)
Master Reboot (PC)
Bioshock Infinite (PC)
Mark of the Ninja (PC)
Hotline Miami (PC)
DuckTales Remastered (PC)
Deadlight (PC)
Gabriel Knight 2 (PC)
Gabriel Knight (PC)
Far Cry Blood Dragon (PC)
Primordia (PC)
Tomb Raider (PC)
The worst game there was Master Reboot; trippy game, interesting but just didn’t make for a fun experience.
The game I had the most fun with was either Primodia, Hotline Miami or Mark of the Ninja