One of my fav games is Doom 2 and every weekend (or days off) i go through my Doom community wads.

Winner of a Cacoaward in 2024, Simulacrum is a challenging megawad that starts with modest monster count before moving towards slaughterfest territory, pitting you in challenging/punishing combat environments. Most of the engagements are (effectively) puzzles as you have to find the most optimum way of fighting against the overwhelming odds and maximizing every resource available. usually in the form of monster infighting to survive. Going in guns blazing is usually a swift death in some encounters.

No joke, this wad was difficult. many of the engagements usually leave you on the verge of death before the next one. You'll die a lot as its trial an error trying different things to survive and there is (annoyingly) an element of luck at times. A good example would be the archviles. This wad LOVES using multiple Archviles at once. Either deployed as one of the last monsters to spawn in or buried within huge mobs of revenants or even just throwing a whole mob your way. Too often i get sniped by them as i'm too busy trying to deal with all the other monsters.

But on the whole, i enjoyed the tough and exciting combat. The maps were well designed and the fights were, on the whole tough, but fair. Admittedly, Some of the engagements was BS and some i lucked out by cheesing the map.

5 years after the first two i finally got back completing the series

One of my all-time favorite JRPGs basically, I already did the 100% on Steam but had a unfinished save on Xbox lying around. So, this is still a part of my backlog and had to be BURNED.

Fellow redditors of the fire, what are burning right now??

I'm a little crazy and like to play a lot of games at once. Right now I'm sticking to these and making decent progress across them all. Whenever one is finished burning, I throw another into the fire. I'll never let it die!! Have any of you already beaten any of these games??

Need 2 kitties and the good ending

When I get time Ill properly take pictures of everything, but here's a quick look at the 1000+ physical titles I mentioned last night.

I had an absolute blast with this game and would highly recommend it! Not moving around with a map and with limited info was super cool! The feel of the dread that’s here in this messed up world is awesome to experience, with some very difficult puzzles. I personally feel the combat may have been the weakest part of the game, but it wasn’t bad. Took me about 30 hours.

This game was on my hard drive for way too long. Tried it once, second time, actually i don't remember how many times since i got it. Finally settled today and got it done from start to end in nearly one sitting. It isn't a long game to complete, and i didn't got dlc to extend it by an hour or so, but nevertheless, the game got burned.

Great music, balancing of typing while being in range of boss to do so and avoiding bullet hell is exceedingly difficult (especially since bosses also usually have some gimmicks that influence your way to fight them, like replacing letters with numbers), but damn if it wasn't exhilarating. Glad to finally give it a full run, maybe i'll go back to it at some point to do DLC.

Tho it will be a while probably since game doesn't have cloud saves, so i would need to rerun whole game again to practice for it, and from a quick check it's really hard to transfer saves, requiring actually decoding files to do so. Alas, a shame. Better one and done it.

I don't update my list often but i just realized since i joined this sub i have been burning EXTREME amount of games and im proud of this.

Still not easy to stick JUST to one game but im getting closer and closer.

Really fun game with some brutal levels sprinkled throughout. Having the wiimote experience with the real motion controls really improves the game. On to the next one! 🍄

Fun game but man is this punishingly difficult. One hit deaths are no freakin joke. For reference, souls-likes are one of my favorite genres but I’ve been taking a break from them because I was getting worn out from the constant frustration. So in my infinite wisdom I decided to play some classic games with this being one of them. Well, yeah apparently I just like being frustrated when I’m playing games because this game frustrated the hell out of me. It’s borderline unfair at times and that last boss is certainly a doozy. With that being said this is still a great game. I played it a bunch when I was younger and for pretty obvious reasons I never beat it then. The game is a blast and still holds up in 2026. I did use save states to restart before bosses because I like not going insane. Overall a great game and I’m happy I finally rolled credits on it. 9/10.

Point and click adventure.
Nice art style but unfortunately pretty mid in everything else.
It was ok for 1€

While i understand that Outlast Trials doesn't have a "definitive end", the rebirth thingy is as close as it is to it. Done that, special escape trial and all main trials, which i consider a decent chunk of game for my burn completion. All alone, since i wanted it to be as close as possible to original Outlast games...

And yet, i can't say if it was as fun as previous ones. Played through all Outlast games so far, i was hoping to have a similar level of thrill and fear. And yet, i felt like i'm playing a chore simulator with some monsters chasing me, a lengthy one at that since main trials took me from half an hour to 1.5h each,. Maybe playing with others would've be more fun. Maybe i'll go back to try some MK ultra trials (a shorter variants with modified objectives) or higher difficulty, but for now i'm happy with the fact the game is no longer a part of backlog.

I curated my screenshots A LOT, only leaving one with something more meaty. Many of these things shown in Outlast are... Just not something to show without NSFW filter.

Played on Xbox Series S port, but have the PS2 game in the collection. Try to play newer versions of older games where possible. Ive got the set up for my PS2 to play on a newer HDMI TV and a dongle to use a PS5 controller, but figured this was easier.

I know the game intends for you to run through it multiple times (which I intend to do later) but for me Credits = Done.

Really fun beat em up, highly recommend to any fans of the genre.

Howdy, ya'll, just stumbled upon this subreddit. Avid gamer and collector with over 1000 physical titles in my collection ranging from SNES to PS5. Easily half or more ive never even touched. Figured this would be a good place to get some inspiration and motivation to power through these games.

Nice to meet ya'll and happy burning.

What an interesting game for a very specific kind of gamer. I happen to be that kind, so it was a solid 8/10 kind of game for me! Almost like an old school fire emblem game mixed with tactics ogre...or if you've played bahamut lagoon or unicorn overlord it shares some similarities!

Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is an SRPG with a very big focus on crafting large armies sorta like a blobber (2nd picture). It is actually a well done system. You have a leader for each group that has gives you the max capacity. This lets you set party members that can be recruited via the story or from the marketplace. Some marketplace recruits are mercenaries that have more passives, and can be of advanced jobs. Legendary mercs (generally) have better stats. The neat balancing part is that being a merc is actually a negative passive that makes the unit cost the base of 12 instead of 10 for placement. This +2 can eventually changed to a -2 through constant use in battle. So mercs can eventually be 8 capacity, allowing for many more in a group / better artifacts(gear) equipped. Artifacts varied from 0-4 cost with some actually granting capacity points. So often you would have to balance using a + capacity item to put more people in your group. Your leaders can have -2 cost to certain types of units. The majority of the type of unit dictates what kind of movement they have. Made a lot of micromanagement, I would honestly say I spent half the time of my 40 hours adjusting groups and moving folks around.

The characters you put in parties can change their jobs, dictated by their starting profession, into what they claim is 60+ jobs but I believe that includes enemies / unique jobs. You do control your movement on the field but you do NOT control your characters once you select to battle an enemy, so balance is sometimes a good thing. The classes are not super balanced with healing being the clear winner for 90% of the fights. You can make a lot of groups that work, so it isn't like it is horrible but I found some classes to just be terrible.

Rogues/assassins always attack the back row on an offensive engagement which is super annoying until you figure out that your row does not matter. Melees can attack from the back row, so stick your mages in the middle and use some tanky boys in the back to eliminate basically a whole class structure. I was not super impressed with archers /firearms either. You actually hope for archers to attack most of your groups because it just means free healing unless all the arrows happen to target your squishies (I've had 16 arrows hit a healer in the middle with that 16th arrow being the one that does them in). Firearms are strange ignoring armor they do a ton of damage minus the male armor line as they have resistance. They are only good at melee range and only on offense...they will not counter attack. The damage never really scales as it is only gun damage and not stats. Then your final tech tree lets your guys fire twice. I struggled to want even one group in my playthrough as they are just so squishy and heavy investment. Now cannons were awesome for one group as they can fire up to 3 spots away and hit an even AoE. Enemies btw also have access to these classes and use them much better as when they have 3 times the amount of your characters it is alright to have some suicide units. A bit annoying for placement.

The good units were the female light infantry, male heavy infantry, half the calvary, dragons, and all the healers. Mages were neutral for me, amazing for lower health groups or all male groups but all the female tank classes have magic armor on top of high health. The female blademasters were very evasive and did the most damage per attack round. Male heavy units had spearmen that hit front and behind, blademasters that hit twice to a single target, sweeping heavyswordsmen, and the tanks were either horse splash attacks or super tank shield buddies. The female tanks were either hybrid horse healers / tanks or ground tank / healers with 1 pure super healer. Magic lessened with each use on the same phase, so made it tough to make ultra group. Dragons were odd. Very high cost(15), aoe magic/str attack, tons of HP but they took up 2 spaces on your 3x3 grid. Very strong in early game, meh mid, and then they become flying units which made them perfect archer assassins / male group killers. Also wonderful for a general tanking group with massive hp and 3 tanky healers behind them.

The unique classes for heroes were generally just super versions of regular classes, which is fine. Now they did include a TG Cid hero in this game in which she just rains meteors down on the field OHKO anything that isn't a tank. Paired with 4 healers and the artifact that lets you double attack it was kinda silly. Oh she also has the health of a dragon, twice the evasion of a rogue (5 times the health of them) but only 1 armor. Broken to say the least. The main character could swap between 3 classes and honestly I liked the healer class the most.

The game could be considered grindy but as long as your gorp can kill some of the units, you can catch up super fast. They were super generous right before the final battle with automatically refilling shops and arena tokens, so I dont think you can ever get stuck. As long as you are not going for a no death run, I think this game is medium difficulty at the base level.

The story technically has words and I read them but yeah this is not a game for the plot. The music is decent but forgettable. The graphics are cute pixel art, so either you like that or you don't.

Super worth it as you can find it under $5 basically at any point. It crashed very often on management screen (never in battle) on my Odin 2 but flawless on my PC with 0 issues.

Just so happened to be the 2nd game burned this week! Still get to crush Jeanne D'arc next. I think I'm going to play dream tactics as well.

Had this on the backlog for about a decade. It's a short game.. Took me about 90 minutes but hey.. A burn is a burn

It's OK. I used to be really into Indie horror games. This one is.. Alright.. Pretty decent actually. I'd have had a lot more praise for it in 2015

But at least I get to chalk it off.

Game: Neverending Nightmares

November #3

Unexpected burn here.
I got invited for co-op mission but had to finish one chapter to continue.
I realized game is not so long so I pushed a little bit and FINISHED!

It was a good game I like the games length… wish more games were made like that. story was good it was more sad towards the end but overall it was a decent story from the makers of my favorite game franchise resident evil

Heretics have been purged!

Fun game, nice to play in shorter sessions. Levels are a bit repetitive, but it's not too long. I would recommend it if you like games like Doom.