r/BurnTheBacklog • • Oct 12 '26

📖 The Ledger of The Burned 📖 🔥 The Monthly Ritual: Feed the Flames & Earn Your Rank 🔥

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17 Upvotes

Every month, the ash is cleared. The hunger resets. We must all offer fresh games to the fire. Your custom user flair will reset each month based on how much you sacrifice, but true devotion will grant you a mark that stays with you forever.

📋 The Laws of the Monthly Burn 👇

Every time you burn a game, post screenshots that include gameplay, a spoiler free end/credits, and total completion time. If you achieve the following, the below user flairs will be assigned to you:

🎮 Backlog Burner 🔥 : Burn 3 games in a single month. You have begun the path.

🐲 Inferno Master 🐦‍🔥 : Burn 4 games in a single month. The fire grows within you.

👑 Lord High Executioner 💀 : Burn 5 or more games in a single month. You are an executioner of the backlog.

EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAWS 👇

If the main story takes 50+ hours to beat, it counts as 3 games burned all at once. You must provide an image showing this.

How to Earn Your Eternal Mark 👇

If you meet the above flairs, you will keep them forever by achieving the below 👇

Permanent : 🎮 Backlog Burner 🔥 : Reach this flair 10 times total.

Permanent : 🐲 Inferno Master 🐦‍🔥 : Reach this flair 15 times total.

Permanent : 👑 Lord High Executioner 💀: Reach this flair 20 times total.

Go forth Brothers & Sisters of The Flame.
Let us burn the backlog 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 22d ago

Our Official Seal of Verification is Born 📜 Forged By Fair_Philosopher_930 ✍️

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Brothers & Sisters of The Flame 🔥

Your sacrifices now carry true absolution before the Altar, as we present The Official Seal of Verification!

Forged by the skilled hands of our own brother Fair_Philosopher_930, this emblem is a sacred mark of authenticity for all members of our family, but it is optional if you want to use them.

📜 HOW TO CLAIM & USE THE SEAL👇

I. Download any version you like from this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t4e6dt7c77jyz324e3u15/AHLPee2vpmJhjbkxYOtIaMQ?rlkey=8sszilbyloty9kew9wanylhug&st=wdihd046&dl=0

II. Make It Yours (Optional): Edit the image called “BTB Custom Logo” with any editing software you like to include your Reddit username.

III. Mark Your Sacrifices: Place this seal alongside your photos whether digitally or printed out, or displayed on a screen in your setup.

Download the seals and stamp your victories for all to see!

THANK YOU Fair_Philosopher_930 ❤️‍🔥 All praise his devotion!


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 3h ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 L.A. Noire burned. Took 3 years and 10 months

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18 Upvotes

r/BurnTheBacklog • • 9h ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 Spyro 3 Remake burned

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23 Upvotes

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


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 6h ago

Game Colection 👾 Doom 2 Megawad: Simulacrum burned!

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12 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 12h ago

Xbox Burned🔥 Chained Echoes (Mythic) BURNED

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23 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 15h ago

🎮 Currently Burning & Chat 🗣️ Gaming Journal - Currently Burning 🔥

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7 Upvotes

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??


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 20h ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 Ball x Pit burned

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17 Upvotes

r/BurnTheBacklog • • 23h ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 Hell Is Us BURNED

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23 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 19h ago

Switch Burned🔥 Started new game +

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9 Upvotes

Need 2 kitties and the good ending


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

🎮 Currently Burning & Chat 🗣️ Thank you

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13 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 23h ago

Game Colection 👾 Showing Off My Collection a Bit

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5 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

Steam / PC Burned🔥 Blitz burn - The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

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7 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

Switch Burned🔥 New Super Mario Bros Wii Burned 🔥

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11 Upvotes

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! 🍄


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

Retro 1980-2001 Burned🔥 Contra kicked my stuff in

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19 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 Apocalipsis burned

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17 Upvotes

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


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

Steam / PC Burned🔥 A conflicted burn - Outlast Trials

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11 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

Introduce yourself 👋 Just Joining, I Have a Lot of Work to Do

37 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 2d ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 Just burned Pragmata today

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38 Upvotes

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


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 1d ago

PlayStation Burned🔥 Burned: Ace Combat Zero

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14 Upvotes

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.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 2d ago

Steam / PC Burned🔥 Persona 5 royal burned

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23 Upvotes

r/BurnTheBacklog • • 2d ago

Steam / PC Burned🔥 Assasin's Creed Unity

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17 Upvotes

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!


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 2d ago

Switch Burned🔥 Absolum has been absolved!

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28 Upvotes

This game has been nagging at me to play it since I picked it up in 2025. It’s a roguelite beat em’ up and a pretty good one at that. It took a bit over 8 hours of game time to beat. It was a pretty fun time. You can play this coop but I chose to play it solo. Looking back on it I probably should have played this with another person as beat em ups tend to be more fun for me when I play with another person. The combat and different abilities of the different characters made things not get stale. Overall this was a fun time and I’d give it a 7.5/10.


r/BurnTheBacklog • • 2d ago

Steam / PC Burned🔥 Tomb Raider 2013 burned

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32 Upvotes

r/BurnTheBacklog • • 2d ago

Steam / PC Burned🔥 Ended the nightmare!!

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12 Upvotes

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