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It’s time for annother edition of our biannual Game Giveaway topics! Share games with the community and get rid of those extra bundle keys you have lying around.

Before you participate, please make sure you read the rules below.

Rules

-Gifters

Post your available games, the platform and method of delivery, rules for your giveaways (e.g. first-come first-serve, random draw, etc.), and any additional info or requirements. Feel free to get creative!

-Giftees

Request giveaways. Please make sure you follow the gifter's posted guidelines.

-Guidelines

Anyone can choose to be a gifter, giftee, or both! Giveaway rules are set by individual gifters, but there are handful of guidelines everyone should follow:

1. No grey market keys! Only give away games from reputable sources. If you're not sure what this means, please ask.
2. Requests for games should be done in this topic, but if the gift is a key, those should be delivered by PMs only. Please don't post keys publicly in this topic, even obfuscated ones.

If you're new to these, check out previous giveaway threads to see how these usually go.

The May 2025 Backlog Burner event is officially over!

Over the month of May, 13 participants moved 170 games out of their backlogs.

There were 4 standard bingo wins from:

• u/Durinthal
• u/Eidolon
• u/kfwyre
• u/SingedFrostLantern

There was 1 anti-bingo win from:

• u/aphoenix

There was 1 traditional bingo blackout from:

• u/J-Chiptunator

There was 1 golf bingo win from:

• u/CannibalisticApple

There were 31 daily posts(!!!) made by:

• u/1338

A big thank you to ALL who participated in the event, whether that was by playing games, joining in conversations, or reading people's posts here.

It has been an absolute blast doing this with everyone. I truly love this event. Thank you all.

Use this topic to post your final bingo cards, give recaps of your games, and share any thoughts you have on the event itself.

See you again for the next Backlog Burner in November 2025!

Statistics

• We averaged 13.1 games per person and 38.4 games per week.
• There were 293 comments posted across 5 different topics.
• We played games that started with every letter of the alphabet except X
• Not a single game played had "Super" anywhere in its title.

Platforms

Games were played on at least 31 different platforms

• Arcade
• Bandai Wonderswan
• Microsoft Xbox
• Microsoft Xbox 360
• Mobile
• NEC Turbografx-CD
• Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo DS
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo Famicom Disk System
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Nintendo Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo Game Boy Color
• Nintendo Gamecube
• Nintendo Switch
• Nintendo Virtual Boy
• Nintendo Wii
• Nintendo Wii U
• Panasonic 3DO
• PC (Windows)
• PC (Linux)
• Playdate
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Master System
• Sega Saturn
• Sony PlayStation 2
• Sony PlayStation 4
• Sony Playstation Move
• Steam Deck
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Tabletop

Animals and more

Players played as at least 38 non-human protagonists:

• 1 AI (ctrl.alt.DEAL)
• 1 badger (Shelter)
• 1 bird (A Short Hike)
• 5 cats (I and Me (x2), MLEM: Space Agency, Tales of the Neon Sea (x2))
• Cthulhu (Cthulhu Saves the World)
• 2 dogs (Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Recommendation Dog)
• 1 dolphin (Ecco the Dolphin)
• 1 dung beetle (Yoku's Island Express)
• 1 fox (TUNIC)
• 1 frog (Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition)
• 1 goat (Goat Simulator 3)
• 1 god (Hades)
• 1 golf ball (Golfing Over It with Alva Majo)
• 1 grimp (PixelJunk Eden)
• 1 pillow Kirby (Kirby's Block Ball)
• 1 lynx (Shelter 2)
• 1 monster (Monster Prom)
• 1 Nightmaren (NiGHTS Into Dreams...)
• 1 pawn (Questy Chess)
• 1 pool ball (Pool Panic)
• 1 rabbit (Lugaru HD)
• 2 rats (Propeller Rat, SpaceRat Miner)
• 1 Rythulian (Journey)
• 6 robots (BEEP, Choice of Robots, Core Fault, Joy Mech Fight, Machinarium, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech)
• 1 squirrel with a gun (Squirrel With a Gun)
• 1 tapeworm (Tapeworm Disco Puzzle)

Also, this doesn't technically count but I'm including it anyway:

• 1 IRL human (JoustMania)

Highlights

The following highlights were aggregated from participants and focus on the whole event or other participants. Thank you to those of you who wrote in! I'm sharing these as written and randomized, though I did make some minor edits: for flow and consistency, to maintain anonymity, to add usernames, and to link to specific comments when needed.

• Shout out @J-Chiptunator who played on more consoles than I played games this month

• I think one or two people came back to games after a decade, which is really cool to see (u/Wes: Grand Theft Auto V and u/CannibalisticApple: Animal Crossing)

• I really enjoyed the heartfelt Animal Crossing write-up by @CannibalisticApple, which made me feel ten years old again.

• I thought it was sweet that aphoenix played a game recommended by someone else on the site

• @1338's daily recap of the event. While I love the Bingo cards that we've done for the last few, I also really just enjoyed the love of the game and sticking to it every day like a blog.

• I want to mention @J-Chiptunator for writing a full novella every other week, in alphabetical order.

• u/aphoenix's deception

• There were a couple of callbacks to games played in previous events. I think it's neat that some games are getting shared play over time in these.

• @kfwyre choosing a non-Steam/non-PC gaming platform was very cool.

• The big one was of course @aphoenix's anti-bingo. That was super clever and well-delivered.

• Games given away during the giveaway threads showing up in the Backlog Burner

• Fantastic write-ups from so many people. There were so many thoughtful posts about games, and they helped me to structure my own backlog when there was overlap.

• I very much enjoyed Wes' post for Golfing Over It with Alva Majo regarding game design, games that defy familiar rules to engage the player, and making improvements after losing progress.

• Durinthal @ PAX East

• I respect 1338 for playing and posting daily. What a way to burn through the backlog!

• aphoenix delivering on his devious plan

• Awesome that Wes made the site for this event

• @1338 for being the most consistent poster, contributing a new game every single day. Crazy dedication.

• @Durinthal playing at PAX East was super cool

• Wes doubling up on Archipelago and Backlog Burner

• 1338 signing off from the event with the Oblivion Remaster

Personal Highlights

These were highlights that were shared from players that focused on themselves. For these, I have included their names:

u/Eidolon: I want to say that this has been my most successful Backlog Burner yet, because I actually got a couple of games to 100% completion. So the bingo was just a bonus!

u/aphoenix: To anyone else who reads, thank you for participating in an event like this. It's nice to feel connected to people. It's easy to feel splintered and disconnected today, and things like this is exactly what I hoped to get from the internet when I was first playing The 7th Guest years ago. <3 for everyone here!

u/CannibalisticApple:

• Finishing The Letter to say goodbye to my Wii U as part of leaving my old house
• Playing the original Animal Crossing for the first time in just over eleven years to greet my new house
• Getting a chance to chat with people about games I've also played, and see all these other games that could also be fun
• Seeing the sheer number of games with cats. And then realizing how many games I own that star cats.

u/Wes: I moved The Swapper from own library into my backlog based on @aphoenix's write-up here, and @1338 put Sea of Stars on my radar.

Only a few days left!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!
Finish your Backlog Burning by June 1st!

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion
• Week 4 Discussion

Week 4 Recap

8 participants played 7 bingo cards and moved 29 games out of their backlogs!
There were t̵̳̒h̵̡̫͊r̷̘̼̎é̴̪̕e̶͙̭̓̿ bingo wins!
Congratulations to u/SingedFrostLantern, u/kfwyre, and ų̷̪̭̖͚̮̃̃̃̅̉͒͑̀͊͜/̸͙͇̿͒́̋̽̈̈́ą̷͈̠͍̪̯̩͕͛́̐̈́̾͠p̶͔͕̭͓̫͕͓̬̫̗̉̅̽̈́̇́͘͝ḫ̸̠̤̫̦͖̘̙̣̦͗͜ǫ̴̯̪̣͚̥̝̞̘͊̏͠ȩ̷̛̖̭͕̗̹̹̌͛͌͆̋̈́n̸̯̮͕͂̄̀͗͐̋̈́̿̂͆i̷̱͉̰̻͈̦̗̤͋͌̂̍̋̿͜ͅẋ̶̡̛̘͖͎̰͓̫̼̀͂͗͒̉͑͝͝ͅ

28% of games played this week started with the letter S.

There was a 5 letter stretch of the alphabet for which there were no games played: H-I-J-K-L

At least 2 Linux distributions were installed by participants this week.

Coincidentally, at least 2 bingo cards were deleted by participants this week.

Thus far, a total of 136 games have been played for the May 2025 Backlog Burner.

Game List:

• Against the Storm
• Arcade Paradise
• The Binding of Isaac
• Celeste
• Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
• Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
• Foundation
• Garshasp: The Monster Slayer
• Goat Simulator 3
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Machinarium
• Neon Noodles
• Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle
• Noita
• OneShot
• PixelJunk Eden
• Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
• Shadow Warrior (2013)
• Shing!
• Shoot Many Robots
• Spacerat Miner
• Splice
• The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
• The Swapper
• Stray Gods
• Tapeworm Disco Puzzle
• Tau
• Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Week 4 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion

Week 3 Recap

10 Participants played 7 bingo cards and moved 38 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.

Participants played as at least 7 animals:

• a dolphin
• a frog
• a martian
• a rat
• two cats
• a squirrel

At least 1 of those animals possessed a gun.

68% of the games played this week started with a letter in the first half of the alphabet.

Thus far, a total of 107 games have been played for the May 2025 Backlog Burner.

Game List:

• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Astral Ascent
• BEEP
• Blue Prince
• Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
• A Case of Distrust
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Celeste (randomizer)
• CrankVenture Capitalist
• DETOUR
• Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!
• Dordogne
• DREDGE
• Ecco the Dolphin
• Echo: The Oracle's Scroll
• Endless Alice
• Erenshor
• Fable Anniversary
• Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition
• From Dust
• Griftlands
• I and Me
• Inscryption
• Legend of Mysteria
• Mars After Midnight
• MAZE
• Neverending Nightmares
• Nomad Survival
• Pool Panic
• Propeller Rat
• Sea of Stars
• Shadows of Doubt
• Squirrel With a Gun
• SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
• Tales of the Neon Sea
• Tactical Breach Wizards
• Timelie
• Zero Zero: Perfect Stop

Week 3 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion

Week 2 Recap

9 participants played 8 bingo cards and moved 46 games out of their backlogs!

There was 1 bingo win. Congrats to u/Durinthal!

Games were played at at least 1 major gaming convention.

8 games played had at least five words in their titles.

Game list:

• The 7th Guest
• Albion Online
• Animal Crossing
• Balatro
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Bang Bang Racing
• Berzerk Boy
• Bob Came in Pieces
• Choice of Robots
• Core Fault
• ctrl.alt.DEAL
• Diplomacy Is Not an Option
• Epigraph
• Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson
• Golfing Over It with Alva Majo
• Gravity Circuit
• Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
• The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
• JoustMania
• Kismet
• Mage's Tower
• MLEM: Space Agency
• Monster Prom
• Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
• Nocturne
• Orna
• Pacific Drive
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Puzzle Agent
• Puzzler World 2
• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
• Recommendation Dog
• Revenge of the Titans
• Ricochet
• Royalty Free-For-All
• Shining Gadget
• A Short Hike
• Simple Pinball
• Steel Battalion
• Tales of the Neon Sea
• TUNIC
• Virtua Cop 2
• While Waiting
• Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
• Yoku's Island Express
• ZeroRanger

Week 2 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines

Week 1 Recap

10 participants played 7 bingo cards and moved 23 games out of their backlogs!

At least 6 different platforms were used: Nintendo DS, PC, Playdate, Switch, Wii U, Wonderswan

There were 0 bingo wins.

• 4 people played Flow bingo cards
• 1 person played a Flow Golf bingo card
• 2 people played Flux bingo cards
• 3 people played free choice

Game list:

• Advance Wars: Dual Strike
• beatmania
• The Botanist
• Braid
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• Costume Quest
• Cranky Cove
• DREDGE
• The Farmer Was Replaced
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• The Letter
• Life is Feudal
• Lugaru HD
• Match-o-3000
• Ratropolis
• Resident Evil 2
• Roundguard
• Shelter
• Shelter 2
• Suzerain
• Theresia
• Trackminia
• Trauma

The blaze has officially ignited!

The May 2025 Backlog Burner is officially live. Use this topic to post about the games that you play.

Quicklink: Backlog Bingo

Etiquette:

• It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week.

• It is also fine to respond to your own posts.

• If you are playing Backlog Bingo, you can share your table either by markdown or through screenshots.

Gameplay guidelines:

• Goals for this event (if any) are entirely individual and self-determined.

• Playing Bingo is optional and not required.

• You do NOT need to finish games unless you want to. The point is to try out games and have fun, not force ourselves to play things we're not interested in.

Backlog Burner FAQ

Backlog Bingo FAQ

Important: All data for your Backlog Bingo card is stored on your device, not the server. Clearing your browser data will delete your card. You can use the export feature to make backups or move your card between devices.

It's almost time...

...for another Tildes Backlog Burner -- the event where you try out games you've always wanted to play (but haven't yet -- for whatever reason).

The Backlog Burner for May 2025 will officially begin in two days on May 1st.

If you're new to the Backlog Burner, check out our previous events to get an idea of what's going on:

• 2024 - November
• 2024 - May
• 2023
• 2022
• 2020

Backlog Bingo is back and better than ever!

New Category List

In addition to Flux and Flow from the past, we've added a new list: Free!

This one is dead simple: the letters of the alphabet, and nothing more. You have (nearly) complete freedom in how you fill your squares. For example, Half-Life could fill:

• H for its title
• G for Gordon Freeman
• F for First-Person Shooter
• X for "Xen is really kind of a letdown, isn't it?"

The choice is entirely yours! Be as strict or as loose as you want to be with it.

We also added nearly three dozen words to the popular Flow set from last time. Maybe you'll roll some of the new additions, like Sly, Maneuver, or Whimsy?

New Site Features

u/Wes, coding wizard that he is, has added some incredible new features to the site:

• Seeded Cards: You can now roll the same exact card as someone else by providing the same seed. It's available on the Settings page (just make sure all other settings are the same as well).

• Import/Export: Need to move your card from your desktop to your phone? And then to your laptop? And then back to your desktop? Use the new Import/Export feature to save your card and its progress and move it between devices as much as you want. (Note: this also doubles as a backup tool for anyone worried about losing their card!)

• Behind the Scenes Polish: You won't be able to tell just by looking at the site but there's a lot of backend stuff that Wes spruced up. Better error handling, a custom schema and validator for the category files, proper SVG icons, better mobile responsiveness, etc.

Truly, the site has never been better!

If you participated last time, clear your old card and start fresh with a new one. If you're new to the event, simply go to the Backlog Bingo site to generate your card.

Notification List

If you are interested in participating in the Backlog Burner, please comment in this topic. Anyone commenting/replying here will automatically be added to a notification list for the Backlog Burner, unless you specify otherwise.

Start Planning (or Playing)

Technically the event starts in two days, so you have time to roll your cards (if you're playing Bingo) and plan out what you'd like to play for the month. That said, if you're eager to jump right in, and start early, I certainly won't stop you!

Let's get ready to burn through these backlogs!

Backlog Burner FAQ

Backlog Bingo FAQ

Important: All data for your Backlog Bingo card is stored on your device, not the server. Clearing your browser data will delete your card. You can use the export feature to make backups or move your card between devices.

Hey all - after a couple threads discussing randomizers and Archipelago, we should try to get a multiworld game going here! I'm thinking this would start the night of May 8th depending on availability and interest. If you are interested, just shoot a reply in here and let us know your planned game! I'll tag a post about a week out asking for YAML files, and I'll likely make a Discord server for the event itself so we can stream and share info.

This is a bit far into the future and I wanted to make sure the date would work for people interested, so no need to send YAMLs or anything yet. But do let me know if you'd like to join - no matter your skill level, we'd be happy to have you!

(edit: hid that bigass faq thingy)

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🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵

This is our annual holiday game giveaway topic. Spread some goodwill and holiday cheer with others!

Before you participate, please make sure you read the rules below.

Rules

-Gifters

Post your available games, the platform and method of delivery, rules for your giveaways (e.g. first-come first-serve, random draw, etc.), and any additional info or requirements. Feel free to get creative!

-Giftees

Request giveaways. Please make sure you follow the gifter's posted guidelines.

-Guidelines

Anyone can choose to be a gifter, giftee, or both! Giveaway rules are set by individual gifters, but there are handful of guidelines everyone should follow:

1. No grey market keys! Only give away games from reputable sources. If you're not sure what this means, please ask.
2. Requests for games should be done in this topic, but if the gift is a key, those should be delivered by PMs only. Please don't post keys publicly in this topic, even obfuscated ones.

If you're new to these, check out previous giveaway threads to see how these usually go.

The November 2024 Backlog Burner event is officially over!

Over the course of the month of November, 17 participants moved 136 games out of their backlogs.

There were 9 bingo wins from:

• u/aphoenix
• u/AugustusFerdinand
• u/CannibalisticApple
• u/CrazyProfessor02
• u/Eidolon
• u/Evie
• u/kfwyre
• u/SingedFrostLantern
• u/Wes

Also, a big thank you to ALL who participated in the event, whether that was by playing games or joining in conversations.

It has been an absolute blast doing this with everyone. Thank you all for participating.

Use this topic to post your final bingo cards, give recaps of your games, and share any thoughts you have on the event itself.

See you again for the next Backlog Burner in May 2025!

Statistics

• We averaged 8.0 games per person and 31.7 games per week.
• There were 245 comments posted across 5 different topics.
• Two games were played twice: Hades and Monster Hunter Wilds
• We played games that started with every letter of the alphabet except Q.

Highlights

The following highlights were aggregated from participants. Thank you to those of you who wrote in! I'm sharing these as written, though I did make some minor edits to maintain anonymity.

• u/Wes made a great bingo site that works really well for this event.

• It's touching that u/Wes took the time to respond to nearly everyone. He really made this feel like a community.

• A special mention for @Wes, who seems to have read and thoughtfully replied to every single writeup this month, which was very kind (and I really liked their writeup of Praey for the Gods).

• I love the evolution of the Bingo card over the past several events, and I really liked this form.

• There were so many great entries that I enjoyed reading this time around, actually, and I really wanted to keep trying games that other people tried.

• @SingedFrostLantern for their hole-in-one golf

• The highlight for the whole event to me was @SingedFrostLantern's hole-in-one and the wonderful writeup that went with the game.

• My favourite writeup had to be @SingedFrostLantern with their Keylocker Hole in One, a fun little exercise that put me onto a new game that (regrettably) went straight back into the backlog.

• @JCPhoenix for creating full video reviews for many of his entries

• @Eidolon's Neverwinter Nights for bringing the classics back

• @kfwyre for Journey to the Savage Planet, and finally getting to be the dog

• u/kfwyre completely missing the joke

• @Evie, with basically every write-up she did. Dead Space, Prey, and Outer Wilds were all very good.

• @CannibalisticApple with Lost in Blue, finally tackling the game cartridge lost somewhere in a closet

• @J-Chiptunator with four unique console selections

Only a few days left!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!
Finish your Backlog Burning by December 1st!

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion
• Week 4 Discussion

Week 4 Recap

10 participants played 9 bingo cards and moved 27 games out of their backlogs!

• 4 people played Flow bingo cards
• 5 people played Flux bingo cards
• 1 person played free choice

There were FIVE bingo wins.

Congratulations to:

• u/aphoenix
• u/CrazyProfessor02
• u/Evie
• u/kfwyre
• u/Wes

Thus far, a total of 114 games have been played for the November 2024 Backlog Burner.

Week 4 Game List:

• Assemble With Care
• Between Horizons
• Card Shark
• Crying Suns
• Duskers
• Encased
• Europa Universalis IV
• Gearshifters
• Girls Like Robots
• Hardspace: Shipbreaker
• Hourglass
• Keylocker
• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
• METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
• Mighty Switch Force! Collection
• Outer Wilds
• Pattern
• Pistol Whip
• Ragnarock
• Spiritfarer
• Star Citizen
• Sticky Business
• Tank Team
• The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
• UpGun
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Xenoblade Chronicles X

Week 4 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion

Week 3 Recap

12 participants played 12 bingo cards and moved 34 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.

• 4 people played Flow bingo cards
• 8 people played Flux bingo cards

Thus far, a total of 87 games have been played for the November 2024 Backlog Burner.

Week 3 Game List:

• Ariel_Knight’s Never Yield
• BioShock 2 Remastered
• Call of the Sea
• Cave Story+
• Cavity Busters
• Celeste
• Cloud Gardens
• Convoy
• Eigengrau
• FPS Chess
• Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
• Golf Club Nostalgia
• Hades
• Half-Life 2: VR Mod
• Lost in Blue
• Mining Mechs
• No Man’s Sky
• Paradise Killer
• Party Hard
• PictoQuest
• Portal 2
• Portal with RTX
• Praey for the Gods
• Prey
• Project Borealis: Prologue
• Project Warlock II
• Pumpkin Jack
• Slant
• Subnautica
• The Falconeer
• The Gardens Between
• Victoria 3
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Warpips

Week 3 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion

Week 2 Recap

14 participants played 13 bingo cards and moved 36 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.

• 6 people played Flow bingo cards
• 7 people played Flux bingo cards
• 1 person played free choice

Thus far, a total of 53 games have been played for the November 2024 Backlog Burner.

Week 2 Game List:

• A Dance of Fire and Ice
• ActRaiser
• Affordable Space Adventures
• Anomaly: Warzone Earth
• CAYNE
• Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain
• Control
• Cult of the Lamb
• Dark Future: Blood Red States
• DarkStar One
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Journey to the Savage Planet
• Lethal Company
• Mandragora (demo)
• Monster Hunter Wilds (beta)
• Moonring
• Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest (and Let's Play video by u/JCPhoenix)
• Otherskin (demo)
• Part Time UFO
• Pikmin 4
• Pokémon Kanto Expansion Pak
• REMNANT II
• Rumu
• Secrets of Grindea
• Snow Moto Racing Freedom
• Super Mario Eclipse
• Super Mario Maker 2
• Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings
• Tacoma
• TaleSpire
• That Which Gave Chase
• The Battle of Polytopia (and Let's Play video by u/JCPhoenix)
• The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
• Wilderless
• Yes, Your Grace

Week 2 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines

Week 1 Recap

11 participants played 10 bingo cards and moved 17 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.

• 6 people played Flow bingo cards
• 4 people played Flux bingo cards
• 1 person played free choice

Game list:

• Beholder
• Darksiders Genesis
• Dead Space (2023)
• Eternal Threads
• Frostpunk
• HoloCure
• Ikenfell
• Jotun: Valhalla Edition
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Mushihimesama
• Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
• Sea of Solitude
• A Short Hike
• SIGNALIS
• Slay the Princess
• This War of Mine
• Windward

The blaze has officially ignited!

The November 2024 Backlog Burner is officially live. Use this topic to post about the games that you play.

Quicklink: Backlog Bingo

Etiquette:

• It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week.

• It is also fine to respond to your own posts.

• If you are playing Backlog Bingo, you can share your table either by markdown or through screenshots.

Gameplay guidelines:

• Goals for this event (if any) are entirely individual and self-determined.

• Playing Bingo is optional and not required.

• You do NOT need to finish games unless you want to. The point is to try out games and have fun, not force ourselves to play things we're not interested in.

Backlog Burner FAQ

Backlog Bingo FAQ

Important: All data for your Backlog Bingo card is stored on your device, not the server. Clearing your browser data will irrecoverably delete your card.

It's almost time...

...for another Tildes Backlog Burner -- the event where you try out games you've always wanted to play (but haven't yet -- for whatever reason).

The Backlog Burner for November 2024 will officially begin in two days on November 1st.

If you're new to the Backlog Burner, check out our previous events to get an idea of what's going on:

• 2024 - May
• 2023
• 2022
• 2020

Backlog Bingo returns again!

Backlog Bingo is a backbone of this event, so it's of course back and better than ever! u/Wes has made some new tweaks to his amazing site, and we've also further developed our category sets.

For this event, you can choose between two different official Bingo lists:

• Flow: A conceptually abstract list of ideas to guide you. Let your imagination flow.
• Flux: A tweaked and updated version of the May 2024 category list.

If you participated last time, clear your old card and start fresh with a new one. If you're new to the event, simply go to the Backlog Bingo site to generate your card.

Notification List

If you are interested in participating in the Backlog Burner, please comment in this topic. Anyone commenting/replying here will automatically be added to a notification list for the Backlog Burner, unless you specify otherwise.

Start Planning (or Playing)

Technically the event starts in two days, so you have time to roll your cards (if you're playing Bingo) and plan out what you'd like to play for the month. That said, if you're eager to jump right in, and start early, I certainly won't stop you!

Let's get ready to burn through these backlogs!

Backlog Burner FAQ

Backlog Bingo FAQ

Important: All data for your Backlog Bingo card is stored on your device, not the server. Clearing your browser data will irrecoverably delete your card.

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It’s time for annother edition of our biannual Game Giveaway topics! Share games with the community; get rid of those extra bundle keys you have lying around; maybe do a cool The Price Is Right-style game?

Before you participate, please make sure you read the rules below.

Rules

-Gifters

Post your available games, the platform and method of delivery, rules for your giveaways (e.g. first-come first-serve, random draw, etc.), and any additional info or requirements. Feel free to get creative!

-Giftees

Request giveaways. Please make sure you follow the gifter's posted guidelines.

-Guidelines

Anyone can choose to be a gifter, giftee, or both! Giveaway rules are set by individual gifters, but there are handful of guidelines everyone should follow:

1. No grey market keys! Only give away games from reputable sources. If you're not sure what this means, please ask.
2. Requests for games should be done in this topic, but if the gift is a key, those should be delivered by PMs only. Please don't post keys publicly in this topic, even obfuscated ones.

If you're new to these, check out previous giveaway threads to see how these usually go.

The May 2024 Backlog Burner event is officially over!

Over the course of the month of May, 13 participants moved 105 games out of their backlogs.

There were 7 bingo wins (5 Standard and 2 Golf).
Congratulations to @aphoenix, @CannibalisticApple, @Durinthal, @Eidolon, @kfwyre, @Weldawadyathink, and @Wes!

Also, congratulations to all other participants as well: @Carrow, @J-Chiptunator, @Mendanbar, @Notcoffeetable, @semsevfor, and @Shevanel

Finally, appreciation to those who didn't play any games but still popped in to talk about them with us: @brews_hairy_cats and @Wafik

It has been an absolute blast doing this with everyone. Thank you all for participating.

Use this topic to post your final bingo cards, give recaps of your games, and share any thoughts you have on the event itself.

Reminder: the Backlog Burner will now run on a regular schedule during every May and November. Our next event is only five months away!

Highlights:

• We averaged 8.1 games per person and 23.7 games per week
• There were 203 comments posted across 5 different topics
• Four different games were each played twice: Chop Goblins, Life Is Strange, Okami HD, and Wizard of Legend
• We played games that started with every letter of the alphabet except for K and Z
• @J-Chiptunator: "I played more games seriously than I did for the past 5 years"
• @semsevfor: "I started something Ive been putting off for 14 years"
• @aphoenix completed a Bingo Golf win with just 5 games
• If you would like an unequivocally definitive guide to Boomer Shooters, then @Shevanel has got you covered
• Likewise, @Wes has got you covered should you be in the market for Soulsborne mods
• It wasn’t until I compiled the final game list that I realized the game is called (the) Gnorp Apologue instead of Analogue

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion
• Week 4 Discussion
• Week 5(ish) Discussion

The event is almost over!

Only three days left!

Post your current/final bingo cards, and get those last few games in before the deadline!

A final discussion topic and complete recap will go up on June 1st once the event is officially over.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion
• Week 4 Discussion

Week 4 Recap

8 participants moved 31 games(!!!) out of their backlogs!
There were 3 bingo wins! (1 golf, and 2 standard)
Congratulations to @aphoenix, @Wes, and @kfwyre!

• 1 participant played free choice
• 5 participants played standard bingo cards
• 2 participants played bingo golf

Thus far, a total of 80 games have been played for the May 2024 Backlog Burner.

Week 4 Game List:

• BAD END THEATER
• Baiten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
• Blasphemous
• Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Chill Corner
• Chillquarium
• Cook-Out
• Crypt of the Necrodancer
• Cuphead
• DAEMON X MACHINA
• Dominion
• The Enchanted Cave 2
• Ghost of Tsushima
• GNOG
• (the) Gnorp Apologue
• Hacknet
• Lila's Sky Ark
• Mirror's Edge: Catalyst
• Okami HD (x2)
• ScourgeBringer
• A Short Hike
• Sonic Forces
• Storyteller
• Super Robot Wars 30
• To the Moon
• Trailmakers
• V-Rally 4
• Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
• Wizard of Legend

Week 4 has begun!

This is the last full week of the Backlog Burner. There are only ten days left in May!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in previous weeks but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion
• Week 3 Discussion

Week 3 Recap

8 participants moved 16 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins (but we are SO close!).

• 2 participants played free choice
• 4 participants played standard bingo cards
• 2 participants played bingo golf

One participant played a game they had been putting off for 14 years!

Thus far, a total of 49 games have been played for the May 2024 Backlog Burner.

Week 3 Game List:

• BattleBit Remastered
• Bendy and the Dark Revival
• The Deadly Tower of Monsters
• Death Must Die
• Frogger
• Frostpunk
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy via OpenGOAL
• LoveChoice
• a new life.
• One Lonely Outpost
• Paratopic
• Quake
• Returnal
• Slime-san
• StarCraft II
• Super Lucky's Tale

Week 3 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in previous weeks but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines
• Week 2 Discussion

Week 2 Recap

10 participants moved 18 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.

• 1 participant played free choice
• 7 participants played standard bingo cards
• 2 participants played bingo golf

Thus far, a total of 33 games have been played for the May 2024 Backlog Burner.

Week 2 Game List:

• 2064: Read Only Memories
• Andro Dunos II
• Aperture Desk Job
• Bendy and the Ink Machine
• Breakout
• Chop Goblins (x2!)
• Coromon
• Curse of D’Sparil
• DARK SOULS III - Archthrones mod
• DIG - Deep in Galaxies
• ELDEN RING
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215
• Open Roads
• Radical Dreamers - Le Trésor Interdit
• Vampire Survivors
• Umurangi Generation
• Yakuza Kiwami

Week 2 has begun!

Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!

If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

Quick links:

• Backlog Bingo Site
• Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines

Week 1 Recap

10 participants played 10 bingo cards and moved 15 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.

Game list:

• Bastion
• Chop Goblins
• THE CORRIDOR
• DARK SOULS III
• Final Fantasy III
• HUMANITY
• In Other Waters
• Life is Strange: Complete Season
• Metal: Hellsinger
• Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
• Some Distant Memory
• Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
• The Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith
• Vault of the Void
• A YEAR OF SPRINGS

The blaze has officially ignited!

The May 2024 Backlog Burner is officially live. Use this topic to post about the games that you play.

Etiquette:

• It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week.

• It is also fine to respond to your own posts.

• If you are playing Backlog Bingo, you can share your table either by markdown or through screenshots.

Gameplay guidelines:

• Goals for this event (if any) are entirely individual and self-determined.

• You do NOT need to finish games unless you want to. The point is to try out games and have fun, not force ourselves to play things we're not interested in.

Backlog Bingo: It's back and better than ever!

Backlog Bingo is a completely optional way of participating in the Backlog Burner. You can generate a random bingo card with different gaming categories such as Has a fishing minigame or Your friend loves it. You then play a game that meets a given category and fill in that square.

A conventional bingo win happens when you have filled in a full row, column, or diagonal. If you complete a full bingo with time to spare, you can go for another one on the same card. You can also choose to play with the "blackout" win condition if you're feeling extra adventurous, which means that you need to fill every square on the board to win.

In order to help out with this, our amazing @Wes has singlehandedly made an open-source Backlog Bingo web app from scratch! (and here's the GitHub repo, for those interested).

The site will:

• Generate a random bingo card for you
• Save your bingo card state as you enter games
• Export your bingo card to markdown for easy copy/pasting into the discussion thread

But wait, there's more!

• It has both Standard and Golf rulesets, as well as completely custom rules
• It allows for resizing the bingo card, so you can play a 3x3 or a 7x7 if you want
• You can choose which categories you want to allow on your card
• The categories now have groupings which limit similar ones from appearing on the same cards

Wes could have stopped there, but he didn't:

• The site is private by design; all user data is kept in local storage and does not touch the server
• The site can import custom JSON files so that people can make their own custom categories
• Because of this, people can use the tool for other events: a yearly reading challenge; an anime bingo month, etc.

What's that? You thought Wes was done? Nope. He kept going:

• It supports "dynamic" entries which allow for randomization within specific categories (e.g. "a game you've had for more than RANDOM[2,7] years")
• It has both light and dark modes
• It looks great in screenshots, so if you hate markdown tables you can post pictures of your card instead
• It has some other fun surprises as well

We've also updated the category list for this year to hopefully make it even better than the last. So, try it out! Generate a card and get gaming!

Let's burn through these backlogs!

Backlog Bingo FAQ

Important: All data for your Backlog Bingo card is stored on your device, not the server. Clearing your browser data will irrecoverably delete your card.

Backlog Burner FAQ

It's almost time for another Tildes Backlog Burner -- the event where you try out games you've always wanted to play but haven't yet for whatever reason.

The Backlog Burner for May 2024 will officially begin in two days on May 1st.

If you're new to the Backlog Burner, check out our previous events to get an idea of what's going on:

• 2023
• 2022
• 2020

Announcement #1: Backlog Bingo returns!

In the 2023 event, "Backlog Bingo" cards were quite a hit. I am thrilled to report that they are not only returning for this coming event, but they will be so much better than last time. @Wes has been hard at work cooking up some exciting new stuff that he can't wait to show everyone!

Announcement #2: Backlog Burner is now a recurring event!

In the interest of making the Backlog Burner as good as it can be, I want people to be able to know when it's going to be happening rather than having it pop up randomly and unexpectedly, as it has in the past. As such, moving forward I will be running two separate Backlog Burners each year during the months of May and November (similar to how I run Timasomo every October).

Let's get ready to burn through these backlogs!

Backlog Burner FAQ

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🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵

Holiday game sales are currently happening, and some are right around the corner!

This is our annual holiday game giveaway topic. Spread some goodwill and holiday cheer with others!

Before you participate, please make sure you read the rules below.

Rules

-Gifters

Post your available games, the platform and method of delivery, rules for your giveaways (e.g. first-come first-serve, random draw, etc.), and any additional info or requirements. Feel free to get creative!

-Giftees

Request giveaways. Please make sure you follow the gifter's posted guidelines.

-Guidelines

Anyone can choose to be a gifter, giftee, or both! Giveaway rules are set by individual gifters, but there are handful of guidelines everyone should follow:

1. No grey market keys! Only give away games from reputable sources. If you're not sure what this means, please ask.
2. Requests for games should be done in this topic, but if the gift is a key, those should be delivered by PMs only. Please don't post keys publicly in this topic, even obfuscated ones.

If you're new to these, check out previous giveaway threads to see how these usually go.

November is coming to a close, and the Backlog Burner with it!

Post your final updates, your completed Bingo cards, and any closing thoughts you have.

• What were the best games you found from digging through your backlog?
• What surprised you?
• What disappointed you?

Also, another HUGE thank you to @Wes for his incredible bingo card generator.

Three weeks in! Update your bingo cards and tell us about what you played!

Q: I missed the beginning of this event. Can I still join?
A: Of course! It's open all month.

Topic etiquette:

• It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week if you play multiple games.

• It is fine to respond to yourself with updates if you're continuing a single game and walk to talk more about it as you go.

• If you are playing Backlog Bingo, feel free to make a top-level post with your card that you edit as you go, while making new posts underneath that to talk about the games as you play them.

Gameplay guidelines:

• Goals for this event (if any) are entirely individual and self-determined.

• You do NOT need to finish games unless you want to. The point is to try out games and have fun, not force ourselves to play things we're not interested in.

Backlog Bingo

Thanks to the amazing efforts of our very own @Wes, we are debuting Backlog Bingo! This is a completely optional way to participate in the month.

You can generate a unique Backlog Bingo card from a collection of 73 different categories. Choose the ones you want in your batch, and then use Wes's custom-made online tool to automatically create your own individualized bingo card.

Wes's tool automatically assembles the markdown for your table, so it will paste beautifully into comments here on Tildes. For example:

Play games throughout the month to check off categories in the Bingo card. The ★ in the middle of every card is a free space -- there are no requirements for that square and any game you play fits there!

The most basic win condition is five-in-a-row, but, if you're feeling really wild, you might go for a win pattern that's a little more involved. Your choice!

Here's an example of someone "winning" the card above:

Bingo Golfing (thanks @Wes and @aphoenix!) is also an option: trying to clear a pattern by counting multiple categories for a single game, thus “winning” with as few games as possible.

Step 3 of Wes's tool includes instructions for checking off games, which has to be done manually. If you need an in-thread guide, you can use the following example below:

||
|:-:|
| ✅ ~~Struckthrough Example Category~~ <br> **Bolded Game Title** |

If you can't figure out how to check off categories or you break the Markdown for your table, feel free to ask for help in the comments or PM me and I can help you out!

FAQs

Two weeks down! Update your bingo cards and tell us about what you played!

Q: I missed the beginning of this event. Can I still join?
A: Of course! It's open all month.

Topic etiquette:

• It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week if you play multiple games.

• It is fine to respond to yourself with updates if you're continuing a single game and walk to talk more about it as you go.

• If you are playing Backlog Bingo, feel free to make a top-level post with your card that you edit as you go, while making new posts underneath that to talk about the games as you play them.

Gameplay guidelines:

• Goals for this event (if any) are entirely individual and self-determined.

• You do NOT need to finish games unless you want to. The point is to try out games and have fun, not force ourselves to play things we're not interested in.

Backlog Bingo

Thanks to the amazing efforts of our very own @Wes, we are debuting Backlog Bingo! This is a completely optional way to participate in the month.

You can generate a unique Backlog Bingo card from a collection of 73 different categories. Choose the ones you want in your batch, and then use Wes's custom-made online tool to automatically create your own individualized bingo card.

Wes's tool automatically assembles the markdown for your table, so it will paste beautifully into comments here on Tildes. For example:

Play games throughout the month to check off categories in the Bingo card. The ★ in the middle of every card is a free space -- there are no requirements for that square and any game you play fits there!

The most basic win condition is five-in-a-row, but, if you're feeling really wild, you might go for a win pattern that's a little more involved. Your choice!

Here's an example of someone "winning" the card above:

Bingo Golfing (thanks @Wes and @aphoenix!) is also an option: trying to clear a pattern by counting multiple categories for a single game, thus “winning” with as few games as possible.

Step 3 of Wes's tool includes instructions for checking off games, which has to be done manually. If you need an in-thread guide, you can use the following example below:

||
|:-:|
| ✅ ~~Struckthrough Example Category~~ <br> **Bolded Game Title** |

If you can't figure out how to check off categories or you break the Markdown for your table, feel free to ask for help in the comments or PM me and I can help you out!

FAQs

Week 1 is done. Update your bingo cards and tell us about what you played!

Q: I missed the beginning of this event. Can I still join?
A: Of course! It's open all month.

Topic etiquette:

• It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week if you play multiple games.

• It is fine to respond to yourself with updates if you're continuing a single game and walk to talk more about it as you go.

• If you are playing Backlog Bingo, feel free to make a top-level post with your card that you edit as you go, while making new posts underneath that to talk about the games as you play them.

Gameplay guidelines:

• Goals for this event (if any) are entirely individual and self-determined.

• You do NOT need to finish games unless you want to. The point is to try out games and have fun, not force ourselves to play things we're not interested in.

Backlog Bingo

Thanks to the amazing efforts of our very own @Wes, we are debuting Backlog Bingo! This is a completely optional way to participate in the month.

You can generate a unique Backlog Bingo card from a collection of 73 different categories. Choose the ones you want in your batch, and then use Wes's custom-made online tool to automatically create your own individualized bingo card.

Wes's tool automatically assembles the markdown for your table, so it will paste beautifully into comments here on Tildes. For example:

Play games throughout the month to check off categories in the Bingo card. The ★ in the middle of every card is a free space -- there are no requirements for that square and any game you play fits there!

The most basic win condition is five-in-a-row, but, if you're feeling really wild, you might go for a win pattern that's a little more involved. Your choice!

Here's an example of someone "winning" the card above: