Jan 022026
Well, it happened.
Despite only finishing 45 games in 2024, I set my 2025 goal for 75 anyway and said I’d consider lowering the next year’s goal if it repeated itself… and last year I finished 47 games.
To be fair, some of those games were massive. My 2025 games included Trails in the Sky the 3rd (60 hours), Fate/Stay Night (67 hours), Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth (90 hours), and The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (90 hours and counting). But since I intend to continue on with Trails this year, not to mention playing the rest of Hundred Line… yeah, I’m setting this year’s goal at 50.
Operation Backlog Completion 2026
If I blast through it after all, maybe I’ll raise it again, but 50 games this year is the plan!
Every year I also name a number of specific games I intend to play, then inevitably carry that list over to the next year. This year I beat 3 of them (Metaphor: ReFantazio, Trails in the Sky the 3rd, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth) and played a solid amount of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (and some of Xenoblade Chronicles X), so I surprisingly did better than usual.
My specific game goals for this year, therefore, are:
- Batman: Arkham Knight (followed by Arkham Origins)
- The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings (followed by The Witcher 3)
- Dragon Quest XI
- Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
- Yooka-Laylee or its remake
- Aurion: Curse of the Kori-Odan
- Dies Irae
- The Great Gaias
- Trails from Zero (followed by Trails to Azure)
- Triangle Strategy
- The Good Life
- Tokyo Xanadu eX+
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Stellar Blade
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
- Nine Sols
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
- Over RequiemZ
- Control Resonant
- Yakuza: Dark Ties
- Danganronpa 2×2
I’ve got my work cut out for me, but you know what? I have a good feeling about my game backlog this year.
Have you set any specific gaming goals for 2026?
My goal is to get through my backlog of games I have already bought… plus Danganronpa 2×2 and maybe some Steam games xD
My current backlog (not counting everything, just the priority games) is:
(In-progress)
– Hundred Line Last Defense Academy
– Baldur’s Gate 3
– Witcher 3
– Date Everything!
– Tiny Book Shop
– Neva
– To a T
– Split Fiction
– Mika and the Witch’s Mountain
(New)
– Raidou Remastered
– No Sleep for Kaname Date
– Shuten Order
– Lost Judgment
– Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo
– Rise of the Golden Idol
– Tangle Tower
– Of The Devil (chapters 0-2)
– Scarlet Hollow (chapter 5)
And… probably some games I am forgetting. I am barely counting my Steam library at all at this point…
Oh and I guess the newest Dave The Diver DLC that includes a Yakuza cameo. I wonder if that’s enough for you to want to play Dave The Diver… The game was a good way to pass the time while I was quarantined with COVID xD
Glad to see Lost Judgment on the list!
Of the Devil is one I want to try eventually, too.
Haha, I don’t think I’ll play Dave the Diver just for Ichiban…
You did a lot! Especially with the length of some of them. My goal is just to play more of my backlog, I keep buying more games but finish less every year. I think I finished three games last year; Fear & Hunger, Green Hell, and Sackboy: A Big Adventure. At least that means my goal is a very easy one.
Enjoy! I want to play Sackboy someday, too.
Thank you. It’s not bad but it’s really short, only taking me 10 hours (though that’s not such a bad thing if you’re low on time), and Sackboy makes some sounds which was a bit off-putting. The music was also a little disappointing since it relies more on samples from famous bits of music more than the other games, so it felt less original. That said, it was more enjoyable than Little Big Planet 3/the other LBP game by Sumo Digital.
Ah, I see. That’s good to know!