Your Gaming Backlog(s)

[Mr EliteL]

It's been almost 9 months since my post and haven't touched anything on my list apart from the first Agarest, game in the list, but that may have been just before or after I typed it out. Can't remember when in April I played. Oh and progressed Genshin (of course) whilst adding on a third account which is at roughly the same place my second was at in the list at the time (Inazuma archon quest to do). Also realised I have a fourth playthrough of Dragon's Dogma on my PS4, so...

Oyyy~ 

@ShiraNoMai Ooh another long list to wait for, oh boy!

[Dragon Lord]

I can at least say that I've made very minimal progress in my backlog the last few months. Finishing up Bravely Default and Bravely Second on my 3DS, and currently progressing through Ghost of Tsushima on PS4 (hasn't been on the ol' backlog nearly as long, but hey, still progress).

I hope to get through quite a bit of my 3DS backlog here, since there's no longer any more games coming out for it, at least I know that if I can get through all of the games I have for my 3DS, then that's the end of the line. Though I do need to decide if I want to pick up some of the games I skipped on previously, like Pokemon Sun/Moon and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, and a few others.

[Moonface]

You could make a "want to start" list, perhaps, to segregate the lists of ones you one and don't yet.

Also, things like Sunshine and Galaxy - are those dependent on my availability to join you? If so, we should get back into playing/beating it.

True. Not sure if I'll write that sort of list or not though since that feels more like writing a wishlist of games I want to get but limited only to those already released. XD

As for the two Mario games, yes, same as Kingdom Battle. Although at the same time I forgot about the two Mario games until I was looking at my last backlog list in here.

[Moonface]

I was originally going to ask @Dragon Lord this in their Ask Me thread but remembered we have this and figured why not pitch the question to the entire audience instead?

So, what game has sat in your backlog for the longest amount of time? Doesn't have to be a game still in your backlog btw, in the event you had one and cleared it, or had a game sitting for a long time but finally got around to it one day.

Nier: Replicant might be the longest backlogged game for me? I see I posted about it being in my backlog as not started in January 2023 and I still haven't so much as touched it. Bastion is technically longer though, but that's for the Nintendo Switch version because I have played the game before. I doubt I'll care to actually play it on Switch unless I'm using it on a long flight or something, so I'll still view Replicant as my actual longest backlogged game (at least in my current backlog since I might have had something sit in my backlog longer than that has that I don't remember right now).

[ShiraNoMai]

Xenoblade Chronicles. I put 40 hours in a little over 10 years ago, put it down, started over when the remake came out for Switch but that only got me an hour or two in, and stopped. Has to be the longest running one for me.
The rest of the Halo series is in my backlog. I played all of 1, was in the middle of 2, then there's 3-5 and Reach, and possibly ODST. That's not been in my backlog for long, tbf, just over a year ago I last was playing it.

[Mr EliteL]

*sobs* I...can't add to my list I just can't but there is certainly more since then.

Actually it's come to a point where many games in my True Backlog I've accepted I'm never going to return to. I really need to hurry up and look through my physical games and get rid of those I know I don't want, I still haven't. Also the list can be reduced a fair amount because I will remove things I have completed the main story but not 100% the game because I'm not someone who goes out their way to and shouldn't try and force it in the back of my mind, unless it's a game I'm still quite passionate about. (not sure which yet until I attempt the list, if I ever do)

This is one game I won't return to but The Simpsons Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror (GBC, which I played on GBA) was probably the first proper game I had intention to try and complete. I basically got stuck within the first day of playing it, tried to go back and complete the level I was stuck on multiple times, where I had to repeat the first two levels to get to because there was no save file then gave up. Then I just went "some day...some day I shall get past it". Nah.

For a game I still intend to finish...probably Izuna The Unemployed Ninja (DS). I'm near the end of game with a final dungeon or two with a boss or two to beat, the same place it was at from my '22 post. There was a number of games I got way after it's release though, this was one of them so there could be a different game I've had longer just can't tell which.

[Dragon Lord]

Digging this topic out of its grave because I actually started working on some of my backlog finally. I just recently started the game Mind Zero on the Vita, that I've had sealed since 2013 when it originally released. It's been waiting a long, long time to get played and I decided that 2025 was finally the year it would get what it was waiting for.

I've also been cleaning up some unfinished games. Completed the 100% for Bastion and Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity on Steam today. Figured it's a good time to do some clean up since there's only 10 days until Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster comes out, so I don't want to start anything new that will be a significant time sink.

[Mr EliteL]

My Switch list has extended unfortunately. Games I didn't think would get into my backlog are in there. Like the PMTTYD remake...ugh. Thought I'd have Triangle Strategy as an ongoing game but nope, not played my Switch for a long while again. I haven't really bought much or any PS5 games to add though which is good.

[Kyng]

Mine is a bit long - so, I'll just post a few highlights :

• Jurassic World Evolution - Got it for Christmas in 2018. Played it once, and thought it was OK - but never truly got into it. I haven't given the game a proper chance TBH; I intend to at some point.
  
• Sim City 4 - Got it a couple of years ago, when it was free or heavily reduced. Haven't played it yet, because I haven't had a good idea for a city I could build.
  
• ARK Survival Evolved - Got it on sale a year or so ago. Looks like a game I would enjoy - but I haven't got around to playing it yet.
  
• Impossible Creatures - Ditto.
  
• Kerbal Space Program - Ditto.
  
• Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - One of my friends spent a month insisting I get this game. In the end, I got it just to shut him up - but I never played it, because I was already soured against it at that point.
  

There are other games I've never played (or haven't played enough to have given them a proper chance), but those are the most notable ones .

Three years on, I still haven't played any of these   . I don't have as much time for games as I used to - and when I do, I usually stick to my old favourites!

Anyway, we can now add Chants of Sennaar to this. I got it in the Steam Summer Sale, and still haven't played it  .