So, you want to know even more about me?
Well, this is where you will find everything I consider important about my gaming history.


I've been playing video games for most of my life. If you counted the Windows 95 that I used to share with my siblings, than I have probably been playing games since I was 8 or 9.
I have always thought of my hobby of gaming starting when I was 11 though, becuase that's when I got my first console and actually started buying games instead of just playing what we had.




Most of my life I have played Nintendo games, but have been fond of specific PC games.
It wasn't until I got my first gaming PC that I stopped playing console games as much and mostly started playing PC. Honestly Nintendo has been disappointing me the last few years, but that's a topic that I could go on and on about, so I won't here.
Microsoft and Sony have never really impressed me much with their consoles, especially since most of those games were available on both as well as on PC, but I have always been a fan of Halo and finally now own the Master Chief Collection after 10+ years of wishing I owned it but not wanting to buy an Xbox console just for that.

I have owned many consoles in my lifetime, most of which are Nintendo, and there are very few Nintendo consoles that I haven't owned. Nintendo 64 and GameCube are my 2 favorite from Nintendo, but the Nintendo Wii's motion controls is what opened the door to me becoming very fond of VR later on.




PC games are actually probably what I first started playing out of anything, if I really think about it, but back then computers weren't really used much for gaming yet, since it was the 90's, so I never really considered that the starting of my hobby as gaming until now.

I had a decent number of siblings and my family didn't have a lot of money, so I had to share the computer with my siblings, and it was always a second-hand computer, where as my dad always had the better computer to himself. He was into computers and I looked up to him when I was small, so it only makes sense that I got into computers as well.

Most of the computer that I have owned as a child were second-hand, and none of them had a deticated graphics card(especially becuase deticated graphics cards were just being developed and not used much back then), so most of the games I played were 2D still.
Since I used so many second-hand computers, I've had the chance to use almost every Windows operating system there has been, and I even had a Mac once.

I joined Steam in 2012, according to Steam. I don't actually remember why or how I joined becuase that was so long ago, but it's likely that one of my hometown friends got me to join, and my group of friends from my hometown is the biggest reason why I played games on Steam from 2012 until 2018.

In 2018, I started buying games from the sales, and that's when I first started actually getting into games on Steam. This year though(2020), is when I have been really getting into Steam, by collecting badges, completing achievements, ect.




In 2018, the ugandan knuckles meme caused VRChat to explode in popularity, and many gamers bought VR headsets eventually, becuase they liked VRChat so much. I am one of those gamers, but Beat Saber is what really got me hooked on VR.

I am a "responsible" adult, so I don't get as much time as I would like for gaming, especially VR. But regardless, I still like to play on occasion, as I find that VR helps you live in the moment more than anything else I have tried, and can be very relaxing to visit somewhere else, even if it isn't real.

Also, if you have ever thought VR is just a gimmick, find a way to play any song in Beat Saber on Expert mode without breaking a sweat, then come back and tell me it's a gimmick, I dare you.




I have very simple tastes in games. I honestly don't care how they look, for the most part.
If a game is fun, that's all that really matters to me.

But if I had to say I had a preference in art styles when it comes to games, I prefer more simplistic and sometimes cartoonish games.
Games that try to look realistic, I honestly don't enjoy, unless they are just really fun regardless.

When it comes to genres, I generally enjoy Simulation games, I very often enjoy Sandbox games, I used to* enjoy Clicker games when they are made just right(not too easy, not too short, but not too long), I very rarely prefer games where the storyline is the main focus, and I rarely prefer platformer/side-scrolling games, but I still will play both if they are enjoyable to me.

I only play FPS games when I am in the mood for them, and I can't really stand Visual Novels, sadly. Rarely, but sometimes, I play RPGs and MMOs, but I am very picky about them.




Here are the games I have played the most over the years and have enjoyed, that you can't find on Steam. They are in order from what I played the most to what I played the least.

-Minecraft
-Animal Crossing(the series)
-Sim Theme Park
-Pokemon(the series)
-Super Smash Bros.(the series)
-Starcraft
-WarioWare(the series)
-The Sims(the series before Sims 3)
-Paper Mario(the series)
-Wii Sports
-Banjo Kazooie(the series)
-Nintendo 64 games(GoldenEye, and other N64 games)
-GameCube Games
-Other Wii games
-Really old computer games(Load Runner, Lemmings, ect)

*Clicker games seemed to have been a phase, as I don't wnjoy them much anymore and will eventually stop playing them

For more about me, check out the second custom info box below :D

I have been rating games for as long as Nintendo provided a way for people to do so, on their consoles, which I think started on the Wii if I remember correctly.

2020 is when I really started getting into giving detailed reviews on Steam though, and I am grateful that users can give such detailed reviews on Steam, becuase just rating them isn't satisfying enough, in my opinion.

When I review games, I tend to wait until I have a general understanding of most of the game that I am reviewing. Games that quickly get me to respond either very positively or very negatively tend to get reviewed by me much more quickly than others.

I also make it a rule of thumb to avoid reviewing genres of games that I already know I won't enjoy, because reviewing them won't add anything of value to that game on the store page. And if I know that I won't enjoy it, I also avoid buying it. Visual novels is a good example. The Nekopara demo helped me realize that I don't enjoy visual novels that give you no say in how the story goes, so that will likely be the only visual novel review I ever give. There are other genres and games I stay away from because I don't like them. Those usually include Idle games, rpgs. mmos, and shooter games that are too fast paced for me. There are exceptions to this, but they are very rare.

You would think that clicker games would be a genre that I stay away from because there are bad clicker games out there, but I still play them because I know that a clicker game can be made fun if it's made correctly, but the good ones seem hard to find imo. But I still plan to find them and review all clicker games that I play on the way.(this was written in 2020. as of 2022, I am only playing the clicker games I already have and probably won't be playing new ones as I don't find them as fun anymore. Probably becuase I'm turning into an old person :P)




I grew up playing mostly Nintendo consoles, so I never really had access to the consoles that had achievements, nor Steam. Still, regardless of that I used to try to 100% every game I had by unlocking every unlockable item/feature. This meant that in Animal Crossing I became a hoarder, trying to obtain every item. Thankfully, I don't try to do that in "collectathon" games anymore and generally try to stay away from "collectathons", as I don't enjoy them anymore.

When I got my first gaming PC, Steam eventually started to become the launcher that I played the most games through. So since many games on Steam have achievements, I eventually decided to become an achievement hunter of a certain kind. In 2020 I started achievement hunting in clicker games since those are often the easiest to complete, and I always play clicker games without cheating, unlike many other people who play clicker games. From there I just generally try to get every achievement in games that I enjoy the most.

I am the most proud of the achievements that I earn from 100% skill, ones that you can't get by looking something up or by just playing, such as the Dance Master and Perfect Accuracy achievements from I Hate This Game. I do have to say that I value my time though, so I tend to give shorter games a higher priority when it comes to acheivement hunting. I also tend value games with less acheivements more and give them more priority when it comes to acheivement hunting since games with more acheivements take longer and have less value per acheivement since they have so many.

Starting in 2022 I have decided to make a list of games that feel the most satisfying to unlock acheivements in, becuase they take actual skill, but not ridiculous amounts of skill to do, in my opinion. So far those games are:

-Unrailed!
-I Hate This Game

Something else that I am proud of is the fact that even though I expanded my Rarest Acheivement Showcase, I have now filled it with acheivements that only 1% or less of gamers have gotten. I guess that makes me in the top 1% of gamers in those games lol


Also, Steam doesn't show some completed games if they aren't above a certain popularity threshold. Here is the actual number of games I have completed all acheivements in, regardless of how popular they are: 31




And here are my absolute favorite Steam games in order from how much time I have played them to least amount of time played:
-Civilization V
-Valheim
-Beat Saber
-Unrailed!
-Everything
-The Forest
-Goat Simulator
-Bejeweled 2
-A Hat In Time
-Broken Reality
-Muse Dash
-Stick Fight
-Tower Unite
-Unturned
-Myst


Something to note:
As of June 2023 I've been playing less Steam games temporarily, as I have gotten into Nintendo's Splatoon series. It took me 4 years of owning a Switch to finally get a Switch exclusive game that I actually play on a regular basis. I sometimes wish I had gotten it sooner.



That's pretty much the gaming history of myself. Other than that, I'm generally a friendly person, so if you are ever interested in playing games together, feel free to message me on Discord, my username is Xario1#0716

Or if you want to get notified when I post reviews or just want to chat, you can join my discord server at: https://discord.gg/k5qsX57cTQ

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