@Mort I heard ya, bro 
Alright, I didn’t really make it any easier for myself this year when it comes to taking things easy and to keep the backlog as small as can be, in fact, the exact opposite. 
This year I bought:
October 2025
- Like a Dragon
- Akimbot
- SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom
- Battlefield 6
September 2025
(Received as gift,but is backlog)
- Return to Moria
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- Borderlands 4
- The Quarry
- House of Ashes
- Final Fantasy XVI
- My memory of Us
- Jitsu Squad
- Oceanhorn 2
- Creepy Tale: Ingrid Penance
- Creepy Tale: Some Other Place
- The Mildew Children
- Everspace 2
- Slime Rancher 2
August 2025
- Oceanhorn
- Flipping Death
- The last Campfire
- Nobody wants to Die
- Beyond a steel Sky
- Speedbrawl
- Mafia ToC
- Powerwash Simulator’s DLCs (all paid ones)
- New World
- Middle Earth: Shadow of War
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint
- Dead Island 2 Expansion Pass
- Yesterday Origins
- Murder Mystery Machine
Yes, August and September was like a declaration of war on my backlog, haha.
July 2025
- Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- Mega Man X Legacy Collection
- Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2
- Mega Man 11
- Ready or Not
June 2025
- Weird West
- Blacktail
- The Eternal Cylinder
- Mafia 2 DE
- Tiny Tina Wonderlands
April 2025
- Mayhem Brawler
March 2025
- Monster Hunter Wilds
February 2025
- Onimusha Warlords
January 2025
- Scott Pilgrim
- Three Asterix and Obelix games
- River City Girls Zero
- River City Girls
- AI: The Somnium Files: TNI
Of all these I’ve finished River City Girls, Tiny Tina Wonderlands, Mafia 2 DE, Oceanhorn.
Now playing/juggling between :
Flipping Death, Powerwash Simulator, Little Nightmares 2, Borderlands 4, SpongeBob.
Some of those are beat em ups that I solely play when my nephews visit me and if I see those in the sales I grab those.
And of course PLENTY in the backlog from 2024 and several years before that too. 
Aaaah yes, gaming is good!
When does all of this get finished?
