It’s about time we catch up on our next one hundred game completions that I managed to take on here at the Croakitoad channel live on Twitch! How many of these amazing game completions and runs were you there for to watch live as they happened? While the last batch of games featured a lot of indy horror games during the first Croaktober event in October, this batch of games featured a lot more AAA horror game titles during that event, as you’ll see further down on this list. We tackled a lot of great main single player games and a lot of cooperative fun runs as well. We were pretty much all over the place for our next batch of hundred completions as we just try to tackle games left and right and really begin to start padding our completion count up here on the channel! Let’s dive right in here and get to the bottom of our completions to the big 200 completed mark!

#101: Erica
It’s our first game on the list, post 100 big completions on the new Croakitoad channel, and we’re diving into an FMV game featured on the PlayStation 4. This was an interesting game with a lot of twists and turns when it comes to the story. It really left you wondering all the way to the finish line. Not a hard completion at all, but featured a lot of different paths and endings you can take, which was a lot of fun. I am kind of a sucker for FMV type games, so this was a fun one to tack onto the list since we hadn’t really traveled down this road quite yet.

#102: What Remains of Edith Finch
We keep on the PlayStation 4 bandwagon and just keep that train on rolling through. We play another modern day game that could be considered a walking simulator, with a really deep story fixated on the family of Edith Finch and her ancestors. This tragic tale keeps us walking onwards as we try to figure out what the punchline is to the entire thing and find out that there’s a lot of tragic loss and horrible events that have taken place throughout the Finch family over the years. This one tackles mental health and real world issues in a way I haven’t played before, and it’s a real reality punch. At least we’re giving the PlayStation 4 some real good loving in our first two games into this run.

#103: The Order: 1886
This was one I had never played before, and I had heard a lot of people talking about it, but it just kind of quickly disappeared after the PlayStation 4 was out for a while. I had always wondered what this game was all about and why it just died so suddenly. It’s not a bad game, and brought a lot of ideas to the table. I can see why it kind of faltered and went away silently after a while, but that didn’t stop me from wanting to try it out for myself and further expand on some of the exclusives you’d only find on the PlayStation 4 console. Looking back, I didn’t realize just how stuck on that console I was when I was breaking into the 100 mark on game completions. Let’s keep it going then, shall we?

#104: Heavy Rain
Well hey, why not? When you think of Sony PlayStation console exclusives from the modern day, Heavy Rain should be one of the games at the top of the list. At least, until they started releasing games like this on PC/Steam here in recent years at the time of this article! Might as well jump right into Heavy Rain and get this one tackled out too while we’re on the PlayStation kick and get to the bottom of the Origami Killer! I had already played this one before, but it was fun to revisit and also completely and utterly break the game in the mall at the beginning of the game. One of the really wild moments I can remember from this time, lol.

#105: Trine
We’re five games in, and we’re finally off of that PlayStation theme after the events ending from Heavy Rain. This time around, we have a first time playthrough of Trine alongside my friends Zazzeris and Ashterial in this three-player mystical puzzler game. There’s also a sequel that we still haven’t played yet as of the writing of this article, but this game was good fun for a night as we tried to figure out how to maneuver through level after level utilizing our three characters’ skills to advance ourselves through the game. I can see why a lot of people like this game, and is surprisingly our first foray into the PC/Steam world on this list!

#106: Torchlight
I don’t think the following game also starting with the letter “T” has anything to do with the order of these games being played at all, but moreso that Trine reminded me that I really needed to play Torchlight for the first time and get through this single player game so that I can play the sequel and do it in coop alongside some friends! This was a fun Diablo-like that has a cool feature like adding a cat or a dog to adventure with you and retrieve and gather items for you. This isn’t a bad game if you are looking for something like Diablo but is a bit on the lite side of it. This is also a great addition to the variety on the list of games, so I was happy to play through this one to the finish line and add some more action RPG games to the list.

#107: Life is Strange: Before the Storm
We’re back to the world of Life is Strange, and checking out the story of Chloe as she enters her friendship with Rachel Amber and the events that follow. This is a prequel of sorts to the original Life is Strange game, and was the first time I had ever played this. This was a lot of fun to see what happens and all of the events leading up to the main game that I had already played, so this was a welcome addition to the lineup and another fun completion to take part in. I was happy to have continued the story, because it seems as though Life is Strange moves away from the same characters with the second game in the series.

#108: Serena
You’re locked inside a cabin and cannot escape, and can’t really remember the events leading to your enclosed situation either. As you meander around the inside of the cabin trying to remind yourself of events from the past mostly involving your wife, you find out that things aren’t as peachy as you might have remembered. By the time you get to the bottom of the mystery and figure out what’s going on, it might already be too late for you! This was an interesting addition to the lineup, as we’re diving deep into the Steam indy game library at this point, but I had played this one before and knew I wanted to tack it up onto the list. This game is rather short, as I was able to completed it in under an hour, but still a thriller for those having their first experience.

#109: They Breathe
This is another quickie completion here, as you are a frog diving deep into the underwater depths as you try to help your fellow froggies get out and escape to the surface. There are weird jellyfish monsters trying to attack and kill you, while attaching themselves to your frog brethren. Obviously, we needed to take this game down and get to the bottom of it just for the frog theme, but this was another example of diving into the ‘ole Steam library and getting another quick one knocked out. In fact, I’m pretty sure that this game was taken out in the same night as a few of these other completions.

#110: Dear Esther
We’re ten games deep now, and definitely in the weeds when it comes to our Steam library. I have no doubt in my mind that this bundle of games were all completed in the same night. In this particular tale, we are purely in the middle of a walking simulator, and actually the very first game to ever be dubbed that, if I recall correctly. I remember walking through this game while listening to all of the developer commentary and finding it all interesting. The game itself is visually pretty, as you are trying to figure out what all’s going on. At the very end of your peaceful journey on this isolated island, you find out that things aren’t exactly fun and games and ends on a pretty awful note. Yikes.

#111: DLC Quest
From the very beginning, this was going to be a completion that gets put on the list, it was just a matter of time before DLC Quest showed up. This was not my first time going through it, so I knew how quick this game could get put down. This game is actually quite good fun, as it mocks a lot of the video game universe like adding DLC and color to the video game, and even color. I’ve never played the sequel to this at the time of this article, but I really need to get around to doing that. This is a pretty common go-to game when it comes to trying to finish games off really quickly, so it’s surprising it took 111 games to get there, but also shows that I haven’t really been in a hurry to scratch off games to get where I’m trying to go.

#112: Sniper Elite V2 (w/ ClosingSniper)
We finally step out of the magical world of my Steam library and head onto the Xbox One, where we team up with ClosingSniper in our first game on the list to tackle the first Sniper Elite game on the list! This was good fun to snipe out nazis left and right through the campaign, which didn’t take that long, to be honest. I was so used to sniping nazi zombies in these games that I forgot that the main games are actually serious World War II games where you are trying to win the good ‘ole war! There was one particularly funny glitch where a nazi spawned right in front of me as I was coming down some stairs. I remember that one pretty fondly!

#113: Spec Ops: The Line
Back to PC again and we get to begin this game I had owned for a while, but never had the pleasure of playing. We finally get to the bottom of this single player campaign (and also playing the very short co-op campaign with Cokesodacan), and realize that this game is your average FPS military shooter that takes place in an alternate Dubai, but has an interesting plot twist at the very end of the game. It really leaves you wondering about the rest of the game leading up to the events at the game’s ending. That was pretty unique and interesting for an FPS game that I thought was just going to be another military shooter. Clever way of changing it all up right at the end!

#114: Borderlands (w/ Zazzeris, Ashterial & Cokesodacan)
Our first major cooperative game in this batch of games! While we did get to do the two player coop campaign back during Sniper Elite V2, the very first Borderlands in our list and the original game features four player support! We took full advantage of this, even if Zazzeris wasn’t feeling to well in terms of playing the game and we carried through to the finish line, taking down the final boss and also finishing out all of the attached DLC’s with the game! It’s always a fun time to run through Borderlands and meet Moxxi for the first time in her first DLC. I look forwards to playing the rest of the games in the Borderlands series, many of which I have actually never played before! Looking forwards to more cooperative gameplay in the Borderlands series!

#115: Blameless
This marks the beginning of Croaktober 2021! Blameless is our first game up on the list, as we meet up with a guy at a house for sale, but quickly realize things are not what they seem and there is now a man trying to kill us as we try to get out. All the doors are locked and sealed, and we can’t seem to jump high enough to get over the fences. There are dead bodies here. Try not to panic as we try to find a solution and get out of this mess! This is a pretty fun, albeit short, horror indy game that was fun to play to get us kickstarted into the month of October!

#116: EVIL
Okay, I’m really surprised this game didn’t make the cut in the first annual Croaktober. I’m actually surprised that I left this one out the first time around, but here we are. This is a really… odd… game. I’m surprised it was even ever actually released. In fact, you can’t even find it anymore on Steam and you can only get it by going to abandonware websites apparently. I’m not sure why you’d even want to look this game up, though. The translation on one of the puzzles is absolutely incorrect, and the loud screeching sounds that occur will completely blow your eardrums out. It was a fun game to play as a meme for horror month, but that’s about it.

#117: Fingerbones
Compared to the last game, this is one of the most grounded horror games ever created, and this one is about a father trying to unravel the events of his children’s demise while locked inside a bunker. Then, you find that really weird, hidden room at the very bottom of the bunker you are inside. Oh yeah, so there’s where the child went. Oopsies. This was another short horror story of a game, but at least it had the quality there of being a pretty fun and short horror experience compared to the complete insanity of the previous game.

#118: My Bones
I’m pretty sure to kick of Croaktober 2021, I just decided to install most of the really short horror indy games I had on my list and just plow through them to introduce us into what becomes a really great month of horror video games. I remember this game being really dark and being really confused about what was going on. I think I even glitched the game out at one time and had to restart all the way over, but I can’t fully remember. This is another one of those indy games that you can play and just completely forget about after a while. I don’t remember much here.

#119: Please
I thought we’d break through this block of pretty bad Steam indy horror games, but as I see this game pop up on the list, I actually do remember breaking this game and having to restart. I also remember the game being really dark and you couldn’t really see things that well, and being lost. A lot. I had to resort to a guide on this one I believe because the answer just wasn’t obvious at all. I think I found this one to be annoying. Just another tick to the completions list. I almost regret adding and counting these games on my completions list, but they are (were?) officially listed on Steam, so we are going to count them.

#120: The Cursed Forest
Okay, we’re getting somewhere now. This was a REALLY visually appealing game. The story was a bit hard to follow, and involved you walking around the forest trying to unravel all of the events surrounding the forest. There was also a creature running after you and trying to kill you, then befriend you, then try and kill you again. A bit confusing on the story taking place here, but I’ll go back to the game being really visually stunning. That’s the biggest thing I remember about this one. It was a fun experience to just walk through the forest while being completely confused about what all was going on.

#121: The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
I actually do remember this game, as you enter the insane asylum and try to find your child who was placed there. She is trying to tell you about the Hat Man, an evil spirit who begins chasing you throughout the building and if it touches you, you’re dead. You’ve got to find all of the items to advance the story while other ghosts also start chasing you around. It’s pretty simple in the Slenderman approach, but the story is easily understood and it’s just running around trying to collect items before you get touched. Pretty easy to avoid the ghosts coming after you, honestly.

#122: Neverending Nightmares
This was another one that was eventually going to get played, as I had played through the game before and knew just how much of a mindfuck it truly is. There are a lot of really disturbing things taking place in this game as you meander around the giant mansion trying to find your family? Ghosts and monsters are looming about and all you’ve got is this candle as you light your way from room to room getting to the bottom of the story. A lot of really psychological horror bits to this one, as well as gruesome scenes to sort yourself through. Obviously, the art style is the biggest takeaway from this game, as it really is a rarity in the way it is presented even through all of the murder and gore.

#123: Palmyra Orphanage
I remember thinking this game looked really cool and was really hoping for a big breakthough when it comes to horror gaming. You know, with a juicy story and a fun horror experience. I remember walking away from this game thinking it was kind of like that, but just lacking a bit. I’m not even really sure what all takes place in this game, but I do remember you are looking for your brother and that he went missing inside this abandoned orphanage and you begin to unravel the horrific events that used to take place there before it went out of business. Not good things, I tell you.

#124: Security Booth
This might actually be the first Itch.io game on my list, coming in at number 124! This is a super simple game where you are standing in a security booth allowing cars to come in or leave the premises. Really strange things begin occuring and ends in a series of two different endings for you, depending on some of the choices you made during the few cars that you’ve let through or not. I found this game to be a bit disturbing, but really cool for what it was. A rather short game, but I wasn’t expecting much either. This was super short, but was a fun experience from what all has been played so far in the 2021 Croaktober event.

#125: Sonic.EXE
This one had actually been requested for me to play during Croaktober 2021, so here we are. There’s not really much to say about this game, other than the fact that you are walking around as Sonic and then lots of creepy and horrifying things happen to our childhood mascot that would never happen in an actual Sega property. This happens a few times, with some really horrific scenes of gore and violence. I can see how some people might be scarred by this type of things, or even jumpscared. I’ve been desensitized for so long that I just found this to be kind of funny, more than anything.

#126: Summer of ’58
There was a lot of controversy surrounding this game, but I can’t really remember what all the fuss was about. It had something to do with the developer losing a lot of money on the game because they got a bad deal after the fact, or something or other. I remember playing this game finding it to be actually quite enjoyable for a horror game, and had a few jumpscares actually. It had an interesting story to it, and actually got me a few times in terms of the scary moments. If anyone ever says the game is bad, I’m not really sure what they are talking about, because trust me, if you’ve been reading along here, I’ve played some bad games. Summer of ’58 is definitely not in the same category as some of these other gems I’ve played for Croaktober 2021.

#127: Uventa
I had this game on my Steam library for ages, and remember counting down the days to Croaktober so that I could finally install this game and finally try it out for myself. The reviews were kind of mixed at the time and that’s kind of what got my interest. It’s just a game you don’t really ever hear anything about unless you really deep dive into it. In this one, you are a security guard working overnight at an abandoned school or some sort, and lots of wild, horrific things start happening on your shift. A madman starts chasing you and wanting to kill you, for example. It’s an interesting take, and has a lot of running and item collecting. Another example of a game that wasn’t really that bad. I don’t remember it breaking or bugging out on me, and while it wasn’t visually stunning or anything, it ran well and served its purpose.

#128: Blair Witch
Ah yes, the Bloober Team’s efforts at bringing the Blair Witch to the forefront! This is the game where !thereitis hails from, an infamous soundbyte that always seems to get airtime anytime the stream is live! This game is really confusing and hard to follow, but I suppose such is to be expected when it comes to the Blair Witch universe. I remember being on the edge of my seat, ready to be scared out of my wits at the end of the game, only to be kind of let down by the ending. The game in itself is really wants to make something out of itself, but I feel like it just kind of falls flat before it can hit you with anything really epic. Other than Bullet going down, I can’t really remember any big moments from the playthrough.

#129: Layers of Fear
We’re starting to crack into the good stuff for Croaktober 2021, I can tell. The really bad indy Steam stuff seems to be probably behind us here, as we get deeper into the month of October 2021. Layers of Fear is a great one, and nothing bad can really be said about it. It’s just one of those games that really hits on all cylinders when it comes to the horror genre, and gets it right. Visually, it’s really good, and it tackles the visual mind game effects really, really well! One of the best games to do it that I’ve ever played, in fact. Turning around, only to turn around again and have the entire room change. That type of stuff. It’s really good, I’m glad that Layers of Fear made the cut this time around. We’re starting to counter the bad with the good here.

#130: Silver Chains
You are in a creepy old mansion, which has all the great aesthetic of my favorite game of all time: Resident Evil. It was fun traversing through the entire thing and exploring all the areas to explore throughout the place, while supernatural things are happening all around you. I have to be honest that outside of that, I don’t really remember much of this game. I remember the story trying to get you suckered in, and that’s great. However, I feel like the game was somewhat forgettable. I seem to recall there being some sort of supernatural powers in the game as well, but I just don’t remember enough about this experience to really comment about it.

#131: A Place, Forbidden
This game is weird. Really weird. It’s like Silent Hill if you played on really old school graphics. The storyline is really odd and hard to follow, but the visuals are obviously what make this game. Just a lot of really weird and unappealing things tied together in horrific elements as you progress through the game. It’s one of those pixelated horror games, but it just has freaky deaky environments as you move through the game, changing the landscape as you progress further in. Pretty puzzly, too.

#132: Black Rose
It’s funny going from something like Layers of Fear to this, but at least Black Rose isn’t super terrible. You are in a funeral parlor all by yourself, locked in and trying to get to the bottom of the events taking place here. You will be chased by a series of different ghosts at random times while you collect notes for lore and key items to help you advance through the story and get from room to room through the parlor. You’ll end up in a basement and in a secret area of the building where you’ll have to run for your life. I remember the only annoying part is climbing up a ladder and having to spam the mouse buttons and it being really finicky on escaping in time.

#133: The Designer’s Curse
This horror game did have some pretty fun moments, but really just involved you running away from two different kinds of monsters if they spot you. You just basically have to avoid them and stealth your way to the finish line. This was a game listed under Steam’s free to play games, so I just went ahead and went with it just to give that full variety feel during Croaktober 2021. If you can figure out what to do, and know when to do it, you can pretty much just get through this game pretty easily. You can’t really complain about a free game though, so we did it just for the full experience.

#134: Greetings
This “game” has the pleasure of probably being the shortest game ever recorded at Croakitoad. I didn’t really know what to expect when I first launched this, other than being inside a UFO and expecting there to be aliens chasing after you or trying to kill you or something. When you get to the end of the four minute experience, you’ll quickly understand that this was just all one big setup. I felt really trolled at first, but the more I think about it, and now looking back on this experience, I think it’s pretty damn funny. It makes me wonder just how many other people fell for it just like I did. Well done!

#135: Haunted Gas Station
This experience was a mixed bag. I believe this was another free game on Steam, so I had no idea what to expect going on, especially after being trolled in the last game. I remember playing through this a few times just to get to the bottom of the game and not giving up to get to those credits! I wanted this to count as an actual completion on the channel, and I did just that! The people in livestream chat on Twitch were not amused by this game, but I was not going to let up! We actually finished this game after figuring out what to do, even as corny as this game ended up being. Just your typical scary monster trying to catch you while you are at a gas station.

#136: Jack is Missing
God, I don’t remember playing this many games that I remember so badly in hindsight. This must have been a free to play Steam horror game block or something, because I really don’t remember it being this many games. I thought Layers of Fear was going to break the mold and head into more prominent territory, but I guess I was wrong. In this game, you are trying to figure out what happened to your friend Jack while you are in a hotel room. Suddenly, things start going crazy and scary things start happening. The ending of the game is a complete twist and well it’s just another Steam indy horror game. We finished it.

#137: Kraven Manor
This was a pretty visually appealing game, so I had high hopes for it. It does have some scary elements to it involving some dummies and other mannequins that will approach you when you aren’t looking at them. Probably the most iconic part of this game is the ability to take little manor pieces and twist and turn them on the puzzle block to change the environment of the actual manor you are playing in. I’ve never quite played anything like that, and that was pretty fun to mess with. This was definitely on a higher playing field than some of the other games I’ve recently played on this list, and a welcome addition to the horror block during Croaktober 2021.

#138: Rhome
In this Steam indy game, you are coming home to a pretty insane house that only one of those high tech architects would ever try to produce and live in. You are roaming (get it?) around your super wacky house, trying to figure out where everybody’s at and why you are home alone. That’s when it dawns upon you that maybe not all is as they seem. That means that something is wrong with you, and that you might not have remembered when it happened. Some psychological mind games take place in the game as you advance further into the story, and then it just hits you right at the end the huge plot twist and climax. This was pretty fun for what it was, and the house was pretty fun to look around in.

#139: The Walking Dead: Season One
Finally, we’re grounded! Hopefully from here on out, we can get to some really good AAA horror titles for Croaktober 2021! I mean, I know I was trying to tackle all sides of the spectrum and really bring some variety to the table when it comes to horror, but I’m ready to get to some juicy titles, and this here’s one! Follow the story of Lee and Clementine in the game that kickstarted it all for The Walking Dead in gaming and brought Telltale Games truly to the front of the table! This one is always a pleasure to play through, no matter how many times you go about it. The story might always end up, tragically, the same, but the journey getting there is always fun to take part in! Really happy to have included this on the list for Croaktober 2021!

#140: The Ritual on Weylyn Island
Okay, we’re back here again. Honestly thought, this game wasn’t too bad. It’s just not the AAA title that I was expecting I would have started turning to since I’m gonna guess we’re about halfway into the month of October 2021 by this rate. This game was alright, with some interesting dynamics and the graphics weren’t all that bad. The story was pretty unique in the sense that you are stranded on an island, trying to find people that you grew up with but now everybody’s either missing, or completed weirded out. I didn’t mind this as much as some of the other games in the lineup here lately, so that’s okay. I’ll give this one a pass (in a good way) because I don’t really remember anything that set me off while playing the game.

#141: Slender Hentai Edition
We’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one, aren’t we? This is your typical Slenderman game where you’ve gotta find all the appropriate items in the woods before he comes and catches you. The catch here is that the things you are collecting are a bunch of anime pages blown all over the scary woods. As you collect more, he becomes more agitated that you’ve collected his personal stash and he gets really angry. I was able to beat this twice in this video, I believe with two separate scenarios included in the game. For some reason, this video has some of my biggest views on my YouTube account. I wonder why?

#142: Grave of the Petrified (Steam VR)
This is the first VR game on the list! Wonderful! I remember this game being super short and mostly just being trapped inside a cave with monuments to Medusa, and that’s exactly what comes for you as you step further into the area! Medusa literally slithers towards you in VR, wanting to devour your soul! You must turn around, run around obstacles and get the hell out before you die and game over. That’s literally all there is to the game, but I am pretty sure this game was free on Steam so I won’t complain much about it. The experience was actually pretty fun to experience in VR, and seeing Medusa from that point of view was pretty bad ass, so I’ll take this one as a win!

#143: Test Subject 901 (Steam VR)
This is another Steam VR game that was a pretty short experience, but this one actually jump scared me all to hell. I remember getting rocked a few times by the giant monster.. alien? Test subject? Whatever the thing was that is actively trying to hunt you down and kill you. It immediately just launches itself at you and in VR it’s a pretty frightening experience. I totally recommend this game to anyone looking for a short horror experience but wants to really get jumpscared. I remember this game fondly because it was really the first time I had ever been scared on multiple occasions in VR and I absolutely loved it. I’ll always remember this game!

#144: Clock Tower (1995)
The original Clock Tower that started it all! I’m glad to see this one pop up on the list! If you know what to do, or you are using a map to know where the rooms are, this can be a pretty quick experience. I clocked (get it?) this game in under two hours, but I was using a map to help me figure out where all of the monotonous rooms in the giant Barrows Mansion are all located. The ending of this game is a complete twist and a mindfuck as you get to the bottom of what’s hidden in the depths of the mansion. Poor Jennifer has absolutely seen some shit after this experience, and depending on which ending you got and how you went about your experience, she also saw a bunch of death all around her. This is an all-time classic and a gem, even as an old timey point and click side scrolling experience.

#145: Resident Evil: Revelations
Resident Evil has finally showed back up on our list, but we’ve got a double header on our hands here, I guess to make up for the lack of it showing up earlier in the month for Croaktober 2021! Resident Evil Revelations is definitely not my favorite Resident Evil, but it was fun to just replay through again and just remember a lot of the things I forgot about. The side characters in this game are all forgettable and really annoying, but it’s fun to see Chris and Jill doing what they do best in this scenario. The storyline itself is just kind of a forgettable experience and I really didn’t like the direction they were starting to take Resident Evil at this time, so this game is just a big blur of meh to me. However, it needed to be done for the channel and I guess it was fun to at least bring in some Resident Evil for the month.

#146: Resident Evil Zero
Here we go! Now we’re talking! Some good ‘ole classic Resident Evil. It might be zero, but compared to a lot of the games I’ve had to cover on this list lately, this is a wonderful breath of fresh air. It might not be the best Resident Evil or one of my favorites, but it hits close to home more than anything else so far. Rebecca and Billy’s adventure as the prequel to the original Resident Evil is a fun experience, even if a lot of things were changed around to benefit the “dual character” situation you have to play with through the duration of the game. I, like many others, would love to see this game get remastered for the current day with an option for co-op support for the second character. I think this would be an immediate best seller if they added that function to this game, honestly. Let’s see it, Capcom!

#147: The 7th Guest
When the little boy’s name in this name is called Tad, knowing how rare of a name that is, you know that this game has a place in my heart. Somewhere… around where the puzzles aren’t super annoying and hearing Stauf go on about being dead before I solve things not getting stuck in my head. Let’s be honest, this is a classic and a great game to remember for the horror genre, but the puzzles could have been better. Don’t get me started on the slurp puzzle, either. That thing’s just damn impossible. At least we made it through the game with limited Stauf remarks and made our way into the attic to find out what happened to our good pal Tad!

#148: Goosebumps: The Game
We’re almost halfway through our list here for the article and inching our way to that 200th game completion mark, but obviously we’re still in the month of October as Goosebumps comes our way next. This game had been sitting in my Steam library for ages, and I figured it was about time to finally play through it. Apparently this game is also on the Xbox One with achievements, and they aren’t that bad to net. In this particular run, I didn’t really care about anything in particular, but just wanted to play it blind for the first time and just get to the ending without missing too much. I found the game to be pretty alright, with lots of R.L. Stein’s throwbacks and references tucked away here and there. It’s a fine game for what it is, and that’s basically just a point and click adventure game.

#149: Castlevania
The original Castlevania is hard as balls, so don’t be surprised that I was utilizing save states here, okay? Towards the end of the game, the medusa heads and the little flea guys are just absolutely unbearable. Trying to fight Death and then move on to Dracula is just a ridiculous notion to me, unless you are just spending countless hours on the game or a world class speedrunner or something. Honestly though, Dracula is kind of a pushover compared to some of the earlier levels in the game and all the spammage that takes place. The death fight probably is the worst in the entire game for me. However, you can’t really have a horror month and not include Castlevania into the discussion, so here we are. I plan on really diving deep into this franchise in the year of 2023, so be on the lookout for lots of Castlevania madness to come.

#150: Silent Hill 2
We’re halfway in! We’ve made it! And what an excellent game to have in our halfway mark through this article of games! An incredible masterpiece by any fan of horror games that would tell you this sits at the top of anyone’s list. And, I did it on the HD Collection with new voices! Kappa! Honestly though, this game is just an overall favorite and you just can’t get enough of it. Pyramid Head makes his first ever showing in this game, the story with Angela and Maria are just so well done and the music. Man, the music is just incredible. Silent Hill was really starting to hit its stride when this game first came out, and looking back this is just a masterpiece of video gaming history. I’m really glad to see this game pop up on the list for us here, almost like a badge of honor.

#151: Visage
We’ve broken past the halfway mark and still in the month of October 2021. Up next, we head to modern day gaming and play Visage, a game that had recently been released at the time of me streaming this. A lot of fanfare surrounded this game back at that time, and a lot of people wanted to see me stream and play this, so here we are. Overall, I thought the game was pretty good with lots of scary moments and jumps included. I really don’t want to compare this to Silent Hill 2, but it’s really hard when that was the previous game that had been played. Visage was alright for a modern day indy horror game, and it had its moments, but I felt confused by the story a lot of the time and was stuck on where to go a lot, despite all of the short character stories taking place in small confines for the most part.

#152: Dead Space
Oh yeah! Now we’re cooking, baby! Dead Space is one of my all time favorite games of all time, and I can’t really understand why this game did not make the cut the previous year during October. What the heck happened?! Either way, Isaac Clarke hits the USG Ishimura in a way that I’ll never forget as long as I am a gamer. This game, like Silent Hill 2, is a complete masterpiece. I absolutely love the original Dead Space and cannot play it enough. This is as evident as me coming back in 2023 to play this game on impossible difficulty just to celebrate the remake’s release! This game will always hold a true spot in my heart and I’ll always consider this one of my all time favorites.

#153: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
This game certainly has its moments, and I would actually consider this game probably one of the very first (if not the first) true indy horror game to really break out and hit the public in a big way. I remember when this game first came out of nowhere for everybody and just exploded onto the scene, and it wasn’t from any kind of giant publisher or corporation or anything. This game really brought it when it comes to escaping from the monster trying to chase you down and kill you, and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. I am really glad I tagged this into Croaktober 2021, because Amnesia has to go down within that list of horror games being completed. Again, you can’t really have a set piece of horror games without having Amnesia included on that list.

#154: Condemned: Criminal Origins
I am actually pretty dumbfounded how this game also didn’t make the cut the first time around. Condemned is one of those games that I think of first when it comes to horror gaming outside of the realm of Resident Evil and Silent Hill, so how did this game get pushed back to the second year of Croaktober? I don’t really know what happened there, but I’ll have to go back and see how everything panned out the first year and I’m sure there is a good reasoning for it. That just makes the second batch of games that much great with a title like this tacked on the list. Bart’s Department Store is an all-time instant classic in gaming history for me, and this game just gives me so many good memories of beginning my Xbox 360 gamerscore journey. This was such a good time for me as a gamer and this game is really a good one, even if the plot and story can be confusing as hell.

#155: Among the Sleep
It’s actually kind of funny that this game rounds everything out of all things. I mean, I can think of a ton of games to start wrapping up October and this game just happens to be there. I think I was probably trying to knock out as many games that I had previously played that I could, and this game just ended up being at the right place at the right time. This game’s story is actually quite interesting and not like anything else I’ve ever played before. You play as a young boy trying to escape the monster trying to kill you with the help of your friend teddybear. Come to find out, the giant monster chasing you and trying to hurt you hits a little closer to home than you are probably expecting and really hits home when you get to the ending. Really interesting game and plot, and not a pushover, just not something I’d expect to start wrapping up my Croaktober 2021.

#156: Resident Evil 4 (VR)
And here we go, the game that wraps up Croaktober 2021! This is certainly a way to lock things in and send it home, playing the all-time classic Resident Evil on VR through the Oculus Quest 2 for the first time ever! This was A LOT of fun, and I still can’t wait to play through this a second time. I remember having a blast playing this, even if I was worried about having the stamina to play a pretty lengthy game like this with a VR headset. I ended up okay, and enjoyed every minute of it! It’s about time to play through this game all over again on the hardest difficulty and REALLY get the full enjoyment out of it, and I can’t wait at all for it! What a way to end things in October 2021, I really knew what I was going for on the big climax for the event, and I think I hit it really well. After this, October’s over and the block of horror games comes to an end!

#157: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas (w/ Cokesodacan)
One of my favorite games of all time gets put onto the list, here we go baby! After a block of kind of bad and terrible games earlier, it’s a nice breath of fresh air to see games like this being tacked onto the list for our completion goal. I played this alongside Cokesodacan in co-op and we had a blast, just like any time I would play this game. My only regret is that we didn’t have a full stack of four to play with each other through this fantastic campaign. I’m not giving out hope that we can still do this, and I hope that we can do it very soon! The terrorist hunt mode in this game is also fantastic and an absolute blast! I love that we still have the ability to play this game online eventhough the servers have long since been dead, and that’s just great. I think we’ve got COMPANY!

#158: Dead Rising 2: Case West (w/ ClosingSniper)
Onwards to more coop playing! This time, we’re back on the Xbox One again, enjoying the story between Chuck and Frank as they investigate the hidden labs in the middle of the mountains. In this playthrough, we just have a lot of fun getting through this really short experience and trying to get most of the achievements along the way. Compared to the other Dead Rising games in the series, this is a quick ride and rightfully so, since it was originally released as an Xbox 360 Arcade game. However, the fun can still be had in this game and the achievements are not that hard to obtain, so that’s a big plus for what this game has going for it.

#159: Sonic the Fighters
While we’re on topic of Xbox Live Arcade Games, I guess I just went right down the list and kept on going with my Xbox One, because Sonic the Fighters is next, and it’s a super simple game to get to the finish line with. You’ve got to face about eight opponents from the Sonic universe, and then you just beat the game. It’s quite literally that simple. The achievements aren’t that hard to obtain, and the game can be a lot of fun, even if it’s mostly just a bunch of button mashing. A really quick experience that didn’t take long at all for me, but we’ll tack it on as a completion and towards the Sonic franchise as well.

#160: Halo 2 (w/ ClosingSniper)
I guess I was just feeling like being on a roll on the Xbox One, since I spent so much time with the PlayStation 4 earlier on in this listing. ClosingSniper joins me again for another cooperative adventure through one of the most popular games of all time, Halo 2! We play through this amazing campaign and just have a blast. We originally wanted to play on legendary difficulty, but as most of you know, if one person dies in Halo 2 on legendary, the whole game checkpoints back. Not fun at all. So, we resorted to playing on heroic instead and just had a fun ‘ole time playing through it. Maybe at some point we’ll try for a legendary run on the game, or maybe even go a step further and try out a LASO challenge, but that’s challenge for another time and place. We’re just trying to get the game on the board as a completion, and that’s what we did with this excellent masterpiece of a game that’s always fun to play with a friend!

#161: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
The story of Solid Snake returns and the huge conclusion at the end of this game tells the story of what happened to the legendary Big Boss, as told in later games like Snake Eater and Peace Walker. This game is just like the original Metal Gear, except lots of quality of life improvements and I believe the storyline is just a lot better. Lots of betrayals in this one, and twists and turns. The game can be a lot of fun if you know what to do and where to go, but the backtracking is super real in this one. Much like in Metal Gear Solid, you’ve gotta go all the way back to the original base a few times which can be a real kick in the nuts. However, fist fighting against Grey Fox in a minefield makes up for it in its epic brilliance. I’m really glad to have played the original two Metal Gear games at the channel, and get the full backstory and plot of what’s happening up to this point.

#162: Far Cry
Lots of people seem to really enjoy this game, and it’s alright, I guess. It’s fun for what it is and can be a thrill, but I feel like the game gets filed under the “unnecessarily hard” category, a folder of games that I don’t really care much about. The story alright, albeit a bit cheesy, but we’re not really playing this for the story, are we? It’s just your typical running around blasting and shooting things in the jungle while on an isolated island and getting to the bottom of the things being done on the island. This is the PC version, so it’s different from the Xbox 360 version that I was used to. I was goaded into playing this version, and I’m glad I did so that I could experience it, but the balance of difficulty is just too lopsided for me to really care much about this game. I’m just glad I was able to blast through this for the first time.

#163: Rogue Warrior
Oh my God, the memes from this game. The legendary Mickey Rourke just absolutely makes this game, otherwise this would have been long since forgotten. There’s a reason why !dickroll has become a thing on the Twitch channel, and it’s because Mickey turns Dick into an absolute legend with this voice lines. I can only imagine if had anybody else been hired to take the voice as Dick Marcinko in this game if it would have had the same impact, and I don’t really think anybody would have been able to save the game. I beat this game in under three hours just casually blasting through it, but it was an absolute ball listening to the insults and throwdowns by our boy. I would love to return to this game and play on the hardest difficulty, and I might just do that sooner rather than later. It’s a shame that this game got left behind, because so many people missed out on the badassery of Mickey Rourke doing an excellent job here.

#164: The Walking Dead: Michonne
While we’re off October at this point in the season, I probably figured that I wanted to blast through the rest of The Walking Dead games so I could get to the ones I’ve never done before, and I knew that Michonne’s story was pretty quick to get through, so here we are. This is a fun game, and your typical Telltale Games adventure. You take the role of Michonne from the TV series, and it adds a lot of backstory to her character and explains a bit of her origin story. Pretty fun game and a little bit of some extra for any Walking Dead fans out there. For me, I wanted to get through this one again so that I could get to the ones I’ve never played before. We’re getting closer and closer now!

#165: BloodRayne
What encouraged me to finally play BloodRayne for the first time in late 2021? Well, it was Ashterial guest streaming the game on the Croakitoad channel randomly one weekend and got me thinking, I’ve never played any of the BloodRayne video games before, so why not dip my toes in and get my feet wet? I literally did this within a few days of her playing the game, so the experience was kind of still fresh in my head, and also hers as she helped me along. BloodRayne takes place across different years and settings, from the Louisiana bayou to World War II and killing off nazis. The final boss can be a real treat to try and take down if you don’t know the proper strategy, but we were able to get through the game. Apparently, the second game gets even harder and I’m not looking forwards to that.

#166: Grand Theft Auto III
Another game with a reasoning behind it! The Grand Theft Auto: Definitive Edition had just been released, so I figured what better time than now to play the third game all over again and get the GTA series launched on the Twitch channel and as a completion! The funniest thing about this playthrough is that the first video shows the unpatched, horribly shoddy rain from the definitive edition, and then I come back later with the rest of the playthrough with the patched out, fixed rain. Really funny that that took place in the middle of my playthrough of the game! This game is an instant classic and just one of the all-time greats. Lots of people speculate how bad they did with the definitive edition, but I guess I can tolerate it because it’s Grand Theft Auto III and I didn’t really see a whole lot of issues myself while playing through this. I’m definitely ready to continue onwards with the series, though!

#167: Call of Duty: World at War (w/ Ashterial, Roxas997 & Cokesodacan)
One of the things that makes this a really fun Call of Duty campaign is the ability to play with a total of four players, and that’s super cool! The campaign gets super short because of that, but that’s fine. I believe we played this on legendary difficulty, so the legendary grenade spam was all over the place. This game can get hella hard on that difficulty by yourself, but playing it with other players makes this a cakewalk. We blasted through this game in about four hours, which was a lot of fun, but this game isn’t going anywhere because we constantly love getting back on Nacht der Untoten to try and beat our PB record on nazi zombies. I just wanted to get the main campaign on the board as a completion and to further my cause into the Call of Duty series with friends!

#168: Hospitality VR (VR)
Apparently, we roll ourselves back into the Oculus Quest 2 VR world once again with this little diddy, which is basically a horror game taking place inside a hospital and you are on rails, or basically in a wheelchair for that matter. You’ll take elevators down, and be sitting there just waiting for the game to throw its best at you. It doesn’t get really that scary honestly, because you are waiting for the things to happen. I find games to really get me when you aren’t expecting them. This was a fun game to test out the VR once again and just see what the game’s about, but it’s definitely not like Test Subject 901. Still though, a good game to test your meddle against VR jump scares, I suppose.

#169: PAGAN PEAK VR (VR)
The VR games block has apparently begun! This VR game was nothing like I had played before, where you are trapped inside a shelter of a room and need to figure out what to do to get out before the time runs out. Once you do find the ways and methods of starting to unlock things and solve puzzles, then you need to escape from the bunker on top of that before the pagan murderers get you. Apparently, they are out for your blood and are pissed off about you causing harm to their homes. You’ll have to solve the riddles to advance the game, which are pretty clever and had me thinking for a long time. I hadn’t played an escape room game in VR before, so this was fun and different.

#170: Propagation (VR)
The last game in our apparent VR block has us standing in the middle of a subway, unable to move at all. The accuracy of the guns are a bit off, and the fact that you are just stuck in place just kind of turns me off, especially after having just experiencing the amazing Resident Evil 4 VR. I was looking for another experience just like that, and this one was alright, just missing a lot of the key components that made that game so amazing. I mean, it’s fun if you want to just stand there and shoot things before they come walking towards you, but being able to maneuver and run around and be active in VR is what really sells it for me, and this game didn’t really do that for me. This game is free to play on Steam, so I can’t complain too much about it, but I guess it is what it is.

#171: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell has finally entered the Croakitoad domain, and Sam Fisher is on the hunt in his first gaming adventure. This was a lot of fun to revisit, and I’m glad to finally get this series launched off the ground! This game was great to ring in the series to gaming, but you can also tell that later installments add a lot of quality of life improvements to Sam that he doesn’t have here in this game. I’m just glad I was able to get through the CIA level without having to worm my way through to the finish line due to the limited number of alerts, so that’s good. In fact, I was able to get through this game pretty pleasantly without much worry that I can remember, so maybe I’m just getting better at this game and not even realizing it. Either way, a fun experience and one of those top notch games that you just can’t forget about.

#172: Hannah Montana: The Movie Game
Just to express to everybody my ability to be a complete variety gamer and streamer, we have Hannah Montana coming up next on the Xbox 360, directly after Sam Fisher gets done assassinating and killing people doing his government duties. I’m pretty sure Hannah Montana was a channel point redemption that got redeemed by the community and that’s why we’re here, and while this game wasn’t an absolutely horrible trip down memory lane for me (I’ve played worse, trust me), it doesn’t really stand out. It’s just your typical kid’s game about Hannah Montana and her friends and family and about an upcoming country concert coming up in town, and that about does it. It’s obviously geared towards kids and was lost upon me in most regards since I know absolutely nothing about the characters or the show. Either way, it showed just how versatile I can be as a gamer and a streamer. Beat that!

#173: The Convenience Store
We’re back to horror again, and our first Chilla’s Arts game on the channel! This game didn’t make the cut during October’s Croaktober event, but we’re always coming back to the ‘ole bread and butter in horror gaming, so that doesn’t mean anything. This game is about an employee at a convenience store that starts getting bad trips and haunting things happen to them. The answer to all of this supernatural madness must be the little closet behind the store where therein contains something really awful, right?! This was my first experience with Chilla’s Arts games, which a lot of people praise for the art style of being on an old VHS and being Japanese themed. I do like this, and I can’t wait to play more of these games in the future.

#174: Perception
This game tells the story about a blind lady who’s return back to a giant, empty mansion unravels and goes back many, many years. I hadn’t played too many games where you are blind in the game, so tapping the cane to “see” things around you was a pretty nifty touch. You’ve got to escape the evil spirits who want to get you and chase after you, so that poses a problem for a person who cannot see. The game has got a few options to play, including a mode where you can’t die, which was a nice touch. I played on the normal difficulty and died a few times, but I found the game to be pretty alright. It’s an interesting concept with a story that begins to get really weird towards the end.

#175: Anime Girls VR (VR)
We’ve only a quarter of the games left in our article here, and it’s time to get sweaty! I randomly happened across this game on Steam probably during the Steam sales and just grabbed it because it piqued my interest. Not because this is any interest of mine, but for the same reason I played Hannah Montana, I want to prove that I will play literally anything, as long as it doesn’t go against Twitch or YouTube TOS. This game is a fine example of that, as we explore the different anime girls in their bikinis as they dance to music. We are able to get up and get a closer look in VR, making a few people in the Twitch livestream maybe enjoy it a little too much. I had never played anything like this before, so this was interesting, and I still ponder to this day if I should have counted this as a completion, but we’ll go ahead and count it.

#176: DOOM II: Hell on Earth (Brutal DOOM Co-Op)
It’s time to go from anime girls in bikinis on the VR, to classic old school demon slaying in DOOM II with friends! That’s how we roll, baby! We return to the DOOM franchise with the Brutal DOOM mod, adding even more violence and gore to the already insane base game. We play through the entire campaign, rippin’ and tearin’ our way to the final boss. This game and all of the original DOOM games are so much fun alongside friends in cooperative. I’m pretty sure I mentioned that when we did Final DOOM in the previous article, but it really is a lot of fun to do. I can’t wait to do some more of this again in the future, possibly with some custom DOOM wads as well!

#177: RetroMania Wrestling
And just like that, we’re off to some pro wrestling next! This is exactly what I’m talking about when it comes to variety streaming, and I love seeing this in retrospect when I come back to work on these articles. I’m just all over the place and it’s awesome. We play through this rather short campaign, utilizing a lot of indy pro wrestlers and some historical familiar faces along the way. There’s a LOT of Stevie Richards and Tommy Dreamer in this game, probably (nah, definitely) moreso than in any other wrestling game ever made, which was really funny to me for some reason, but it was a fun little diddy to play through and have some fun with. We managed to bust through the career/season/campaign mode and finish the game and have a little fun doing it. When was the last time I even did a wrestling game at this point?

#178: Shiver
I can’t believe I left this one off, but for the longest time I could not remember what this game was called, so it was left out of Croaktober because of this reason. I guess I just happened to be rummaging through my thousands of Steam games when I just randomly came across this game once again, so I decided right then and there to just play it so I wouldn’t forget about it again. This is a point and click horror game that is actually a pretty fun little time. It doesn’t take long, and once you know what to do you can blast right through it, but it tells a fun little story and has some nice puzzles to it. I’m glad I remembered this game, because I was actually wanting to tack it onto this list officially.

#179: Tomb Raider (1996)
The original Tomb Raider has arrived! We previously played the reboot original game in our first one hundred games, and that game is fun, but it’s definitely no original Tomb Raider. This game’s got all the nostalgia, charm and retro feel that just makes it an instant classic. I have to admit that I was never a Tomb Raider fan growing up, and could have cared less, but I have Twitch to thank for changing my opinion on the series, honestly. I really do like the Tomb Raider series now and Lara is a great character that I’ve grown to enjoy. This game is awesome, and has so many epic moments. I can’t believe it took me this long to get around to doing this game, but I’m also glad it’s on this list officially. When I played this, it was around December or so, so we played with the winter mod that changed everything over all Christmassy, so that was a lot of fun! It’s a SNOWMAN!

#180: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
We’ve got twenty games to go, and we’re coming back to Call of Duty except in a “modern” way. This game was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed it. The gunplay felt awesome and the enemies just went down. The story for the most part was pretty fun, although I couldn’t tell you what all happens for the most part. I remember it has stuff to do with bad guys getting nuclear codes and trying to launch missiles to start another war for their own agendas, and the same old crap really, right? I just remember knowing how awesome this game felt, especially in the levels where you are busting down doors at night and going door to door. That was super amazing and just felt like I was there in the moment. The realism they brought to the table in this game was there, and playing on the hardest difficulty just made it feel even better. Great game.

#181: Prognostic
I remember coming into this game thinking it was going to be another one of your typical FPS scary horror games where you are walking around an old, creepy house while ghosts come out and monsters chase you around. Boy, was I wrong. This game actually has you trying to identify spirits based on clues spread around the house, and if you get them wrong you are one step closer to dying. If you take too much time figuring it all out, you are also going to die. I thought this was actually a nice breath of fresh air compared to all the kind of horror games I’ve played and was pleasantly surprised by what the game was all about. I haven’t checked up on this game in a while, but I’d like to see some more content for this game come out, because I really enjoyed what I played out of this one!

#182: White Shadows
This was an interesting game that immediately reminded me of games like Little Nightmares and LIMBO, but wasn’t exactly either one. Right out of the gate, the game warns you about references to racism, sexism and suicide and things like that, so I was pretty nervous streaming this. I couldn’t really put a lot of those things together while playing the game, but a few viewers in the livestream chat could piece it all together. I just remember this being kind of a weird side scroller with some mystique references. I don’t remember that much more of this game than that, but I did enjoy how unique it looked for its graphic style.

#183: Miss Neko
The puzzle game of all puzzle games! One of my highest viewed videos on YouTube is this game right here, and probably for the reasons they won’t ever see and that’s the NSFW version of the game. Unfortunately, I was streaming this on my Twitch livestream, so you won’t get to see that version of the game, but you’ll still settle for anime girls in their undies, right? That’s exactly what we got here, with some pretty lewd anime photos that we pieced together, puzzle after puzzle. There’s not much to this game other than that, and apparently the sequel to this game that I’ve not played is a completely different kind of game. Sorry to dissapoint anyone looking for that juicy content.

#184: The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game
I have to be honest, I don’t remember playing both Frog Detective games back-to-back, but I must have done so. Based on the WWF Adam Bomb t-shirt I was wearing, it must have definitely been the case. I believe I probably waited for the sequel to finally drop, and then that’s when I finally played both games back-to-back for the first time, and absolutely loved them! I immediately fell in love with Frog Detective, even with how short and quick the games can be completed, just with how charmy and sweet the games are. You can tell they are made with a lot of love and care, and I get that interpretation through playing the games. So much fun, and plus it’s a frog main character, so how could I not like that?

#185: Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
It’s time to jump right into the sequel, because I loved the original game so much! This is a really super short story and game, just like the original game. Fortunately, the detective journal expands on a lot of things and adds a lot more depth to the game with items and character bios and things of that nature as you try to hunt down the why, when, what and how of that nasty invisible wizard! I am a huge fan of this franchise and I was also super excited when Cowboy County was released, but we’ll get to that in a later article! Always happy to play and represent the Frog Detective games, they are so much fun!

#186: Hidden Paws
It was winter time during the timeline here at Croakitoad, so it was about perfect time to jump into Hidden Paws, a game about clicking and finding all of the meowing cats in a bunch of different levels. It’s cute, it’s pleasant, it’s a lot of fun and a casual experience. I highly recommend this game and the other game in this franchise called Summer Paws to anyone. At the time of this article, I just recently completed Summer Paws, so I’m glad to have finally done both games in their appropriate seasons for streaming them! I must have really been in the mood for games that are cute and lovey, because we’ve really hit that genre lately in our last couple of games!

#187: Underwater
And then we come to this game, back to horror once again after all the cute and fluffy wears out on the Twitch channel! You wake up in an underwater base and monsters and crazy things are all trying to kill you to death! This giant monster featured on the banner is one of them, and I could swear to you I’ve seen this monster in a few other indy Steam games I’ve played to this point! I feel like I’ve seen this monster used in other games, it must be free licensed or something? Anyway, this game has great checkpoints, but it’s kind of buggy and just another one of those walking around while things chase you games. You’ve got to find key items to progress and hope they don’t touch you. That’s about all there is to it.

#188: Spyro the Dragon
Holy cow!? I did this entire game in one sitting?! I don’t remember that at all. While that’s probably not that big a of a deal to MLG speedrunners or experts, I am really surprised coming back to this and finding out I did it all in a single night, that’s pretty wild. I got the 120% ending as well, which is nothing to scoff at when it comes to completing the game as a casual. That’s pretty amazing though! This game is an all-time gem and masterpiece, and I will always love the first two Spyro the Dragon games. So much nostalgia for me in my childhood years, remembering my siblings also enjoying the games. I will always come back to this game and play it again and not get bored, so much fun. I’m really proud of myself for one-sitting this game for the best completion, though. Hot dang! I guess Spyro’s right, you just have to believe!

#189: Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (w/ Cokesodacan, Ashterial & Zazzeris)
You know what? A lot of people crap on this game, including big Resident Evil fans, but I’ll always defend this game for being what it is. It’s a lot of fun in co-op with friends, and it explores Raccoon City in ways that really made it a lot of fun to check out, way before the remakes started pouring out by Capcom. Sure, it’s not the best overall Resident Evil game in the franchise, but this was a really fun and put together game. It really adds a what-if story to the whole Raccoon City story taking place during the second and third games, and ties a lot of things together in a fun way. I played alongside Zazzeris, Ashterial and Cokesodacan in this run, and they really bamboozled me at the end. That’s alright, though, I have plenty of other opportunities to get my payback against them. Running through this game will never get old, although the only complaint I have is how the difficulty spike gets when playing coop, what the heck is with that?

#190: Minecraft
Hey, I didn’t think it was possible too. Beating Minecraft? Yeah, right. The game is like never-ending, right? Well, turns out all you have to do is beat the Ender Dragon and then you get the game’s credits and appreciation for beating the story. There you go. I remember this being one of the more fun community events we’ve had at Croakitoad, taking place across probably an entire week’s worth of content? I can’t remember exactly. It was fun for me, because we achieved everything without the use of any mods, add-ons, cheats or anything. We relied completely on what we found with our own blood, sweat, tears and time in the game. I found the Nether Fortress just by randomly digging. We beat down the Ender Dragon as a community, and reaped in the rewards. Such a great moment, and I’m happy to have hosted such a great event right around New Year’s 2022. To me, the Minecraft run is one of the peak moments for the Croakitoad community.

#191: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
It didn’t take long for me to return to the world of Rainbow Six: Vegas, did it? I’m actually laughing as I’m typing this up, because I completely forgot how quickly I just dove right into the sequel for this series. That should tell you how much I love the Rainbow Six: Vegas series! So much fun. Unfortunately the second game only features two player coop, so that’s a bummer, and the story isn’t quite as good as the original, but this is still super good fun and a fun run for me all day long. I enjoyed running through this with my partner from the original game, Cokesodacan. I really hope in the future (and soon) we can get a squad together to enjoy the original game with the full four player coop opportunity, that will be a real treat. With the posting of this, that means that the Rainbow Six: Vegas series has been finished at Croakitoad.

#192: Aliens: Fireteam Elite (w/ ClosingSniper)
I remember this game had just been released and was on Xbox Gamepass, so we wanted to totally take advantage of this game and play through it. I remember it being pretty fun, and being an Aliens fanboy I really enjoyed it. I feel like it probably does get a bit too hard and difficulty if you turn the difficulty up, and I was a bit afraid of that, but for being a shooter in the Aliens universe, and also being able to have three person coop, I can get behind this for what it is. I remember playing alongside ClosingSniper for the majority of the game, and even having Cokesodacan involved before he bowed out early. I’d like to possibly revisit this game again and give it a second run, but I’m just really leery about the game getting unnecessarily hard on higher difficulties.

#193: Battlefield: Hardline
Are we gonna have a problem? Because previously on Battlefield: Hardline… Oh, it crashed! Some fun moments from me playing through this game, and apparently this was a complete step away from what Battlefield is all about and the series might have taken a hit because of that? I thought the campaign was pretty fun and I enjoyed being a cop going about my cop business, busting down criminals and getting down to the point of the betrayals and corruption and all that stuff. The concept of being a cop and having different ways to tackle each level was a lot of fun, and I felt like I relied on stealth a lot to take down the baddies more than just mowing them all down in a massive fit of rage. It’s that police story that always comes down to the corrupt partner or the police chief, am I right?

#194: Superliminal
We’re back to puzzles again! This game is a complete mindfuck to all of your senses, and has you struggling to figure out how to advance based on where you are standing in the game and how you are looking at things through your own point of view. I can respect the developers for making a game of this ilk, but boy was this something I hadn’t really ever played before. I guess Layers of Fear was a BIT like this, but nothing this puzzly. There are some achievements for beating this game super quick like a speedrunner, so that tells me people can fly through this game really fast, but that’s just not my jam. I enjoyed getting through this and working my way through all the mindfucky obstacles, but that’s about as far as I’ll get on this one.

#195: The Outer Worlds
I heard a lot of good things about this one, and I wanted to finally experience it for myself. I’m glad I did, and I had a lot of fun exploring everything this game had to offer for the most part. The key moments I remember from this game are completely glitching out the final boss to easily take him out for one. I still have not been able to acquire the DLC, so I haven’t played those yet, but I can’t wait to get my hands on them and see what they have to offer to the base game experience. The victory sweat is still pouring on this one, I haven’t forgotten about those DLC’s and I will be on the hunt for them. I got a lot of Fallout from this game, and there’s obvious reasons why, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for The Outer Worlds and the franchise.

#196: Crackdown 3 (w/ ClosingSniper)
So, typically I usually play games in release date order and I don’t skip around. I do sometimes, and I guess this was one of those exceptions. This game just happened to be on our radars at the time, so ClosingSniper and myself decided to dive into Crackdown 3 and give it a whirl! I’m a fan of the original Crackdown and remember those good ‘ole Xbox 360 days, so this was a bit more of the same for me, with a lot of quality of life improvements. I had never played the second one before, so I’m not sure what has changed between the first and third game. I remember this being fun in cooperative play, and I enjoyed my time on the game just being a complete superhero badass and taking enemies and gangs out to clean up the city. This brought me back to the original game and having fun in coop in that game back when gaming days were a lot of fun.

#197: Medal of Honor: Above & Beyond (VR)
We’re getting close to wrapping this list up and getting to our two hundredth completion, so in the spirit of variety, we’re coming back to VR gaming once again. The newest Medal of Honor game had just come out and was featured in VR, and I was able to get my hands on it, so we gave it a whirl. I found this to be pretty fun, although the really small areas per level were a little disheartening. Being able to play an FPS of the ilk of something like Medal of Honor was a lot of fun, since the only real AAA experience I had was Resident Evil 4 VR. This was fun for what it was, but felt pretty limited in the level design and whatnot. I found myself usually killing about twenty enemies before running to the level end and finishing it up. It just felt like a bunch of small bonus areas to advance the campaign, really. Slapping the nazis around with my VR hands was a lot of fun though, so that might have been worth it.

#198: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
We’re only a mere few games away from the finish line here, and we’re just tackling really modern games at the time of early 2022 here aren’t we? I really love how complex this list has been, just all over the place. That’s exactly how I like it and want to continue doing it. This game was really fun, and I did enjoy it. A ton of other people also really enjoyed this experience, and thus the sequel has already came and went out at the time of this article. BD-1 is a great companion, and I’m sorry for what I did to it at the end of my playthrough here, but it was worth it. You don’t see Star Wars often on my channel, so we’ll have to correct that and get more going in the future. I definitely recommend this game to anyone who’s a Star Wars fan and haven’t had the time to play around with it.

#199: Astria Ascending
When I chose this game to be the 199th game on Croakitoad, I had absolutely no idea what to expect from the game or what it was even like. I just based my decision on some screenshots and maybe the trailer and saw it was on Xbox Gamepass so I just rolled with it. It had been a LONG time since I had put any kind of RPG action in at Croakitoad, so it was definitely about time to start padding out some longer games on this list so it didn’t seem like I was only playing the short and cheap games to get the count up. This RPG was a lot of fun, with a great and unique art style. The developers of the game actually reacted to my tweets about playing their game, which was really awesome. The game takes place in a really open ended universe where they could do a lot with it in future games. I didn’t find this to be that hard, but the emphasis on building combos and building your attack power up on that should be emphasized greatly, because that’s how you win at this game.

#200: Yakuza 0
And here we go, the game that made it to the 200th spot on our completion list. The reason was pretty apparent for those in the know. On my previous Twitch channel, I had just hit the burnout mark and left this game open-ended without the completion while taking a large break from streaming and the computer, and this game was always left open. The reason this was selected for the 200th spot is for that reason, and I had so much fun revisiting this game and just getting through it to the finish line. Not only was this a fun game to do it on, but it meant so much in so many ways to me, and I’m so glad so many people were there to watch it happen. It was me once again breaking my own PB’s, my own barriers and crushing my own goals set forth in front of myself. Not only did this mean 200 games had been completed officially on my Twitch channel and YouTube, but I beat the game that I left streaming on and never got to see how it ended, and I got to enjoy Yuki and the cabaret club all in the same instance. That’s a bunch of wins for me, and I’ll gladly take it. At the time of this writing, we’re less than ten games away from achieving our 400th game completion, so this seems like a lifetime ago for me already, but I’ll always remember Majima and Kiryu helping me ring in the 200th game and the symbol of breaking past barriers and moving onto future ones.

In October 2022, we brought back the second annual Croaktober and played a ton of great video games throughout the month! Here’s a collection of all of the great Twitch clips that were created through the process of October 2022! Thanks for joining, all! I had been saving up horror games for an entire year to explode them all throughout the month and I had so much fun doing it, while also utilizing VR and trying to wear masks or dress up every single stream I could!

Another key note during October 2022 was that we completed our 300th game during the process! Super awesome!

Here is a list of games I completed during Croaktober 2022:

1. Silent Hill 3
2. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
3. The Walking Dead: Season Two
4. Slender: The Arrival
5. Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (w/ Cokesodacan) + DLC
6. F.E.A.R. + DLC
7. Zombie Army 4: Dead War
8. Clock Tower (1997)
9. Resident Evil Survivor
10. Outlast + DLC
11. Remothered: Tormented Fathers
12. Silent Hill: Homecoming
13. Cult of the Lamb
14. Phantasmagoria
15. Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler’s Green
16. Nightmare of Decay
17. Until Dawn
18. Haunting Ground
19. The Mortuary Assistant
20. Fatal Frame
21. Pumpkin Eater (Steam)
22. The Tape (Steam)
23. Real Horror Stories: Ultimate Edition (Steam)
24. The Fridge is Red (Steam)
25. The Exorcist: Legion VR

At the time of this writing, I’ve been able to tackle well over three hundred games in my journey of trying to complete as many video games that I possibly can. This is under two year’s time, and I’m awfully proud of that! I decided I’d go back and take a look at the first one hundred games that I was able to complete and kind of go down memory lane a bit back to the earliest days of the Croakitoad brand being a thing and see what I can remember from each game that I went through leading up to the big first milestone of the channel; that being the first hundo! I’ll also let you know that each game on this list has been successfully recorded and posted not only on the Twitch.tv VOD system, but also uploaded to my YouTube and recorded here on the website as well!

#1: Resident Evil
The game that launched it all off, and my favorite video game of all time. The original Resident Evil, beaten in under three hours with the best ending to get the infinite colt python and rocket launcher. This was the very earliest recording at Croakitoad and in its base form, without a webcam or any stats of the stream on the screen. I couldn’t have picked a better game to kick things off with and be my very first game completion on my Twitch channel!

#2: Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Game number two came at a time where I really wanted to play something really solid and something I knew I’d enjoy to keep me suckered into the streak after I had just completed Resident Evil. I decided to run with Diablo II: Lord of Destruction whilst playing the Assassin class utilizing the vampire build. I had never done this before, so it was something fresh and brand new while also still enjoying the classic that is Diablo II. You can’t go wrong with this game, even when you are playing solo like I did!

#3: Resident Evil 5 (w/ Cokesodacan)
Our next game would be the first time where someone else would join alongside me on a journey, whether it be through cooperative or multiplayer. While this isn’t the best Resident Evil game by any means, it’s still a lot of fun to play through alongside a partner in coop and that’s exactly what we did. The fact that already two of the first three games on the channel under completions being Resident Evil should scream volumes as to how much I love the franchise!

#4: Gears of War (w/ Amorablade)
Keeping up with the theme of playing alongside somebody in cooperative, I decided that next I’d push on through to a game that is also very near and dear to my heart; that being Gears of War. This is one heck of a game, and I don’t think I will ever get tired of playing through this. I am really glad that Gears of War has a spot in my first five game completions on my journey, considering how much love I really have for this game. This was also my first time playing through a game alongside Amorablade.

#5: New Pokémon Snap
Our fifth game in the journey introduces Pokémon to the mix, which is also a good choice and I’m also really glad it made the cut so soon. The particular reasoning for this game is because the newest Pokémon Snap had just been released on the Nintendo Switch, and I was looking for something nice, fun and casual to play whilst also enjoying the wonderful world of Pokémon! This was a lot of fun, and something I had never experienced before since I had never played the original Pokémon Snap back on the Nintendo 64.

#6: Resident Evil Village
Resident Evil returns one again, this time in the form of Resident Evil Village! This game had also just been released to the world, so it didn’t take much of a decision for me to immediately jump on this and play this game as soon as possible! Directly after New Pokémon Snap gets released, I believe it was like a week later and Village was already out. Certainly this was a busy time for me keeping up on the latest released games and playing things that are brand spankin’ new, rather than digging deep and playing things from the yesteryears.

#7: The Ultimate DOOM
Speaking of games from the yesteryear, it was about time that DOOM hit the list. We played through all four episodes of the original DOOM that started it all together in coop through Doomseeker. This was a lot of fun, and always a really fun time to do, especially when you have a bunch of other DOOMguys running around rippin’ and tearin’ through the demonic hordes of hell! It wasn’t until later that we utilized the Brutal DOOM mod and did the same thing again many months later, but for our first run through the entire original DOOM, we played it vanilla!

#8: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
This is a game that brings to me massive nostalgia, as I had the cartridge for this game on my old Super Nintendo and played the heck out of this game. I am really glad I was able to fit this into my first ten completions on the journey, as this game is also one that holds a special place in my heart. A lot of people talk about the Nintendo 64 games as being some of the best Zelda games ever produced, but I’ll always stand by this game being my favorite Zelda game of all time.

#9: Mortal Kombat
The fighting game that turned a lot of heads in the early 90’s came up next and I felt like this was a great game to toss in consideration to kind of spread out the gaming genres a bit. We’ve certainly had a lot of horror, some retro and a one of the best RPG’s of all time, so why not toss in a fighting game into the mix right before the tenth game? I also love me some Mortal Kombat, and in this particular playthrough I decided to do something I’ve never done before and that’s beat the game as Sonya Blade! I was usually a Sub-Zero guy, but decided to do something a little different this time around!

#10: The Forest
And that brings us to our tenth game on the list and completed at Croakitoad! This is basically an open world survival game that you can play cooperatively with friends, and that’s what we did. Harvesting materials in order to stay alive and also defend yourself from the awful cannibals that roam the island you have been deserted on. When you get to the end of the game and find out the secrets that are hidden in the core of the island, a lot of things start to make sense. I remember playing this alongside: Jherr94, Cokesodacan and Roxas997 in an effort to finish the boss and get the ending cutscene!

#11: The Park
This might seem kind of an out of place game on the list, but I hadn’t really tackled many independent Steam games up to this point, so I figured I’d toss one in that I remember playing a few years back but with really bad internet troubles at the time of the run. Not having to worry about that, I decided to give this psychological horror another go and really delve into the storyline which is quite deep if you are paying attention. While it wasn’t Croaktober yet, that didn’t stop me from playing some scaries!

#12: Life is Strange
Continuing on with the theme of trying to spread out all across the gaming spectrum, up next we tackled Life is Strange and follow Max and her adventure through college and dealing with daily teen issues and problems. This was another game I had played before years ago, but didn’t really take seriously. This go around, we took a much closer and serious look at the game and the story being told. I’m glad I went back and gave this game another chance and allowed it to suck me in this go around.

#13: Metal Gear
The origin of Solid Snake’s story begins here with our thirteenth game as we begin the Metal Gear franchise at the same time. This is always a fun game to play through after you sort through the controls and get a feel for how the game is being played. It’s always fun to begin this game knowing where the Metal Gear franchise would end up going and the heights of popularity it would end up getting.

#14: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (w/ Zazzeris)
The next series of games all took place in a single night as Zazzeris and I decided to tackle through all of the old retro TMNT video games in one sitting together in cooperative. This was a lot of fun, and brought back a lot of old memories playing old retro games together and beatin’ up all of those Foot Clan Soldiers leading up to all of the nostalgic bosses through each of the levels.

#15: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (w/ Zazzeris)
After we had just got done beating Shredder and Krang down in the second arcade game, we moved on to The Manhattan Project and played through this one next. Another set of favorite TMNT baddies and classic levels, and another finale leading to the beat down of Shredder and Krang. The ninja turtle marathon continued on this same night!

#16: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: The HyperStone Heist (w/ Zazzeris)
Well, we couldn’t certainly play through all of the classic ninja turtle games without playing this one, basically the Sega Genesis equivalent of the SNES release Turtles in Time video game. (Don’t worry, we’ll tackle that next anyway) This is also Zazzeris’ favorite turtles game, so this was also a lot of fun for him since he usually plays and streams this one solo by himself. By playing together in coop, it brought a whole new level of fun and entertainment with the two turtles having each other’s backs!

#17: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (w/ Zazzeris)
And here’s the Super Nintendo equivalent of HyperStone Heist on the Sega Genesis, and of course we played this one next! This was the final turtles game in the single sitting, one night marathon of ninja turtle action we did together and this was a lot of fun! We’ll have to do something like this again sometime, because this hasn’t happened again since this particular night. Lots of fun to just smash through wave after wave of baddies as our favorite ninja turtles!

#18: WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game (w/ Zazzeris)
To cap off our night of playing old retro games together, Zazzeris and I decided to put in an old WWF wrestling video game and we ended up with the arcade game on the Super Nintendo! Together, we smashed through a few tag teams in the WWF and were officially hailed as the new WWF Tag Team Champions as both Doink the Clown characters! Heck yeah! This was a lot of fun and something I haven’t really done much of, which is playing through wrestling games together as a friend! We’ll have to do something like this again soon!

#19: Clown House (Palyaço Evi)
For the nineteenth game, we dig into Steam and find another VERY independent Steam game known as Clown House, which is also free to play. It basically plants you inside a house and you have to search for a key in random places whilst also dodging some clowns who have invaded and some of them will come after you and try and kill you. It’s not a very long game, and more like a demo than anything. However, this was a game I had done before and I knew I wanted to tackle this one really quickly.

#20: The Cursed Forest
After playing through Clown House and finishing it VERY quickly, I knew I was starting to get back into that old horror gaming mood again eventhough this was around May 2021 or so at this point. The Cursed Forest was a very visually pretty game with a very interesting story being told. It was definitely not “demo-like” like Clown House and I spent a few hours traversing through. I enjoyed this one mostly for the visuals it had. It really was a pretty stunning game with a few jumpscares contained within.

#21: SEPTEMBER 1999
Okay, we are now full fledge into horror gaming mode now. Apparently sometime at the end of May 2021 I was just wanting to push through a bunch of Steam independent games I had done before and get them on the list and completed. This game in particular is basically a found footage handheld camera game with jumpscares. A walking simulator which traps you inside your apartment as you walk around trying to figure out what’s going to happen next.

#22: Apartment 666
We’re once again stuck inside our apartment and this time we’re trying to find out some history about what happened in the apartment and about our character. At some point you can actually leave and go outside, so it has that going for it. The ending reveal is pretty crazy and has a big surprise, so also something else that is a bit unique for this one. I’ll be honest that a lot of these games during this time all kind of ran together for me.

#23: Minds Eyes
Another horror video game that sticks you inside your own house and you are unable to leave. This time, you are being stalked and chased around by a big monster that has some sort of gorilla sounding voice. You’ve got to find key items to trigger and advance through the story which leads you to some weird psychological weird ending that just takes a complete turn for something else. There’s not really much more to say about this one.

#24: The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (w/ Ashterial)
We’re out of the independent horror Steam game block, finally! It seems I decided to turn my attention to this game, one I had played previously in coop before many years ago. I wanted to jump into it again, and this time we get Ashterial to tag along for the first time in our coop journey together at Croakitoad! This is always a wacky and zany game to play through, especially if you turn all of the word dictionaries on then you have absolutely no idea what words will get brought up for you to type as you slay through all the monsters and zombies in the game. What a strange ending, too.

#25: Portal

We’re a quarter of the way through! Our next game keeps the Steam game library rolling as we introduce the popular puzzle game Portal to the mix! At the time of this article, I still haven’t played Portal 2 yet, in either the solo or coop modes! We need to fix that! I remember beating through this game rather quickly and surprising myself when I got to GLaDOS at the end, thinking there was more to the game than where I was at. This wasn’t my first time through it in my life, but I guess that goes to show when you’ve played through a game multiple times you do (hopefully) get better each time!

#26: The Little Mermaid
This might seem like a really random game to be added to the list, especially considering it’s an old school NES Disney gem and that’s because it really is. I’m not really sure what prompted me to play through this one around June 2021, but I knew I had wanted to play this and I guess the timing was just right. This game can be beaten pretty quickly and maybe that was my philosophy going in, but going from a bunch of Steam horror games to Little Mermaid just goes to show just how much of a variety streamer I am.

#27: Where’s Waldo?
The NES theme continues on, as after Little Mermaid we jump right into Where’s Waldo? on the NES! This game can also be another quick one to finish up if you know exactly what to do. Of course, the RNG doesn’t help matters much when Waldo can literally appear anywhere and just be hiding out from you, but if you are quick, you can make it to the moon and the end of the game for the big finish! I guess I have to thank Jimmy Zazz for subconsciously making me put Where’s Waldo into the first thirty game completions on the channel.

#28: Left 4 Dead
We’re back to AAA game titles now as Left 4 Dead comes up next within our first thirty game completions. We run through the original levels and chapters making up the first game via Left 4 Dead 2. I remember playing alongside Ashterial, Zazzeris & Cokesodacan through this playthrough and it was a lot of fun, considering I remember playing the original Left 4 Dead on the Xbox 360 way before the second game came out! It was fun to kind of restrict the game to the original stuff for a change. Lots of fun here, you can never go wrong with Left 4 Dead!

#29: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (w/ Cokesodacan)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is next, and is another one of my favorite games of all time. Being able to play through it in coop was just an extra added cherry on top. This brings Coke back into a coop role, a theme that we’ll be seeing a lot through future games being beaten at Croakitoad. We’ve been talking about running through this game again, maybe with a few more people running around with us which would be a lot of fun. For the sake of being put into the game completions list though, RTCW gets the notch as being the 29th game completed on the Twitch channel! We’re around the early part of June 2021 at this point right now!

#30: Deadlight
The Steam library continues to be pillaged as we jump into Deadlight next, an atmospheric side scroller about the zombie outbreak that has overwhelmed Seattle, Washington. This is a fun, short game that you can enjoy without too much hassle. There wasn’t really any reason for putting this game in the number thirty spot and to be honest I don’t even think I realized I was up to thirty games at this point. If you are looking for a short zombie game that can be played casually with trial and error, you should check this one out.

#31: Limbo
The side scrolling zombie madness of Deadlight must have just got me into the mood to try Limbo next, which is basically a game made of the same ilk. Instead of zombies and real world settings, you are a boy trying to find your way home and at the same time trying not to die from obstacles that are constantly trying to squish, smash, shoot or stab you. There’s also a giant spider at some point, so be careful! This game got a ton of rewards from the independent game community back when it was released, so I am glad I was able to tackle this game early on.

#32: Little Nightmares
More side scrolling madness! This one is a little more in-depth than the previous two games with better graphics and a bit more maneuverability in terms of character control, camera and puzzles. This game has one of the wildest storylines and plots of any game I’ve ever played. You just never quite really knw what’s going on in this game until the very end where a lot is revealed, and even then you are kept guessing on a lot of stuff. I guess that’s where the sequel comes into play! This game certainly takes a turn when it comes to the story.

#33: The Wolf Among Us
Our first Telltale Games game on the list! This is a fun one to bring all of our favorite childhood nursery rhymes, Disney movies and princes and princesses all into one game and give them real world adulting issues and problems you have to sort through. You play as the Sheriff of their little secluded town and must figure out why there are a series of murders going on. There’s also a strip club and some nudity, pretty wild! This is always a fun one to play through if it’s your first time or it has been a long time since you last went through.

#34: Zombi
More zombies at Croakitoad! We’re still in the beginning of June 2021 at this point, but that doesn’t stop us from seeing constant horror elements being played on the channel! This time, we’re in London and the zombies have overtaken the country. You survive in the tunnels underneath the city and must get from place to place in an effort to possibly find a cure and get out alive. CCTV is a huge part of the game, and this also introduces character death where if your first character dies, you respawn as someone else and can actually visit your zombified previous character!

#35: Final Fantasy
I was waiting for this one to pop up! It’s June 2021 and it’s time to start our very first major and lengthy RPG game on the channel! The game that started it all, I was definitely in the mood to kick start the Final Fantasy series and get it going on Croakitoad! We plow through all of the required dungeons, taking out the crystal element guardians along the way leading to our final confrontation with Garland / Death at the end of the game. This is a fun one to play through and it’s always fun to rename the characters as some of my more active Twitch viewers when I am playing through these! Final Fantasy II will be happening very soon!

#36: Déjà Vu
I probably needed to take a breather after the heavy length of Final Fantasy, so we went back to the original Nintendo to take on a game that I had played before as a kid and even had the cartridge for, but was actually never able to beat. You are a detective and must find out why someone is out to set you up for a murder! Careful, you make the wrong decision and your game is over and you are dead. I’ll be honest that I used a walkthrough for this one just because there’s so many ways for you to game over in this one. It’s really hard to pick the right option or use the right item unless you know what you are doing.

#37: The Simpson’s Arcade Game
We’re going to the arcades! It hasn’t been since like the night doing Ninja Turtles that we really played a side scroller beat ’em up, but even on this night we did one better and had all four players accounted for during this run! This was a lot of fun, and brought back a lot of memories for all of us being in the arcade popping in numerous quarters into the machine to hopefully get to the end of this nostalgic trip! I’ll admit I’ve never been a huge Simpson’s show fan, but you can’t deny that this game is a ton of fun when you have friends with you!

#38: Tomb Raider (2013)
It’s about time that Lara Croft has entered the fray! Our very first Tomb Raider game is the remake released in 2013, and we go about it through the Xbox One. This run was a lot of fun, as I went for the full 100% completion achievement and got it live on stream. This was a great game to revitalize the series in a current day setting for gamers, even though many nostalgic players still prefer the old ways of doing things. I remember having a ton of fun through this one, and I definitely recommend for anyone looking for a great third person action game.

#39: Far Cry
This was a game kind of goaded onto me by Cokesodacan & ClosingSniper. I was never really familiar with this version, as I had only played the Xbox 360 version of Far Cry and its two expansions. I found out that this game can be notoriously hard and difficult depending on the difficulty you are playing on. Even playing on easy, I found that the AI was a bit broken at times. I even broke a Trigen enemy at one point in my playthrough. We were able to get through the game after some tough slogs, and got Far Cry up on the board!

#40: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (w/ Cokesodacan)
We’re now in mid June 2021 and after having played through the Tomb Raider remake two games ago, I think I was in the mood for some more Tomb Raider with a coop setting. Coke and I decided to run through this one, a game we had tried a few years earlier but stopped when we broke it the first time. We ended up breaking the game again this time around numerous times, but not enough for us not to finish it out entirely. The sequel to this game allows for four player coop, so that should be a trip when we get around to it. This game has one of the funniest bugs I’ve seen so far on Croakitoad!

#41: WWF SmackDown!
Our second official wrestling game has arrived, and this time it’s a game with a bit more of a “campaign” setting to it. In this, I decided to play as Paul Bearer and work my way through the WWF ranks, trying to earn myself some title shots and matches at the big show Wrestlemania. That never happens, because the game completely screws me over. I actually won the Royal Rumble match and didn’t even get booked at that year’s Wrestlemania. I won it again, and then got booked in an “I Quit” Match against Vince McMahon. What the heck is this booking? The game clearly has it out for Paul Bearer. We finished up the final unlock in the season mode and called that a completion. This is officially where all the Paul Bearer memes on the channel originated!

#42: WWE Legends of Wrestlemania
This is the only game on this list that won’t have a proper video tag, since WWE really takes offense to posting anything related to their materials on YouTube, even if it’s an old game. I was really surprised that the WWF SmackDown! playthrough is still okay because of this. Either way, this is a pretty fun game if you like classic WWF wrestling and some of the superstars from the 80’s and 90’s. We went through several of the tiers in the game, knocking them out. This was another Xbox 360 game that I had manhandled way back in the day for the 1000 gamerscore, but wanted to play once again just to get another wrestling game in the books.

#43: Maid of Sker
After I got my fill of wrestling, we moved on to horror once again. This time around, we have been invited to an abandoned hotel but find out that it isn’t quite abandoned after all. Several “monsters” roam the halls and areas, trying to find you and kill you. You’ve got to collect certain items and fulfill certain requirements to get a specific ending to the game. This game features a ton of modes and bonus things you can try out, like a “no enemy” mode if you just want to have a walking simulator through the game. Really fancy, this one.

#44: Jumper: Griffin’s Story
This is an Xbox 360 game based on the movie Jumper. Back during the height of my achievement hunting days, this was one of the games I quickly pounced on due to the shortness of the game and how easy it was to get the full 1000 gamerscore. I decided to revisit this game once again, putting it onto the table for the forty-third spot in the completions list. This puts me back on the Xbox 360 after a long time of being a PC gamer and utilizing my Steam library. Not really much to say about this one, other than the final boss can still be troubling if you are not used to how the combat works in this one.

#45: Silent Hill
The original Silent Hill in mid-June! The reasoning for this was because it was Father’s Day so we decided to celebrate Harry Mason and his love and support for his daughter by playing the game on this special day! What is there that I can say about this game? It launched the franchise that later became one of the best horror franchises in gaming history. It’s always fun to play through this one and enjoy the story being told, knowing that it continues on in Silent Hill 3. That’s a game we’ll tackle in Croaktober 2022, so it took us a while to get there, but we eventually did! I’m glad Silent Hill made it into the first fifty completions, but honestly it should have been a lot earlier than this!

#46: Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
Another Xbox 360 gem from my achievement hunting days. I guess Jumper got me into the mood of looking through those old 360 titles that I played during the height of my achievement gathering. This game can get kind of excessive and repetitive if you are not a fan of hacking and slashing numerous enemies, but I always found the game to be really fun and a stress reliever. Just go around destroying countless amounts of enemies in your effort to take over the land of China! I took to the role of Cao Cao for most of this run, but I always love me some Diaochan and Zhang He to play us once you get them unlocked for your squad goals.

#47: Hitman: Blood Money
Agent 47’s first showing at Croakitoad comes in the form of a game that is super fun to play as, whether you are a Hitman veteran or if you’ve never touched any of the games before. I feel like this game is a great starting point for that and also just a great addition to the franchise. I’ve always loved this game and felt like it was super flexible for new players and allows you to have many different options to tackle objectives throughout each level, which is super awesome. The story is also pretty easy to understand and the variety of levels are a lot of fun; ranging from a Las Vegas casino all the way to the White House. Also, look at which game completion this was. Get it? 47?

#48: CSI: Hard Evidence
Jumper back a few games ago really did start an Xbox 360 trend, because we’ve been knocking out 360 games left and right since that game got brought up! This game is no different, and yet another game I easily took out for achievements back in the day. It’s one of my highest viewed videos on YouTube too, probably because most people searching for actual episodes of the television show bring up my gameplay video, lol. You must solve around five different cases in the game, finding evidence and figuring out who’s responsible for the dastardly deeds. There are actually two other games in the CSI series on the Xbox 360, and we’ll get to those soon.

#49: Last Day of June
This game was suggested to me by Cygnified, as he had played through this one before and I believe even gifted the game to me, so we decided to run through this one. A horrible car crash puts the lives of several people in a small country neighborhood into a lot of chaos, and it’s up to you to go back in time and put all the pieces together through a series of puzzles until you can get to the end of the game and hopefully change the events into a happier story. Can it happen? You’ll have to find out. This also breaks the Xbox 360 streak, as we’re back on PC again for this one.

#50: 80 Days
We’re back with another Cygnified game suggestion at the halfway mark and I believe even a game gift here! This time around, we’re trying to get around the entire planet within eighty days. Is it even possible? Can we do this? This isn’t current times, either. We’re dealing with railroads, hot air balloons and steam cars. In my particular trip around the world, we end up way up in Antarctica and almost freeze to death, but are able to circle around the planet in just enough time to succeed. I’ll tell ya though, that was a close one!

#51: World War Z
We’re over halfway there! Can you believe it that we’ve made it this far?! We return back to four player coop action as zombies have once again taken over the world. This game is a lot of fun, especially if you have some friends to tackle it through with. We’ve played through this before many years earlier, but were never able to actually finish it off properly until now! For the record, we’re in the early part of July 2021 at this point and we have now halfway achievement our goal of the first one hundred completions!

#52: A Way Out (w/ Cokesodacan)
We’re two games over the halfway point and A Way Out gets selected to be next, a fun coop adventure about two men trying to escape prison and get back into public for different reasons. Along the way, the relationship between the two completely changes and you start to feel for both characters. That’s until you get the big punchline at the very end and a very serious decision has to be made amongst the two players. All the way up to this point you’ve been working together to achieve goals, so it’s super wild when the finality comes about. Once again, Coke joins me for the coop adventure here.

#53: Lunch Lady
This is a rare entry as the game is more of a multiplayer component, pitting you and a few of your friends against the evil Lunch Lady who wants to bonk you with a frying pan and probably eat you for lunch tomorrow. We were able to escape from her a few times after a few rounds of trial and error, and it was good fun for a while. When you put the difficulty up to the highest, it just gets really ridiculous and her speed is out of this world. There’s no chance you can outrun her on those higher difficulties at all.

#54: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (w/ Mz_Amy_Pond)
For the first time, we dive deep into our first Dark Pictures game alongside Mz_Amy_Pond in our first game together. This was an interesting one, considering when you are playing with two different players you get two different camera angles and cutscenes. I found the game storyline to be pretty interesting and really made you think about what’s going to happen all the way to the bitter end. In our first run together here, we were able to escape with everybody intact EXCEPT for the brother who perished on the ladder scene in a complete accident. Boo!

#55: Guerilla War (w/ Cokesodacan)
Our next game takes us back to the NES days, and I actually had a legit copy of this game back in the day as well. I remember trying this game out as a kid, and remembering that you could never really die in the coop mode. It just respawns you, and you just keep on going. Remembering this, I decided I’d try this out in 2021 and Cokesodacan and I gave this one a whirl. It’s a fun little NES game if you are looking for a quick top down shooter where you can’t really ever game over. This has to be probably one of the easiest NES games just for that simple fact.

#56: Assassin’s Creed
And now we’re launching the Assassin’s Creed franchise on the channel! This is like the umpteenth time I’ve played through this game, seen it all, unlocked all the gamerscore, collected all the flags, and done did all of that. This was more of a speedrun kind of, as I didn’t really bother with any of the flags or some of the side missions that aren’t required to get to your next assassination target. I still had a lot of fun on this one, and I at least unlocked all of the Eagle Vision towers, which I think might be required anyway to progress through the game. A lot of people say this one is repetitive, and it is, but I still have a love for it.

#57: Call of Duty 2
Just like we kicked off the Assassin’s Creed series, up next comes the Call of Duty franchise! On this particular run, we play through the game entirely on the hardest difficulty; Veteran. I’ve done this before numerous times, getting all of the gamerscore off of the game, so I knew it could be done and I could do it. This certainly gave me a bit of a challenge in some areas, but I find that the more I play through this game and even on veteran, it gives me less and less hassle the more I get through it. I guess that makes sense with anything. Those Hill 400 levels can suck a lemon, though.

#58: Half-Life
Our first run through the Half-Life series is up next, and on our first playthrough we took advantage of the Sven’s Coop Mod, which allows for several players to join you in coop throughout the entire campaign! This was a lot of fun, and I really can’t wait to do it all over again. Just playing through the Half-Life campaign is super fun on its own, but being able to see a bunch of other players running around as you do it really turns it up a notch. You really can’t go wrong with Half-Life to begin with, can you? I’m just surprised it took fifty-seven games to finally get Half-Life up on the board!

#59: Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
The game that basically became a prequel to the sequel of Dead Rising. Does that make sense? Follow Chuck and his daughter before they end up in the position they are in during the whole of Dead Rising 2. This is a really short game, and I decided to knock out all 200 gamerscore while I was at it on this particular run. Looking back, it’s funny how this became the first Dead Rising game to be played and beaten on the channel, but I guess between the short length and the will to get all of the achievements dictated that one!

#60: Just Cause
I was definitely in the mood for a sandbox game, so I decided it was about time to jump into Just Cause again for the first time in many, many years. I had actually never streamed this game before ever, so this was a pretty cool choice of game to play, despite having gotten the 1000 gamerscore on this game ages ago. I had the physical copy on the Xbox 360, keeping up with the anthem of playing on that console for the most part during this time. This game can get pretty wacky, with you flying and jumping all over the place on all sorts of vehicles. I’ve never played any of the other Just Cause games, so we’ll be doing blind runs through those soon enough.

#61: Reminiscence
Up next, we’ve got a series of free to play games on Steam! This first one was a bit of a weird one, as a black shadow figure chases you around and scares you inside of a house where you can coerce the time and enter two different phases. You’ve gotta find the trigger points to advance the story and hope those points where the jumpscare happens doesn’t get you. Not really much more to say about this one, apparently I felt like scouring the free to play Steam game page would add a bit of variety to my list.

#62: My Friend is a Raven
Another free to play Steam game with a really cool art style. I believe this game is supposed to be in the theme of another game franchise or series and this just expands upon a bit of the story from that game. I quickly realized that Two Stars Games had some of the coolest art I had seen on the indy game market, and I quickly wanted to play more of their games just because of this. This game in particular is short with multiple endings, depending on how you get through it and talk to your pal, the raven.

#63: Fear in Hospital
We’re currently in the middle of July, but hey we’re gonna find those free Steam games and play the hell out of them, even the horror ones! This game had a really strange ending, and actually bugged out on me at the very end of it. Rather than play through the whole thing again, we just counted it as a finish because I was in the ending room anyway. You basically just walk around the hospital, trying to find out what happened and hope you don’t die from the evil ghosts and spirits wandering about. It’s your basic free Steam game with some familiar assets.

#64: We Went Back
Up next on the free to play Steam game block, a game about waking up from within a pod on a ship and trying to figure out what happened to the rest of the crew. I will admit, this one was actually pretty fun with some really great graphics to it. It’s a shame it wasn’t any longer or released as a full fledged game because I felt like this one could have done really well! After you’ve found a few objects and advanced through a few rooms of the ship and get jumpscared a few times, it all comes to an end right as it starts getting good. I would love to see more of this!

#65: Night in Riverager
Finding out about more Two Star Games on Steam, I dug this other free to play game up by them and jumped right into it. This one is pretty creepy, and leaves a lot on the table as well. You have to go out into the dark woods at night and collect some items. This is more like a story prequel of something bigger and better that I think never really came out. You’ve gotta get some branches, cross a bridge and then the game really comes to an end. Once again, I felt like this game could have been pretty big had it been a full release or something, but I guess that’s a good thing.

#66: Cloud Climber
This is basically a walking simulator about the end of the world and how people have built cities way up high in the clouds as a means to survive. There’s nobody else around, and you are left trying to figure out where everybody went and what went wrong. This is another game under the Two Stars Games banner, so you know they left a really good impression with me. Yet another free to play Steam game, as I was really trying to expand out and play everything all across the table. This one’s really short and less interactive than the other ones with basically just walking and dialogue.

#67: Case #8
Oh yes, here it is. The meme of all meme games. Case #8 is officially stamped number sixty-six in Croakitoad history, and I wouldn’t have it any other way! This game has been taken down from Steam, so you can’t even look it up or get it anymore. I believe you might be able to get it on some abandonware sites, but it’s funny to me that when you search for the game, you find maybe four reviews, including mine and that’s all you get. There’s this one puzzle that had me stuck for ages a few years ago, so hopefully I knew the answer this time around when I got through it. This one has a bit of a meme charm to it in the Croakitoad community.

#68: Eternal Evil Prologue
Another free to play Steam game, this one is about a bunch of zombie vampires that have taken over the city and you’ve gotta eliminate them and survive. Unlike a lot of the other free to play games I’ve done on this list, an actual game for this prologue did come out! Shocking! I have yet to play it as of this article, but I do plan on doing it eventually. The game looks and sounds great, but I felt like the combat was a bit unbalanced and some of the puzzles were a bit too complicated. Other than that, it’s a fine Resident Evil style game that most would enjoy for being what it is.

#69: Open Season
It’s number sixty-nine and also our very first children’s game on the list and in Croakitoad history! I actually had the physical copy of this game on the Xbox 360, still hanging onto it from my old achievement gamerscore days back in the mid 2000’s. This was a pretty quick game, obviously made for kids who were fans of the movie. This was the first time I had ever streamed the game before, so that was neat and it was a bit of fun to just casually play through this game knowing I could easily beat it. There’s a lot of games like this I have yet to play, but we don’t want to pad the count out THAT bad, do we?

#70: House Flipper
We’re down to our final thirty games to the big one hundred mark! House Flipper was one on my radar for a long time, and was definitely something unique to a ton of the other games I had played up to this point, so this was definitely something I wanted to do! This game is super addicting and a lot of fun if you are into cleaning things up without actually having to… you know, clean things up. I had no idea what to expect coming into this game and whether it would be worth it or not, but it actually ended up being a lot of fun and super addicting. I can’t wait to play other games in the ilk of this game, like Power Wash Simulator and things like that. This is definitely some variety to this one hundred games list.

#71: Max Payne
The reason this game hadn’t been played ages before this time was because we were waiting for the anniversary of Max Payne which was right around the end of July. This one is an all-time classic and you just simply cannot go wrong with Max Payne, let’s face it. I could play through this game so many times and it never get old, especially the first half of the game which is my favorite part. I’m glad I could include Max Payne into my first one hundred games on the channel, I definitely would have felt like I’d be slacking if I hadn’t.

#72: Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is up next, and I knew I wanted to get this one done since I have never played Red Dead Redemption 2. I had to get through this one first to be able to get there, so here we are. I have played this one before earlier in my life and knew how fun it was, but I wanted to get this one up on the board at Croakitoad so it was there. I really can’t wait to play the sequel and see how the story plays out, so we’re definitely in the clear now. In fact, a year later, I’d actually play through Red Dead Revolver as well, which apparently has nothing to do with the Redemption story. Either way, tons of fun and definitely one of the best sandbox games of all time!

#73: The Darkness
I’m just noticing how Xbox 360 heavy this list has become starting from the halfway point. Wow! Lots of Xbox 360 games on this list, and this one is included. I must have just went down my physical library of games knocking them out left and right based upon how I felt. This one is another one that I played back in the day, got all the gamerscore on it, and never really ever revisited again. Streaming and playing this for the first time on Twitch was a lot of fun, and brought back that feeling of newness because of that. This is a fun first person shooter with some quirky gimmicks attached to it based on the comics of the same name.

#74: Aliens Vs. Predator (2010)
Literally never played this game before, so this was another fun one to do after The Darkness had concluded. Playing through the game in three seperate campaigns as the Xenomorphs, Predators and Marines was pretty fun, and I can’t really remember who I had the most fun as. Probably the Xenomorphs, I’d say. The predator campaign was actually a bit challenging, with lots of choke points and parts where you die a lot. Overall, a fun game if you are into this whole deal and lots of variety when it comes to playing through the game.

#75: Halo: Combat Evolved (w/ Cokesodacan)
It took seventy-five games for Halo to finally show up? Sheeeesh! Well, at least it’s here. We played through the entire campaign on legendary and did it in coop alongside Coke as per the usual. Playing on the hardest difficulty isn’t so bad when one person can stay back and just trigger the respawns, so yeah there’s that. Unfortunately, they took that away in Halo 2, so that run got a whole lot harder, eventhough we didn’t do it on legendary. This is probably my favorite Halo game of all time, it’s just hard to beat. It’s so much of a classic and just so much fun alongside a friend. You can’t go wrong with it.

#76: Secret Service
This is a pretty unique game as it pits you as a secret service agent at the White House tasked with what any secret service agent is supposed to do; keep the president safe. A terrorist attack comes down hard and you are needed to FPS your way through Washington D.C. to eliminate all the baddies and find out where the threat came from, which usually comes from within, am I right? This game isn’t the best FPS in the world, but the unique story and way it was presented gives it a few brownie points I feel. Once again, we’re on the Xbox 360 theme here because this was yet another one. When are we gonna get a Sony game?

#77: Gun
Not here! Because Gun is yet another game in my Xbox 360 collection that I once mastered and finished off entirely. We play through this third person western shooter and remember just how hard this game can get towards the end. Some of those game ending bosses are just stupidly hard without any warning whatsoever, and it gets really annoying. I’m just glad we played through this one and got it finished. I must have had a bit of western loving left in my mind, since I had just beaten Red Dead Redemption earlier on the list.

#78: The Legend of Zelda
Alright! We’re back on the original Nintendo and it’s definitely not something found on my Xbox 360! Here we go, the classic of all classics and the game that kick started it all for the Zelda franchise! While this wasn’t my first Zelda game on this list, it’s certainly up there for being a game that I do really enjoy playing and have a lot of fun with! I don’t have all the dungeons or items memorized, but still always fun to enjoy this game I remember having as a little kid back in the NES days. I had that gold NES cartridge of this game and thought it was the coolest thing ever.

#79: Super Mario World
The very first Super Mario game on Croakitoad took seventy-eight games to get there, but we finally did it! What can you say wrong about this? I mean this is one of the greatest games of all time. Like most older gamers, I had this game free with my Super Nintendo and spent so many hours playing through this game. I could never beat it as a kid, but finding out about the place where you can farm 1UP’s and items really made a difference later down the road. I always enjoy playing through this masterpiece of a game, and it’s actually fun to see something outside of the realm of Xbox 360 on this list right now.

#80: Area 51 (w/ Cokesodacan)
Remember going to the arcades and seeing Area 51 with the two guns and thinking it was the coolest thing ever? Well, Coke and I were able to get this sucker up and working on the PC and it was actually pretty fun. We played through it a few times and got the ending a few times just because how fun it was. You don’t have to worry about popping quarters in when you play it like this, but you do run out of lives so we did have to be careful! We’ve been talking about playing through again and getting the alien side of things, which would be cool to do.

#81: Resident Evil 7
There was a TON of Resident Evil at the start of this list and then it didn’t show up again until here in August 2021. During this playthrough, not only did we beat the main campaign of the game and finish that off, but we also took down the campaign DLC’s which I found to be pretty okay. I think my favorite one had to be the one where you are trying to escape as Zoe. I feel like the first half of this game is super good and really well done when it involves the Baker Estate, but then it just kind of drops off towards the end of the game. Despite all of this, we took this game down and just plowed through all of the content in the same time as we begin our countdown to the final twenty!

#82: Ryse: Son of Rome
I originally got this game on the Xbox One, and really think this is a pretty cool game. The violence and gore it depicts is really awesome and just showcases how brutal things were back in the days this game’s story takes place in. I believe this was one of the original games released for the Xbox One, so it really wanted to showcase all of the abilities of the console and you can tell they tried really hard to do that. While I feel like this game is fun and all, I also think that if you play this thing on harder difficulties, it gets very difficult very fast! I’m not really sure what went into my thinking of choosing this game at this time, but I think it was a good choice in hindsight considering this is a pretty niche game based on its story.

#83: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
The ninja turtles are back again! It’s been a while since we saw these radical dudes, and they certainly made a showing a few months back when we plowed through most of the old beat ’em ups from yesteryear. This begins a series of anomalies, since this game was a side scroller released on the original Nintendo Gameboy! I had played through this one before, realizing just how short it was and really wanted to tackle this one again. Obviously, I had never played it on Croakitoad, but I had before previously and knew there’s a few more games on the Gameboy that I can get through next upon completing this one.

#84: Super Mario Land
The second Mario game in Croakitoad history comes in at eighty-three and is the original Super Mario Land on the Nintendo Gameboy! This game is also pretty short, but also contains a really sweet level theme that I really enjoyed when you seem to be traveling through Japan. I guess since I had already been on the Gameboy for the previous turtles game, I figured I might as well get another Gameboy game down on the completion list and so here we are. This one isn’t that hard and doesn’t take a long time to complete, which was perfect for what I was setting out to do here.

#85: Pokémon Red
Holy shmokes it’s about time we get an actual Pokémon game on this list! Let’s get the first generation of this legendary game series up and going now, shall we? At this point, we’re getting towards the end of August 2021 and Pokémon Red was the answer given to me by Twitch chat after I asked which version we should play through. I feel like I’ve ran through this game so many times in the past, I’m really starting to memorize a lot of stuff about it. That’s a good thing, though! Really enjoy this game with all the varieties you can bring to the table based on all the different Pokémon you can utilize. This officially kicks off the series though, so thank God!

#86: Quake
From Pokémon to Quake, that’s the life of a variety streamer right there! At this time we’re getting to QuakeCon 2021 weekend, so we decided that to celebrate QuakeCon From Home, we’d play through the original Quake and also do it utilizing a coop mod that had a ton of us playing together through the entire campaign! This was a lot of fun to do and we all had a blast fighting our way to the final boss. This was a great way for Croakitoad to celebrate it’s first QuakeCon officially, even if the event was done from home. I’m glad that we could ring it all in by playing the event’s namesake and doing it all through coop with a bunch of friends made it that much better!

#87: Wolfenstein 3D
Since we had already completed the original Quake together and QuakeCon 2021 was still ongoing, I decided how cool it would be to play through the original Wolfenstein 3D together as well! That’s exactly what we did, traveling through miles of nazi fortress clicking on secret walls and trying to find the keys to get in the elevator and advance to the next floor! We were finally able to make it through every episode of the game together and take out the final boss of the game’s expansion which was a huge surprise to all of us at what it was, lol. All in all, took us about three and a half hours of mindlessly shooting and running around to get to the final expansion level from the first level! Let’s go QuakeCon 2021!

#88: Double Dragon Neon (w/ Zazzeris)
Cooping madness with Zazzeris is back, and we played through a game we had done several years earlier but with really bad internet connection amongst the two of us. This time around, we didn’t really have that problem anymore, although the game’s servers gave us a bit of hiccups here and there. We were able to finish the game off and beat it, thanks to the help mostly from Zazzeris. This is the first Double Dragon game on our Croakitoad completion list, but it included coop so there’s that. Well worth the wait, I suppose. Naughty naughty!

#89: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
We hadn’t really played a massive sandbox style game in a while, so it was about time to mix it up and toss in a big boy game here at the eighty-eighth spot on our list. I played this game many years before, but never really looked into the story that closely, so I took this opportunity to really delve into the game’s story and really enjoy it. I really love the hierarchy system in this game, as you don’t really see anything like that anywhere else. The combat can get a bit annoying at times in this game, especially in one of the DLC’s, but overall this is a super fun game to get through, especially if you love Lord of the Rings.

#90: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ten games away from the big one hundred mark! Up next, we’re back on the Xbox 360 again with one of those movie games from that era that most people groaned about. This game isn’t bad at all to get the full 1000 gamerscore on, which I had done years before this by this point. However, I had actually never streamed this game before at all and it had been years since I played this, so hey; might as well, right?! There’s not really a whole lot to say about this game other than the fact it follows the movie’s script pretty closely while also taking a few liberties not seen in the film at all. It’s just your typical mid 2000’s movie game for the Xbox 360, really.

#91: Gears of War 2 (w/ Cokesodacan)
It’s been a wild ride, hasn’t it? Gears of War comes back with its sequel here on the ninetieth spot on our list. It’s been a while since we saw the original game back on the fourth spot on the list, but by now we’re at the very end of August 2021 and it was definitely time to get our next Gears on. This time around, I play alongside Coke and we run through the locust hordes in this sequel that turns dark and sad towards the three-quarter point of the game. I always felt like this game starts what ends up happening in Gears of War 3 and I hate it, while also loving the game. So conflicted. Either way, this game is a lot of fun to do in coop just like any Gears game so this was no problem for me to add to the list.

#92: Kirby’s Dream Land
Those old Nintendo games must have stuck with me going into September and on the other side of QuakeCon, because here comes Kirby with his first game on the Croakitoad list, and we’re back on the original Nintendo Gameboy as well! This game is pretty easy to complete, even if the latter levels do get a tiny bit challenging for the player. Honestly, I felt like this game would probably be missing something if I didn’t at least get the original Kirby game on the completion list, so there’s that. We’ll see how far this Nintendo theme goes now that Kirby is in the bag.

#93: XIII
The Nintendo run has already come to an end, as XIII comes in here at this spot. A game that was recommended to me by several people, and one I had actually never played before at all in my life. This was pretty fun, a shooter with cel-shaded technology which was pretty rare for the time and still kind of is. The story is pretty easy to follow and even includes voice acting from Adam West, how can you go wrong with that? I saw a pretty funny glitch towards the end of this game where the enemy is just sliding around on the floor. That was probably the biggest highlight from this playthrough, lol. Not taking anything away from the game of course. It had stealth, lots of guns, running and gunning.. all the typical stuff you’d expect from an FPS.

#94: Half-Life: Blue Shift
Blue Shift is up next, and we’re just going to immediately tackle the Half-Life franchise pretty quickly right here! It wasn’t that long ago where we were dashing through the original game utilizing Sven’s Coop Mod, and now we’re back again doing the same thing in the first expansion to the game; Blue Shift. You take the role of security guard Barney Calhoune at Black Mesa and follow his journey during the events of the original game. You might even see Gordon Freeman a few times along the way! As usual, this was a lot of fun with friends in coop.

#95: Homefront
More FPS carnage! This time around, we’re being invaded by a unified Korea and we’ve gotta put a stop to this, or at least try to! This is a super short campaign for a game that was trying to be hailed as the next best thing outside Call of Duty. I’m not really sure it ever achieved that status (it didn’t), but the campaign was well fun at least. I try to not look too closely at what the multiplayer was like or the criticisms there, but the single player is what I’m really focused on. I completed it in about three hours time, so super short, but had some interesting elements to it and a unique storyline you don’t usually see.

#96: Frontlines: Fuel of War
The FPS theme continues on this list as we head back to the Xbox 360 once again in a game that kind of just came and went at the time of release. The campaign can be a bit of fun, and messing around with the tanks in this game had a few funny moments resulting in a funny clip. The game does have a unique story where China & Russia have teamed up to try and take the last of the world’s oil supply. There are limited “deployments” per level which is a bit silly, considering this is a FPS game, but playing it on an easier difficulty takes that problem out of the equation. Some real-life clips of politicians during cutscenes were pretty cool to see, but other than that it’s just a typical FPS military shooter.

#97: Sonic the Hedgehog
This begins a short series of Genesis games that I thought I should include before we round out the first one hundred completions at the channel, so I figured not including Sonic the Hedgehog would be a slight to my first one hundred games, so Sonic gets the ninety-sixth spot on this list! This is an all-time classic that should be included in any top one hundred games list, even if I do feel like it should have been a lot earlier in the list. Ah well, at least we finally got around to it, right? This game can be pretty grueling if you aren’t on your A-Game, and does have that whole limited lives thing before you game over, you have to be pretty careful about how fast you go and how accurate your fastness is going.

#98: Golden Axe (w/ Zazzeris)
I started off the Sega Genesis block of coop play with Golden Axe, playing alongside my good buddy Zazzeris! We play through this age-old classic and boy was it a lot of fun! Taking down the Death Adder at the end of the game and working your way to get to that point is as intense as ever, so you are always hoping in the back of your mind you have enough lives and continues left to actually make it to the end and beat the game. This game can get really down to the wire when it comes to the sharing lives and all that, too! Phew, we actually did it though!

#99: Streets of Rage (w/ Zazzeris)
Directly after beating Golden Axe, we decided to rock and roll on Streets of Rage to keep the Sega Genesis theme rolling that night on September 5th, 2021! We knew that this game would be the ninety-ninth game on the list, so we wanted to make it special and have a good time doing it. At this time, I had no idea what I was going to do for my one hundredth game, so we were literally just going one game at a time. Streets of Rage is definitely a lot more friendly to playing in coop, where there is no constant reminder of losing lives and continues. I felt like this game was a lot more leniant compared to Golden Axe in that regard. Some of the bosses and levels towards the end were a headache, but nothing that Zazzeris and I couldn’t handle!

#100: Resident Evil (Remake)
And that brings us to our one hundredth game and the final game on this list! We come back to where it all started, Resident Evil! We come back to the Spencer Estate and revisit it on the remake version of the same game that we started with oh so many months ago on the original PlayStation. This was a decision made by me the same day I did this, as I didn’t really know what to celebrate the one hundredth game with, but figured that I should try to keep some sort of theme going for the occasion, so here we are! You can’t go wrong with this game, as it’s just a really great game and also one of my favorites. I couldn’t really think of anything better to celebrate the big 100 with other than this, so this was a great choice in my mind.