Steam Backlog: Hydrophobia: Prophecy

Adam tired not to be afraid of water.

- Adam Kerr

I have plenty of titles on Steam, almost 800 games in fact. It’s an obscene number. An amount far more than any person really has time to play. I discovered recently that Steam allows users to sort games by ‘most recently played’, allowing me to see which games I haven’t played in years, or at all in some cases.

There are plenty of games I’ve purchased almost a decade ago, with less than an hour of playtime. Abandoned so I could go back to trusted classics like Skyrim or Counter-Strike. Games that I never really gave a fair chance. Maybe there’s some hidden gems in there? Maybe there’s some hilariously bad stuff in there? All I know is, a combination of lockdown boredom and me needing some new content to appease the dark overlords at GameOn Mag have led us here. To my Steam backlog. To Hydrophobia: Prophecy, in fact.

The Stats:

Purchased: 20/11/11

Last Played: 20/11/11

Total Play Time: 9 minutes.

I think it’s incredibly important to note that the date I purchased Hydrophobia: Propehecy was only nine days after the release of Skyrim. The poor thing never really stood a chance. The second most important thing to note is, this game is set to boot in 480p. I’m unsure if this is its default setting or if college Adam invested poorly in desktop hardware and my settings from nine years ago have since been retained. It’s quite possibly the latter. Regardless, I switch to a crisp 1080p and click launch. As the game launches in 480p despite the settings I just changed, I begin to tremble in fear at the series I’ve created.