Rule number one of Backlog Club: Work through your pile of unplayed video games one at a time, and discuss them with other people. Rule number two of Backlog Club: Don’t talk about Backlog Club.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just kidding! Tell everyone. Please.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article is part of our new experimental series, Backlog Club, where we (Nintendo Life!) pick a game that’s likely to be on our list of “games we should get around to playing”, and then we (NL + you!) spend the next month playing that game.<\/em>
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Pirates! They’re so hot right now. Or, well, lukewarm. Maybe the temperature of the Caribbean Sea. There’s Our Flag Means Death<\/strong>, the excellent TV show that all my friends are talking about constantly<\/em> but I still haven’t seen it yet so no spoilers please, and… admittedly, that’s about it. But who doesn’t love pirates? Everyone loves pirates, all the time. I will take any excuse to look at pirates, or to wear shirts with frilly lace sleeves and tight laced trousers, since that’s apparently what pirates wear. Yarrr, etc.<\/p>\n

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This month, it’s time to, uh, hoist the mainsail and weigh anchor (?) because we’re going piratical with June’s choice of Backlog Club game: Return of the Obra Dinn!<\/p>\n

Return of the Obra Dinn is a game by Lucas Pope, the developer that also made the excellent Papers, Please<\/strong>, and it’s a little hard to neatly describe. It’s a logical deduction game where you play an unsuspecting insurance claims adjuster, sent to investigate a mysteriously empty ship full of bones.<\/p>\n

You have in your possession two items: The ship’s ledger, which informs you of all the names of the lads on board, all of whom are now, you guessed it, piles of bones; and a strange watch with spooooooky<\/em> powers. For various reasons, you have to match the piles of bones to the names in the book, and how they died, because that’s how insurance works, I don’t know. Don’t worry about it! It’s more fun than it sounds!!!<\/p>\n