What are people excited about for with the steam sale? Any hidden gems you’d like to share with the class?
Wandersong is $7 USD right now and it’s a real gem if you like more casual games. It’s a 2D adventure game where you interact with the world by singing. It’s cozy and heartwarming, and I’d recommend it to anybody who might be into that kind of experience.
Also Prey is the opposite of heartwarming but it’s one of my all time favorite games (easily top 5) and it’s somehow $3 right now.
Same goes for the whole Dishonored series.
I love seeing recommendations for Wandersong. It’s a completely different type of adventure game with a unique, and lovely, plot.
Their next game, Chicory, is currently in my backlog and should probably get kicked up to the top.
So erm… I read your paragraph on Wondersong and thought, “that sounds amazing, I must get”. Go to the game page “this game is already in your library”… Fine fine, I’ll get on with my backlog.
Not exactly hidden gems, but I finally bought Stray. Also decided to pick up Xenonauts. I can’t decide whether I should grab Phoenix Point though. I keep eyeing up Terra Invicta too, but I’m almost positive it’s going to be a bit too much micromanagement for me to enjoy it.
Been grabbing any vr capable games I can. Squadrons was 2 bucks so it was hard to say no. Also grabbed both mirrors edges for 2 bucks each.
Chants of Sennaar is on sale. Found out about it here.
I suspect there’s a limited target demographic, but I was a linguistics major for a time.
Mighty Gunvolt Burst is a great Mega Man-style platformer
I got besiege for 5$CAD, had been waiting for a sale to finally buy it
Disco Elysium is a good one but I know I don’t have the time right now.
Maybe I get me another Metroidvania.
I have Blasphemous (which I think was already on sale), Bloodstained RotN or Sundered EE on my wishlist, but again I would probably just make the pile of shame grow.I envy you for not having played Disco Elysium yet. Hope you find the time soon :)
Haiku, the Robot is a very fun metroidvania that you can blast through in under 10 hours if you want something in that genre, but also something short and sweet that wont consume two weeks of your life.
I’ve played a few hours of Ender Lilies. It’s a metroidvania where you play a young priestess who is protected by spirits that you equip to attack for you. It’s pretty, has solid music, and the combat so far has been pretty fun and well-balanced for me. Grow the shame pile…
I’m debating whether to get “Total War: Warhammer” (just part 1) and/or “V rising”. They both appeal to me but I’m a frugal/patient gamer and the deals don’t appear to be that special
I am pretty sure Epic gave away TW:Warhammer at some point, so maybe check if you already have it.
I don’t sadly!
TW:Warhammer 1 has the added bonus that if you like TW:W games and in a few years buy the second Warhammer you can ‘merge’ the campaigns in to a bigger campaign called Mortal Empires. You can play all the factions (and DLCs you own) from both games in that campaign. Same applies to Warhammer 3
Meh. I’m seeing a lot of prices that aren’t even that close to historical lows. e.g. Mass Effect Legendary was $10 somewhere recently but now it’s $12 on Steam (though I’m not giving EA any money for it until they fix the stupid launcher for good on Steam Deck).
Prototype is like $4 though, might snag that if I don’t already own a copy elsewhere.
palpatine voice do it.
Prototype is among the most fun open world games to just screw around in. Right up there with Marvel’s Spider-man and Just Cause 3
One of the worst protagonists in all of video games, but it is also a lot of fun.
Some others:
- Cloudbuilt, currently $6.99, lowest $2.99
- Dead Cells, currently $ 14.99, lowest $11.99
- Tropico 5 Complete, currently $23.81, lowest $9.99
- XCOM 2 Collection, currently $11.88, lowest $6.99
Steam reviews for prototype aren’t very positive
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I snagged a bunch of Williams pinball tables already. Very excited to be able to play No Good Gophers in the comfort of my own home.
May also finally pull the trigger on Cyberpunk now.
I was tempted to buy some tables for pinball FX but I already have all available tables for fx3 and it feels like I’m keep buying them and they release a new version of the game/engine so I have to rebuy them again for the better experience…
I get that. I didn’t rebuy anything I already have. I have tables scattered across all 3 versions of PinballFx out there and it’s super irritating.
FWIW I can’t speak to the pre-2.0 update but I’m having a lot of fun with Cyberpunk 2077. Solid AAA game, and it seems like they hammered out a lot of the performance issues from earlier in its life.
Huh, didn’t even realize it had started.
Taking a look at my wishlist, and seems like I’ve got enough in my wallet to snag a couple of heavy sale games purely from all the cards I’ve sold on the marketplace.
May not get anything, though. Got tons of other shit to play and I’m not aching for anything in particular, although Charrua Soccer and Kopanito All-Star Soccer might be options because I want some good old fashioned arcade football and they seem fun enough.
Oh, and Shadow Gambit and Desperados 3, mainly because getting them now is one of the last opportunities to actually have the money go directly to Mimimi (the developers), who are shutting down end of year (which at least was their own choice and not because some publisher/holding company fired them).
Edit: Oh, I might get one of Frogware’s Sherlock games. Don’t know what the consensus is on the newer ones.
Just picked up Kenshi… becasue I’m a masochist.
I picked up Bonelab. Going to play it as soon as I’m home from work. I just hope it won’t cost me $300 in controllers.
Damn, I just bought it the other day but only put 31 minutes in, hopefully I’ll be able to get a refund. That $9 goes a long way on a Steam Sale!
Got a good hour and a half in before my battery died. I spent a bit too long in the arena and now I’m sore.
Haha sounds like a success!
I see darkest dungeon 2 is on sale. I remember being excited to play it on release before seeing it was an exclusive, so I might pick it up on sale now.
If you haven’t already watched a ton of gameplay, be warned it is VERY different from DD1. Both good games, but I was going expecting a hamlet and that is not what they were going for in the sequel.
So far I kinda like it. I got major decision paralysis late game in DD1 because I was afraid of screwing up my whole campaign whenever I took a break. I like that the consequences of failure seem more localized in DD2. I can see why that would annoy people who really like the original.
