Tachyon: The Fringe for $2 and some change for the nostalgia. Doesn’t quite hold up w/ a max resolution of 1024x768, but had a great time in circa 2000. Maybe I can beat it this time.
In some ways, I think we have to accept the early years of “8 indie games for $2!!!” is over. Inflation has hit, and indie devs have to buy their coffee too. If you really want a near-freebie, keep an eye out for bundles on Fanatical, where they’re sometimes $3 each game.
I’ve been touching a lot of grass recently and when I do game, it will be the same 3 games or so again so I’ll pass this one and probably subsequent sales
My initial thoughts are these sales are somehow getting even less exciting every time. It is clear that games should only be purchased on sale now as prices don’t seem to drop otherwise.
Epic still does good giveaways sometimes, and usually awesome ones over Xmas. Hogwarts was free up to yesterday, and a game called Hordes of Hell is free till tomorrow morning when the next mystery free game is revealed.
I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.
In some ways, I try to acknowledge the original race to the voting on prices was sometimes bad for indies. The Factorio dev even saw the writing on the wall and decided to head it off, declaring “This is the game’s price floor. Buy it or don’t.”
if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for
That’s how I feel when people try to justify $60 gacha skins with “But you also get all of these lovely in-game materials!” Well I don’t want any of those shit. I only wanted the skin. Now sell me the skin by itself without all the other crap.
I’m partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it’s also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).
In case anyone has a Steam Deck - you can also get that as a decky plugin, so if you go to the store page for a game it’ll tell you at the bottom of the screen if you can get it cheaper somewhere else.
I still find these exciting. I gifted my friend Portal 2 since she just got into gaming.
Slay the Spire for like $2.50 is a steal.
Like a lot of you… I have many of these but its exciting for gamers that have to ration or haven’t picked these up before and you never know what you may find.
Last sale I picked up Skyrim for $3. Never played and I had a blast!
If you’ve been holding off on Cyberpunk 2077, it’s in a really solid state nowadays, and has a pretty dang good main story with lots of roleplaying options, and plays well with a controller.
Terra Nil is a cool relaxing solarpunk strategy/builder game about restoring the environment. Not sure how complete controller support is, but its rated playable for the steam deck (could be hit or miss).
The Mass Effect series supports controller, and they’re pretty fun sci-fi RPG’s with good characters.
Disco Elysium is a more text heavy RPG. I personally bounced off it due to its theme, but it’s pretty unique, worth a shot if you click with it.
Tyranny (a different RPG by obsidian) puts you in the role of a fairly high ranking judge working for a brutal expanding empire. You have the option to play a really nasty person if you wish. Not terribly funny though, usually quite a serious vibe.
It’s fairly solid. You get to divine status so you can be a swarm, necromancer, or demon as far as evil goes (technically there’s also devil but that one’s… weirder to get to) and I guess Archon kinda comes off “evil” in that it doesn’t give a shit about anything other than “law”
Edit: forgot to mention the same studio also made WH40k: Rogue Trader and that’s also got plenty of evil options
I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)
It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.
After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It’s like 3 games a year now that I don’t already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let’s buy a game id never otherwise buy and try
same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.
there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.
It is not and as somebody who was patient with Civ VI and ultimately loved it after it was fleshed out, I don’t think it ever will be. The “play three different civs over the course of each game with a leader unrelated to any of them” thing they stole from humankind is not going away so if you’re not a fan of that you’re just going to have to skip this one.
It’s still so weird to me that they did that. AFAIK Humankind did okay, wasn’t like a massive hit or anything, but the makers of Civ seem to have decided to drop everything and chase it around for some reason.
honestly, I don’t know. I’ve never played a civ game is didn’t get hopelessly addicted to, but I haven’t really had the money for it yet. plus it has some DRM bullshit on it, so pirating it isn’t an option (yet).
As a side note, if you’re on Linux you can pirate it because the Linux version doesn’t have Denuvo on it. At least that’s what I read when I was searching for ways to not pirate things because stealing from big corporations is wrong
Fair. I’m still waiting for the pack will all dlc. Civ6 burned me when later updates caused issues from game memory limits they just never fixed (or acknowledged). Keeps crashing on me once get to mid game
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Tachyon: The Fringe for $2 and some change for the nostalgia. Doesn’t quite hold up w/ a max resolution of 1024x768, but had a great time in circa 2000. Maybe I can beat it this time.
Just got a Christmas gift card from work today! Thinking of spending some of it on Trials of Mana.
Is it just me or are a lot of these discounts… Not as good as previous years?
30% off a 70€ game still ain’t that cheap
In some ways, I think we have to accept the early years of “8 indie games for $2!!!” is over. Inflation has hit, and indie devs have to buy their coffee too. If you really want a near-freebie, keep an eye out for bundles on Fanatical, where they’re sometimes $3 each game.
Oh lord, my wallet is not ready for this.
I’ve been touching a lot of grass recently and when I do game, it will be the same 3 games or so again so I’ll pass this one and probably subsequent sales
What have y’all bought so far on this sale? I just got Detroit: Become Human for $4.
Into the breach, nice little game for on the Steam Deck.
My initial thoughts are these sales are somehow getting even less exciting every time. It is clear that games should only be purchased on sale now as prices don’t seem to drop otherwise.
I miss the old sales where they gave games away.
There were three steam games posted in [email protected] yesterday, and three more earlier in the week!
Apparently there’s a couple free games. Never played
100% Orange Juicemyself but a friend was super into it when it came out.https://store.steampowered.com/app/282800/100_Orange_Juice/
It’s a mildly amusing board game.
Epic still does good giveaways sometimes, and usually awesome ones over Xmas. Hogwarts was free up to yesterday, and a game called Hordes of Hell is free till tomorrow morning when the next mystery free game is revealed.
I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.
I think it’s also that there aren’t crazy discounts on anything remotely new. There used to be 1-2 games that made headlines.
That new star wars game has a big discount, so that’s something
Remember kids. It’s not a sale until the game is at least 50% off its regular price!
I miss the “flash sales”.
They got rid of them, and the Steam Sales were effectively just the regular discounts you can get anywhere else.
That and people like Rockstar figuring out that you can put “50% off” if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for.
In some ways, I try to acknowledge the original race to the voting on prices was sometimes bad for indies. The Factorio dev even saw the writing on the wall and decided to head it off, declaring “This is the game’s price floor. Buy it or don’t.”
That’s how I feel when people try to justify $60 gacha skins with “But you also get all of these lovely in-game materials!” Well I don’t want any of those shit. I only wanted the skin. Now sell me the skin by itself without all the other crap.
my price point is 20 bucks. maybe this year it’s 5 bucks, times have been hard.
Just a heads up that you can browse and set filters on steamdb to see new historical lows for games(obviously based on steam pricing only).
Some notable historical lows are Silksong, KCD2, Arc Raiders, Hades II, Megabonk…
I’m partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it’s also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).
Augmented Steam FTW
In case anyone has a Steam Deck - you can also get that as a decky plugin, so if you go to the store page for a game it’ll tell you at the bottom of the screen if you can get it cheaper somewhere else.
They will also send alerts if a game is available at price point you choose.
I still find these exciting. I gifted my friend Portal 2 since she just got into gaming. Slay the Spire for like $2.50 is a steal.
Like a lot of you… I have many of these but its exciting for gamers that have to ration or haven’t picked these up before and you never know what you may find.
Last sale I picked up Skyrim for $3. Never played and I had a blast!
Ace Combat 7 is less than $5, that’s a real solid deal if you’re new to AC and/or interested.
AC7 is great I must’ve dumped over a hundred hours trying to ace all the missions. You’ll be hard pressed to find better value.
Going lower to drum up interest for the new one I’m guessing?
I mean it is 6 years old. It is also possible that Project Aces’ licenses for the aircraft is expiring soon, so they may have to delist the game.
Anyone have any recommendations? I enjoy rpgs and strategy games. Anything that can be played with a controller is ideal.
If you’ve been holding off on Cyberpunk 2077, it’s in a really solid state nowadays, and has a pretty dang good main story with lots of roleplaying options, and plays well with a controller.
Terra Nil is a cool relaxing solarpunk strategy/builder game about restoring the environment. Not sure how complete controller support is, but its rated playable for the steam deck (could be hit or miss).
The Mass Effect series supports controller, and they’re pretty fun sci-fi RPG’s with good characters.
Disco Elysium is a more text heavy RPG. I personally bounced off it due to its theme, but it’s pretty unique, worth a shot if you click with it.
Cyberpunk was very good.
Never heard of Tera nil that sounds enjoyable
Turn based rpg- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
That seems interesting.
Is the story good? Are there chances to be really evil? And is it ever funny?
Tyranny (a different RPG by obsidian) puts you in the role of a fairly high ranking judge working for a brutal expanding empire. You have the option to play a really nasty person if you wish. Not terribly funny though, usually quite a serious vibe.
Played that way back. It was great.
It’s fairly solid. You get to divine status so you can be a swarm, necromancer, or demon as far as evil goes (technically there’s also devil but that one’s… weirder to get to) and I guess Archon kinda comes off “evil” in that it doesn’t give a shit about anything other than “law”
Edit: forgot to mention the same studio also made WH40k: Rogue Trader and that’s also got plenty of evil options
Have you played Baulder’s gate 3 and expedition 33 yet?
Yeah. They’re both good.
my recommendation is to play them again and save money
YOU’RE NOT MY FINANCIAL ADVISOR!!!
i know. i raise sheep now. like all good financial advisors.
I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)
It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.
drova forsaken kin should be very controller friendly
Baldurs Gate 3 is 25% off. I’ve been waiting for bigger sale but don’t think it’s coming soon.
It’s worth every penny even at full price.
Damn that’s it? I’ve been waiting ever since i got my deck.
pay for it, theyre a great studio and deserve the support
We’ll see. They make more money than I do, so supporting them isn’t exactly a reason to give them my money.
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After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It’s like 3 games a year now that I don’t already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let’s buy a game id never otherwise buy and try
same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.
there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.
Evolution 2 was pretty good. Much better than the first game.
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Oooo! Cyberpunk 2077 and Civ VII are 53% off
Is civ vii good yet? Or I should ask how much dlc is planned to know how long to wait
It is not and as somebody who was patient with Civ VI and ultimately loved it after it was fleshed out, I don’t think it ever will be. The “play three different civs over the course of each game with a leader unrelated to any of them” thing they stole from humankind is not going away so if you’re not a fan of that you’re just going to have to skip this one.
It’s still so weird to me that they did that. AFAIK Humankind did okay, wasn’t like a massive hit or anything, but the makers of Civ seem to have decided to drop everything and chase it around for some reason.
eh
It’s…aight. Not as good as VI yet.
It hasn’t received any significant gameplay changing DLC yet, and usually Civ games don’t really come into their own until then.
honestly, I don’t know. I’ve never played a civ game is didn’t get hopelessly addicted to, but I haven’t really had the money for it yet. plus it has some DRM bullshit on it, so pirating it isn’t an option (yet).
As a side note, if you’re on Linux you can pirate it because the Linux version doesn’t have Denuvo on it. At least that’s what I read when I was searching for ways to not pirate things because stealing from big corporations is wrong
Fair. I’m still waiting for the pack will all dlc. Civ6 burned me when later updates caused issues from game memory limits they just never fixed (or acknowledged). Keeps crashing on me once get to mid game
Oh, is that why my game keeps crashing mid game?
High chance of it.
Sorry asset limit not memory limit/issue.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/289070/discussions/0/3842178984946024233/
Basically the dlc brought them up to the limit so killed almost all of the fun mods and causes issues on bigger maps (which are my favorite)
oooh! that makes so much sense!