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Disco Elysium is 75% off.
Prey (and Mooncrash) are 75% off. Most other Arkane games are too, and they're all top notch (except Redfall :/)
Killer7 is 75% off.
Ace Combat 7 is 85% off.
Dying Light (and The Following expansion) are 80% off.
CONTROL is 75% off.
All the Deus Ex games are >80% off, really can't go wrong here.
Pillars of Eternity I and II are 75% off.
Lots of great deals on high-profile games this sale, and I highly recommend everything on this list.
Isn't there something with disco elysium and whoever is profiting off of it now is not the original creators?
Yeah, iirc the developers, who'd spent bloody ages developing the world for the game, we're effectively kicked out during a hostile publisher takeover. They're seeing none of the money from sales, nor do they hold the rights to their own property.
I might be misremembering some parts here, but the main point is that the devs were fucked over, aren't profiting off their property, can't do anything new with the property.
🏴☠️ it is then.
It's a clusterfuck really, but yeah the lead writer, designer and artist were all fired and lost the rights to the IP. Litigation is still ongoing I think, and hopefully Kurvitz, Hindpere and Rostov can regain the right to at least produce more work in the IP in the future. Heartbreaking for Kurvitz especially since he's built the IP with and for his friends from the age of 15.
The original developers were forced out of the studio, allegedly through fraudulent means, but I'm not sure whether they lost royalties from sales as well. I can't find anything confirming one way or the other, unfortunately.
I loved Discord Elysium! Going to pick up Pillars of Eternity because of your comment. Never heard of those games and looks cool.
Going to try these on my Steam Deck, not sure how the controls work with controller yet. ProtonDB gave both a platinum rating, yet Steam says playable lol. If it's anything like Divinity Original Sin 2 then I'm excited.
ProtonDB gave both a platinum rating, yet Steam says playable lol
Steam's checkmark rating is based on a very specific set of criteria, like if the game plays well on gamepad, if the UI elements work on small displays, if it requires keyboard input, etc. Yellow check means the game will play, green means it theoretically has an experience which is on par with native console games.
ProtonDB only cares how good the Linux compatibility is in general, not specifically on the Steam Deck.
Resident Evil 7 is $8 its really fun but I can only play like an hour at a time or I feel like my heart will pop out of my chest.
Subnautica is $10 I haven't gotten it yet but heard it's really good.
Deep Rock Galactic $10
Valheim $12
Hollow Knight $8
Fallout New Vegas $7
Slay the Spire $9 rogue like deck builder
Castle Crashers $3
Batman Arkham Collection $9 four great games for that price is an amazing deal
Spyro Trilogy $10
Undertale $3
Sleeping Dogs $3
Death's Door $8
Sleeping dogs is a great game. I never liked any GTA games or anything else in that style but I fell in love with that game. Great combat, fun story, great atmosphere and and beautiful representation of Hong Kong.
+100 to Sleeping Dogs! Seconding everything you say - plus it has the pork bun vendor.
A man who never eats pork buns is never a whole man!
Subnautica is so much fun. I spent hours and my wrists on Sub 1 and 2.
The Valve Complete Pack is 96% off for a total of $6.54. Portal 1+2, Half-Life 1+2+episodes, Left 4 Dead 2 are all must-haves if you don't already have them, fantastic games that explain why people clamor for Valve to make more games.
Divinity Original Sin 2 is 60% off and easily the best RPG I've ever played. You get a ridiculous amount of freedom as if it's a DnD campaign, and you're on a quest to become god.
Recommend checking sales over at GOG, only DRM free games 👍
I grabbed a bunch of smaller games for my steamdeck that I’ve been wanting to try:
Noita - you’re a wizard in a rougelike physics sandbox environment
Super Meatboy - precision platformer ($1.25)
Cave Story+ - old Metroidvania platformer I never got around to finishing on console years ago
Fez - 2D/3D puzzle platformer
DIG - “Spelunky meets Enter the gungeon & Broforce” action rougelike platformer
Super Blood Hockey - old school arcade style hockey, pixel graphics (and has multiplayer split screen)
Binding of Isaac - never played it, gonna see what all the hype is about. Action rougelike
Tunic - old school LoZ style RPG
Pizza Tower - sonic the hedgehog on crack
Dave the Diver - dive, catch fish, sell fish in restaurant, buy better gear, dive, catch bigger fish, repeat…
Cursed to Golf - deck building rougelike with golf mechanics
Monster Sanctuary - 2D Pokémon platformer
Resident Evil 3 - cause it was $10 and I just finished 2
I get most of my games from Humble Bundle now days but I grabbed:
Hades - great roguelite from steam deck
Subnautica below zero - subpart continuation of one of the best games this millennia
Technomancer - purely because mortismal gaming suggested it
24 euros. Worth it.
Hades is a phenomenal roguelite. Can’t wait for the sequel!
Hades is a great action rpg with rouge-lite elements. The power up combinations and synergies are near limitless and the writing is fucking fantastic. It's like 13 bucks right now.
7 days to die is my favorite survival game, it combines minecraft-like building with a looter shooter and a horde-survival element. Very addictive, if a bit old. It's 5 bucks which..like you can't even get a Sammy for 5 bucks anymore.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Many might already own it, but if you don’t it’s worth the money
I’m actually making my first “full” play through. I played it when it first came out got 40 hours in and got stuck in a death loop save where my next save was like hours behind.
Just reinstalled it with “through the valleys” mod collection and it’s amazing. It’s a vanilla+ like experience and really fun. So this time I’m actually going to complete it. Then I’ll eventually get around to Skyrim again and actually try to finish that 😂
Can't recommend Disco Elysium enough, it's a truly brilliant game.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the righteous is right up there too.
Pillars of eternity games are a close second to that.
Disco Elysium at 75% off is a steal!
Also, Kingdom Come Deliverance, 75% off and rven cheaper than Disco Elysium. This one is hands down one of the best modern rpg games I have played, especially because you can play without the minimap relying on directions given by NPCs, it is so inmersive and it has a plethora of interesting mechanics and an amazingly beautiful world.
Just a heads up: Humble Bundle posts in like an hour. I'm waiting for that drop so I can make sure I don't overspend lol.
-Outer Wilds and Return of the Obra Dinn are must plays. About $27
-Definitely recommend the spiderman games.
-I'm looking at a game called Cloudbuilt. It's $7. This review is selling me "If Mirrors Edge and Sonic decided that they wanted to have a baby but then megaman x was upset cause he always wanted to have a baby with mirrors edge so he inserted nano machines to make the baby a bit more like him this game is what you would end up with!"
I wish I could forget everything about Obra Dinn for a better 2nd play. That game is fantastic.
I was mostly a playstation user, so I never play any Halo game. So as soon as Halo: The Master Chief Collection (includes 6 remastered games) get 75% discount I immediately grabed it.
Also, I've been looking forward to try Sleeping Dogs as I played True Crime a lot back then. It's now 85% off so I immediately grabbed it.
The binding of isaac complete pack is at 38€ at the moment, pretty expensive but worth it, i've spent around 2000 hours with the game
Also Brotato is a nice little game and its like 4 bucks at the moment
I recently bought Dave the Diver (even though it is not discounted by that much) and I‘m having a blast playing it.
It’s a mix of rouge lite, exploration, farming and restaurant sim with a ton of exploration, interesting characters and a nice art style. The sense of progression is very addictive. Would definitely recommend.
Dave The Diver rules. I picked it up because it happened to release recently, not specifically because of the sale, and I love it!
This thread is terrible for my wallet and backlog.
To contribute to the discussion, I bought an old PopCap game called Insaniquarium recently for around 60c, but there a demo version if you want to try it.
It isn't just nostalgia; The game is actually still fun after all these years.
Someone from the review section burned 1800+hrs on it, which I think is actually insane.
Brotato - > 3.99€
Vampire Survivors - > 3.74€
Stardew Valley - > 9.23€
Three games i have poured several hours (+-100) in. I think they are one, if not the best in their genres.
Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, portal 1 and 2, Undertale, Katana Zero, Fallout 4, Skyrim, RimWorld, and if you want nsfw ones I can recommend in private.
Whatever you get, if you still have just a bit left in your wallet, QUBE is only 99¢
https://store.steampowered.com/app/239430/QUBE_Directors_Cut/
My favorite I got was "Death Road To Canada"/DR2C, a single player or couch coop Oregon trail style game about driving to Canada during the zombie apocalypse (because obviously Canada's the only country that would survive duh) works with steams remote play too, super fun, I'll never get bored of it
Signalis is $16 for 7-10hrs of Silent Hill/Resident Evil creepiness. Has a similar aesthetic to Evangelion too!
Cassette Beasts! Amazing monster trainer/Pokemon like with quality of life improvements everywhere, a crazy amount of "shinys" as each monster can spawn as any element, good story and tunes, and awesome art. Definitely worth picking up.
Also Eastward doesn't get enough love. Touching story, brilliant art and music, solid mechanics and a whole, deep turn based retro rpg within the game.
It is also made in Godot, which is a free and open source engine!
I've been really enjoying cross-code on my potato of a laptop. Arpg with a heavy puzzle focus. Only single player, but coop would be too frustrating with the platforming elements
Killer7. The craziest game ever released, the weirdest gaming experience I've ever had. It's glorious.