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I bought over a dozen promotional games, with high discounts on several old games, Cities: Skylines-90% for only $2.99; Darkest Dungeon-92% for only $1.99. Also bought a promising HoMM-like new game, Pennon and Battle.
Factorio Space Age, but it wasnโt on sale.
Slime Rancher
I would say definitely worth the 2 bucks. I wanted something I could play without having to pay attention to story, so it seems to fit the bill pretty well.
Good buys... Cities:Skylines is great, but need some DLC for a good game experience.... Vanilla version of game is poor in content. Europa Universalis IV is a good game. You have a game for many hours and many DLC too...
Gearbits Mafia Trilogy Dave the Diver
I'm enjoying the hell out of Gearbits. It's an indie mech shooter with Gundam aesthetics and fast-paced action like Armored Core for a base price of only $10.
Tunic Goat simulator 3 Murtop Hell divers dive harder
Psychonauts 2 and it runs incredibly well on my Steam Deck docked to my 4k TV with high settings and 45% render resolution!
What a fun and lovely game, at a steal of a price.
It really brings me back to the kind of good that games used to be!
If you want similar old school meets new vibes, Celeste, Hollow Knight, Crosscode, and Another Crab's Treasure are all very fun. Crosscode in particular I just finished, and my gosh it was one of my favorites this year. Can't wait for the next game from the devs!
I love Crosscode! I don't think any of these games you mentioned scratch the same itch though. They're definitely great, but are missing the kind of simplicity of an old-school platformer that I've got in mind.
I bought half life 1 and 2 for a friend. Other than that I'll wait until the winter one which starts in a few days
Prince of Persia the lost crown
Islets
I would have got more but I have too many games that I haven't gotten to yet.
I bought stuff from GOG instead because I don't want to buy a license of the games, I want to own them :)
Can't remember exactly how many games I bought, but min. 5 ^^
Tacoma.
I got Cities and the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy (with all DLC) for $13
Enshrouded to play withia few friends. It's been a fun time so far.
I forgot
BioShock.
I bought Octopath Traveler II. I never thought I'd be playing RPGs again but ever since I've gotten the Steam Deck it's really changed the way I've gamed. I don't have long sessions because I play for about an hour before bed so I end up beating longer games in 3-4 months.
I got The Long Drive