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EDIT January 6, 2024:

All games have been accepted by the winners! Thanks everyone for your participation! I loved reading the different messages and hearing some of the positives, the things that made you feel hopeful, and a bit about some of the games you've played. While I wish I could give you all more copies of games, we will do another giveaway like this in the future.

Stay safe, and happy 2024 ahead!

EDIT January 5, 2024:

Minor edit for posterity. All games have been claimed apart from God of War. Each winner of God of War never responded so I'm working down the list through a randomizer to select the eligible winner for this game. I'll update this post one final time as soon as we have an eligible winner that claims this final giveaway.

EDIT January 4, 2024:

There was no response received for the selected winners for Elden Ring and God of War.

I am re-drawing for both these games and will update this post once these final two game codes are accepted by the new winners.

EDIT January 3, 2024:

All games have been claimed apart from two: Elden Ring and God of War. Considering it is the holiday and there may be some obligations, I'm extending the 24 hour window by another 24 hours. If the winners do not reply by Jan 4, 2024 ~ 9 AM ET, they will be forfeit and I will re-draw new winners.

EDIT January 2, 2024:

Giveaway Ended! All winners have been notified, but they have 24 hours to respond. If the winner does not respond, I will re-draw for the new winner the next day until all codes have been exhausted.

I will also be editing this post periodically to acknowledge who won and if they accepted.

I loved reading all these comments, and thanks for everyone responding here and also sharing an optional story! There's a lot of positivity and hope out there, which makes me also feel the same.

P.S. - I really wish I could afford more games to giveaway to you all, but we can certainly do something like this in the future and perhaps make some kind of collaborative giveaway.

Stay safe, and happy new year ahead!

Original Post:

Happy Holidays everyone!

In spirit of the holiday and the upcoming new year, I want to do something nice for you all and give away 10 Steam codes for some of my favorite games that I've played recently!

Games I'm giving away:

  1. ~~Elden Ring~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  2. ~~God of War~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  3. ~~Hogwarts Legacy~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  4. ~~Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  5. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  6. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  7. ~~Persona 5 Royal~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  8. ~~Returnal~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  9. ~~Tales of Arise~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  10. ~~UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~~ - Winner @[email protected]

How to Enter:

  • Comment on this post with the one game you are interested in.
  • Optional: Share a story about something that made you happy or hopeful this year. Or share a story about a game you recently played that you loved.

Restrictions:

  • You can only enter once, and pick only one game.
  • Your Lemmy account must be at least 30 days old and have participated recently in Lemmy/Fediverse.
  • If your account appears to be a bot, troll, or spam account, you will not be selected.
  • Moderators of the [email protected] community are not eligible.

Winner Selection:

  • I will randomly select eligible winners below.
  • You will be notified via two ways: I will @ mention you and reply on your comment to this post. I will also send you a private message.
  • If you are selected, you will have 24 hours to respond to me to claim your eligibility.
  • For transparency, please also reply to my public-facing comment so that others know you received and claimed the code successfully.
  • If I do not get a response from you within 24 hours, you are forfeited and a new winner will be redrawn the next day.

Deadlines:

  • You must enter by end of day December 31, 2023, local time.
  • I will start drawing 10 winners either on Jan 1 and Jan 2. (Hey, I have family obligations so I'll do my best to start on Jan 1.)

Disclaimers:

  • This not a sponsored post of any kind. I purchased these keys myself for the sole purpose of this giveaway.
  • They activate only on Steam as Retail OEM keys.
  • These keys come from Game Billet, a legitimate reseller. They do not come from sketchy places like G2A (NEVER, ever do business with G2A or companies like them).
  • Steam Support: How to activate a Product Key - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2A12-9D79-C3D7-F870

Proof:

Cheers (the holiday kind),

CatZoomies | PCMR Moderator, on behalf of the moderation team

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Elden Ring for me. Thanks for the chance to win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Entering for Persona 5, always wanted to try the game out but it was a console exclusive for the longest time

It's actually pretty cool to see giveaways happening on Lemmy of all places, thank you for this.

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[–] tiny_parking 2 points 1 year ago

I would love Elden Ring, but so would many of the others..

Optional. What fills me with hope is knowing there are still people like the OP who are willing to giveaway to those of us who missed so many good games.

Merry xmas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been eyeing Spider-Man Remastered for awhile, but never pulled the trigger due to price and the amount of time I have. I'd love to explore that world though!

Thanks so much for doing this.

[–] MR_GABARISE 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm really only interested in GoW so I can give it to my brother. He's a dad of 2 and needs some quality games in his backlog.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring for Elden Ring! My favorite game I've played this year is gonna have to be God of War. Getting a chance to revisit a matured and wise version of Kratos, after having experienced how he used to be when I played the original games on PS2 was great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

hey thanks for doing this! I'm interested in god of war. I've been meaning to play it for a while but I haven't had the cash to buy it 😭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

Thanks for the giveaways! I'm thankful for the new job. Same job. Better place. Got a Steam Deck a year ago to catch up on my back log of games I haven't had time to play. I'm up to like 2013 and playing Shadow Warrior, atm. Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How about Elden Ring.

Fun thing for me this holiday was solving a puzzle for another Lemmy user. Figured out the movie they couldn't recall for years was New Friends, 1981, and they are able to share that and the online video of it I found with their sisters for the holidays. Bonus points, there's was a monetary reward that's now going to charity. Was very entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've always wanted to try out Elden Ring but have been holding off on it to work through my backlog. Just finished Bully for the first time and I gotta say it was one of the best open world games Rockstar has made despite the PC jank. Everything about it was just so charming it's hard to believe conservatives lost their shit to this game just for the title of the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not entering as I have most of these treasures but thank you for the Lemmy giveaway!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Elden Ring please (and thanks -even if I don't win).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A friend recently recommended the Persona series, so I think I'm gonna have to go with Persona 5 Royal.

Something that made me happy this year (and gaming related) is that we finally got a remote Dungeons and Dragons group going with that friend, our significant others, and our mutual friend group. After a little hemming and hawing over how to set it up, we went with Foundry Virtual Tabletop (which we find suits our needs). It's good to be DMing for these friends and new faces again!

For a game recommendation/story, our tabletop group had been bandying around throwing in some one shots to try out some different systems and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader came up.

I'm pretty excited to test it out and recently found that Owlcat released a Rogue Trader crpg. I've been pretty busy near the end of the calendar year, so jumping into some science fantasy lore to share with my girlfriend has been great. I'll have to talk with the guy GMing that one shot about the similarities between the crpg and the tabletop system, but we're already brainstorming characters for the one shot and beyond (if we like it).

Hope this reply finds you all cozy and enjoying the season. This giveaway is a really cool idea and good luck everyone!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve been making posts like crazy to fill the fediverse Critical Role group with content and have had an unexpected amount of fun with screenshots and labeling pop culture references over the holidays so far. The big group that has been doing it, CritRoleStats, is shuttering updates, and it’s kinda inspired me to do this. People whose grasp of American English and slang is limited, or those with disabilities are the main groups I have found to be helping and that’s pretty cool.

Thanks for doing this, btw. My top 5, in order: Tales of Arise, Persona 5, Elden Ring, Hogwarts, God of War.

Cheers,
Gramps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Entering for horizon zero dawn :)

[–] Robin 2 points 1 year ago

I'd love a chance at winning Hogwarts Legacy. Thanks for doing this generous giveway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Happy holidays :) put me in for elden ring, thanks!

[–] stoned_ape 2 points 1 year ago

I'd throw in for Persona 5

I'm happy that after a really lame start to the year (getting canned from my long time job and bouncing from job to job for a couple months) I finally got settled making way more money that lets me be home every night & weekend with my wife, and practice music with some good friends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind Persona 5. Happy holidays.

[–] krush_groove 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool of you to do this! I would love to check out Uncharted, I've never played it.

My happy/hopeful story is that the company I work for is looking pretty good for next year and this year was already pretty good. So I'm looking forward to the new year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Elden Ring, please.

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[–] papalonian 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for doing this! I'd love God of War 😁

I've sunk almost 500 hours in to baldurs gate 3 since it's release. Despite that, my favorite game I've played this year is probably going to be Tony Hawks Underground. I recently got hit with the nostalgia wave and have been playing THUG 1 and 2 which were major foundations of my childhood; the soundtracks are unbeatable ("Deadly Sinners" on the same playlist as "Burning Ring of Fire"? Who makes games like this anymore?) and the story and characters are the perfect level of bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for doing this!

The game "spider man remastered" looks interesting, never tried anything like it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

God of war, please

[–] paddirn 2 points 1 year ago

Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales.

My son played the hell out of the first one and would probably like that one as well, so I’ll try for that. Thanks so much for doing this and Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve kind of had my eye on Returnal for a while! I’m afraid it might kick my butt, though. Thanks for the giveaway!

[–] Pr0v3n 2 points 1 year ago

Ooooh Returnal! I’ve been wanting to play it with a mate for quite some time but that price tag has been quite the hump to get over… Best of luck everyone in the giveaway! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope you all have a better year than this one~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd love to get Hogwarts Legacy

[–] fluckx 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I already own/played most of these. A very kind action on your part!

I will go for the uncharted games as I fear the Elden* ring is beyond my gaming capabilities :').

I've recently been playing Jedi survivor. While I feel my pc isn't entirely up to the task anymore, streaming it downstairs through the steam deck really makes it more enjoyable to play!

Best of luck to everyone! May the odds ever be in your favor! Have a great Christmas/new years/2024.

Shout-out to the person doing the giveaway! It's a very generous year end gift to do for strangers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Merry Christmas OP! I'll pick Persona 5 Royal

Here's what made me happy this year:

  • I got married!
  • I landed my first job as a programmer (and got promoted a month after)

Happy holidays everyone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'll try for Elden Ring.

Thank you and Merry Christmas.

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[–] Z3k3 2 points 1 year ago

Always fancied elden ring but my inability to git gud has held me back.

[–] Swagicus 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your generous spirit, brought a smile to my face.

Horizon Zero Dawn would be appreciated.

[–] Dran_Arcana 2 points 1 year ago

Returnal

Considering BG3 is not on this list, you should absolutely consider giving it a playthrough. I've never played a crpg I liked, and my wife had never played one at all, and now we're on our 4th playthrough. It is a legitimate masterpiece and the hype is well-deserved

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the opportunity and for being so generous. I've been interested in God of War for quite some time. Funny enough I played Persona 5 Royale all the way through this year, and it was the first time in quite a while I got the opportunity to give the time necessary to complete a game.

Happy Holidays!

[–] joat_mon 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not wanting to enter the giveaway but just wanted to say what a lovely thing to do for the community.

Happy Holidays everyone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Returnal.

What a cool thing, thanks for doing this.

As a fan of titles like Hades and Control, Returnal's unique mix of gameplay elements is right up my alley. My budget has been maxxed lately so I've just been replaying the stuff in my steam library.

Happy everything to everyone!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It would be so cool to win a Spiderman game or that Hogwarts game!

Something that made me happy this year? We got a new dog after our last dog got sick and died right before Christmas. The most curious part? The death day and birth day are the same somehow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty sweet man, been Wanting to play returnal for a while but haven't had the time lately

[–] PoscoBumbleroot 2 points 1 year ago

This is fun! I'm in for Hogwarts Legacy! Happy holidays to all y'all filthy animals!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll throw my hat in the ring for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

Things that made me happy this year? I started a new job in Jan that has been great. Company treats it's employees like people the work is enjoyable.

Thanks for doing this and happy holidays.

[–] Kylamon1 2 points 1 year ago

That's very awesome of you kind sir/ma'am. I would be interested in #5 spiderman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't need any games but wanted to say this is an awesome idea. Good on ya.

[–] mayas 2 points 1 year ago

God of War would be a great one to have! I've only played the one version on PSP like 10/12 years ago and loved it! Thanks

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