We’ve got two big sales going on, and I’m currently deciding what I would like to pick up. I’m planning to get Expeditions: Rome since it’s 60% off, and I’m trying to decide if I want to finally get Terra Invicta.
What patient games are the people here planning to pick up? Maybe I’ll find a few that I “need” to try!
I spent about $140AUD on euro truck sim 2 DLC, plus American truck sim and a lot of DLC
That’ll bring you quite a few hours of enjoyment I’m sure! I’ve got a lot of hours into both of those games.
indeed! tonight I discovered those wide load missions that must have been from one of the cargo packs I picked up. brings a whole new element to the game!
Oh yes, those are a lot of fun! It does add a lot to the game. Just a warning, I’ve found them to be a bit buggy at times, so I would recommend doing a save before taking one. They may have fixed it since I took one though.
definitly a challenge. I had one that took me down a route so narrow there was probably a centimetre clearance either side and the escort wouldn’t merge, but like you said having a regular save helped
Yeah, it can be frustrating in times like that.
- I keep hearing that Mass Effect is a series I would like, so I finally got the Legendary Edition for $5.99.
- I have also heard of Mages of Mystralia as a good game for magic mechanics, so got that for $4.99.
- Trombone Champ for $5.99. I like silly memey stuff and I’m a former band kid. I also never played the trombone, which explains why I am buying the game instead of just playing my own trombone instead.
- Sixty Four for $4.19, as an incremental game fan
I am not sure whether to pick up Noita because I have heard of its great magic mechanics, it also sounds like something that will frustrate me way too much. I’ll probably try on a friend’s computer first
Noita is a fantastic game.
The magic is that you have two major components. Wands and spells. After every level, you get an opportunity to tinker with the wands you’ve found by replacing spells you have on them with other wands to make something better.
It’s a roguelike, and has no real tutorial, but it’s definitely one of those niche games I’ve put serious time into.
You’ve got a nice variety of games to try there! Trombone Champ was pretty huge for a while there, but I had pretty much forgotten about it. Maybe I’ll grab it just for the laughs.
My pickups have been Horizon Forbidden West, Subnautica, Spelunky, middle-earth: shadow of war, and Pony Island
I don’t have exact price breakdowns, but it was total about 60$ with the vast majority of that being H:FW at 45ish.
I yoinked Undertale and Fallout 76. I just finished FO4, before that was New Vegas, and 3 before that. Finally got hooked on Fallout after years of trying and just not jiving. The show motivated me to try again.
I never got into Fallout either, although I only ever tried 4. I did have someone mention that I should try the earlier games as apparently the tone of them is different. It’s sometimes hard to overcome first impressions though! It’s great that the show gave you the boost to get hooked!
From a new fan, I found that 3 had the coolest environment. New Vegas bad much better gun mechanics. And 4 is good, a lot better than reviews I read made it sound. And the Nuka Town DLC was a lot of fun.
itch.io has a summer sale as well!
Pseudoregalia is on sale and actually super fun. Sort of PlayStation 1 graphics with cool traversal/parkour with a thicc bunny/deer lady protagonist.
Thanks, I’ll check it out! Recently also got Celeste, Blasphemous 1 & 2, and the Metroidvania Humble Bundle: Axiom Verge 1 & 2, 9 Years of Shadows, Cookie Cutter, Death’s Gambit, The Knight Witch… building a backlog. 😂
I didn’t realize that, thanks for the info!
I encourage everyone here who hasnt played Celeste to pick it up for $2. One of the goats
Love that game
Thanks for the recommendation! It’s not necessarily something that would jump out at me, but it seems people really like it.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Dying Light, and Hades. $10 a piece on Steam.
I put a ton of hours into Bloodstained RotN when it was on gamepass, but never beat it. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a game I end up replaying every few years, so I really enjoyed its spiritual succesor back then (around when it first released), and they’ve only added more content (three new playable characters, a few game modes) to it over time.
For Dying Light, I love the Dead Rising series, but the moment to moment moving around is nothing to write home about. Dying Light has a focus on movement, and got a lot of good reviews, so I figured I’d give it a try.
For Hades, I’ve always loved Supergiant Games since their first game, Bastion, and I never picked up Hades because it was never priced low enough when I had money to burn. Now that Hades 2 is in early access, I watched some gameplay of that and the first shot up on my list to buy. I’ve been craving an isometric real time combat game too.
Bloodstained is $3 on cdkeys. I Kickstarted it and got the Switch cart when the PS Vita port was cancelled. For that price, it was a no-brainer getting it for PC now, too!
Dying Light’s gameplay is pretty good, but I like immediately got a mod to fix the idiotic weapon break system. It’s the extremely tiresome “Your hammer breaks after hitting 20 zombies” system plus “you leveled up! now you can use a better hammer with bigger numbers!”. Easy enough to mod to taste.
The story, however, is kind of bad. You don’t really get any choices, which is fine, but what happens is not satisfying. The DLC is also fun, but the story ending is trash. I just uninstalled it after instead of doing any of the extra bits.
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Hades, on the other hand, is very good. No complaints.
I’m kinda offended with these deals. They were great when games were $50. Now that they’re trying to charge $70, the deals are just getting prices down to the old regular price, not seeming like a deal at all to me. Now I have to be even more patient. Oh well…
Plus most sales are the same deal as past sales, and they happen often.
To be honest though, if the price of games kept up with inflation over the decades, then they’d cost like $120-200 today.
Prices are largely in line with historical prices, after inflation. $70 today is worth about the same as $50 in 2011. IIRC, new releases were often $60 back then, so new games may actually be cheaper today than ever.
That doesn’t make it any better though. I’m patient because games don’t release in a solid state these days, and by the time they’re properly patched, they’re on a solid discount. I’m not paying $70 to be a beta tester, I’d rather pay <$50 for a solid, patched game, even better if it’s less.
I mean my paycheck certainly hasn’t been in line with inflation 😭
Baldur’s Gate 3. Currently 20% off on steam, but I want to wait for at least 50% or something, especially for a $60 game.
I’m keeping an eye on it as well, but I’m waiting for a major price drop/bigger sale. Divinity Original Sin 2 didn’t really click with me, and BG3 reminds me of it a little too much. Fantasy isn’t really my favorite setting, so it may just not be the game for me.
I am waiting half for this reason and half because I’m busy! I won’t get around to playing it anytime soon, so why buy it at this price now when it’ll probably be for sale cheaper in a few years, which is when I predict I will have time to play?
If you can’t afford it you can’t afford it. My two cents though is I would have paid double the cost to play BG3.
Infant I did, I bought it for myself had such a great time I bought it for my wife too
Disco elysium and hades.
Disco Elysium shouldn’t be bought because the devs won’t get a cent from the sale, pirate it, that’s what they want you to do.
Can you cite a source for the devs requesting it be pirated? I can’t find one.
That would be a poor legal strategy since the whole issue is still in the courts. So there is no official statement on that.
If the issue is still in the courts it might get reversed and the devs’ll see some money from the outcome.
I’m not a fan of pirated games, maybe I’m an internet pussy, but I trust steam.
The game has probably made 90% of the money it’ll ever make. I paid $5 bucks on sale, $3.50 is headed to the shitbag company who pulled this nonsense, I feel bad for the devs, but I’ve sent more money to worse people while trying to make it through this bullshit society we live in.
I hope the devs win their case, my heart is with them.
Don’t buy Disco Elysium. Pirate it.
The original devs got screwed over by the publisher ZA/UM. The devs actively encourage people to pirate the game so the scumbag publisher won’t get to profit off what they created.
It’s a great game and the OG devs want you to play it for free by pirating :>
Can’t recommended DE enough, and for that price it’s a must buy.
Never encourage people to buy that game, the devs don’t get a cent and don’t want you to buy it, they want you to pirate it.
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no i still have a huge backlog to go through and i still have to pray i dont contract skyrimitis and play that for the 400th time
I know the feeling of getting sidetracked by old favorites! I run into that with Morrowind as well as Stardew Valley, The Sims, Farming Simulator and a few others!
My backlog has reached that point where I need to be a responsible adult and finally beat some games, so this time I’ll pass.
But the PS games like Horizon: Zero Dawn are tempting.
I bought Horizon Zero Dawn when it was 50% off. For me it was really worth it. Got every achievement for it. I plan to do the same when Horizon Forbidden West is 50% off.
It’s definitely a great game, when it reaches the right price point for you
You’re an inspiration to us all. Well done, sir!
I on the other hand may have crossed the threshold where I have more games than time to live. I’d better get a move on.
I too have a backlog, but it’s fairly small. I tend to play genres of games by spells, so I often have a few of each type in my queue for the day I’m interested in that kind. While I don’t force myself to finish a game I don’t like, I do try to keep the number of unplayed games low!
I often find myself looking at some of the PlayStation games, but I often find myself disappointed once I start playing them. The main series of the former exclusives that I like is Uncharted, but many of the others I’ve just lost interest in after a few hours. That being said, Uncharted games are very short, so maybe I just don’t like most long games anymore! Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy were both a lot of fun though.
Just got Stardew Valley. I’m a little reluctant to start it though- it seems like one of those games I could sink hundreds of hours into and I have a huge backlog. But I’m excited to try it.
I originally played the iOS version.
I then bought it again on Steam and have 200 hours logged, which is probably only going to grow. All of these hours happened during the adult phase of my life in which I usually have to be mildly peer-pressured into gaming instead of actually taking the initiative to do something I like (though I am trying to fix that). However, I do think that the way it breaks the game up, into days, gives a nice stopping point.
If only I could stop thinking “one more day, I still need to turn in that quest/plant that new crop in the exact place I want it/get that one last fish I need for the community center before I forget”.
I play it with my spouse. Really helps with the long distance times.
I don’t play Stardew Valley that often or that much, but what I do play is delightful. It’s a pretty versatile game.
My partner and I both have hundreds of hours in it, so that could be possible! Try not to have super high expectations for it before you start though, I wouldn’t want you to miss out on a fun game because fans hyped it beyond what it is.
That being said, both of us are pretty big fans of the game. We drove quite a distance to go to one of the Stardew Valley concerts, and it was really great. I’m not someone that likes crowds, but all the fans there were very friendly and it made for a great time.
I finally picked up Witcher 3 for like 4 bucks. Excited to start playing that. I also got Euro Truck Simulator because it was like 1.99 and seems like a chill space out game.
Witcher 3 was great even though the pacing almost lost me. I’m the kind of player who plays one main story mission and then has to complete all available side quests, before continuing the main quest. It’s the reason the only Bethesda Game I have ever finished is Oblivion.
That’s why I recommend people to stick with it and finish some main quests if you ever feel like the game loses yo.
This is why I can’t replay it… the first time I played it I did everything I possibly could; all the little icons, side quests, traipsed all over each region a dozen times or more… it took hundreds of hours.
I boot it up again, manage to choke down the first “tutorial” area and get to the next are and shut it off… it’s no good, I can’t do it.
Oh man. Once you get some of the higher level fighting moves that games can just be a ballet of rend and slice.
Huh, and here I thought it was just sitting in the cab of a big rig…
Oh, that’s Witcher 2: Ice Road Witcher.
The Witcher 3 is pretty good. I normally don’t like a lot of fantasy games, but the Witcher and Elder Scrolls games are two that I like for some reason! I finished the whole game and both dlcs once. I started a second playthrough, but that is mostly running around and playing gwent! 😂
Both Euro and American Truck Simulator are really good games. I like to just put on a podcast or some music and drive for a while. If you find you like it, the dlc states are worth the price in my opinion. Especially since they go on sale pretty often!
If you like eurotruck but want something a little more intense, snowrunner is great. Base game has well over 100hr of gameplay
Thanks for the recommendation! I actually already own Mudrunner and Snowrunner, and they are lots of fun. Slightly less relaxing than trucking, but they are good games to play with friends too.
The whole package seemed a bit expensive on the Switch. But I’ve spent way too many hours despite the blurry graphics
I didn’t realize they had it ported to the Switch! I can definitely see it struggling to keep up with the game, but it sounds like it’s still at least playable.
Finally picked up Dave the Diver.
First game I’ve 100% in a long time. I absolutely loved this game.
Love the game so much. It is such a fun concept for a game and they executed so well. I’m still in the first phases of the game and unlocking new content and I’m hooked.
Hey me too! Put around three hours in so far and am absolutely loving it!
