There’s a Lego Games bundle for sale at Nuuvem. Around $7.50 for:
Batman
Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Harry Potter: Years 5-7
The Hobbit
Marvel Super Heroes
The Lord of the Rings
The Movie - Videogame
Nuuvem is based out of Brazil so the site is in Portuguese. You will receive Steam keys for each game. Nuuvem is a legitimate authorized Steam game retailer. While some games they sell are region locked, the games I listed here are not and keys can be redeemed in the US (and I assume Rest of World but I won’t personally guarantee it since I don’t live there)
In celebration of its three-year anniversary, Crusader Kings II is free to play on Steam for a week. These things usually only take place over the weekend, but in the case of CKII a week seems to be just about the right length of time to get the hang of things. The base game and DLC is also 75% off for the week.
EA sale on amazon. Titanfall is pretty fun for $6, and Battlefield 4 Premium for $15 is a really good deal if you have battlefield 4. I’ve been playing it again recently since it’s been mostly fixed and before hardline comes out, and if you’re interested in getting back into Battlefield with me, contact me.
Also, GMG has a VIP section (need to be logged in I think) which has discounts on full price games, both new and preorder. I don’t know if this is a temporary promo or your account needs to meet some criteria, but there’s some good stuff there. Notably Cities: Skyline for under $22, preorder discounts on the order of 20-35% for a bunch of upcoming games.
The GMG VIP section is open to anyone with an account and is the same price for all account-holders. The main benefit of it versus the coupon codes is that you can use credit from Playfire there (or back when GMG did ‘trade ins’) whereas you can’t use credit in conjunction with the coupons.
The VIP section itself seems to come and go. I guess they bring it out when they have a few major release titles to tempt people with.
Steam is doing a 2K Tenth Anniversary sale, so F. Pu and I finally picked up copies of Borderlands 2. It’s been a while since we had a good co-op shooter to play. Though I’m still not sure that I’m not going to swiftly get bored of BL itself. Luckily, for the price of a pint, I’m not expecting much.
Diablo 3: ROS expansion is on sale for $15 today, previous low price was $20. And it’s a digital copy so you don’t need to buy it from a retailer like the previous $20 offers. D3 is also listed at $15 there too, but it seems to be out of keys. Not sure if they’re going to be restocked before the deal ends. Starcraft 2 / expansion are $10 each also.
Also available on battle.net directly for 50% off / $20 for both the base game and expansion. You can save $5 by grabbing it on gamestop, and they probably just give you a code to enter into battle.net anyway, but if you want the base game or don’t want to use gamestop for some reason you can go that route.
GMG has all (?) the bethesda games on sale, plus you can apply code 22SLIC-KDEALS-EXCLUS for another 20% off. Skyrim Legendary becomes $10.61 with the coupon. It annoys me to re-buy stuff, but since the cheapest the Skyrim DLC has ever been is $10 each, obviously this is the best way to buy them. Dishonored at $8 for the GOTY edition and the Fallout GOTYs are notable too.
Likewise - I would’ve bought Borderlands Pre-Sequel, but it’s still way over my must-buy point. It is kinda funny how much faster my interest curve in the game drops than its price curve.
Also it’s not the last day, there’s still 5 days left.
They have it marked as “low stock” but Bundlestars has a nice set out for $4.99 (all Steam keys)
Planetary Annihilation
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
Of Orcs And Men
It came from space, and ate our brains
Super Motherlode
Merchants of Kaiden
The Original Strife: Veteran Edition
Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey
Survivalist
Spark Rising
Of Orcs & Men is a very linear but somewhat entertaining RPG with Dragon Age-esque combat where you play an orc and a goblin trying to kill the human emperor and stop his war against your tribes, Stalker: Call of Pripyat is a classic FPS, the sequel to Shadow of Chernobyl and Letter Quest has proved a good deal of fun for me – you play a cartoon grim reaper fighting his way across the landscape (to get pizza). When you fight a monster, you spell words from an random assortment of Scrabble-style letter tiles, doing damage based on the words you create. As you progress, they put limitations on you such as each word needs to contain a top row letter or the monster only takes damage from words with two vowels. Anyway, fun game and easy to play in small doses since each “dungeon” only has one or two monsters in it.
I’m not very familiar with the other games but those three alone more than make it a deal for five bucks.
I don’t know how long this has been going on, but the deals aggregator site IsThereAnyDeal now shows Steam user reviews. This makes it even more useful than before, because now you can find only the highly-rated games on sale amidst the oceans of crap.
If you set the IsThereAnyDeal filters to Steamworks and at least 50% off (or use that link to have the filters set for you), you can now use JavaScript to hide games that aren’t rated Positive or above.
To do so, copy the code below. Go to the link above and scroll down a few times (to let it load several pages of games). Then in the address bar, type “javascript:” followed by pasting the code you just copied. This should hide all but the positive games.
$("div.game").not(':contains("Positive")').hide()
If you’re not familiar with Steam reseller aggregator sites like IsThereAnyDeal, they work by crawling through Steam resellers for titles on sale. Yes, Steam keys are also sold through authorized resellers and they often have great sales of their own. These sites usually take PayPal and give you a key that you just copy & paste into Steam to activate. They never have to get your credit card info. The sites I’ve personally used without problem are: Green Man Gaming, GamesRocket, GamersGate, Humble Bundle/Humble Store, Nuuvem, GamesPlanet (various languages, each have their own sales, but still activate for US English Steam), and others that I can’t remember.
You should never buy a game full price on Steam these days, because one or more reseller will often have it for at least 20% off.