I picked up the complete saga of the enhanced Baldur’s Gate games. That’ll be good for some retro fun.
I got some Paradox games, as I mentioned elsewhere (Europa Universalis 4, Stellaris). Got a few of the Jackbox party games (trivia, Pictionary-kinda things) and we’ve gotten our money’s worth already in a few evenings. Also “What Remains of Edith Finch,” which is not really a game, more of an art project (along the lines of The Beginner’s Guide/Stanley Parable, plot-wise), but is just fantastic. Wonderful, beautiful art and an intriguing mystery–by the same folks who did The Unfinished Swan, if you ever got to check that out. So if you don’t mind games that aren’t really games, you’ll dig this one. Did I mention how pretty it is?
On a different note, also picked up Dark Souls 3 and Witcher 3. I had played the first Dark Souls a bit recently, and I liked it immensely, but never could get past a certain point. I was told the latest would be a little bit easier. Coming in fresh to Witcher 3, but it will probably be a couple months before I try it out.
Oh, yeah, also got something weird called Pony Island for like $2. I couldn’t play long because I swear it was giving me a seizure, but I half-watched my eldest beat it. **Loved **the concept, though. You are playing an old, corrupted Atari-ish arcade action game, and have to repair it (with faux-programming/debugging puzzle sequences) alternating with cheesy Steeplechase/Space Invaders action bits. And the devil is the ghost in the machine. If you can handle ictal graphics, and like retro aesthetics and gameplay, this one is fun.
Huh. I thought you guys said they don’t do flash sales anymore, so I got Portal 2 at $4.99. Though I very much wish I could have bought it as a gift that I could give to myself when I got around to it, or give to someone else.
I just don’t play games as often as I used to, so I’m still not finished with the original. I have to wait until I’m in the right mood and willing to risk the motion sickness of first person games.
I’m torn as to whether to get Torment and/or the Planescape: Torment remastered (haven’t bought anything yet, will probably pick up at least Shadow of Mordor). I don’t seem to actually play those kinds of games all the way through any more - haven’t finished Pillars or even Dragon Age: Origins yet.
I got Obduction, te adventure game from the folks who made Myst. I’ve been waiting a year for it to get under $20 so I nabbed it. So far it hasn’t so much been challenging as confusing, but that’s par for the course; Lots of buttons and levers and rotating platforms and wordy science documents.
That’s not a flash sale, it’s just a package deal. If you bought Portal 2 alone for $5 and haven’t played it 2+ hours yet, you can refund it.
Got Darkest Dungeon, and didn’t realize what I had been missing in my life… Man, is that game addicting. Probably my best score of the sale.
Tried to run Dead Cells today, but got an unhandled exception. Apparently this just started cropping up today for folks. According to the forums, change to offline mode in Steam and it will work (in the event that anybody else is having this issue).
The games I’ve picked up:
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Total Warhammer
The Stanley Parable
Tropico 5
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Streets of Rogue
I’ve poked at all of these except for The Stanley Parable and they’re all good so far. Tropico 5 is one of those games that’s made for Steam Sales - a solid game that got rightfully ridiculed for a shitty DLC policy, but now the DLC is priced properly.
Total Warhammer is also one of those games, but the DLC is still too expensive.
Really slow sale for me. On sale, I bought Radiation Island which is some cheapy survival game and Audiosurf 2.
I also picked up Die Young which was not on sale but is only $15 and its lowest sale price per ITAD was $13.50 so it’s hard to be worried. It’s sort of a survival/Tomb Raider 2013 affair with a strong dash of Far Cry 3. You’re a rich girl in her 20s trapped on a Mediterranean island full of venomous snakes, dogs, big masked dudes with axes and other fun stuff after a vacation gone bad. More stealth & survival oriented than TR or FC but strong elements with lots of climbing & parkour-lite while you avoid wildlife attacks and try to piece together your escape. Still Early Access and not AAA quality but it plays like a real working game and I’m getting my $15 out of it. It also probably marks the first time the Discovery Queue actually led me to something I didn’t know about and wanted.
I picked up:
Kerbal Space Program - I really thought I already owned this. Turns out I was playing it back when it was in alpha, when all you had to do was sign up on their forums for a free copy. Now that the full game is out, I look forward to launching many Kerbal astronauts to their doom.
Cosmic Star Heroine - a JRPG from the same people that made “Cthulhu saves the world.” Very positive reviews, supposed to have a good combat system, and I like the writers.
Tetraminos - a Tetris clone with local multiplayer. Something for my girlfriend and I to play together.
Simple Light Cycles - always been a fan of this mode in Tron games, and this distills the play into something very simple.
Ananias - a new roguelike. I’m a sucker for some turn-based procedural generated death labyrinths.
Domina - train up arena fighters and have them battle for your profit. A little clunky so far, but I’m assured I just need to get into it.
Grabbed Mad Max, Stardew Valley (for myself and also gifted to my oldest daughter, and This War of Mine (due to a friend’s recommendation). I’ll also be grabbing Shadow of Mordor thanks to the previous posts in this thread. (I played it on a friend’s Xbox last year and it was great.)
I think Steam will get about $25 of my money at the end.
NieR: Automata
Brutal Legend
Sunless Sea
Dust: An Elysian Tale
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two
and the Wood Elves DLC for Total Warhammer
Basically, the “game of the moment”, a DLC I wanted, a sequel for my kid, and three cheap games that looked interesting. That’s probably going to be it - my Steam backlog is too big for me to feel good about buying more.
I returned Injustice: Gods Among Us after the game wouldn’t run. I bought Rise of the Tomb Raider instead. I’m getting a new computer soon so I want a few games where I can take advantage of DirectX 12.
Orwell is on sale right now. It’s pretty good. I still need to finish the last episode but it’s really fun. You’re tasked as a new recruit for the government after a bombing and you’re trying to find clues as to who set it off.
Anyone have any suggestions for board game or board game like things I can play on my laptop? I have a sweet gaming pc but I’m trying to spend more time playing in the living room and not holed up away engrossed in a game.
EU IV and Stellaris DLC. Stellaris patch 1.8 comes out in August when Sweden gets back from vacation.
Weirdly, it was cheaper to buy the Witness and Braid as a bundle than just the Witness, so sure I let them pay me $1 to acquire Braid. Also picked up Fable, Planescape: Torment, Shadow of Mordor, and Papers, Please.
Yeah, there’s weird stuff going on with bundles. Maybe this is how you find hidden gems in the modern Steam sale.
For example:
XCOM 2 is currently 67% off, at $19.79.
There’s also a “Strategy Game of the Year” bundle that contained XCOM 2 and Civilization VI. That bundle has an extra 25% discount on top of the current sales. I already own Civ VI, so the “bundle” consists of only a single game. I get the extra discount, and so I can buy XCOM for $14.84 instead of $19.79.
And so I did.
I picked up “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” at 50% off.
Holy crap, it’s kinda fun! Geralt is such a BA.
Because I had such a fun start on Witcher 3, I went ahead and dropped the five bucks for the first two in the series. (It’s clear in Witcher 3 that some of the NPC’s share backstory with Geralt, and I was curios about that history.) The first two titles are definitely a lot more “clunky” by todays standards (Witcher 1 has a poor tutorial, and both are not able to reconfigure keyboard controls, for example), and I’m going to shelve those two titles for now.
A late pickup for me was Versus Squad, a twin-stick zombie killer by the same developers as Nation Red. I had a lot of fun with Nation Red so it seemed like a safe purchase.
If you don’t own Nation Red, it’s a mere 79¢ for the last hour of the sale. Recommended if you like that sort of game.
Ended up with CK2, at least in part because of the recent thread on it. Was going to just get the base game, but they had a bundle with what looked to be several of the “core” DLCs (Byzantines, Islam, Old Gods, etc) for $15, so I went with that.
Oh, and I finished all of the sticker collections. I’m thrilled.