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I need a rec. I got almost $13 just from selling Steam cards this past week. I got a few games in that price range or a smidge over that I really want to check out.
DotAge vs Heroes of Science and Fiction vs Stardeus vs Shapez 2.
They’re all right up my ally. Anybody have any experience with any of these?
I’ve been touching a lot of grass recently and when I do game, it will be the same 3 games or so again so I’ll pass this one and probably subsequent sales
What have y’all bought so far on this sale? I just got Detroit: Become Human for $4.
Into the breach, nice little game for on the Steam Deck.
Tachyon: The Fringe for $2 and some change for the nostalgia. Doesn’t quite hold up w/ a max resolution of 1024x768, but had a great time in circa 2000. Maybe I can beat it this time.
Just got a Christmas gift card from work today! Thinking of spending some of it on Trials of Mana.
Oh lord, my wallet is not ready for this.
My initial thoughts are these sales are somehow getting even less exciting every time. It is clear that games should only be purchased on sale now as prices don’t seem to drop otherwise.
I miss the old sales where they gave games away.
Apparently there’s a couple free games. Never played
Orange Juicemyself but a friend was super into it when it came out.It’s a mildly amusing board game.
There were three steam games posted in !freegames@feddit.uk yesterday, and three more earlier in the week!
Epic still does good giveaways sometimes, and usually awesome ones over Xmas. Hogwarts was free up to yesterday, and a game called Hordes of Hell is free till tomorrow morning when the next mystery free game is revealed.
I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.
I think it’s also that there aren’t crazy discounts on anything remotely new. There used to be 1-2 games that made headlines.
That new star wars game has a big discount, so that’s something
Remember kids. It’s not a sale until the game is at least 50% off its regular price!
I miss the “flash sales”.
They got rid of them, and the Steam Sales were effectively just the regular discounts you can get anywhere else.
That and people like Rockstar figuring out that you can put “50% off” if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for.
The regular price of Red dead 2 on steam is still the full release price even though the game came out 6 years ago. That way they can mark it 70% of and still overcharge.
I’m sort of going to blame Sony and Microsoft here as well. Since their game subscription services came out, games going on permanent discount seems to be a thing of the past. I reckon they’ve been told to do it just to make the subscription services look better value.
Back in the day, as far back as the ZX Spectrum for me, games would come out at full price and then a couple of years later would come out in a budget range. Even Nintendo would do it on the GameCube. Now it’s just full price forever because fuck you.
In some ways, I try to acknowledge the original race to the voting on prices was sometimes bad for indies. The Factorio dev even saw the writing on the wall and decided to head it off, declaring “This is the game’s price floor. Buy it or don’t.”
if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for
That’s how I feel when people try to justify $60 gacha skins with “But you also get all of these lovely in-game materials!” Well I don’t want any of those shit. I only wanted the skin. Now sell me the skin by itself without all the other crap.
my price point is 20 bucks. maybe this year it’s 5 bucks, times have been hard.
After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It’s like 3 games a year now that I don’t already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let’s buy a game id never otherwise buy and try
same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.
there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.
Evolution 2 was pretty good. Much better than the first game.
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I still find these exciting. I gifted my friend Portal 2 since she just got into gaming. Slay the Spire for like $2.50 is a steal.
Like a lot of you… I have many of these but its exciting for gamers that have to ration or haven’t picked these up before and you never know what you may find.
Last sale I picked up Skyrim for $3. Never played and I had a blast!
Just a heads up that you can browse and set filters on steamdb to see new historical lows for games(obviously based on steam pricing only).
Some notable historical lows are Silksong, KCD2, Arc Raiders, Hades II, Megabonk…
I’m partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it’s also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).
Augmented Steam FTW
In case anyone has a Steam Deck - you can also get that as a decky plugin, so if you go to the store page for a game it’ll tell you at the bottom of the screen if you can get it cheaper somewhere else.
They will also send alerts if a game is available at price point you choose.
Is it just me or are a lot of these discounts… Not as good as previous years?
In some ways, I think we have to accept the early years of “8 indie games for $2!!!” is over. Inflation has hit, and indie devs have to buy their coffee too. If you really want a near-freebie, keep an eye out for bundles on Fanatical, where they’re sometimes $3 each game.
30% off a 70€ game still ain’t that cheap
Baldurs Gate 3 is 25% off. I’ve been waiting for bigger sale but don’t think it’s coming soon.
It’s worth every penny even at full price.
Damn that’s it? I’ve been waiting ever since i got my deck.
pay for it, theyre a great studio and deserve the support
We’ll see. They make more money than I do, so supporting them isn’t exactly a reason to give them my money.
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Ace Combat 7 is less than $5, that’s a real solid deal if you’re new to AC and/or interested.
AC7 is great I must’ve dumped over a hundred hours trying to ace all the missions. You’ll be hard pressed to find better value.
Going lower to drum up interest for the new one I’m guessing?
I mean it is 6 years old. It is also possible that Project Aces’ licenses for the aircraft is expiring soon, so they may have to delist the game.
Oooo! Cyberpunk 2077 and Civ VII are 53% off
Is civ vii good yet? Or I should ask how much dlc is planned to know how long to wait
It’s a civ game, so no. It’s still horrendously overrated
eh
It’s…aight. Not as good as VI yet.
It hasn’t received any significant gameplay changing DLC yet, and usually Civ games don’t really come into their own until then.
It is not and as somebody who was patient with Civ VI and ultimately loved it after it was fleshed out, I don’t think it ever will be. The “play three different civs over the course of each game with a leader unrelated to any of them” thing they stole from humankind is not going away so if you’re not a fan of that you’re just going to have to skip this one.
It’s still so weird to me that they did that. AFAIK Humankind did okay, wasn’t like a massive hit or anything, but the makers of Civ seem to have decided to drop everything and chase it around for some reason.
honestly, I don’t know. I’ve never played a civ game is didn’t get hopelessly addicted to, but I haven’t really had the money for it yet. plus it has some DRM bullshit on it, so pirating it isn’t an option (yet).
Fair. I’m still waiting for the pack will all dlc. Civ6 burned me when later updates caused issues from game memory limits they just never fixed (or acknowledged). Keeps crashing on me once get to mid game
Oh, is that why my game keeps crashing mid game?
High chance of it.
Sorry asset limit not memory limit/issue.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/289070/discussions/0/3842178984946024233/
Basically the dlc brought them up to the limit so killed almost all of the fun mods and causes issues on bigger maps (which are my favorite)
oooh! that makes so much sense!
As a side note, if you’re on Linux you can pirate it because the Linux version doesn’t have Denuvo on it. At least that’s what I read when I was searching for ways to not pirate things because stealing from big corporations is wrong
