Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Recommend 1000xRESIST if you want a story game.

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What are you buying? Groceries, maybe I can swing something during the winter sale.

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  • GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A meme which is a screenshot of the old Facebook reporting screen. The user has selected “I’m in this image and I don’t like it”

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• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The thing about sales, are that if they happen every month is no longer a big event.

  I feel like an old man yelling at a cloud here, but it really seems like everything is on sale all the time, but the sales aren’t actually sales they’re just the price a thing should be

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It just replaces prices actually dropping.

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  • SloganLessons@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember in the past these event sales being much, much better. I remember the discounts being higher, at least 50%. And 90% and 80% were a lot more common.

    I think that’s the actual crux of the matter. These weekly sales throughout the year always existed, it’s the events that don’t feature as big discounts as they used to

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  • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think sales have lost their luster when they're almost the same prices we've seen all year around. The golden age of sales was from 2010 - 2018 I would say and it was THE time to wheel and deal on getting games you sought for the most for crazy prices.

    Nowadays, things remain stagnant. You'll find games released 5 years ago get an eh -15% off. You'll find games even 10 years ago get an eh -30% off. Most of the games you see go 65 - 90% off are either games you already had gotten long ago with better prices or games you couldn't give a shit about.

    I understand that it'd be dumb to expect one or even two year games to be more than -50% at least. But the older the game gets, come on, you can do better.

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  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the deepest discount I’ve ever seen on Rimworld. Still not at the right price point for me but it’s darn close.

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    • mellow@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You might want to put your wishlist in isthereanydeal.com - rimworld’s not at its lowest currently isthereanydeal.com/game/rimworld/info/

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    • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rimworld almost never goes below $26 in sales if I recall. And it pisses me off too because it's an 8 year old game, but the devs remain so stingy on giving a good deal. It's like they act like they've made their own sacred Super Mario Bros game that can never have a good sale, like Nintendo practices.

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• tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ve been pretty underwhelming for a while now.

    You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it’s just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.

    There’s a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they’ve been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its a mix of things.

      • Part of it is that studios tend to price their games closer to what they are “worth”. So you have far fewer “This is a 20 dollar game we are gonna try to sell for 50”. They just put it at 20 to begin with (or get there pretty quick after launch). Which means that the same “get this for 10 bucks” is now 50% off instead of 80% off and so forth
      • Part of it is that game dev has gotten more expensive at all scales and all selling Big Rigs 1 for 5 dollars will do is prevent people from buying Big Rigs 6 for 30
      • Part of it is that… as you get older you are more likely to buy the games you want when they are “good enough” rather than waiting until EVERYTHING is at a max discount so you can spread the money you got from the banana stand over the summer as far as possible.
      • Which ALSO means that you have a huge backlog and it is a lot easier to say “Do I really need this?”

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At one point I picked up six copies of Fallout: New Vegas at like three or four USD each. I kept the extras in my Steam inventory to trade or gift later. I traded some for TF2 items and gifted two or three to friends when Christmas hit.

      Now no more 90% off of good games (okay rarely) and absolutely no keeping games in your inventory. It’s so different now.

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    • GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I saw a game DLC I play that is ancient in game terms (Battletech) and they still want $15 per DLC.

      That’s barely a sale imo.

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    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.

      Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.

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    • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.

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    • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah. I’ve missed out on Yakuza 0 for 5€, now it’s always 12€. I mean it’s probably worth it, but not when I already own a ton of games that I still want to play.

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have no data on this, but it doesn’t feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ugh, I have too much to play in my backlog already. I’ll probably pick up one game that I want to play eventually, maybe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

  I’ve been playing Outer Worlds, though, so I’m saving up for the 2nd one just in case it’s good. Given Avowed’s release, my hopes aren’t high. However, the first game is so perfectly average that if they can just

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  • Famko@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just don’t mix up Outer Worlds with Outer Wilds lol.

    Or maybe do, since they’re both good games.

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• Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does Factorio ever go on sale? I think I’ve had it wishlisted for over a year now.

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  • StuffYouFear@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure if trolling but no, factorior will never go on sale, and will only ever increase in price.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      If I’d known that I would’ve bought it years earlier.

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    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, not trolling. I’d never heard that they had a policy against it until I looked it up just now.

      Somehow I was under the impression that devs didn’t even get a say as to if or when Steam would put their games on sale. I thought I had heard that as a major gripe of devs who list games on Steam.

      Now I’ll have to decide when I feel like it’s worth the remainder of my life and $35.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did the customary scroll through my 50-game wishlist for irresistible 80-90% discounts and basically came up empty. Most of the deep sales are games that will surely be on another deep sale before I finish my upcoming few planned games to play, nevermind my whole backlog. Normally I end up adding something to the pile out of the old “well this is too good to pass up” but for once my wallet might be safe.

  Maybe I give in to temptation and pickup one of Virgo Versus The Zodiac, The Banner Saga or Salt and Sanctuary.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can vouch for salt and sanctuary if you like Souls-like.

    It’s a blast with coop

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d probably have snapped it up already if I didn’t recently buy GRIME on an all-time low deep sale and it sort of fulfills the same niche.

      I had no idea about co-op actually but I don’t have anyone to play with so it probably won’t move the needle for me.

      I will get to it eventually though, it looks great.

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• Elextra@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Picked up Doom Eternal for like $4, which is not bad at all. Believe can get $4 of gameplay out of it even if its not as good as predecessor.

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  • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t feel like it’s fair to compare the newer DOOM games to one another. They’re more like different games than sequels.

    DOOM 2016 is an excellent reboot, fairly grounded.

    DOOM Eternal is a movement shooter / platformer with a ton of verticality in the areas.

    I haven’t played it yet, but I get the impression Dark Ages is even more grounded and geared towards wide open arenas. Almost gives me Serious Sam vibes.

    I’ve had a ton of fun with Eternal and I’m sure you’ll get more than your $4 worth!

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I really want to finish DOOM Eternal but it’s exhausting game to play just one level. Plus what Bethesda did to Mick Gordon is just plain dirty and left a bad taste in my mouth.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DOOM Eternal is to 2016 as DOOM 2 was to 1.

      New guns and an encounter design built around forcing you to be much more aggressive. 2 did it with the addition of the Archvile and Pain Elemental who were enemy spawners that would drain all your ammo if you just bunkered down near a corner. Eternal does it with the much greater emphasis on using special moves in combat to restore resource.

      I haven’t tried Dark Ages yet because of BDS and all that. But from what I have seen? Not super excited. Eternal is honestly one of my all time top 20 games because it just felt so good once you flowed. Taking that away and emphasizing blocking/reflecting is just… lame?

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      And one of the biggest tips to vibe with DOOM Eternal: Play at least the first mission on Ultraviolence. The normal difficulty curve is such that you can mostly ignore all the new features and combos until you hit a wall and suddenly need them. Whereas UV forces you to engage with them as they are introduced so that it all kind of just flows. Feel free to knock it back down if you are sane and don’t feel like realizing you are physically exhausted after a single DLC level, but the game really benefits from jumping into the deep end to start.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Doom has maybe $2 of gameplay by modern standards, but if you’re happy then it wasn’t a waste of money.

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• gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nothing, too busy playing Hades II. Death to Chronos!

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  • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Moonlight guide us!

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  • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dude yes, amazing game that never gets old, from a fan of the OG game as well

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As someone still halfway through SilkSong, I am immune

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m barely into act 2, and then Supergiant had the Gall to drop Hades 2 on me as well.

    I’ve been playing a few rounds of H2 when I rage quit Silksong because of platforming shenanigans / Hard ass boss fights / getting bodied by nobodies while trying to reclaim my cocoon.

    Gonna be a bit before I’m buying new games.

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I just bought Shape of Dreams and Hades 2 just got released. I’m drowning right now.

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• AshCircuit@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly the sheer number of games that I have is just unsustainable relative to how much work I have 🤣 I simply don’t have time for it all. Not to mention as I get older all I want to do is play World of Warcraft or the games I used to play in high school.

  Skate and Apex Legends have been really fun for me though recently, but there’s no games I want to really buy so they can just sit in my library like we all do.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  what are ya buyin??

  Fixed that for you

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• swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I already have Balatro, why would I need another game?

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• piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have a huge backlog, both in steam and physical, so no, thanks….

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• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is my first time actually looking at the new Steam store UI and I have to say that I don’t like it. They seem determined to fit less and less information on the screen and make it harder to find content. I didn’t like their previous UI revamp either for the same reason, but this one is worse. That’s fine Valve, my backlog is eternal, I won’t buy more games if you make it hard.

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  • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Looks like they’re optimizing the UI for handheld/console while forgetting that the majority of their userbase is still on desktop.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That could very well be the case. We don’t have their stats, so maybe they do get a lot of store users on their phone where people make purchases and then later play on their PCs… but I am pressing F to doubt here.

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• tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe none, maybe a couple; lately I have resisted sales since my backlog is so big. That being said, some of the more interesting ones on my wishlist are on sale this time around. I might pick one or two of these:

  First person shooters:
  - Trepang2 (F.E.A.R. homage) - 60% off, $12
  - Prodeus (boomer shooter) - 40% off, $15
  - Metal: Hellsinger (boomer shooter) - 75% off, $8

  Indie/puzzle/chill:
  - The Talos Principle 2 - 70% off, $9
  - Everspace 2 - 70% off, $15
  - Ultimate Chicken Horse (casual/party couch co-op) - 65% off, $5
  - Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition - 90% off, $3
  - Untitled Goose Game - 55% off, $9
  - It Takes Two - 75% off, $10
  - Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D platformer) - 80% off, $3
  - The Forgotten City - 75% off, $6
  - Dreamscaper (indie roguelike) - 80% off, $5

  Also:
  - Persona 4 Golden (JRPGs aren’t really my thing, but I hear that this is literally one of the best games ever) - 50% off, $10
  - God of War - 60% off, $20
  - Desperados III (isometric tactics) - 90% off, $4
  - Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2D platformer) - 75% off, $8
  - Sifu - 60% off, $16

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  • seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Careful about persona 4, game is super homophobic and overall not nice towards minorities. If that’s a dealbreaker to you, Persona 3 or 5 are better experiences. Id argue p5 feels less like a jrpg too

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah it was a product of the PS2 era

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I played it and don’t remember anything that isn’t typical in JPRGs. I guess you have to be able to withstand a certain amount of cringe if you’re a fan of Japanese games/anime.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What if I want the gays AND jrpg?

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s so bad, OMG. For +30 games on my wishlist, not a single difference from the Summer sale, and about half of them were already on sale for the same price before the Autumn sale began.

  Why even bother with seasonal sales at this point.

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• zecg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I will be playing Silksong until the winter sale, but I can recommend this for the sale price that they’re asking (0.75€ at the moment).

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I knew I wasn’t the only one.

    Cool sweeper game tho

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It seems like nothing ?

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• codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m feeling like a lot of y’all. My backlog is already immense, and i don’t even need DLC for the games I have, which are mostly all huge and never ending anyway. Have we reached peak gaming? Are we now making games faster than anyone can play them?

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nothing lol, I have bills to pay.

  I have room in my budget to buy maybe one game per year, and it’s never when a sale is on… *sigh*

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  • treyf711@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used my disposable income during the year to drop money in my steam wallet. That’s how I saved for the steam deck the first time around.

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  • mellow@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s most of the times always some sort of sale going on somewhere. Might want to put your wishlist linked in to isthereanydeal.com - it’s great! Oh and allkeyshop.com if it’s not… 😉

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• charles@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just purchased Stationeers and that’s likely it for me. I’ve been meaning to pick it up forever and it rarely goes on sale, so it felt like a safe choice!

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  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ahh that game is so great but I hate it and can never get far in it. It both scratches a itch that almost no other game can yet is so exhausting to play I can never keep at it for more than a couple hours.

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• Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Days Gone new horde mode is a fiver.

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• ZeroChaos@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only buying Ghost of Tsushima and just gifting Cyberpunk 2077 to a friend. It feels like every sale it’s the same deals, at least to me.

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Playing Hades 2 on desktop, Hollow Knight on deck, and Anno 117 is coming out in a month… Not to mention the five other games I added to my backlog this year and haven’t touched yet.

  I will be skipping this sale, methinks.

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• Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Felt a bit too soon, don't it?

  Thought this happened around November.

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• caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have…

  Just Shapes & Beats Nine Sols Smushi Come Home CATO: Buttered Cat Is This Seat Taken? GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink Ballionaire Pepper Grinder Like a Dragon: Ishin!

  …in my cart, but considering I‘m unlikely to get around to any of them this year, I‘ll let them sit in the cart throughout the sale and see whether I’ll pull the trigger on anything.

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• ChetManly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Picked up Rogue Trader, Death Road to Canada, and Doom Eternal for $20. Not bad.

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  • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 300 hours into that one with co-op.

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    • mellow@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh waw we bounced off pretty hard on that one playing coop. After spending so much time in BG3, the “look at player 1 when they’re talking to someone” was a major downer. I think we spend one evening in that game. I can totally see it shine as single player, but coop - can’t recommend.

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• ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone in this thread: happy with what they have and got bills to pay
  Me: ok cool I can actually stay under 400€ nvm the fact my backlog bigger than Beverly Hills

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Got both Hellblade games for $26 last night. I didn’t even know a sequel came out until yesterday.

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  • Peter_Arbeitsloser@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a cool tech demo.

    sadface

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wait it’s bad?

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