Debating finally picking up Hellblade II since it’s 75% off. This holiday I’m planning on playing Hi-Fi RUSH so I might hold off since I’ll be busy with that game. The spouse and I are also considering playing Jedi Survivor (if it’s cheap enough and we’re happy picking up two copies) or Clair Obscur. With these games lined up, I’m on the fence for Hellblade and probably will wait.
Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?
Submitted 6 months ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
https://store.steampowered.com/specials/
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CatZoomies@lemmy.world 6 months ago bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I got Survivor recently and it’s really good so far.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
So fucked that the devs who made Hi-Fi Rush was disbanded
mohab@piefed.social 6 months ago
Half way through my second Hi-Fi Rush playthrough. Game is fantastic.
steeznson@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I had fun with Hellblade 2. Doesn’t overstay its welcome. Not sure how I felt about the ending but it was memorable
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
2 days ago snatched Tomb Rider trilogy for under 6 euro.
Today got Slay the Spire, Witcher 3 and Detroit: Become Human for under 10.
Vupware@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The original trilogy, or the reboot trilogy?
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Reboot. But Was thinking to get remastered too
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Probably talking about the 1, 2 & 3 remastered set that just came out as I just grabbed it too.
You can switch between the original and remastered graphics instantly, at any time, by pressing start. You can also use tank controls if you’re a masochist
fishsayhelo@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
here is your reminder to take a peek over on GOG aswell. personally found steam’s offerings pretty lacking this year. GOG’s; less so.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Or just make sure you check isthereanydeal.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember Stranglehold being mind-blowing for its time. I’m pretty sure I had a physical copy that is long gone, but 5 bucks is not much to see how it has held up.
brewbart@feddit.org 6 months ago
I highly recommend Jump Space if you can recruit your buddies! It’s pretty similar in terms of gameplay feel to Deep Rock Galactic - team play is pretty rewarding, goofing off won’t penalize you too hard. Worth every penny so far
bonenode@piefed.social 6 months ago True, I however got a Steam voucher as a present recently so it made more sense to use it for this. GOG doesn’t do vouchers or do they? Couldn’t find it last time I looked, you can gift specific games though. I might just be blind.
Anyway, to keep with theme of the thread I got 3 games for my voucher:
Dave the diver
Tunic
The last campfire
Kruulos@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
None of my wishlist games were under 10€ so I skipped all of the deals there. Instead I bought (or put to the cart as I wanna sleep over my decisions) lots of DLCs to Total War Warhammers, Powerwash Simulator and other games I already own and like to play.
One new game I want to purchase is the Case of the Golden Idol which looks really interesting
bastien@lemmy.wtf 6 months ago
Good idea, the Total War Warhammer 3 DLC are appealing (when you just want to own all those factions), but base price is just too steep for individual expansions
Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I bought a bunch of discounted CRPGs on Steam and GOG last month, I don’t want to buy anything this time. Let’s see if I can resist…
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
If anybody is into vr, a lot of vr stuff is on sale right now
guysoft@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Anything in particular?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Highly depends on your vr experience and what type of games you’ve played.
Horror on VR is on a completely different level.
But some games that I put in a good pile are:
Arken age, Fujii, Zero Caliber, Contractors, Hotdogs Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Vermillion, Kayak VR mirage, Until You Fall, After The Fall, Half-Life Alyx, Down the Rabbit Hole, Vanishing Realms, Anthro Heat, and Google Earth VR.
It’s hard to find well rounded games that are also fleshed out. You generally get one or the other. H3 (hotdogs horseshoes and hand grenades) is one example, where the guns are top tier (and oh god the mods are so extensive) and the dev is STILL releasing updates weekly, even though the game came out in like 2016 or something, which is basically the first rush of VR. H3 basically has no story or continuity, and is very much a sandbox game. The dev adds in this and that and maybe a new gamemode or map or feature, but that game is really what you make of it. And I’ve dropped a few hours in, heh.
Arken Age, on the other hand, is kind of the opposite. That’s a somewhat linear explorer adventure game with a story (it’s also a much newer game… with more Meta money), and while it has SOME depth, it’s very much NOT a sandbox game. It’s closer to a Zelda game with guns and swords. Not my personal favorite, but still fun.
The Kayak one is cool, but feels like a big dev trying to make a money grab, until you realize it’s a very small indie studio of only a few people trying to pay bills and just charge too much for dlc because they’re probably too young or overvalue their work… i personally like their dlc, even if they’re really overpriced. Like very overpriced. I think they’re charging like $20 for each map that should be 10$ for all of the existing maps. And the progression feels live-service paced (slow). But it really is nice to just sit down in VR and kayak around in a beautiful, and sometimes exciting world.
I could talk about this for a long, long time. I’ll try to wrap it up.
Half life alyx is great, but VR has conventions that are developing and coming into popularity over time. An example of what I mean is this:
On a modern pistol, you have several controls. You have the gun itself, the magazine, the magazine release, you have the slide, the slide release, and the trigger. Which buttons do you map to what? The trigger and magazine release are pretty easy, but what about grabbing the slide vs grabbing the pistol itself? What about adding on a sight? What about a scope? What if you want to zero in or adjust the scope? Can you two-hand hold the pistol? Can you partial out the magazine to check how many rounds are in it? Can you add in individual rounds to a partial magazine? Are magazines unique or can you just drop a mag and release and not waste rounds? How far in do you have to load a magazine before it pulls itself the rest of the way in? Can you manually cock a hammer?
Now, what if you have a double barrel, side by side shotgun? Or fire modes?
You get the point. It’s a lot different in VR. If you play enough games, you definitely see the trends come and go.
Back to half life alyx, that game is really good, but it’s a game from 2019, and technology and conventions can move FAST. Some stuff catches on, other stuff gets forgotten, innovation usually keeps pushing.
I think a large part of VR right now is watching and being part of this insanely young medium figure itself out in ALL of the ways. What a time to be alive.
Oh! Another thing I’ve noticed, is that older VR games, especially ones funded by meta/oculus, liked to show trailers of players superimposed over in-game footage. It’s fucking awful and cringe, but I do understand where they’re coming from, trying to show off a very new technology to the masses that HEY, THIS IS VR AND YOU HAVE ACTUAL PRESENCE. Or currently, where trailers try to show off the game by recording players ACT out stuff in game by flailing or physically reacting to stuff in game. Like shielding your face from an explosion or flailing your arms when flying through the air. Unfortunately, it looks just pre-rendered motion and once the potential buyer figures that out, it’s like realizing you’re being lied to and instantly erodes trust. But at the same time, you have to advertise to NEW vr players, who honestly DO react like that a lot of the time. Even I sometimes still flinch or fight aggressively in games that have you use swords. Like Until You Fall.
Oh, I also forgot to add Into the Radius. Those two games (1&2) are deeply flawed, but really fun stalker-type games. Best in class 100%. They’re both somehow still being developed. The mod scene in the first game is much better, but the second one is coming along nicely, and recently just had an update that added in gun PARTS. Like uppers, lowers, trigger assemblies, barrels. Real h3 mods type stuff. But all in a world of horror and supernatural anomalies and death and shooting guns. I’m holding off playing more for the devs to finish the games, which may take a year or two. They’re fun now, but they keep adding in big patches that change the game a lot and it messes with the challenge continuity for me.
Ugh. I need to cut off my spiel.
Uh, tldr: buy hl:alyx and anthro heat, and don’t sleep on Google Earth vr because it’s free. Oh, arizona sunshine is a finished product and worth actually playing through. Sorry for my adhd.
Arnl@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well, be patient and buy it next year with frame
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yup, I’m super tempted to start stocking up on cheap VR games in anticipation for the Frame, but I need to see the final price and be 100% sure I’m going for it before I commit to games that I can’t otherwise play.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I grabbed a bunch of adventures over at GOG: Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard, The Last Door, Black Mirror, Quern, and newly rereleased JRPG classic Breath of Fire IV.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Okay, no spoilers, but I personally really liked Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard a fair bit. It was the first point and click adventures I’ve played, unless I’m mistaken, and it’s amazing IMO.
No spoiler to a certain scene but my favorite line in the game comes from one of the many game overs and it’s just the English voice actor for Finn kinda doing an angry adlibbing right before it happens. Absolute gem of dialogue.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Like, your first ever point and click adventure?
Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Might be time to grab Psychonauts at -85% (C$12). The first game was great. Not too much else I’ve been tracking is at a price I’d go for at the moment, though I haven’t looked past my wishlist for now.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago It’s not as good at the first one, but still good.
Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not sure if it’s part of Winter Sale, but I’ll get Mandragora Whisper of the Witch Tree (I’ll get it on Switch though where it’s also on sale). A work colleague heartily recommended it to me and it looks like a cool game; 2d platformer with hard “soulslike” combat, but doesn’t look like it’s going too hard on the “soulslike”. Supposedly very good exploration.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 months ago I played Mandragora this summer. Liked it quite a bit. It’s not going to change your whole world but it’s a solid Soulslike Metroidvania. Compared to other entries in the genre it’s extremely light on platforming (which for me was a plus), so keep that in mind if you play these kind of games for the precision platforming. The platforming is there as part of the level design and traversal, but don’t expect to be challenged with long sequences of difficult platforming if that’s what you’re after.
Otherwise it’s a lot of fun, the PoE-inspired skill tree is great and lets you do some fun multiclassing by moving over to adjacent skill trees to find combos and synergies. Some of the spellcasting classes can be pretty broken though, so keep that in mind if you don’t want to make the game a cakewalk. Chaos magic in particular was pretty busted, at least when I played.
Exploration is good, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a Metroidvania: new stuff opens up in old areas when you unlock new traversal abilities. Also the game is very pretty to look at.
Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cool sounds good!
HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 6 months ago
I have a lot of games I haven't played yet in my library, so I will patiently wait for another sale
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Where can I learn this skill?
hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I know this isn’t all _that _ helpful but for me what worked was finally forcing myself to start playing a couple of the games in my backlog. It made me realize that I can really enjoy a lot of the games I already own which decreased my desire to buy new games.
st3ph3n@midwest.social 6 months ago
Ghost of Tsushima for me
BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I am an fpv rc plane and quad dude and love flying games with fun arcade like physics that make flying more exciting but still retail the the ability to pilot with advanced controls like a pro. Most flying games the controls are either too dumbed down to be fun or too slow place and realistic and the combat feels like you are flying a 747.
Sooo that being said I’m gonna get one of the X4 bundles. I loved Everspace 1 & 2 and saw that X4 was bundled with it cause they were similar games. So at $5 I figure I’ll give it a try.
If you are like me and enjoy this tiny niche of flying games, I recommend Everspace 2, it’s is a great game and it’s only $10 the controls are kinda dumbed down but it’s a blast to play, if you are an experienced fpv done pilot Firehawk FPV is such a badass concept and game and only $15 right now.
If anyone has any other of these type games they would recommend, id love to hear them.
Maestro@fedia.io 6 months ago
X4 is great! But it's not really a flying game. You start off flying in a space ship yes, but by mid-game you it turns into a grand strategy game. You'll probably spend more time on the map screen and hire an AI pilot to do the flying for you. Still a great game though!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Maybe Wolfenstein 1 or Bloodstained, my list is super long and there’s like tons of game i wanna play. Bang for buck wise i’d go for Wolfenstein 1 & 2 probably.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I’m getting a 4-pack of Tabletop Simulator. Not sure if that counts, since I already did that once—I have new people to try to rope into playing boardgames digitally with me, lol.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 months ago
Board Game Arena is so good already, though!
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is usually around $20 and seems worth it at that price and it is at $10 which seems like a genuinely great deal for a city builder/transit game.
isthereanydeal.com/game/…/info/
Riftbreaker at $11 is tempting too
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Workers & Resources is such a cool idea for a game, but man it’s intense. You don’t just paint roads, you have to buy the machinery and materials, and pave them manually.
Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
To each their own, I bought the game because of that kind of thing!
workersandresources@lemmy.world
kbal@fedia.io 6 months ago
The one that looks tempting which I might actually get around to playing some day if I buy it is Hades.
Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I put it down after about 20 hours, then came back after a few months and 100% it. Honestly that I gotta escape 10 times slog was demoralizing but worth it and very gratifying
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Hades is definitely right down my alley, even though I’d never played anything quite like it before. It’s one of the games that reignited my enjoyment for gaming, a hobby that I mostly set aside for about 20 years. It’s one of the very few games I can fire up when I have a bit of spare time and even though I’ve played through the levels a hundred times, it’s still so much fun.
I’ve tried to get into Hades 2 and so far it hasn’t captured that same level of enjoyment. I think I prefer the relative simplicity of the original and the fact that it takes much less time to start feeling powerful in the original. Much more rewarding. Of course, my opinion on that might change.
- CatZoomies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fucking buy the game already. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played.
It’s worth full price. Very, very few games are worth the full price.
I’d buy this game again on Steam if I could.
belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Dooooo iiiiiiit, Hades is so fucking gooooood
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Played Hades 1, it’s super good when it clicked, if not it will feels like any other roguelike.
tactoid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hades 1 & 2 are so good!
caut_R@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I seem to already have all the deep discounts I‘d be interested in… I currently only buy 80%+ discounts (if anything) since experience has taught me that anything lower than this will get there again very soon, so I’m not missing out by skipping now. I have like 200 untouched games anyway so I‘d probably just be throwing more on the pile… Gifts for friends are in the cart tho
lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Slay the spire ringed is the lowest its ever been
Cheems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One of my favorite games
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So far just dlc for games I already own. Maybe I’ll get Slime Rancher.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I love Slime Rancher! Highly recommend.
Stupendous@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Darksiders bundle and Halo Master Chief Collection.
Sifu. Not that old but cheap enough
inlandempire@jlai.lu 6 months ago I think it’s been 3 consecutive years now that ive been waiting on a deep sale for some titles, but they have yet to reach lower than 10 bucks (max I’m willing to pay).
Some of them aren’t particularly old releases so I dont mind waiting more:
- Signalis
- Caravan SandWitch
- UFO50
- Season
- System Shock (remake)
- No Man’s Sky
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Nier Automata
I might get those:
- Rain World
- Weird West
- Card Shark
- OlliOlli World
b000rg@midwest.social 6 months ago
Definitely get Card Shark if you have a gamepad. I bought it a couple days ago, and I’m in love with it.
- inlandempire@jlai.lu 6 months ago
Oh wow thanks for the reminder, i actually live close to where that game stars off, so it’s a must play haha
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No Man’s Sky is fun and worth it
steeznson@lemmy.world 6 months ago
UFO50 is good value even when it isn’t on sale imo. So much content crammed into it!
fishsayhelo@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
auomata is so so so worth it
mohab@piefed.social 6 months ago
Depends on what you’re looking for. I’d confidently recommend against buying it if you’re looking for an action game. There’s at least 10 better, cheaper candidates on Steam.
My plan to work on my backlog this fall has utterly failed. Instead I’ve not been playing any games at all for the past month and a half, instead just working on a mod for STALKER Anomaly. Consequently I know in my heart of hearts that the right thing to do is not spend any money this sale. However, I am still looking at:
Tails of Iron (-92%)
The Banner Saga (-85%)
Bloodstained: Ritual of Night (-75%)
Virgo Versus The Zodiac (-75%)
Road 96 (-75%)
HYPER DEMON (-75%)
INMOST (-70%)
Trepang2 (-66% - if it was any lower I would just snap it)
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was fun. It did evoke feelings of nostalgia for me, since Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was one of my favorite games back in the late 90s (tied with Resident Evil) and still one of my favorites of all time. I’m personally not a huge fan of the art style and it does lack a bit of polish here and there, but overall good especially at 75% off. Hope you enjoy it.