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I picked up Total War: WARHAMMER III and Pennon and Battle, both strategy games. I'm thinking of getting Baldur's Gate 3 as well. This should keep me busy for a while. My holiday plan is to stay home and game!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
  • Fear Effect Sedna
  • Grim Dawn
  • Keep Taking and Nobody Explodes
  • RIDE 5
  • REKA
  • Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
  • Old World
  • Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand
  • Crime Boss: Rockay City
  • Moonstone Island
  • Inkulinati
  • Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
  • Venba

And I gifted Freedom Planet 2 to a friend.

The Winter Sale isn't over until January 2nd, so I might buy some more games before it ends. Problem is, I own most of the games on the Steam front page, so finding new and interesting games is getting difficult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have absolutely no idea what it's about, but it's only $2 (90% off) and I'm a sucker for steep deals, so I couldn't pass it up.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Problem is, I own most of the games on the Steam front page, so finding new and interesting games is getting difficult.

This. I feel totally underwhelmed by the sale this year because everything on the front page I already either own or have no interest in. I know the discovery queue exists, but it primarily tries to feed me the same jank I already know exists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dread Delusion and Lunacid. Also thinking of finally picking up Factorio

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Lunacid! I forgot how excited I was for that to come out. Swooping in to snag it now, thanks

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Everspace for 99 Cents. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Game was hard for me to get into but once it clicked, it was awesome

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I ended up getting Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, Sonic Adventure 2, Prey, Daemon X Machina, and Dragon Age 2. I have no regrets in my eclectic sale impulses hahaha

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I like boomer shooters and immersive sims, so I picked up Selaco and Fallen Aces. Both are good so far. Selaco has some maze-like levels that can be a bit annoying, but the gunplay is very fun and the level of polish and detail is very high. Fallen Aces is awesome for the amount of ways it gives you to deal with the goons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Picayune Dreams! A "vampire survivors" -like as if you are schizophrenic and on acid simultaneously. A great $3

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I took Age4 Sultans Ascend DLC and Cossacks 3 in previous sale before winter because I ended up with a bit more money. Somehow I didn't spent much money as usual in October, cook food on my own instead of buying cooked food.

I don't really have any other wishlist now. Instead I really want to make my own rts game but I have not been able to be productive nor playing Cossacks 3. But I did spent a bit more time with Age4.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A bunch of EA games they‘re practically giving away considering the 90% discounts (Mass Effect etc.), and a bunch of indie puzzle games (Cats Organized Neatly etc.) as well as some steeply discounted Devolver Digital games (Hotline Miami 2 etc.).

I think I paid the price of one full price game (70 bucks nowadays) for like 20+ titles, but also yet again lost the battle of the ratio of games purchased vs games played this year… Damn you, Gaben!

Now I‘ll just wait for Monster Hunter Wilds which is easily my most anticipated game at the moment and probably the first triple-A game I‘ll be getting on launch since Elden Ring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now I‘ll just wait for Monster Hunter Wilds which is easily my most anticipated game at the moment and probably the first triple-A game I‘ll be getting on launch since Elden Ring.

Same here.

FYI, Monster Hunter Wilds is available on Green Man Gaming and Fanatical for -18%, taking its price down to a normal triple A price of 57€.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Skyrim VR! Just got a headset and it's neat!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did they release a fifth installment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2257010/Creeper_World_IXE/

I've watched a couple gameplay videos by the dev and it looks good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bustafellows (95% sale). I have a huge backlog of [email protected] to play, and Bustafellows is not on it. But it was also like $2 so… worst comes to worst, I play the game some day, hate it, and my purchase serves to signal "hey, English-speaking ladies who do not live in Japan also like otome games, localizing them is a good business choice". Which means more otome for me! I have heard of so many Japan-only games that sound so cool but also I cannot play them because I won't understand a damn thing the characters say, and they are usually super story-based.

The Magic Circle. I forget what recommendation list I saw it on to be honest, but it still seems to hold up as something I would like and think is cool.

I like [email protected] games, so I was going to grab Parkitect, saw it in a bundle with more tycoon games, grabbed the bundle to also collect Project Hospital and Game Dev Tycoon. (I already had Parkasaurus.)

I also like automation games. I think its community might be on a dead instance… maybe I'll make a new one. Finally grabbed myself Factorio (will never be on sale) along with Satisfactory (finally out of Early Access. I will never buy an EA game, I will always wait for it to exit EA).

Finally, Sun Haven. Stardew Valley fan, from what I have seen of SH it seems like something I'd like, and price dropped.

Aside from Factorio, everything I grabbed was on sale. Aside from Satisfactory, all the sales were 50% or more.

Might get more. We will see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I've been playing Parkitect over the last months, it's pretty fun! Usually I don't stick with Tycoon games for long, but I did >10 campaign levels there.

Only bummer is that the tooling around blueprints is pretty underdeveloped (can't sort/tag them, very inflexible), and it gets tiring to recreate all the basic decorations around food courts etc.

[–] zo0 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got 30XX and it's been a blast so far. Probably gonna keep me busy for a while.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Finally playing Battlefield 1 and Battlefront 1, cause $3 is a good price to wait for. Only for the single player. I don't care about multi-player. Streamed from my PC to Steam Deck is great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Assassins Creed Odyssey and Fields of Mistrial.

Wasn't ajlot i wanted that i didnt already have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Wayfinder, Gothic and Blades of Time so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I still haven't worked my way through the deals I got during last year's sales, and despite that I bought another dozen games on GOG this black week. So I'm trying to stay away from the Steam winter sale this year lest my backlog becomes such a behemoth it gives me uncontrollable anxiety.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

a few games i pirated earlier in the year, heh, and Pathologic 2, Lunacid (as of a few seconds ago), Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (to check out the openrct2 mod), dwarf fortress, & Odallus the Dark Call.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Neva and Plucky Squire. Oh and Islets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I don't remember if it was on sale, but I got 10 Dead Doves on a whim and I'm not dissapointed so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I haven't bought anything. We've still got another week to go though, so I might pick up something. I'm a patient gamer so I'm still waiting for Cyberpunk and expansion to come down in price. Otherwise there isn't a whole lot that interests me right now.

I'm mostly waiting on updates for a few games I already own: Balatro is getting a big update in the new year, Enshrouded, Against the Storm, and Timberborn. I should get back in to BG3 too. I bought it on release and put 20 hours in and then just... stopped playing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I will vouch that even without the Phantom Liberty expansion Cyberpunk 2077 is fantastic. Phantom Liberty is awesome though, the story is intriguing and the new area is really well done. Everytime I visit Dogtown in that game I'm always like "damn this place is a fucking trash warzone," the devs really nailed the vibes.

Anyways absolutely amazing game, and it's half off it probably won't go below half off for another year I'm guessing. Like you, I got into it after some major updates so I didn't experience all the crap at release - to me the game is a masterpiece.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thaumaturge. Very atmospheric I think. Also, I think the setting is quite fresh, and I think that should be rewarded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I got Life is Strange: Double Exposure. It was meh. Not super bad but had enough bugs to push it in that direction.

After that I played The Excavation of Hob's Barrow which was phenomenal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Caravan Sand Witch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't pick up any of the deep discount items but I did pick up a few items on my wishlist. I picked up Mouthwashing, WitchSpring R, Little Kitty Big City, the Nonory game collection and Okami HD. I already have the last two but I wanted them in the Steam library so I can play them on my deck.

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