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https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=80&min_rating=80&min_reviews=500
Steam sale items with a 80% discount, 80% rating, and 500 reviews!
Stolen from @Blaze@sopuli.xyz 's autumn sale post
Very useful link! I didn’t realize Tormented Souls was so cheap during this sale. I highly recommend this one for anyone who likes the classic Resident Evil games.
Ohh, handy! Thanks for that link.
Valve really needs to space the autumn sale better and stop attacking my wallet like this.
😂
I ignored the autumn sale because I knew the winter sale would be right behind it and assumed it would have better deals
Identical deals I believe. Except maybe that deep discount section that’s different. Everything else should be 100% the same
I feel less likely to buy now because I know another sale will come soon when I’m ready. I’m not mad at it and less impulse buys.
Fair. I have quite the backlog of games to play, so if something on my wishlist is on sale I don’t bother if I currently have something I’m playing. The sale will come around again.
Already got a couple games/DLC because they were a good deal. Got 2 games and 2 DLC for $22.22 before tax. Pure luck, baby.
Been thoroughly enjoying Sonic Origins but have yet to play Sonic Mania, though.
I think Sonic Mania is currently less than $10 and Sonic Origins was something like $16.99 with the Plus DLC. No idea if those are good deals, but definitely better than the $30+ for Origins on its own in my opinion.
Sonic Mania is absolutely worth it to anybody who grew up with 2D Sonic.
Was in a thread recently where people talk about heavy story games being popular because of Watcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Disco Esylium and Baldurs Gate 3.
I’m going to recommend some fantastic story-rich/story-heavy games that people might have missed during the 2010-2020 era.
Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Hong Kong: RPG tactics. if you’re not familiar with Shadowrun, it’s Cyberpunk but with Elves/Trolls, and Dragons as president. Story is dark and fantastic.
West of Loathing and Shadows of Loathing: RPG tactics. Really great and funny writing. One reviewer said they smiled ear to ear during their whole play. I did too.
Danganronpa series and Steins Gate series visual novel territory. Starts really slow but sucks you in. Paradise Killer was my introduction to this world.
Rusty Lake games Puzzly. Rusty Lake Roots storytelling is so good. Don’t sleep on Rusty Lake Paradise and Rusty lake Hotel. Those stories are a bit more abstract, as are all the Rusty Lake games.
Firewatch this is the game that made me sit up and pay attention to Walk Simulators. There’s a lot of good ones to name, but Firewatch is top tier.
All on sale for a few bucks. All of them will make you think about them while showering and reflecting on life.
Just a reminder that the designer of the West of Loathing games is an accused abuser.
What an absolutely disgusting crowd she fell in with at a young age, that poor woman. I despise these cliques of narcissistic abusers and their sycophants. Thanks for raising awareness.
I was absolutely part of the KoL community in the 2000s-2010s, and left when I aged out of their KoL Radio/podcast stuff.
I remember hearing about it during West of Loathing launch and definitely one of the reasons I avoided the game during release. But I came around during the pandemic and I wonder if there was an aftermath.
I’m digging through the internet right now. This was one of their apologies, also from that 2019 time.
Would you happen to know of any recent updates?
I’m going to say swap Shadowrun Hong Kong for Shadowrun Dragonfall.
Hong Kong felt like the weaker of the trilogy.
I FORGOT TO INCLUDE DRAGONFALL! 😭
I love all three.
Firewatch is a must buy at $2. Great story. The Forest at $2 is great to grab for you and a few friends who like to play survival games and don’t mind some gore.
Wasnt the autumn sale just 2 weeks ago?
Yes it was, though the autumn and spring sales are considered not as big as the summer and winter ones.
Hope no one minds me asking here, but does anyone have any suggestion for games on sale that a 13 year old boy might like? Need a cool uncle gift for the nephew
Edit: thank y’all for the replies!
Make a family and add them to it. They’ll get access to your entire library. As account manager you can hide any games you think are inappropriate.
I’m sharing with my brother who has 4 sons and it has been great for everyone.
You can do that‽ Oh hell yeah. Cool uncle status achieved!
I love how they changed library sharing, too, so group members are only accessing individual games rather than entire libraries.
Any hints what kind of games they’re into? Racing, sports, shooters? My nephew mostly plays fortnite, he’s easy and happy with vbucks.
Honestly? Not really. I haven’t seen them in about 4 years, and the last I really checked in one was super into reading fantasy novels and the other one like Lego. Lol. They’re family friends, not children of siblings.
Because of the fantasy novels I have to recommend Pyre. I’d recommend all Supergiant games to anyone, but Pyre is a special work of art with fantastic writing and unique gameplay. If he really likes fantasy, he should love it because I don’t at all but I did. It’s presented in visual novel style with action “combat” segments.
Deadcells is one I enjoyed and my brother enjoyed. Lots of content and very fun.
Dead Cells: The leading cause of gamepad breakages among PC players. 9 out of 10 ninjas agree.
Here are some cool/memorable games:
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Braid
Risk of Rain 2
Need for speed heat is like 4 bucks, as a former 13yo boy I woulda liked it
Teardown might be a good one.
Satisfactory. If they like Minecraft they’ll like this
I think I’m going to get the base Grim Dawn. A complete package might drop eventually for a good price though, so I’m undecided.
A shame Paradox games are DLC/subscription farms. It just ain’t worth getting invested.
Overall still, I’ll probably browse in hesitation and buy nothing in the end.
If you like ARPGs I’d recommend checking out Last Epoch, I found the customization and skill trees much more satisfying than Grim Dawn.
I just couldn’t get into Last Epoch. Can’t really put a finger on why, since other ARPGs grabbed me that are not that dissimilar…
checks price … Perhaps.
Grim Dawn is a no brainer at $2.50.
The base game is great, expansions are often on sale, and there’s another coming next year
The second game is why I’d rather wait for a good deal on a full package of the first.
It’s another expansion I believe, not another game.
Obviously your call, but there’s more than enough game there for $2.50 if you’re looking for a great solo arpg
Another expansion? I thought it was a sequel. Ah well. Maybe
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is such a steal at this price.
I want it so much but
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
Oh. Hard pass then =/
Edit: Thanks for the info.
Each to their own, doesn’t bother me. I like the games way too much to care.
Yo ho ho
Yeah, it runs on the steam deck, but it requires always online drm, so what’s the point
Screw that, I won’t buy it then.
Checks Steam – Already in my library
Dammit.
It’s already in mine too, but I don’t buy EA games, and haven’t for way longer than that game is old. No idea how I have it.
Ooo, it’s all three main games and all DLC…
Hell yeah! Amazing package for the price.
Any recommended indie strategy, tower defense, or rogelikes you enjoyed? I recently enjoyed cobold core and peglin.
I tried looking up kobold core and instead found KoboldKare. In the future, please be more specific about your recommendations
Not sure if it’s on sale but Creeper World is a super unique tower defense style game. The 4th one just came out.
Edit- meant 5th one just came out
The 4th one came out in 2020 i thnik but yeah really good game all 4 of them
Edit : IXE just came out which i did not know
I loved cheaper world. Great series. I didn’t like the newest one unfortunately. Played the demo wasn’t for me. I liked 3/4 though.
Paper planet.
It’s a doodle game roguelite though I do wish it was still priced a bit lower. But hey if Peglin can be $13…
Rogue legacy 1 and 2 are great roguelikes.
20XX and 30XX are great Megaman clones that are roguelikes.
Rogue tower is another great game with rogue in its name.
Fantastic tower defense.
I really enjoyed Heretic’s Fork
Heretic’s Fork
wild music!
I love how the Winter Sale starts and the entirety of all gamers DDoS the site. The prices are practically the same from the Autumn Sale.
Isthereanydeal.com is also down.
There are some new surprises that I found before everything went kaput.
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Celeste $4.99 -75% - A platformer with 8-way airdashes. I’m sure you’ve already heard enough about how amazing the base game is, so I just want to take a moment to shoutout the incredible modding scene for more content. My favorites are Spring 2020 Collab, Strawberry Jam, Glyph, Conqueror’s Peak, and Into the Jungle.
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CrossCode $9.33 -65% (for base game and DLC) - Phenomenal action RPG. Combat is fast and explosive, dungeons are very obviously Zelda inspired but with way more puzzles. Packed with tons and tons and tons of sidequests, many of which put unique twists on the combat system to keep you on your toes. Make sure to grab the epilogue DLC.
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Crypt of the Necrodancer $11.21 (bundle with DLC) - Rhythm game/roguelike sounds like the strangest mashup ever. But what’s even stranger is just how well it works. It’s just a matter of keeping 4/4 time, but forcing a steady pace forces you to think fast and not make any mistakes. Every death is clearly your fault as every enemy is designed to be beatable using only a base dagger without getting hit (and indeed there’s a challenge character that forces exactly this), but dealing with swarms is where it gets complicated. I especially recommend trying to speedrun, playing for speed really makes this game adrenaline-fueled as you have to pace yourself judging how much time you can afford to gather items if you want to make sub-15 or sub-10. Danny Baranowsky’s soundtrack absolutely delivers. Get both the Amplified and Synchrony DLCs.
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Mega Knockdown $7.99 -20% - A turn-based fighting game that’s fun for complete beginners to pick up and play, while still offering a lot of depth. Use this to entice your non-fighting game friends in.
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Skullgirls $2.49 -90% base game, $14.83 bundle with DLC - Still the best damn fighting game of all time. Almost never not on sale, hell you probably already own this by now and may not even realize it.
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Slay the Spire $6.24 -75% - Roguelike deckbuilder, basic idea is that after each combat you get to add a card to your deck, plus collect relics from elites/events/shops/bosses which provide passive effects. There’s a ton of depth in trying to assemble the perfect deck one card at a time, resource management gets very complicated balancing what you need in the short-term versus what you want to take to the endgame. Tons and tons of possibilities, you can pretty much expect to never build the same deck twice. Oh, and did I mention there’s 20 levels of hard modes once you think you’ve gotten A0 down? Also has a very powerful mod API with Steam Workshop support, check out Packmaster and Adventurer for my favorite must-plays.
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Them’s Fightin’ Herds $3.99 -80% - Another great fighting game, been waiting a long time for this port to bring us up to a grand total of two good fighting games on Linux. Has a lot of really cool features like a big story mode with overworld exploration, a cute lobby system with cosmetics to collect and treasure chests to fight for, a dynamic music system that reacts to the fight, and even a semi-cooperative dungeon crawler mode. Has crossplay with consoles as well. Full review. Word of warning: Baihe DLC is very busted and banned from tournament play. Long story about how the publisher fired the entire dev team and released her in an unfinished state. If you buy the DLC, just get the other three characters and skip her.
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Anything by Zachtronics - A bunch of different engineering puzzle games where you have to write code or build a machine to solve problems. Once you’ve solved the puzzle, you can see a histogram comparing your solution to everyone else’s on a few different metrics, encouraging you to go back and try to optimize it further. I recommend Opus Magnum as the best entry point.
Played all these except mega knockdown and would highly recommend any of em. Great list.
Woah CrossCode looks right up my alley. How have I missed that for the past… 6 years?!? Thanks!
I recommend secrets of grindea too!
This
The game is legit one of the best I’ve played in the past like 10 years. The story starts kinda slow but I promise, it picks up later
nods
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No, not again, I didn’t have time to play all the stuff I bought on last one…
But you’ll get around to them at some point, and it’s a good deal so if you buy it later it might cost more. No it’s fine you definitely won’t get distracted by another game and will start it after the one you are playing just now.
I don’t know what you mean “I’ve had that unplayed game for 17 years,” I’m going to play it next, (after this one I’m about to buy.)
As a hoarder, I’m frequently finding games I bought 3-4 sales ago or through the many bundles I buy. I’ve accepted it.
Only because often, I’d read about a cool game, look for it, only to find i own it already. And then I play it immediately and have a lot of fun.
Yea sometimes you don’t really know what is in the bundle you got. At least you didn’t buy it multiple times.
I don’t know what you mean “I’ve had that unplayed game for 17 years,” I’m going to play it next, (after
this one I’m about to buyreplaying this old one for the fifth time.)😭
So a hundred hours more to factorio?
Just one more run of Nier
So grows the backlog.
And steam is already down hahaha
Everyone got on real quick.
Right, I cannot access my wishlist on the mobile app or mobile website.
i can’t access it from the desktop.
The prices aren’t impressing me, then again, they really hadn’t impressed me for 5 years in a row now. They’re exactly the same as I’ve seen them in other sales, except the other sales mark them down slightly lower.
Granted, I’ve acquired nearly every game I’ve personally been scouting for so the thrill is mostly gone. I’d only be spending just to spend on things I don’t quite need and not want.
I disagree.
I’ve been though the Steam Sales for well over 10 years now, and I remember when they switched up how they did it.
Yeah you no longer have a 90% discount for a single day on a game so there isn’t anywhere near as much chatter, which I miss, but there are plently of big names with 90% off. I think that is either what you miss, or you are now 5 years older and just don’t get as excited, or there hasn’t been much released that interest you.
Games with good reviews and 90% off:
https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=90&min_rating=80&min_reviews=500
Is it the sales, or are there just less games coming out at the moment that interest you at any price?
My argument is that, the purpose of the Autumn and Winter Sales is we’re expected to see staggeringly great deals. That is why so many people have looked forward towards every year with Steam. When you see a game that’s been consistently 20% all year, it’s been released 6 years ago for example and it’s active on the Winter Sale with the same exact price as it had been? It defeats the purpose of being involved in the sale in the first place.
It’s a matter of to each their own as to what game they think is currently having a great deal and that’s factored in whether or not that they have it. I’m seeing deals of games where I admit, are at extremely better price points than when I originally got them for. But I also can say that there are games that are on sale right now, where I remembered getting them at better deals way back when.
I’ve already pointed out that it’s also likely that I’ve been acquiring a majority of the games that I want and that if I partake into this sale, I’d only be spending for the sake of spending which may likely not be worth my expenses.
Steam sales 10 years ago were a thing of myth and majesty.
They really were. Like, in 2015, I paid a total of $153 for like 34 games. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but for the games I wanted that were there? Totally worth it. Like Wolfenstein the Old Blood, Transformers War For/Fall Of Cybertron, Oblivion and Morrowind to mention a few.
I’ve noticed this too with Steam. Sales aren’t nearly as good (also, didn’t we just have one?!?) and “release dates” on decade-old games can be listed as say, two years if there was an update or a slight change
Dunno if it’s Steam themselves or others ‘gaming’ the system, apologies for the pun
In a way, I accept that. I think too many super discounts were starting to poison the industry such that indie devs with a limited audience couldn’t even make their costs back, and couldn’t raise their price because they’d compete with so much $4 slop.
(By the way, my other post highlights some great $4 slop)