Looks like Pizza Tower is on a discount, definitely scooping that up.
How are Lunacid and Dread Delusion? The vibes look amazing but I haven’t seen much buzz.
Celeste is 90% off, in case anyone hasn’t played that yet.
I’m not one for platformers, more of a tac shooter/city builder guy, but Celeste is honestly one of my favourite games. Even if platforming isn’t for you, the story was great. It isn’t overly long either.
I’m a bit torn on the story actually. I’m easily cringed, and some of the dialogue made me cringe. I also think the story takes a very individualistic approach to mental health. You need to overcome stuff yourself and so on (yeah there’s Theo but he’s just a barely relevant acquaintance). It fits well with the gameplay, but it’s a terrible message.
The gameplay is fucking great though.
Oxygen Not Included is 66% off. This game ruined all other colony sim/management games for me, and is by far my top-played game on Steam. This is probably the best review to give potential players an idea if this game is right for them. It’s still being actively developed, and there’s even a new DLC being tested on the beta branch right now.
Cassette Beasts is 40% off. If you’ve ever been into Pokemon, but felt like their games were getting stale, this is worth checking out. Also, the creators seem like comrades; the “Team Rocket” stand-ins are literally real estate agents, and at one point a bearded NPC named “Karl” makes a cameo.
just be a sensible person and pirate everything that you can pirate
Everything looks just fine on 1337 and gogunlocked.
Endless 100% off sale on cs.rin.ru and thepiratebay.org too
fitgirl-repacks.site if you want to play it safe
It was already on sale, but if you like city builders, logistics, and communism then Workers and Resources is fresh out of early access and supposed to be really good. Same publisher as manor lords and some other good games. I was gonna give it a try tonight
Did you end up playing it? I played Skylines for a bit, and watched City Planner Plays (iirc that’s the channel) some. I’m interested in learning more about soviet city design though.
I bought and installed it but still haven’t gotten around to it. The reviews are good though and CPP played it so maybe check out his lets play.
Also the new patch for C:S2 really improved things a lot with the second is simulation. It needs a lot more other things but its improving and might be better than the original in a few years if they keep it up
Omori is 10 bucks and the pirated version had a lot of bugs so I might get that. Portal 2 is a dollar and anyone who doesn’t own it should get it. Sekirio is $30 so I might get it and Hades is $10. Assetto corsa is two dollars and I wish I waited till now to buy it. Also DRG is 10 as well. Celeste is $2, gris is $3. Civ 6 and Battlefield 1 are each 3 dollars. Steamdb stays winning
CIV6 and Frostpunk is literally 3 euros. Disco Elysium and Red Faction: Guerilla is 4. PC Building Simulator is 5.
Valve Complete Pack is €11.5 - Throw in Gmod too for another 5 and Black Mesa for 4. Halo MCC is a tenner. Metro series is under 10. FTL is 2.5 and there’s a bunch of older games from the 90s that are also like just “a few euros”.
Though I personally already have most of these games, Steam really has gone all-in on the discounts this time.
Jagged Alliance 2 Gold is a cool strategy game with loads of basically “Tarkov but in a time where Nelson Mandela was still president and we all had those ViewSonic CRTs” gunplay. There’s mods that add even more guns, ammo types, scopes, folding stocks, campaigns, enemy AI, added complexity/difficulty, etc. Well worth enduring actual CBT getting it (and the mods) to work. It’s also €5.
Do not buy Disco Elysium, your money will be going to estonian finance mobsters and not the original developers, pirate the game if you can.
Don’t forget Hunt Down the Freeman kekekeke
Games I have played and recommend:
Inscryption (-60%, $8) is fun if you are looking for an easier Slay the Spire (roguelite deck builder) with escape-room-style meta-puzzles
Doom Eternal (-75%, $10) blazes a new trail for the stale FPS genre and is a great game to use to learn flickstick
Into the Breach (-50%, $7.50) I LOVE this game but also find it really really stressful because you have to play perfectly in order to have a chance against the final boss. Every turn is basically like solving one of those chess puzzles.
Games I’ll be picking up:
CrossCode (-70%, $6) is some kind of hexbear favorite but I’ve never played it
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (-85%, $6) - I really loved the first one as a modernized Half-Life 2, although have heard this one is not quite as good
Sonic Mania (-75%, $5) - this is apparently a retro-styled sonic game made in the modern era; I’ve never played a sonic game before but loved Pizza Tower, so looking forward to this
CrossCode was, I think, in one of the big itch.io bundles. Double-check. You may already own it.
Note that the CrossCode DLC A New Home on itch io did not come with the bundle and is not on sale and if you want it it would probably be cheaper to just re-buy the game and DLC on steam.
Less than 10 dollars for the game and A New Home combined.
Wolf 2 isn’t as good as 1/TNO and TOB but is still fun and worth a playthrough.
If I had more time I’d finish Dread Delusion. The only other thing I’ve played anywhere near it was Marrowwind. The world is weird and fascinating my only grips with it are the combat is basic af or injust haven’t gotten far enough.
Can someone buy me a steam deck :(
Songs of syx is 20% off and that’s a fantastic city builder. Still in EA though if you’re averse to that.
I’m probably picking up Disco, the Subnautica games and Horizon Zero Dawn
Might pick up BG3 too but idk, it’s only like 20% off
Just a head’s up but if you can pirate Disco, the OG devs basically say to do that. It got bought by someone that immediately shafted the devs. I don’t really know the full drama but the devs don’t make any money on sales.
E: also see @CredibleBattery@hexbear.net’s comment below in this post.
requested refund and bought from respected retailer Fitgirl Repacks instead ✅
First time hearing about Fitgirl Repacks so I am gonna book mark that too lol.
I don’t think there was anything good in Steam sale for me for something like decade by now. Or rather, that sale never look like real sale. They really fucked it all up when they removed regional pricing in Poland.
Hell i didn’t even know the sale was up until i read this post. And looking at my wishlist around half of it is in the sale, but never more than 30%.
Damn, I don’t remember Euro Truck Sim being this bad. Charging for new cargo types and $10+ per extra state is fucking nuts.
I’m looking at Axiom Verge 2. I just did a cheatyface playthrough of the first one(first playthrough was years ago and no cheatyface).
I also just got introduced to Balatro from a friend and now I really want it lol. I’m a fan of Roguelites but don’t play them a great deal(do have like 200 hours in on Isaac) but I used to play poker and also enjoy card games, not so much deck builders. I played Slay the Spire a bit and own it on 2 systems but I’m just not great at those types of games. I figured maybe Balatro is the best of both worlds. What I’d really like to see is a a trick taking mechanic combined with meta-progression but idk how that would look.
Jedi Fallen Order is $4 but just saw yesterday that it’s an EA title so that was an easy decision.
Not sure what else to get. I wanna play through New Vegas and also the Mass Effect trilogy a second time but both games are dicey on if they run well on Linux. I don’t even know where to begin with modding Bethesda games on Linux in 2024 lol.
I’ve tried a few different scripts and manual installation, and imo the best solution for modding is to use mo2 through steamtinkerlaunch
Gonna bookmark this too. Never knew this existed but it seems like it fixes a lot of headaches lol.
Oh shit, you just mentioned my hyperfixation. Or at least, one of them.
I have had success (after a bit of finagling for the 4GB patch and whatnot) with running Viva New Vegas on the Steam Deck, and imagine that if you try to keep a tight control on what you add beyond that and check regularly you’ll be fine. Essentially, any mod circa ~2016-2020 or below should be heavily suspicious, and anything from 2010-2016 should be ignored pretty much entirely.
You may have to use a Linux compatible Mod Organizer 2, but just ask questions in the Viva New Vegas discord server if you’re unsure, the folks there are very helpful.
Modding has come a long way for New Vegas.
Let me know if you have any questions! I have been modding and remodding New Vegas for a decade at this point
My last Bethesda modding experience was Skyrim and I was dropping mod files directly into the WINE prefix and it(almost) just worked as I recall.
I found this: https://gist.github.com/richardgaywood/e64eeb162062adb501fd3d35add9a0e8 but donno if I wanna get that involved. I sort of wish they had an AppImage like r2ModManager lol. That thing works perfectly fine for games installed via proton. Like I’m impressed with how simple it is.
Can confirm that those are broadly the steps I went through, so yes, it should work if you want to go through with it.