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Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales?

We’ve got two big sales going on, and I’m currently deciding what I would like to pick up. I’m planning to get Expeditions: Rome since it’s 60% off, and I’m trying to decide if I want to finally get Terra Invicta.

What patient games are the people here planning to pick up? Maybe I’ll find a few that I “need” to try!

cevn ,

I encourage everyone here who hasnt played Celeste to pick it up for $2. One of the goats

stargazingpenguin OP ,

Thanks for the recommendation! It’s not necessarily something that would jump out at me, but it seems people really like it.

olafurp ,

Love that game

wizardbeard ,

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Dying Light, and Hades. $10 a piece on Steam.

I put a ton of hours into Bloodstained RotN when it was on gamepass, but never beat it. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a game I end up replaying every few years, so I really enjoyed its spiritual succesor back then (around when it first released), and they’ve only added more content (three new playable characters, a few game modes) to it over time.

For Dying Light, I love the Dead Rising series, but the moment to moment moving around is nothing to write home about. Dying Light has a focus on movement, and got a lot of good reviews, so I figured I’d give it a try.

For Hades, I’ve always loved Supergiant Games since their first game, Bastion, and I never picked up Hades because it was never priced low enough when I had money to burn. Now that Hades 2 is in early access, I watched some gameplay of that and the first shot up on my list to buy. I’ve been craving an isometric real time combat game too.

jjjalljs ,

Dying Light’s gameplay is pretty good, but I like immediately got a mod to fix the idiotic weapon break system. It’s the extremely tiresome “Your hammer breaks after hitting 20 zombies” system plus “you leveled up! now you can use a better hammer with bigger numbers!”. Easy enough to mod to taste.

The story, however, is kind of bad. You don’t really get any choices, which is fine, but what happens is not satisfying. The DLC is also fun, but the story ending is trash. I just uninstalled it after instead of doing any of the extra bits.

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Hades, on the other hand, is very good. No complaints.

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 ,

Bloodstained is $3 on cdkeys. I Kickstarted it and got the Switch cart when the PS Vita port was cancelled. For that price, it was a no-brainer getting it for PC now, too!

Emmie ,

No because my wallet hasn’t tasted the sweetness of money in weeks.

I shall make my own sales, in time.

Also I am not a patient gamer because I wait until a price drop. I am a patient gamer because new AAA games are fucking shit.

Reddfugee42 ,

Great contribution to the thread, thanks!

Emmie ,

Don’t mention it. I am a natural beacon of wholesomeness, always ready to help

ipkpjersi , (edited )

I already picked up a bunch, not sure when I will manage to play them >_< I mostly play retro emulation games these days lol

edit: I checked and some of the ones I picked up include Team Sonic Racing, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, and Black Mesa.

Reddfugee42 ,

I think op was asking for suggestions

vxx ,

Finally picked up Dave the Diver.

WijFij ,

Hey me too! Put around three hours in so far and am absolutely loving it!

subtext ,

Love the game so much. It is such a fun concept for a game and they executed so well. I’m still in the first phases of the game and unlocking new content and I’m hooked.

Webster ,

First game I’ve 100% in a long time. I absolutely loved this game.

petenu ,

I’m up to about 30 unplayed games in my Steam library. I really need to stop buying more.

BynaD ,

Those are rookie numbers! I don’t want to think about how much money I have wasted. Stay strong.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, I have… hundreds… over a thousand if you count EGS games I’ve claimed.

Don’t be like me, only buy games you’ll actually play.

stargazingpenguin OP ,

Yeah, you don’t want to stack up too many! I’ve got some in my queue until I feel like playing them, but I’ve started moving more toward just buying a game when I want to play it rather than stacking a bunch up during sales.

Mycatiskai ,

I finally got spiderman remastered. I don’t have much time to play it so I’ve already downloaded a cheat table so I can have unlimited everything.

minimalfootprint ,

I have never played a From Software game. Sekiro is really tempting to get, because I never could see myself dodging/rolling around the big enemies and bosses. Mostly human-sized enemies and parrying sounds much more appealing to me. But the difficulty has scared me off thus far and it never went below 50% off

delitomatoes ,

Think of it as more a rhythm game then a souls like, probably better you don’t have to unlearn any dark souls habits

Vahr ,

This was my barrier of entry. As someone who put around a combined 1k hours in the Souls games, it wasn’t until I treated the game differently than Souls did I finally start to make progress. Same thing happened with the aggressive, faster pace of Bloodborne.

stargazingpenguin OP ,

I’m somewhat the same. Really no interest in Dark Souls/Elden Ring or any of that, but Sekiro did catch my attention before. The difficulty is a turn off though. I often play games on hard difficulty, but I prefer it to be a choice, and to be able to turn it down if it’s too difficult.

learningduck ,

It’s the only game from FromSoft that I’ve ever beaten. I find QoL much more bearable compared to DS1. Parrying allowed me to stand toe-to-toe against bosses also. No more rolling around.

learningduck ,

I’m thinking about either Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth or Warhammer40k: Rogue Trader.

However, I wouldn’t be playing them anytime soon with my backlog. So, I’m likely to just sit this sale out.

Wolfwood1 ,

I just got the pack with Tunic and Death’s Door. I had Tunic in my wishlist for a while and finally bit the bullet. Yay! 2 more games into the backlog!

stargazingpenguin OP ,

No one here could ever have a backlog, right? ;-)

squeakycat ,

Tunic is fantastic. Enjoy!

Rose ,

I bought Dreamfall Chapters, which is back to its historical low on Steam. I’ve heard good things about it, and Dustborn from the same dev looks super promising.

MindTraveller ,

Planescape Torment

kalpol ,

This was a game many people have forgotten but really, really must play. It was amazing when it came out. There is a patch set for it that is pretty necessary, I forget the details but there are walkthroughs for it.

ssm ,
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Baldur’s Gate 3. Currently 20% off on steam, but I want to wait for at least 50% or something, especially for a $60 game.

stargazingpenguin OP , (edited )

I’m keeping an eye on it as well, but I’m waiting for a major price drop/bigger sale. Divinity Original Sin 2 didn’t really click with me, and BG3 reminds me of it a little too much. Fantasy isn’t really my favorite setting, so it may just not be the game for me.

Aussiemandeus ,
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If you can’t afford it you can’t afford it. My two cents though is I would have paid double the cost to play BG3.

Infant I did, I bought it for myself had such a great time I bought it for my wife too

Elevator7009 ,

I am waiting half for this reason and half because I'm busy! I won't get around to playing it anytime soon, so why buy it at this price now when it'll probably be for sale cheaper in a few years, which is when I predict I will have time to play?

restingboredface ,

Just got Stardew Valley. I’m a little reluctant to start it though- it seems like one of those games I could sink hundreds of hours into and I have a huge backlog. But I’m excited to try it.

randombullet ,

I play it with my spouse. Really helps with the long distance times.

stargazingpenguin OP ,

My partner and I both have hundreds of hours in it, so that could be possible! Try not to have super high expectations for it before you start though, I wouldn’t want you to miss out on a fun game because fans hyped it beyond what it is.

That being said, both of us are pretty big fans of the game. We drove quite a distance to go to one of the Stardew Valley concerts, and it was really great. I’m not someone that likes crowds, but all the fans there were very friendly and it made for a great time.

fpslem ,

I don’t play Stardew Valley that often or that much, but what I do play is delightful. It’s a pretty versatile game.

Elevator7009 ,

I originally played the iOS version.

I then bought it again on Steam and have 200 hours logged, which is probably only going to grow. All of these hours happened during the adult phase of my life in which I usually have to be mildly peer-pressured into gaming instead of actually taking the initiative to do something I like (though I am trying to fix that). However, I do think that the way it breaks the game up, into days, gives a nice stopping point.

If only I could stop thinking "one more day, I still need to turn in that quest/plant that new crop in the exact place I want it/get that one last fish I need for the community center before I forget".

Aurenkin ,

Picked up Shadow of War. Only ever played Shadow of Mordor so interested to check it out especially given the 90%+ discount.

biscuitswalrus ,

Is that the one where you start with a stealth mission that never appears again in the game? It acts as a mandatory tutorial and makes the whole thing unreplayable because of its heavy handed enforcement? If I’m right, this game is a really good minor evolution of the original for exactly one play through. However I wanted to enjoy it a second time a few times but never got through the intro. Hmm exactly how I’d describe metal gear solid 5. I’ve got great memories just can’t revisit it.

numbermess ,

I loved Shadow of Mordor. Shadow of War didn’t really feel like a good continuation of it.

Aurenkin ,

Oh dear, well at least I picked it up for cheap I guess. Maybe I should just replay Shadow of Mordor

jjjalljs ,

Is this the one with the weird multiplayer stuff where you fight other people’s orcs, and sometimes they’re suspiciously like level 100 and super annoying to kill? And it has stupid sexy shelob?

I never finished it because of those things, but otherwise the core gameplay was alright.

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