Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!
Edit: it looks like the banner is incorrect. On the front page of steam it’s the right dates and says summer, but when I click on it to see all the sales it says spring with the dates for the spring sale. It’ll probably get fixed soon.
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Here are some "patient" games I've played that are on dollar-bin deals right now. Some are actually cheaper off-Steam, so in those cases, I link there instead.
You only listed Bastion, but the other Supergiant games always go on sale as well. Anyone interested, do yourself a favor and get Transistor and/or Pyre instead or as well.
I’ve been a long time Supergiant fan and it was a thing of gaming beauty to see Hades have such success as it masterfully blended all 3 of their games into the perfect package. Bastion was their first and my least favorite (probably because of it). But it is still worth playing for sure.
Transistor was the first I played and what made me fall in love with their studio. God tier soundtrack, incredible setting, and innovative real time/turn based combat gameplay.
Pyre is the black sheep but my favorite. It is undeniably unique gameplay. But, true talk, you really play it for the story, and that is very much not my gaming MO. It’s indescribable and any fan of Hades wouldn’t receive that game without Pyre coming first. If you liked even 1 character in Hades, you owe it to yourself to play this. I’m not a fantasy fan but I adore the world they crafted. And it is, somehow, probably Korb’s best soundtrack.
Patience may reward you with even lower prices. But they routinely hit this low in every big sale these days. And the risk of not playing them before you die far outweighs the extra dollar you might save.
Psychonauts required following a guide very, very closely to get it working correctly with a PS5 controller on the Steam Deck. Worth it!
Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!
Thanks for the suggestions! I picked up a few of these I didn't already own.
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That's pretty much the norm on the first day.
I'll start looking tomorrow and compare all the offers.
Yep, the sale is THAT GOOD.
Cyberpunk is on sale for 65% off so I finally picked it up (and its DLC). Currently downloading, I’m looking forward to checking it out. I tried it out shortly after launch, I think a demo or a friend’s house, but it never clicked for me so I didn’t get it. It was also incredibly buggy. I heard it’s far better now though, especially with the DLC, so I’ll give it a real shot.
Don't expect RDR2-but-cyberpunk (in terms of the open world) and don't expect a blank slate character RPG: you have some choices for characterization but V will always be V.
If you can get on board with that it's a great, immersive action game with a good story and some well written characters.
Good to know, I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks!
R2D2 but cyberpunk sounds cool as heckin' hell. C3PO too
It's more stable, interesting, and alive than any Fallout, Elder Scrolls, or GTA game in my opinion. If you like any of those, there's a good shot you'll enjoy it.
While true you can talk to more NPCs, the largest city in Skyrim has like 40 people. I find cyberpunk's world feels more realistically populated for a giant city.
I feel like it never broke my immersion cause how often are you stopping every stranger in a real life metropolis to talk to them? Seeing all these nameless people walking by is very much what it's like to walk around a city in real life.
I love all of those. I’m excited to play it tonight
Bloons TD 6 is $1.39 so I bought a copy for my wife so we can play together.
That's a steal. It's a great game
And once again, Steam runs into various errors for me because of the high number of people getting in on the sale.
A beautiful reason to be inconvenienced. Enjoy gaming harmony my friends.
Anything of note? I am considering A Plague Tale Collection at 65% off. Dishonored: Complete Collection is also 80% off. I'm considering buying it to replay on PC, I only have it on PS4 and the performance wasn't great.
Outer Wilds at 40% off again. Does it ever get lower? I know I should pay full price because it's supposed to be a masterpiece but I'm afraid I'll bounce off it. Also a bit hesitant to play it because I'm afraid it will just give me more existential dread and anxiety and I have too much of that already.
According to SteamDB, 40% is tied for the all-time low.
Ah thanks. That's what I thought.
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/outer-wilds/info/
Store low at the major retailers (incl. Steam) is $15
IMO outer wilds has a strong tone of optimism and hope in the face of existential dread, so I think you're probably good on that front. And if you're at all a fan of environmental storytelling and don't hate physics sims, I think you'll like it just fine. If you're super unsure, maybe watch like the first hour (or less if you find your answer early) of someone doing a blind playthrough and see if the manner of storytelling grabs you.
Yea I personally couldn't get really into it. I mean it's fascinating, beautiful, very intense (it has all the extremes of space)..... but I'm stuck and can't find the motivation to go further. It's pretty cryptic. If you're into puzzle games you might crack it better than I do
I picked it up and put it down a few times because I kept getting stuck and felt like I wasn't making any progress, but holy shit when I finally got a small amount of assistance from a friend and got things moving it was like an avalanche and it all unraveled magnificently.
The DLC was somehow even better than the base game by quite a wide margin for me, but I absolutely had to get help starting it because I couldn't figure out how without cheating.
I got it cheaper during an Epic Store sale, but not by much.
Grab it anyway and the DLC, because it's amazing. And listen when it tells you to play with a controller. Really. So many people bounce off it because they can't fly the ship. Mouse and keyboard really is not the way.
Just got Disco Elysium since I keep hearing how it's great.
I'm debating Fallout 3 or New Vegas. Both are super cheap without DLC and pretty cheap with the DLC. I've owned both historically back in the day but neither survived and apparently I didn't get them on steam back then. The DLCs would really be interesting at this point but I am so cheap I can't convince myself
Dear God no. Refund Disco Elysium if you can. Some shady asshole ended up stealing the game from the original creators so any purchases you make ends up lining the pockets of the thieves.
https://medium.com/@artofrostov/to-fans-of-disco-elysium-concerning-the-situation-at-za-um-3e6bc46ea9c
The original creators have actually encouraged people to pirate the game instead.
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Check the mega thread here to get started. The game is excellent, just don't give your money to the slimy suit that stole the game.
Damn, that article is from 2022. Did they get recourse?
It's probably all still in litigation. A big defensive for legal challenges such as this is to prespone as much as possible to run out funds for the claiment.
Too bad the mods of .world suck and blocked dbzer0
Any updates since that original post from 2022?
Two of my favourite games being mentioned? I have been summoned.
Disco Elysium is an absolutely amazing visual novel+. Treat it like a novel whose pages you can read in any order. It doesn't really behave like a classic RPG, the dialogue options are very un-punishing. Feel free to explore them, feel free to be weird, feel free to commit to wacky ideas. The game rewards that. Lastly: the murder case exists as scaffolding, not purpose. Don't tunnel vision on it, enjoy exploring the world building, the characters and the protagonist.
If you're only playing one of those two Fallout games then New Vegas should be a no-brainer, especially if you haven't played its DLCs. Those are, in my opinion, the very best content New Vegas has to offer and should definitely not be missed. Each DLC is extremely different, and they're all so good that I can never decide which is my favourite.
I picked up FNV late last night. I yet again have more games than time!
As do I, as do I. And still I purchased more only just now.
Enjoy the FNV DLCs! Make sure to play Lonesome Road last, as that is the culmination of the DLC storyline. I recommend starting with Honest Hearts, and then Dead Money and OWB can he played in any order in the middle. I probably prefer OWB first.
Finally bought the Dead Space remake and WOW do I love this game. It's even better than I remember the original being.
Good to hear, I think I won’t have time to get around to it this year so I’ll hold off for now
They really fixed most of the aging game problems with the remake imo. I tend to prefer my horror with some agency to fight back.
Well, I bought RoboCop.
I mean, after that third movie he wasn’t doing so hot so I suspect Murphy’s pretty cheap…..
Yeah, but I'm cheaper so I only paid for the mass produced version. No movie bullet holes for me I'm afraid...
I’d buy that for a dollar
I'd rather use that dollar and buy an older game i haven't played than spend it on pretty skins.
Amen to that
Can someone recommend a bunch of good couch coop games I've never heard of
Which ones have you heard of?
I know the 2 games below have 2 player couch coop. Not sure if you can play with 4p local on EDF
Tinkerlands. I just got it together with Novalands (which is a good time sink on switch). Haven't started playing it yet, but it seems similar to terraria, but topdown and with more focus on coop.
Does this one have couch coop? I remember buying Don't Starve Together and finding out it was only "online" together really rustled my gears
Oh, sorry. It looks like only online co-op. I just checked the settings. There is only options for tcp/ip multi-player, or steam multiplayer.
Depends on which you did hear of. Spelunky you probably did, but is Octodad niche enough?
Ooh, try Full Metal Furies. I personally mostly played single player, but I think co-op should be cooler, though I only played a few stages.
Relevant?
Picking up Rogue Legacy 2 at half off. I really enjoyed the first one
Soulstone survivors is solid for $10. Vampire survivors x action RPG with large number of unlockables
Dude. Fair warning for anybody getting into Vampire Survivors.
It's designed with bunch of video lottery type effects.
This thing will grab you and not let go. Particularly after you get good at it.
Each round is 30 minutes. I think that's so people will step away regularly instead of being stuck there. Seriously, its addictive.
(And cheap, and fun, and constantly getting free updates, and dev has his own damn wiki not on fandom.)
for everyone who has an issue with the 30 minuted per run: later on you can speed up the game, so each round is down to 15 minutes.
Ya, this is all true. But it was so intense when I got hooked that my fingers hurt. This is a game that will grab you.
Guardians of the Galaxy was surprisingly good. More so than the movies, the game gives all the characters their due time.
Just make sure to stop when people speak, otherwise you'll go past the invisible point that makes them stop and then you'll miss out on the dialogue.
Could have taken some notes from God of War there.
Yeah truly an excellent gaming experience
Tower wizard just came out but it's amazing at $3
Looks cool but I've never played a clicker game. I like Melvor Idle but I'm not sure how much I would like simply repeatedly clicking on things to progress
Totally understandable, but this one is set up so you're not actually just clicking more than a few seconds at the beginning. And then it is really streamlined going forward so you're actually doing micromanagement on your tower. You can click on something to slightly boost its production speed, and pretty early on you can unlock an auto click where you just cover your cursor over or something if you wanna boost it, but it's totally optional
From those that I bought, It's probably the game I've played the most, though it is more of an idle game than anything else and at higher levels it became old really quick (for me).
Tower Wizard is really good. If you want a taster of the style, the dev has a previous game Magic Archery which is 100% free (no microtransactions), just a very good, short, incremental game.
There's a million free versions of this game on any appstore. This is just like, idle clicker + wizards
Still a little expensive for my taste but I think I'll pick up Space Marine 2 since a buddy has been hounding me to play it with him
Physics puzzler with mind-bendy environments
Metroidvania creature collector where new creatures give you new movement abilities
Reminds me of the older Zelda titles but with more parkour and bouncy balls
Metroidvania, small girl uses the souls of fallen enemies to fight for her
Metroidvania-Roguelike in a multiverse
Cute creature collector with neat elemental interactions and fusions
A bunch of idiots try to prevent a coup by means of defenestration
+1 for tactical breach wizards. description is on point.
I will back up Cassette Beasts for having a strategically interesting turn-based combat system.
I already bought them a week ago, but Furi and Blasphemous since a friend got them, and we already beat Furi together. Gorgeous game, though the walking sections make me not want to play again, especially since my Furier difficulty save reset.
Also Bloodstained to go with Blasphemous in a bundle, since I was thinking about it for a while, and Beastieball, since I saw some posts from one of the devs on Bluesky a while back and they seemed cool. And the game seems to have great reviews.
I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.
What's with the cynicism? Game is a boss gauntlet, what do you mean "get away" like they're some AAA developers getting away with a lazy design choice? You can enable auto walking in those segments and go refill your water or something, but that was a creative choice, not a "let's cut corners—they won't even notice" choice.
I mean "get away with" as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don't just throw in sad music and expect the audience to 'buy into' the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you're just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.
The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking... but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn't make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.
Yeah, but it's a boss gauntlet from an indie developer… the whole point is the boss fights—this is where all the resources went. Everything you demanded above requires more development hours (more money) or better creative choices. For an indie game, pumping money in any place other than your core gameplay experience is not an option most of the time, and poor creative choices aren't always made out of laziness.
You talk like you know they had the resources but decided to "half-ass" it, which's an odd assumption to make about a trivial part of the game. I agree these parts should've been skippable from the get-go, and I understand how frustrating walk-and-talk segments can be in action games and I agree they don't belong there at all, but none of this justifies the cynicism.
Well, either the thing should be done well, shouldn't be done, or, if put in the game and it isn't a good part of the game, it should be criticized.
They decided to put it in the game, full stop.
It was a terrible portion of the game, and I'm criticizing it. As the other fellow said, the developers put it in to craft a certain feeling, and it absolutely sucked at creating that feeling AND dragged my enjoyment of the game down.
One of the devs boxed, and while I can't find a source, I heard the walking is supposed to give the same feeling as stepping into the ring. Which is pretty neat.
But I started turning on Youtube as early as after the 2nd boss...
Director is a wannabe film director and sighted Steven Spielberg's Duel as the main inspiration too.
Speedrun mode in Furi auto skips walking segments.
Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO'd?
No ranking, IIRC.
Damn dude. The AAA games are still expensive, but I don’t think I’ve seen these kinda sales for indy/niche games in years.
Probably not a great economic indicator though.
Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it's holding on.
I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it's 8 years old.
Can anyone recommend a game that can be played over zoom (preferably in a web browser) that isn’t:
Tic Tac Together is team-based recursive tic-tac-toe. When both teams try to claim the same square at the same time, they have to fight for it by playing a subgame. Or a subsubgame. Et cetera. It's surprisingly strategic. How much board control should you give up to secure a contested square?
I've heard good things about Sunderfolk but haven't played it myself. It has hex-grid tactical combat with co-op done via smartphone, so only the buyer of the game needs to share their screen.
I’ll check those out and thanks!
Titan Souls is a fantastic boss rush game where you die in one hit but the bosses only take a few hits as well. You only have one arrow to shoot and you need to go pick it up or stand still to recall it to yourself before firing again.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/297130/Titan_Souls/
That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.
Ugh, I have to decide between the various ace attorney collections, elden ring, and lies of p, because I can't justify buying all of them....
Go for Elden Ring!! If you have not played any soulslike before this game is a great introduction to the genre. It's also so BEAUTIFUL, the lore is amazing, and most importantly...it's so fucking fun! An experience you won't forget.
Personally, I’ve never played the Ace Attorney games so I can’t comment on them, but between Elden Ring and Lies of P I’d suggest Elden Ring if you’ve never played it. Lies of P was fun but it never quite hooked me the same way. Also if you’ve never played a Soulslike before, Elden Ring is a fantastic place to start. The DLC is also amazing, and is probably my favourite add-on content of any game ever. It was a bit controversial at launch for being very difficult, but I think that’s kind of the point.
Elden Ring is definitely the easiest to get into, but I think by the end becomes the hardest of all the Souls games on a normal playthrough. Due to its open world though it is easy to trivialize the game if you’re really struggling, with the exception of the final boss of the DLC who is just a brick wall no matter what (or at least was at launch, I haven’t played the DLC in a little while so that might’ve changed). Elden Ring wasn’t my first Souls game, but it was for all my friends who played it, and they all loved it just as much as I did. I’d put it in my top 3 of all time, maybe #1.
With all that being said, Lies of P is still a really good game, and I’m sure other people feel differently than I do comparing the two, those are just the thoughts of a massive Elden Ring fan so maybe take it with a grain of salt.
I've bounced off a couple souls games before but I'm now like 150 hours deep into elden ring on a friend's copy, lol, but they only have the base game. I'd like to play the dlc (which is not on sale) eventually so I think it makes sense to get my own copy at some point (I've heard transferring saves is pretty easy on pc)
ETA: I normally don't like hard games but I keep feeling like elden ring is encouraging me to be better rather than trying to defeat me, which is a difference I think a lot of hard games miss
That’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of it that way before but you’re right. As much as I love Sekiro and Dark Souls they don’t really encourage you to do better, more just punish you for messing up.
In Demon’s Souls, when you died the first time you were stuck at 50% max health until you regained human form, and dying in human form darkened the world tendency.
In Dark Souls, if you got cursed your health was capped at 50% until you removed the curse which wasn’t free. In the original build of the game the curses stacked all the way to 1/16th of your max health but thankfully they changed that.
In Dark Souls II you lost a fraction of your max health after each death until you were down to 50%.
In Bloodborne, your heals didn’t replenish after death so each time you healed and died you lost that heal and would have to go around finding more heals.
Dark Souls III wasn’t too punishing, I can’t think of anything at the moment that was super punishing about that game. It was my go-to recommendation for beginners until Elden Ring for that reason.
In Sekiro, every time you died you lost half your money and couldn’t get it back. You also had a chance to make a random NPC sick which would prevent you from continuing their quest until you healed them, which wasn’t easy or cheap. The chance to get someone sick also increased the more you died. I think the baseline was 13% chance to get someone sick, and increased every subsequent death until it capped at 50% each death, though there was a way to reset that number.
Elden Ring is kind of like Dark Souls III in that it doesn’t really punish you for dying, which I think is the right approach. If you go with Elden Ring and love it, and do the DLC and love that too, I’d strongly recommend going to Dark Souls III next. It’s the closest to Elden Ring.
I like to try to recommend people who are interested in Souls games to start with Dark Souls 1. If that's your first soulslike the bosses will still feel epic and it will be a magical experience. If you start with Elden Ring or DS3 and go back to Dark Souls you will get completely underwhelmed.
Between Pyromancy, Zweihander and Poise DS1 is also by far the easiest of the games, even for newcomers.
I've heard that recommendation a lot - "play DS1 first because otherwise you won't have the patience to play it later", and TBH all that tells me is to skip 1, play the more recent entries, and then move on to the many, many other games that I keep meaning to play, lol.
It's not really that you won't have the patience later. It's more like this: Dark Souls 1 is extremely basic in its boss design. If that's your first soulslike, it doesn't matter because you have no frame of reference and you'll have a great time. Come back to it later and you'll react with "...that's it?" to a lot of bosses, which is a shame. This is something I've seen a lot from people whose first soulslike was Elden Ring.
The world and level design in Dark Souls 1 is still on an absolute top tier level so skipping it altogether would be sad. Many consider the first half of DS1 to be the best level designs FromSoft has ever done.
That’s true, but I find the sluggish pace (by modern standards) and the second half of the game feeling a little unfinished or rushed makes it a toss up with newbies. I’m a massive fan of Dark Souls 1, but I can see why some people would find it dated. Dark Souls III on the other hand feels like a modern game still, so for someone used to mainly playing modern games I can see why they’d be turned off. Personally I mostly play games from the 360 generation so DS1 doesn’t feel dated to me, but I totally get it.
It is dated, and the last third of it does suck. In truth it would probably be a good candidate for a remake.
Even then, it is a wonderful game that you can only really enjoy fully if you haven't played any later soulslike first. To me, that first time experience is worth trying to push for.
Fair enough. I played DS1 after DS3 and thoroughly enjoyed it, but my experience probably wouldn’t be everyone’s. If someone is planning on playing the whole series anyway, yeah start with the first. But if they’re not really sure, I think DS3 is a safer bet. Though now I’d say Elden Ring.
The only one I don't have is the Miles Edgeworth one, I still need to start Apollo Justice.......
I may be a patient gamer, but I could stand to be even moreso
Edgeworth's games are very different in structure but SO GOOD. I played the first one when it came out and it instantly became my favorite in the series. I still need to get around to playing the sequel though, lol.
I like that Modern Capcom aren't jerks.. and that the entire Ace Attorney series is on Steam.
I never really played Apollo or anything beyond.
I was in the camp of "Trials and Tribulations was too definitive an ending to continue."
And I think so were many others. I hear Apollo Justice didn't sell that well which is what lead to the other Apollo games being named after Phoenix
Dying Light is pretty cheap at $5 USD/EUR
Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6
Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I'm a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.
I wish they port OG NGII to Steam. Goddamn, that game is awesome.