The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

Killer is Dead is free for the next couple of days on the Humble Bundle, get your steam key while you can (if nothing else the game drops trading cards) :
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/...d_nightmareedition_freegame&hmb_medium=banner

Posted the link in the Non-Steam bargain thread, putting it here too so more people can get the game.
Enjoy .

 

With IGN's acquisition of Humble Bundle, I saw a reason to unlink my Steam account from Humble Bundle a couple of weeks back.

As if on cue, you must now link a Steam account to your Humble Bundle account in order to get the game.

So no free game for me, but people might want to keep an eye out what other "services" Humble Bundle will revoke in the future.

 

So you don't get keys anymore?

 

Pretty sure they stopped doing key giveaways for free games 2 or more years ago because of resellers and their bots.

 

That's not entirely true. You can still get free keys, and you can still even give the keys away (I gave the Civ 3 key I got from the giveaway last month since I already had the game). You just need to have a Steam account to get the key and you can only get one key per account. I'm sure that's their steps to prevent resellers and bots, and I don't know how effective it is because I don't know if you can just keep making throaway Steam accounts to farm keys, but as an individual who wants one key for myself or for a friend if I already have the game I don't feel much of a difference from a free-for-all giveaway.

 

What? I get keys like usual.

 

Well, it's pretty much done the way Sceptic explained it. If you want the game, I still haven't redeemed my key, so you can have it.
It seems that either I can't send pms or can't find the dedicated button(which is somewhat embarrassing) so just suggest some way of getting the key to you.

 

Click on his username and then on 'Start a Conversation'.

 

Thanks but no thanks, I'm good.

 

Thank you very much.

Alright dude, my mistake, seemed like you wanted the game but didn't want to bother with the whole linking process. Would've sucked to just grab it without at least asking you.

 

Fake news. You had to have your Steam account linked to get free games since before the IGN thing.

 

And the second game is coming next week:



Along with Subwar 2050:

 

Is Subwar 2050 the sequel to Roadwar 2000?

 

Is there a sale incoming or something? At least I can't find the weeklong deals, which is usually a sign of that.

 

Probably a Thanksgiving sale or some shit.

 

IIRC a week-long Thanksgiving sale will hit this week.

 

Count on something for Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

 

Another day at Steam.


Cornflakestein, shoot your milk to those damn Nazi flakes!:









This Russian dev is sensible enough to support German language.



Welcome to Orochi Park, and hey you can romance Kelly from Mass Effect:

Way of Defector, escape North Korea. No, this is not a joke game:

 

The Russians have been releasing a bunch of Wolf3D clones in the past few months. It seems they're using this Raycasting Game Maker engine to quickly put up a game and upload it to the Store. Just like others use RPG Maker.

 

I used to browse the new games section every now and again, but after they opened the floodgates it got worse and worse. Looking right now, it's literally 99% shovelware/asset flips/clones/cellphone trash/babies first coding experience.

Where does this crap come from?

Does the shovelware industry eclipses the actual video game industry utterly?
Or maybe I should rephrase that question to: "Does the low-budget shovelware industry eclipse the high-budget(AAA) shovelware industry?"

Somewhere in China or Siberia or Africa or wherever must be half a million weirdos busy churning out this crap ad nauseum. The volume is staggering.

 

Dead Space animu on Steam:





For a moment I thought EA is back on Steam. But there's also a bundle of animu and games. So that's that.

 

The second link is:

 

Yeah, that's Dead Space: Aftermath. For some strange reasons Aftermath is only available in US while Downfall is available in most regions.

 

It has returned. There's a Steam Awards Nomination Committee 2017 badge on your Steam profile now.