The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - WINTER SALE 2024

[BrotherFrank]

Anyone play these?

I have! But on iphone/ipad. They are good on those but eh... I'm going to very charitable and say that on pc when competing against actual full fledged tactical games the comparison is a lot less flattering.

 

[Jinn]

anybody tried Medieval Kingdom Wars?

Looks pretty cool, actually. Let us know if you give it a shot and if it's worth it.

 

[Modron]

Although on the bright side, they edited the pit stop (Yet again) to say "lol bruh those tokens we said you had? Naw dawg, those were points from the lunar new year sale and you spent them we're just fuckin' with ya lol". So sure enough, "Your max points increases by 100 every day" means it'll stay at 100 forever, and even though there's no mention of it resetting every day (Or there was no mention. Maybe they've since changed it but I'll be damned if I'm gonna go look) it does. I'll be damned. It also doesn't explain how it lists some buddies on my friends list are doing thousands a day without buying anything.

It means exactly as it says you'll get 100 points max a day; it doesn't reset everyday, don't spend your points for 10 days you'll have a 1000 points total max, et cetera. The thousands a day buddies probably didn't just cash in all their points on the first day or just got the 1000 points bonus on the 3rd and 4th day from valve in regards to some weirdness on the first 2 days and then maybe did the 4 bonus quests on the 5th day or something (although I do wonder about the quests in highlighted games if they add up to your limit or onto it).

 

[Metro]

It's a shitty event -- you basically have to spend $100+ to get a $5 coupon.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

It's a shitty event -- you basically have to spend $100+ to get a $5 coupon.

eh, I think that's why people are exploiting it like crazy atm.

anyway, I never mess with that event stuff. The sale prices are decent enough.

 

[JarlFrank]

anybody tried Medieval Kingdom Wars?

Looks pretty cool, actually. Let us know if you give it a shot and if it's worth it.

I got this one in a humble bundle many months ago. It's pretty decent, and the devs are still updating the game regularly.

It's somewhere between an AoE style RTS and Paradox/Total War world map. The world map is RTwP grand strategy like in Paradox games or Knights of Honor. You maneuver armies around and conquer enemy settlements and upgrade your own.

When two armies meet (or an army marches against a garrisoned town), it zooms into a battle map.
The battles play out with the armies that are already on the field and you can recruit new units like in an RTS. Besiegers will usually build up a couple of recruitment buildings and have their peasants gather resources. Defenders already have an established base with buildings and can train units right away. Besiegers get several siege weapons such as rams, ladders, ballistae, trebuchets. The last time I played (already some months ago) ballistae were overpowered, and easily cleaned all my archers off the walls when I defended against an enemy who had them in his ranks. Ballistae and catapults can also be constructed in towers and on some wall sections to aid the defense. Sieges are really fun and can become a huge mess of storming walls, ramming gates, and then the fighting will continue in the crowded streets. I really love that aspect of the sieges, it's not just "take the walls and win" like in most games with sieges, the fighting will go on even after taking the walls. Units are controlled in squads (like in a Total War game) and have morale, when they flee they return to the town center and rally there. The goal of battles is to take the enemy town center, or as a defender to defend until the enemy's gold runs out (rather than just an abstract timer like in Total War battles, here the attacker's gold drains away the longer the battle takes, to represent paying for the siege upkeep).

The AI is actually pretty decent and aggressive. You'll never see the AI just sitting there passively, they'll keep throwing units at you, sometimes they even try to exploit your weak spots and flank you.

If you like siege battles, this is really good.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I might get a couple of trash games...

Sea dogs is not trash laddie.

 

[Jinn]

Word on the street is that if you're going to put time into a Sea Dogs game, this the best one.



It's the only one I've played because of said recommendations and it's a lot of fun. Very deep and challenging.

 

[markec]

Got few more games, I spent two 5$ off coupons to get Martyr for 14.99

 

[Morkar Left]

Word on the street is that if you're going to put time into a Sea Dogs game, this the best one.



It's the only one I've played because of said recommendations and it's a lot of fun. Very deep and challenging.

Depends on what you are looking for. If you are for total free roaming City of Abandoned Ships is probably better (or Pirates of the Carbbean with New Horizons mod).
To Each His Own has the best melee combat and a pretty long and extensive story with a fixed char. And it's tough btw. Lots of brickwalls right at the beginning of the story. You can rush right into it but sooner or later you will grab a walkthrough. Having quest timers isn't bad per se but in this game they would have better left it out.
But read at least the manual carefully. I mean the CoAS manual if you're not russian because there is no English one. But the games are for the most part very similar.
Or if someone is interested I have a draft ready of a Teho manual based on the CoAS (but expanded and altered to fit the game) as a torrent. It's not completely done but covers 90% of it.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Divinity 2 is -80% off and going for $3.

Well worth it

 

[Dexter]

Got few more games, I spent two 5$ off coupons to get Martyr for 14.99

If you just want some pure unadultered Space Mehreen action like that Astartes fan movie which game would be recommended? I played 40K: Space Marine by SEGA a few years back and it was kinda okay I guess, but got a bit boring after a while. Also Dawn of War II, but it felt a bit cartoony and forced. The last game I remember playing kinda scratching the itch was Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty.

I was thinking these maybe, but the reviews seem kinda concerning:

 

[markec]

Got few more games, I spent two 5$ off coupons to get Martyr for 14.99

If you just want some pure unadultered Space Mehreen action like that Astartes fan movie which game would be recommended? I played 40K: Space Marine by SEGA a few years back and it was kinda okay I guess, but got a bit boring after a while. Also Dawn of War II, but it felt a bit cartoony and forced. The last game I remember playing kinda scratching the itch was Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty.

I was thinking these maybe, but the reviews seem kinda concerning:

Since I havent played much of any of those games I cant recommend them. I heard that Deathwing came out as a broken mess but the devs managed to make it into a decent game, I would have probably bought it if I had four friends willing to play it with me. Armada is is similar to Nexus Jupiter Incident, a good game but not for everyone. I bought Martyr since I heard some good things about it, it was made by Neocore and I like their games, also it looks like Diablo in Warhammer 40k universe which is a big plus for me.

I would recommend:



Although it price tag is a bit steep, since I bought it on fanatical for 12 euros.

In the end the game I would 100% recommend is Chaos Gate and Final Liberation on GoG.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

got bored with mechanicus in like half an hour tbh, felt like a poor man's clone of a bad xcom clone

 

[lightbane]

I would like to recommend this one, it's fun, cheap and you'll laugh for sure:

 

[Jacob]

Is sniper elite 3 good, it's super cheap here

 

[unfairlight]

The fourth game is a lot better. Third is a bit generic, but they upped their game big league in the fourth.

 

[anvi]

The fourth game is a lot better. Third is a bit generic, but they upped their game big league in the fourth.

Does it have trip wires and explosives? I loved that in the first game. Got bored in the 2nd and 3rd.

 

[unfairlight]

Does it have trip wires and explosives? I loved that in the first game

Yeah, they never removed those. I think they increased the variety of explosives in 4 from 2 and 3, but I can't recall perfectly.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Why piggy?
Why?

 

[Citizen]

Why piggy?
Why?

Serves you right for joining team warpig. Should have gone with da parrot

 

[rusty_shackleford]

uh

 

[Okagron]

Bought San Andreas because i was having an huge urge to replay it, but apparently the pc port is terrible. Fortunately, you can downgrade it to V1.0, which restores the songs that were removed due to the licensing ending, and there's a SilentPatch that fixes a bunch of stuff.

 

[anvi]

Bought San Andreas because i was having an huge urge to replay it, but apparently the pc port is terrible. Fortunately, you can downgrade it to V1.0, which restores the songs that were removed due to the licensing ending, and there's a SilentPatch that fixes a bunch of stuff.

Downgrading to 1.0 makes the game better? I was just about to play this too.

 

[Okagron]

Downgrading to 1.0 makes the game better? I was just about to play this too.

The purpose of it seems to just add back all the stuff the steam version removed (mostly the songs that were removed). You also need to be V.1.0 to even mod the game (this is what i got from several posts in a couple of forums i checked) because the version on Steam doesn't allow modding for some reason.

So yeah, if you want every song that was in the original release version, you have to downgrade it to V.1.0. And if you want to mod it, you have to do the same.