The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread - WINTER SALE 2024

[LESS T_T]

Distant Kingdoms, a "unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay," published by Kasedo Games, Kalypso's indie label:

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life.

Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

• Build a sprawling network of towns and villages as you forge a civilisation.
  
• Provide for your people's needs through a deep web of production lines as they move through the Social strata from Peasants to Nobles. Catering to each race’s unique desires.
  
• Explore a new world filled with secrets, quests and magic. Create Tabletop RPG-like adventuring parties and have them venture out into the unexplored mists. Help decide their fate through a choose your own adventure style quest and event system.
  
• Deal with troublesome creatures, from Dragons to Imps, Wraiths and Trolls.
  
• Help the disparate races come together across multiple maps and scenarios in a grand campaign to save their civilisations from ruin.
  
• Watch your settlements change depending on the demographics of each area.
  
• Accessible gameplay for beginners, with complexity hidden underneath for experienced players.
  
• Everything is Moddable: Alter races, add your own, create events, quests and more.

Not related, Haemimont's 2005 Warcraft 3-like Rising Kingdoms is getting re-release on Steam:

Taka-Haradin puolipeikko I see this is listed on this thread: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...mes-that-arent-commercially-available.112686/

 

[Fedora Master]

Yo, you guys want a new Turok game?

Spoiler

Too bad, you get chibishit instead.

 

[DalekFlay]

If you were to recommend a relatively low priced JRPG in the sale to someone who hasn't really liked a JRPG in 15 years but wants to give them a go again despite himself, which would you suggest? Only one I own already is Tales of Symphonia, which I have not played. "Well go play that fuckwit" is an acceptable answer.

 

[Abu Antar]

If you were to recommend a relatively low priced JRPG in the sale to someone who hasn't really liked a JRPG in 15 years but wants to give them a go again despite himself, which would you suggest? Only one I own already is Tales of Symphonia, which I have not played. "Well go play that fuckwit" is an acceptable answer.

Do you accept Chinese game suggestions? Play Tale of Wuxia or Tale of Wuxia: The Pre-Sequel. If not:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Ys Origin
Xanadu Next
Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy IX but it’s only 20% off. Same goes for Romancing SaGa 2.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

rip summer sale

 

[trimethylsilyl]

Bought:

• Unavowed
• UnderRail
• Battle Brothers
  
• Hollow Knight
  
• Darkwood

This should be codex approved, right?

 

[commie]

rip summer sale

Go team Cockatiel! I BELIEVE!!!!

 

[Abu Antar]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Warhammer: 40,000 Mechanicus were the games I got and it wasn’t even via Steam sale. Got both via Humble Monthly.

 

[commie]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Warhammer: 40,000 Mechanicus were the games I got and it wasn’t even via Steam sale. Got both via Humble Monthly.

Yeah, same here. Was going to pull the trigger finally on Kingdom Come, but luckily it was in the monthly(don't think missing a few hours worth of DLC matters when I've already put in 20 hrs in the main game). Also glad about Surviving Mars. Mechanicus too saved a crappy last month.

I did get Bastard Bonds though from the sale.

 

[Zombra]

If you were to recommend a relatively low priced JRPG in the sale to someone who hasn't really liked a JRPG in 15 years but wants to give them a go again despite himself, which would you suggest? Only one I own already is Tales of Symphonia, which I have not played. "Well go play that fuckwit" is an acceptable answer.

I bought Stranger of Sword City just before end of sale. Not a JRPG per se, but a Japanese blobber that prestigious minds recommend. I like what little I've seen so far.

It goes 50% off all the time, link for ease of reference.

 

[Insect Hordes]

Bought Monolith and complete Pathfinder. Then yesterday wanted to play Splinter Cell Chaos Theory again and bought SC 1 as well with a 5 dollar discount I didn't even know I'd earned. Last time I beat Splinter Cell on PC the spotlightis at the beginning of the Abattoir weren't displayed correctly. There seem to be way more fixes now.

 

[4249]

I don't know who recommended this but bought it during the sale and thoroughly enjoyed it. So thanks! Only took about an hour to hour-and-a-half to finish, but it had ok puzzles and good presentation and humour.



Also got West of Loathing, which also seems great so far.

edit: Seems the recommender was lightbane, so

to you!

edit2: Also seems the developer has a second similar game on the pipeline.

 

[Solid Snail]

How are dlcs integrated into Kingdom Come? Is it one of those games in which dlcs are build inside the game like Tyranny and you need to actually start a new playthrough in order to access dlcs or they have their own menu?

 

[commie]

How are dlcs integrated into Kingdom Come? Is it one of those games in which dlcs are build inside the game like Tyranny and you need to actually start a new playthrough in order to access dlcs or they have their own menu?

When you install it, a NPC somewhere in the game will give you the quest depending on where you are(if you progressed far enough). I got the HB version which only has the tournament DLC(which I guess must have been some kind of preorder bonus since it's not something to buy). I'm about 15 hours in at level 5 though I'm just riding round exploring a lot, grinding some stats...but I understand that all the DLC together is probably a third to half of what I've played so I dunno if it's worth getting except at steep discount if you have the base game already).

 

[Infinitron]

How are dlcs integrated into Kingdom Come? Is it one of those games in which dlcs are build inside the game like Tyranny and you need to actually start a new playthrough in order to access dlcs or they have their own menu?

When you install it, a NPC somewhere in the game will give you the quest depending on where you are(if you progressed far enough). I got the HB version which only has the tournament DLC(which I guess must have been some kind of preorder bonus since it's not something to buy). I'm about 15 hours in at level 5 though I'm just riding round exploring a lot, grinding some stats...but I understand that all the DLC together is probably a third to half of what I've played so I dunno if it's worth getting except at steep discount if you have the base game already).

I think the tournament is just a free update the game got.

 

[Removal]

EDF 5 just released

 

[RoBoBOBR]

released

 

[Perkel]

Steam Recomender. Based on NN recomends games for you with switches for popularity-niche , older-newer and few filters.

Scary good for me. Pretty much recomends me games i don't have on steam but i know they are pretty fucking good. That "Niche" stuff is really really really really nice.

 

[Modron]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226840/Age_of_Wonders_III/

Is free now, I know it has an advertisement directing you to it on the front page but I am doing this as a formality to the codexers who might not check steam everyday.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Steam Recomender. Based on NN recomends games for you with switches for popularity-niche , older-newer and few filters.

Scary good for me. Pretty much recomends me games i don't have on steam but i know they are pretty fucking good. That "Niche" stuff is really really really really nice.

my top recommendation is this

is it any good?

 

[Belegarsson]

>"For this experiment, we look at your play history and generate a list of titles personalized just for you"

>bunch of puzzle hentai games show up in list

Is this what I deserve for having 258 hours in PoE 2

 

[Azalin]

Octopath Traveler already has a 30% discount and it came out for PC a month ago,lol,tough luck for those who went full

BTW there seems to be problem with my steam wishlist,I want to change it to rank games alphabetically but it changes back to my ranked order ,is anyone else experiencing this and does anyone know how to fix it?

 

[Vorark]

Octopath Traveler already has a 30% discount and it came out for PC a month ago,lol,tough luck for those who went full

Still overpriced.

 

[pakoito]

Steam Recomender. Based on NN recomends games for you with switches for popularity-niche , older-newer and few filters.

Scary good for me. Pretty much recomends me games i don't have on steam but i know they are pretty fucking good. That "Niche" stuff is really really really really nice.

my top recommendation is this

is it any good?

Genesis with mods is better in every metric.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

>"For this experiment, we look at your play history and generate a list of titles personalized just for you"

>bunch of puzzle hentai games show up in list

Is this what I deserve for having 258 hours in PoE 2

I'm getting a bunch of weird garbage too, but it's probably because my play time is corrupted with auto-idling a ton of garbage indie games for cards so it's no great loss.