The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Latelistener]

Historical low. Also they're going to release The Final Cut soon.



Seems like someone at EA woke up 11 years later or so and made this thing finally become available in most countries.



Deluxe Collection is historical low:





Overall this sale seems to be better than the previous one.

 

[Infinitron]

Available on Steam again:

 

[toro]

This just released out of EA. Anyone tried it?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Now available on Steam:

 

[rusty_shackleford]

This just released out of EA. Anyone tried it?

I could tell this was another crappy souls-like game just by looking at the first screenshot they have listed.
The lack of creativity in these is sort of amazing.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

EA sale, codex's favorite games are marked down



also, first month of EA play is $1.

 

[Infinitron]

The legend returns:



https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/288080/view/3034833920103451217

BONETOWN IS COMING TO STEAM THIS SUMMER

You heard right! BoneTown, the world’s only Action Adventure Porno video game, is coming to Steam. If you know BoneTown, you might be thinking that this must mean a dumbed-down, censored, M-rated version with no sex. But BoneTown wouldn’t be BoneTown if you couldn’t bang any girl in the game, any time. With Steam’s updated rules now allowing adult content, BoneTown players old and new can now experience the entire game on Steam, in its full adult XXX glory.

For us developers, this re-release has given us another crack at the game many of you have played and loved for years now--and yeah, we went a little overboard. So much so that we decided this isn’t the same BoneTown anymore. The Steam version will be a new edition of the game: BoneTown: The Second Coming Edition. What does that entail? Well, we’ll tell you all about it soon. Over the next couple months until release, we will be talking a lot here on Steam about what you can expect in the new edition, and what the future holds for BoneTown, including contests, giveaways, and more.

So put BoneTown on your Wishlist today and don’t miss an update--and we’ll see you this summer, when BoneTown welcomes you to its shores once again.

 

[Infinitron]

Next Steam Game Festival: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/steamgamefestival/2021summer

Overview
The Steam Game Festival returns on June 16th, 2021! The Steam Game Festival is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch live streams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam. For developers, the Steam Game Festival is an opportunity to get early feedback from players and build an audience for a future launch on Steam.

Event Dates
Starts: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 @ 10AM PST
Ends: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 10AM PST

Registration Date
Registration must be received by Wednesday April 14th, 2021 at 10AM PST in order to be considered for featuring.

Eligibility
The 2021 Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition is open to any upcoming game on Steam that meets the following criteria:

1. Have a Steamworks developer account in good standing
   
2. Have a game you plan to release on Steam after the event and before January, 2022. If your game is releasing after that date, you may register for a future event.
   
3. Set up and release a playable demo for the duration of the Steam Game Festival. You may choose to retire the demo after the festival concludes or leave the demo available
   
4. Have not participated with the same game in either the Winter 2021 or Autumn 2020 Steam Game Festivals.

 

[Zombra]

Does anybody else hate that they put up demos for new games for 12 hours and then take them down again? By the time I hear about it, get it together to download a few things I'd like to try, and make time to actually try them, they're gone.

 

[Zann]

Same here. Sometimes you can still launch the demos directly from the executable without Steam running. Still annoying.
That said it's their loss. They need my money more than I need any more games really, and I'm way less inclined to buy from devs who do this.

 

[lukaszek]

Does anybody else hate that they put up demos for new games for 12 hours and then take them down again? By the time I hear about it, get it together to download a few things I'd like to try, and make time to actually try them, they're gone.

plenty of those demos will annoy you during intro already. Taking them down seem like right action for something that shouldnt be made available in first place.

I dont recall game I wishisted that wasnt available for few days at least. Might be interesting criteria to validate later

 

[Zombra]

I'm way less inclined to buy from devs who do this.

Please don't blame the devs for trying to get any exposure they can. Blame Steam for this stupid promotion model.

 

[lukaszek]

I'm way less inclined to buy from devs who do this.

Please don't blame the devs for trying to get any exposure they can. Blame Steam for this stupid promotion model.

how is it steam fault? Since many demos are available after festival it means that its devs who chose to take them down?

 

[Zann]

I'm way less inclined to buy from devs who do this.

Please don't blame the devs for trying to get any exposure they can. Blame Steam for this stupid promotion model.

What lukaszek said. Some of these festival demos stay up afterwards, so the logical conclusion is that the ones that don't get taken down by the devs.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Time limiting a demo is a shitty move. It's like you don't want exposure or something.

 

[Jenkem]

Set up and release a playable demo for the duration of the Steam Game Festival. You may choose to retire the demo after the festival concludes or leave the demo available

You may choose to retire the demo after the festival concludes or leave the demo available

You may choose to

leave the demo available

this is valve's fault.

 

[Dexter]

The point of the "Game Festivals" is to give people a chance to Preview unreleased/upcoming games, kinda like if they go to a game convention and get to play it there a year before Launch, but digitally and you have like 4-5 days to do so. That they're time-limited is part of the formula, and some of the Previews have a very Early Alpha feel that would give people a bad impression of what a game would be like releasing two years from then. Otherwise it'd be no different from promoting Demos for already released products.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

From the creators of Ostalgie, Crisis in the Kremlin and China: Mao's Legacy, this just got released:

 

[ferratilis]

Great retro shooter to play in short bursts. It got a nice qol update recently that improved framerate and added some minor features.


If it were any cheaper, it would be considered stealing.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

anyone play this? it looks sort of good

 

[Jenkem]

 

[LESS T_T]

Clash II, a sequel to obscure 1998 Polish turn-based strategy game:

Clash II story, similar to its predecessor, will be set on the mystic land called Karkhan. For years, there has been conflict between invaders bearing the signs of one God, self-called Purians, and a population that has lived for generations there, practicing magic and worshiping many Gods.

The growing conflict will take us back to the center of the war between the two factions. The story will take place almost fifty years after the events of Clash, when the Purians won the war. They will spread even further their faith and laws.

The initial assumption of the Clash II story are the times unfavorably called Pagan Reaction - when our ancestors rebelled against the new faith imposed on them by force and sword. During the game, we will be able to lead natives, disagreeing with the dogmas of the new faith and rebel against a foreign culture of invaders who want to extend their influence to the entire continent.

In the campaign of the Purians, we will lead the fate of the hero sent with a penitentiary mission, aimed at taking over the kingdom from the hands of Willhelm, who by his behavior lost the favor of the Holy Servant.

Heathens will be lead by heroin, burdened by her Gods to unite agitating tribes and help them stand as one to protect the forgotten customs and their own freedom.

In both cases, the basic units will be the forces that we know from chronicles and history, strengthened, of course, by beasts from mythology and legends.

How we lead our own kingdom – through battles, covenants, diplomacy, technological and spiritual development – will have a big impact on the shape of the game. During the campaign, we will traverse almost the entire continent, where we will be able to fight wild beasts, find treasures and ancient places of worship. In addition, we will encounter marauders and deserters and perform many additional tasks that are waiting hidden for unneutered seekers.

The developer behind this, Prime Bit Games SA, has been doing casual/mobile games mostly.

The first game is available on GOG: https://af.gog.com/game/clash?as=1649904300

 

[Citizen]

Clash II, a sequel to obscure 1998 Polish turn-based strategy game:

Whoa I didn't see that coming. This game is surprisingly obscure in eastern europe despite being a collab between a polish dev and a russian publisher (and being pretty good)

 

[Latelistener]

Does anybody else hate that they put up demos for new games for 12 hours and then take them down again? By the time I hear about it, get it together to download a few things I'd like to try, and make time to actually try them, they're gone.

I just downloaded a bunch of demos beforehand and played them in the offline mode.

There was only one game I couldn't launch. My guess is that the devs integrated a time bomb, which is a dick move but I understand.

What lukaszek said. Some of these festival demos stay up afterwards, so the logical conclusion is that the ones that don't get taken down by the devs.

That's because the use of DRM was always up to developers. There is a huge amount of games that can be played without Steam once downloaded.

Some of the devs are less retarted than others though and convert their demos into "prologues" and put them on Steam for free as a separate app.

Like this for example: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1478070/Fights_in_Tight_Spaces_Prologue/

 

[Heroic Liberator]

75% off: