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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread
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Dexter
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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees: A Free-flow Gibbon Swinging Simulator, mostly controlled by pressing and letting go of LB for Walking and RB for Swinging/Jumping with some additional moves like Backflips unlocked later, with Environmentalist undertones. Does what it promises on the box. It's surprisingly soothing enough to swing around, gain speed and do "perfect jumps", but there doesn't seem to be much more to it.
Verne: The Shape of Fantasy: A Controller-friendly Pixel Adventure, in which you play Scientist Jules Verne, who meets Captain Nemo and they both end up visiting Atlantis. You can run left or right and inspect things. Amateurish voice-over and not very interesting or captivating. The games gimmick seems to be that you have a device called the "Imag", with which you can alter reality by pointing it at things and uttering stupid phrases of what you would have liked to have happened in the past. There's some "hidden objects" to be found unlocking Collectibles that tell you things about Verne's stories, and simplistic logic puzzle solving. The best thing about the Demo is that it starts somewhere in what seems to be the middle of the game and it tells you that you can run, but only lets you do so in the first room and for the rest of it you have to creep around slowly.
Souldiers: A Spanish Jump&Run where you play a Soldier Grunt (Scout) transported to the land of the Valkyries fighting against Slime, Spiders and other Monsters. Light/Hard Attack, Jump, Jump Attack Roll, Block and various other Combos and Skills in combat. Quite unforgiving in design, but not particularly difficult at the beginning. There are Checkpoints you unlock to which you can return if you die or that can be used as Fast Travel, also lots of Secret passages and Main/Side Quests to complete. Enemies drop gold, with which you can buy items and upgrades later. There also seem to be two different classes (Archer/Caster) that are locked out in the Demo. You gain XP and can spend it on Skills as you level or find and equip better equipment. I like Gameplay, Pixel art style and graphics and ended up really liking the game overall. Not for Spider-phobes.
The Unliving: You play as a Necromancer and Control an Army of the (Un)Dead. WASD Movement, Attack with LMB, Dash with Space, after you've killed enemies you can raise skeletons with R. You send them after enemies or other targets with RMB. They are temporary companions and you always send them ahead to meat-tank while you Magic Bolt enemies from behind and dash/kite the few projectiles making their way towards you, raise the dead and repeat. You can find Skill Upgrades and Gold to buy Upgrades from a Vendor on the map. AI seems trash with large parts of your horde not really attacking, especially from the back, but the dev seems to acknowledge this. Map and combat seems very repetitive and somewhat dull. Eh.
Wishlisted Small Saga and Souldiers, both games that I really wanted to play more of when they were over. The Walking Village also seemed somewhat promising, but not quite there yet.
Verne: The Shape of Fantasy: A Controller-friendly Pixel Adventure, in which you play Scientist Jules Verne, who meets Captain Nemo and they both end up visiting Atlantis. You can run left or right and inspect things. Amateurish voice-over and not very interesting or captivating. The games gimmick seems to be that you have a device called the "Imag", with which you can alter reality by pointing it at things and uttering stupid phrases of what you would have liked to have happened in the past. There's some "hidden objects" to be found unlocking Collectibles that tell you things about Verne's stories, and simplistic logic puzzle solving. The best thing about the Demo is that it starts somewhere in what seems to be the middle of the game and it tells you that you can run, but only lets you do so in the first room and for the rest of it you have to creep around slowly.
Souldiers: A Spanish Jump&Run where you play a Soldier Grunt (Scout) transported to the land of the Valkyries fighting against Slime, Spiders and other Monsters. Light/Hard Attack, Jump, Jump Attack Roll, Block and various other Combos and Skills in combat. Quite unforgiving in design, but not particularly difficult at the beginning. There are Checkpoints you unlock to which you can return if you die or that can be used as Fast Travel, also lots of Secret passages and Main/Side Quests to complete. Enemies drop gold, with which you can buy items and upgrades later. There also seem to be two different classes (Archer/Caster) that are locked out in the Demo. You gain XP and can spend it on Skills as you level or find and equip better equipment. I like Gameplay, Pixel art style and graphics and ended up really liking the game overall. Not for Spider-phobes.
The Unliving: You play as a Necromancer and Control an Army of the (Un)Dead. WASD Movement, Attack with LMB, Dash with Space, after you've killed enemies you can raise skeletons with R. You send them after enemies or other targets with RMB. They are temporary companions and you always send them ahead to meat-tank while you Magic Bolt enemies from behind and dash/kite the few projectiles making their way towards you, raise the dead and repeat. You can find Skill Upgrades and Gold to buy Upgrades from a Vendor on the map. AI seems trash with large parts of your horde not really attacking, especially from the back, but the dev seems to acknowledge this. Map and combat seems very repetitive and somewhat dull. Eh.
Wishlisted Small Saga and Souldiers, both games that I really wanted to play more of when they were over. The Walking Village also seemed somewhat promising, but not quite there yet.
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Soooo, how does the russian ruble scheme work exactly? How to make use of the good exchange rate for russian currency to buy discounted games?
rusty_shackleford
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if you don't have an account grandfathered in, it's too late to abuse weak currencies
El Presidente
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You really can put "un" in front of everything and it just works in english can't you
"GOG... the Unsteam."
"Resetera... the Uncodex."
Next sale or "event" has been announced. Again it will start right after the last one ended. Is this a new sales/marketing strategy?
rusty_shackleford
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Based Gabe making it easy to identify and ignore bad games.
LESS T_T
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There are events led by Valve (Summer Sale, Play Together Sale, etc...) and there are events "hosted on" Steam (country specific events like this, some real world event like this, themed events by some group like this). That is one of those hosted events.
(FYI next Valve-led sale event will be JRPG Sale 2022, starts in March 14.)
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Demo = Full game
lightbane
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I'm not sure where to put this, but it probably belongs here. I tried the Aperture Desk Simulator thing. It's a playable tech demo for Valve's not-Switch, as expected, but it's still mostly playable with a regular controller. There's good production values and attention to detail, but... It's toilet humor, literally. Plus completely lineal and 30 minutes long. It feels like Valve was trying to recapture the feel of Portal 2 and such's campy humor, but don't succeed too well at it anymore.
Multi-headed Cow
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Son of a bitch, Gaben's been watching me
Eisen
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It doesn't even show to me, i guess it's a good sign?
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Finally a bad guy game where the bad guy can actually fight for themselves.
rusty_shackleford
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Unrelated to the similarly titled Legend of You which looks interesting
rusty_shackleford
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all 5 IE games are on sale! BUY NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24433/Dungeons__Dragons_Enhanced_Classics_Bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24433/Dungeons__Dragons_Enhanced_Classics_Bundle/
Hoaxmetal
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That's not a sale, just a bundle discount.
rusty_shackleford
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BUY NOW
rusty_shackleford
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I think this is the only game in the women's day sale worth buying
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