The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Zombra]

What about waiting years for a decent price screams "whale" to you?

Apologies for the mischaracterization. RPG Codex regrets the error.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Conan Exiles sucks ass because of combat system. Can you imagine Arnold rolling around like an idiot every time he had to defend?

 

[markec]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.


Didnt actually buy it on steam but on Gamebillet for 12 euros. Been playing whole Yakuza series and just now starting Y6, my two week vacation is up soon so I might finish both games.


After Yakuza games I plan on playing Judgment next.


Like this game and got the dlc but I still wont play it until they finish patching it up.


Heard its a decent game and Im in a mood for a FPS. Soon gonna finish replaying Duke 3D so this will go next.


Got in a Steam bundle for 7 euros, playing the alternate history scenarios and the plotline they invented is rather surprisingly stupid and made me regret playing so far.

 

[Fedora Master]

Has Conan Exiles ever had a complete edition sale for anything like a reasonable price? I've been interested in playing it for a long time, but it's currently £90 for everything

You can access the DLC without paying a cent if you know what you're doing.

 

[Modron]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

 

[markec]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

More like around 1000, I didn't sell any cards in years, and I scrounged humble bundle and gamersgate for all unactivated games and used idler to add more cards.

Also found several games that I forget I owned and I planned to buy like Overload and Hrot.

Edit:
Forget to mention, I got a bunch of silver cards and sold them alone for some half of the money I earned.

 

[Die Healing]

Picked this game up and have been playing it nonstop. To me this is what the 3d zelda series should be..

 

[Caim]

Picked this game up and have been playing it nonstop. To me this is what the 3d zelda series should be..

Like a 3D Zelda mixed with Pathologic, except it's made by Norwegians.

 

[treborSux]

 

[Elthosian]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

More like around 1000, I didn't sell any cards in years, and I scrounged humble bundle and gamersgate for all unactivated games and used idler to add more cards.

Also found several games that I forget I owned and I planned to buy like Overload and Hrot.

Edit:
Forget to mention, I got a bunch of silver cards and sold them alone for some half of the money I earned.

Did you use a browser plugin or something? I've sold a few from the sale and recently set up the Idle thingie but can't see myself spending an hour of my time clicking on shit to get some 10 bucks.

 

[markec]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

More like around 1000, I didn't sell any cards in years, and I scrounged humble bundle and gamersgate for all unactivated games and used idler to add more cards.

Also found several games that I forget I owned and I planned to buy like Overload and Hrot.

Edit:
Forget to mention, I got a bunch of silver cards and sold them alone for some half of the money I earned.

Did you use a browser plugin or something? I've sold a few from the sale and recently set up the Idle thingie but can't see myself spending an hour of my time clicking on shit to get some 10 bucks.

I use Steam Inventory Helper, with it you can put on sale any amount of cards in few clicks.

 

[Beggar]

 

[FreshCorpse]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

More like around 1000, I didn't sell any cards in years, and I scrounged humble bundle and gamersgate for all unactivated games and used idler to add more cards.

Also found several games that I forget I owned and I planned to buy like Overload and Hrot.

Edit:
Forget to mention, I got a bunch of silver cards and sold them alone for some half of the money I earned.

Did you use a browser plugin or something? I've sold a few from the sale and recently set up the Idle thingie but can't see myself spending an hour of my time clicking on shit to get some 10 bucks.

I use Steam Inventory Helper, with it you can put on sale any amount of cards in few clicks.

Inspired by your experience I used some userscript tool to put all of these card things on sale.

I dunno, it hasn't really worked out. I have a notional £15 (that's about 250 different cards) of these trading cards on sale but a) I got an email about each one as they went on sale b) you have to wait for some weirdo to buy each of them, each transaction grossing ~£0.08 (I get another email each time this happens c) steam takes a cut (?!?!?) so they are somehow making money out of this as well.

I mean would you let someone pay you £10 to send you 500 emails, half of which will appear in my inbox randomly over the next however long this takes?

Deep regrets lads

 

[pakoito]

Picked this game up and have been playing it nonstop. To me this is what the 3d zelda series should be..

Like a 3D Zelda mixed with Pathologic, except it's made by Norwegians.

Why does it not support controller? I was tempted to get it to play it on Steam Deck.

EDIT: Because programming is hard https://steamcommunity.com/app/1639790/discussions/0/3120424524451732341/?ctp=2

Eh, I may need to bite the bullet and use an emulated mouse.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Since the sale is ongoing I'm going to post this again because it's an interesting tool

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/steam-diving-bell/

You can tell Diving Bell to start with a specific game by adding "?appid=XYZ" at the end of the URL (sans quotes), where XYZ is a specific game's Steam application id. (http://www.tools.fortressofdoors.com/steamdivingbell/?appid=)

tl;dr of instructions

Loose: Loose matches crawl the "more like this" graph for the selected game twice. We get the 12 default matches, and then we grab each of those games' 12 recommendations for a final list of 144 matches. Then we exclude the original default 12 matches from the results as well as any duplicates. This gives us a list of games that are still pretty similar to the selected game, while adding just enough noise to juice the variety a bit.

Reverse: We've already established that every game on Steam points to 12 other games in its "More Like This" section. But what if instead of looking for the 12 games pointed to by Chrono Trigger, we crawl every single game on Steam and see how many games themselves point to Chrono Trigger as one of their 12 games? Let's call that a "reverse match."

Tags: This returns 8 games that Diving Bell considers to be similar to the selected title based entirely on their tags. This tends to favor niche games over popular and well rated ones because the only thing it looks at is the tags.

Hidden Gem: This is my favorite recommendation engine. You might have seen Steam250.com's list of Hidden Gems, or read my article from five years ago proposing such a system. In either case, the idea's the same -- you find games that a) have a low # of total user reviews and b) have a very high user rating. Then, you rank them by a sensible algorithm, adding a penalty to anything with too many user reviews total. What you're left with is a list of extremely well regarded games that haven't gotten much attention -- ie, "hidden gems."

Diving Bell's "Hidden Gem" recommender is derived from the tag recommender, but instead of starting with a pool of games that is basically everything on Steam, I tell it to only consider the top slice of a "hidden gems list." Then I rank the results by their tag similarity to the selected game.

• Default: small number of matches no matter what, favors genre kings
• Reverse: big game = many matches, niche game = few matches, favors niche
• Loose: big game = few matches, niche game = many matches, neutral(ish)

Implementation details aside, Diving Bell is never going to be as good as the Interactive Recommender at immediately serving up a dozen great games you want to play right now. This is more of an exploration tool to find things you didn't even know you were interested in.

Diving Bell is highly reliant on extrinsic metadata like tags and to a lesser extent user ratings, whereas Interactive Recommender only cares about player behavior.

Diving Bell's chief strength is its dumbness. It's dead simple, transparent, and predictable, but the results are delightful and surprising. You have complete control over the recommendation systems you want to use, and there's no mystery for why you're getting any particular results. The app doesn't try to pigeonhole you based on previous play history or purchasing habits -- given the same inputs, two different users will get the exact same results. You just give it a game and it tells you what games are similar to that one, and off you go.

 

[Modron]

Try to find a worse name on steam, won't hold my breath.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2482460/The_golden_girl_pulls_and_licks_the_dog/

The game codexers always wanted:

 

[Fedora Master]

Unable to load information about this item.

e: This is why Chinks shouldn't be on Real People Steam.

 

[Dick]

Joking aside, that game doesn't really look that bad. Would play it. There are far far worse games on Steam.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Try to find a worse name on steam, won't hold my breath.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2482460/The_golden_girl_pulls_and_licks_the_dog/

That name is a lie.

 

[silencestones]

 

[Üstad]

Bought Darklands from the summer sale

 

[whydoibother]

Bought Darklands from the summer sale

Watch the movie instead

 

[karoliner]

 

[Elttharion]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

More like around 1000, I didn't sell any cards in years, and I scrounged humble bundle and gamersgate for all unactivated games and used idler to add more cards.

Also found several games that I forget I owned and I planned to buy like Overload and Hrot.

Edit:
Forget to mention, I got a bunch of silver cards and sold them alone for some half of the money I earned.

If you dont mind me asking, which idler did you use?

 

[markec]

Gathered 25 euros from selling steam cards, added some cash and bought bunch of stuff.

Did you have 12K cards to sell or something?

More like around 1000, I didn't sell any cards in years, and I scrounged humble bundle and gamersgate for all unactivated games and used idler to add more cards.

Also found several games that I forget I owned and I planned to buy like Overload and Hrot.

Edit:
Forget to mention, I got a bunch of silver cards and sold them alone for some half of the money I earned.

If you dont mind me asking, which idler did you use?

Idle Master Extended