The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Metro]

Had me at randomly generated but lost me at action platformer.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Faerie Solitaire for the price of $0 on Steam.
http://faeriesolitaire.com/?games

Just go to Steam, install/add to your account, and it's yours forever. Promotion lasts until the 8th. It's alright, well worth free.

 

[Turjan]

Faerie Solitaire for the price of $0 on Steam.
http://faeriesolitaire.com/?games

Just go to Steam, install/add to your account, and it's yours forever. Promotion lasts until the 8th. It's alright, well worth free.

What did I just install?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Faerie Solitaire for the price of $0 on Steam.
http://faeriesolitaire.com/?games

Just go to Steam, install/add to your account, and it's yours forever. Promotion lasts until the 8th. It's alright, well worth free.

What did I just install?

A game of solitaire! With faeries! And a pet growing minigame!
Seriously, give it a go. It's alright for mindless vegetating, which is what you should want from solitaire.

Also, broke down and picked up Cargo Commander. I'll report back after I dick with it some.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Alright, played Cargo Commander a bit. Seems pretty cool. Quick rundown is you start on your ship which is your central hub, then pull randomly generated cargo containers into it and loot as much as possible before they get sucked into the wormhole. The containers and layout are randomly generated via seeds so you still have valid leaderboards, but they're per-seed (Sector). A sector called RPG Codex Sodomy Circle would always (Or almost always, haven't experimented enough to confirm HOW similar seed replays are) play the same, but naturally it gets increasingly difficult until you either die or end the session manually. As far as I can tell there's no additional penalty for dying, that just ends that particular run and tots up your score.
To get access to new seeds/sectors you need the sector widget. The sector widget will show up relatively early (Probably wave 3-5 I'd say) and seems to generally be in a tougher container. Fewer drillable bulkheads, more enemies, etc. So long as you grab the widget and get back to your home base you'll unlock the ability to generate/add a seed/sector to your list. I'm not entirely sure why they bothered with that, but supposedly each sector only has 6 types of cargo each, so if you're trying to collect every type of cargo (Finding new cargo types seems to net the most XP) I guess they want you jumping around.

Apart from just score attack (Which I'm a sucker for score attack so they've got my number already) there's a persistent leveling system. From what I've seen the two MAJOR upgrades are your first two level-ups which you'll get pretty quickly, first one popped for me after finishing the tutorial. By the way, if you buy the game and you reach the stage where it says "End your work day, or continue for higher score", just end your work day. It's not tracking score during that tutorial from what I see. Anyway, first level-up gets you access to the upgrade bench and allows you to find the game's upgrade currency (HATS!) while you're exploring. Upgrades bought via the bench last for one full game and have your normal better guns, faster movement, more HP, more oxygen, faster drilling type things. Nothing really exciting but it gives you some ability to tailor your playstyle. If RPG Codex Sodomy Circle has particularly rough enemies you may want to upgrade your weapons over your platforming/exploration abilities.

So there you have it. It's not NEARLY as immediately brutal as Spelunky and doesn't seem as well designed on the whole, but that's not to say it's bad. Especially for a randomly generated action platformer. Keeping in mind these are my impressions after about an hour of running around.
Speaking of Spelunky, god damn why isn't the fancy Spelunky remake on Steam? I'm not that crazy about the new graphics for it but still, Spelunky!

Edit: Fuck, just realized I forgot bones levels. Bones levels are in Cargo Commander. If you're playing a sector that other players have, you can find their corpses and loot them for ammo and hats. Here's a picture of a bunch of corpses for no goddamn reason in an easy room. I have no idea why they died there.
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814733650994/CB732DBB37F879C9F09EBE1E9214612462BDFFA4/

Edit 2: Hahaha. Was playing a bit more, exploring containers, going swimmingly, and then I launched myself into THIS:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814735158705/A7BD39DABC54B5ABC2551CBE8960494E347B58CC/
And promptly got my ass kicked. And that's after I sprayed wildly with my best gun and smashed a few monster spawners. That container and specifically where I entered was jam-packed with monsters, but what really made it amusing was all the corpses of other players in that room. Apparently a bunch of other people got caught with their pants down in there.

Edit 3: Made sector RPGCodex. COME FIGHT ME!
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814736634899/2AD6C7640F0EA99913E9081B32EDB3A377DFF4E5/
Knocking down my top score should be easy since I quit when I realized how damn late it was.

 

[Konjad]

Garry's Mod for 2€. It's fun for MP or making comics, so get it!

 

[TripJack]

amazing daily deal today bros
http://store.steampowered.com/app/27400/

if you dont buy this, you arent a real gamer

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Already got it. I'm safe.

 

[mck]

Hey for anyone interested, Binary Domain can be had for $7.50 on greenmangaming. It activates on Steam.

If you don't have an account please use my referrall link (shameless plug) http://www.greenmangaming.com/?gmgr=hibexide

Once you spend $5 (I think) we'll both get $2 credit.

 

[felipepepe]

Steam is now in HEUHUEHUHUHEUHEUHUE money too:

The prices are still the same, mind you, but the numbers are twice as big! Looking at Dishonored at R$ 120,00 is a big NO!

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 on sale today. I haven't played 2013 specifically, but I've played the other modern DotP games and they're pretty excellent if you want some casual Magic play. Scooped up 2013 just now.

 

[Metro]

Sometime next week Amazon digital is going to offer:

$9.99 for:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Metro 2033
Red Faction Guerrilla
Homefront
Red Faction Armageddon
Space Marine

Crazy deal although I already own Stalker and Guerrilla (which I don't really like) and have basically zero interest in Homefront and Armageddon. If anyone thinks they might get it and would be willing to sell off the Space Marine and Metro keys, let me know.

 

[ohWOW]

Armaggeddon is a quite fun papamole shooter. Fighting inside destructible buildings, falling through the floors, kiting bug aliens inside, pushing whole building on them, rebuilding staircases in the process and then bam blow it up again with a shitload of bugs inside.

Good stuff.

 

[Morgoth]

All these games Metro has listed are shit. Why do you list shit games, Metro?

 

[Metro]

I bought them all day one!

 

[deuxhero]

Sometime next week Amazon digital is going to offer:

$9.99 for:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Metro 2033
Red Faction Guerrilla
Homefront
Red Faction Armageddon
Space Marine

Crazy deal although I already own Stalker and Guerrilla (which I don't really) like and have basically zero interest in Homefront and Armageddon. If anyone thinks they might get it and would be willing to sell off the Space Marine and Metro keys, let me know.

Each or a bundle?

 

[Metro]

Bundle -- $10 for all of them.

 

[felipepepe]

Perhaps I'll grab the bundle, I never actually bought Stalker, Metro 2033 seems like a fun popamole and Space Marine migth be good for the lulz...

 

[Metro]

I'll probably just hold out for a better mix of THQ stuff. Their stock is below $1 and they're tanking pretty fast. I'm sure there will be no shortage of deals from them.

 

[Konjad]

Metro was good for what it was, I do not regret buying it. STALKER is really good atmosphere/story-wise. If you never played them (especially stalker) - get the bundle.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

FAILED TO CONTACT KEY SERVER

I AM VERY BUTTHURT ABOUT THIS

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Towns is on Steam now, now I mildly wish I bought the indie bundle that had it a while back. Popamole Dwarf Fortress it may be, but Steam games is Steam games.

No damn idea why it's #2 selling on Steam at the moment though.

 

[Metro]

Especially when it apparently isn't even finished yet.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Especially when it apparently isn't even finished yet.

Yeah, I kinda wondered about that. Normally Valve didn't let people sell shit on Steam unless the game was "Done", the only exception I can remember off the top of my head being 1 2 3 Kick It which is fucking terrible and hasn't been updated in a year+. I kinda assumed that one slipped onto Steam because of the Portal 2 promotion and then the developer dropped it like a hot potato (Haaaaaaaaaaaaa) when he realized he already got a sack full of money for it and didn't have to work on it any more to actually sell it.

Sorta the same thing with Cortex Command, really. Last time I looked at the Steam forum for that there were a ton of people pissed off at the state of the game and trying to get refunds because the difference from the last alpha/beta version and 1.0 is negligible. GOD DAMN INDIES. MAKES ME SO MAD I COULD JUST BUY BLACK OPS 2.

Edit: And not entirely related but while I'm ranting about indies, Hotline Miami crashes all the goddamn time in Windows 8. INDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES!

 

[Metro]

Windows 8.

I'm going from Windows 7 to GabeN Linux.