The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Baron Dupek]

7.62 High Calibre packed with Brigade E5: New Jagged Union (1,74€),

There is a mod called Hard Life, which is free for owners of 7.62. Have someone tried it?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/306290/762_Hard_Life/

Yeah I tried this Hard Life mod and it does deserve it's name. Before you reach the starting point of High Calibre you have some kind of... prologue I guess, where you work for guerillas (lot of people did not like it, even though your relations with other factions are kept at 0 for the whole prologue.
There are two parts - guerilla camp and bandit assault that take few hours.

Lots of hidden details and mechanics that you gotta find asap or you get no chance against wave (around 40 heads) of bandits. If you do prologue right you can gather around 6-7 people and arm yourself with old classic guns (cowboy repeaters and Colt revolvers) which is better than nothing.
In guerilla camp you exchange goods (porn mags, cigs and alco) for ammunition, quartemaster have nothing for you.
To repair weapon you need to dismantle it, clean and merge again. Better have some instruction or something... cars need fuel, spare wheels, you need license to carry gun (in hands or on your back) and you need papers to show for routine checks by militia patrols.

Managed to reach first city where High Calibre starts, hope to come back is future...

 

[Catacombs]

The original CoD4 still has nearly 10k players, and it is the most popular CoD on PC at the moment (with the exception of WWII, which will probably die soon).

WWII is such garbage. Not surprising there are more people on the original than the latest.

 

[Zombra]

WWII is such garbage.

Yeah ... I never got a chance to try it myself but most reviews are pretty bad.

 

[sullynathan]

COD 4 is legit a classic that influenced modern shooters. 10 years is the started date for a game to be a called a classic

 

[Ivan]

Happened to have ~$130 accrued in Steam Cash. My Christmas haul:

Aztez
Battleblock Theater
Butcher
Caveblazers
Cuphead
Cyptark
Darkwood
Dex
Dungeon Rats
Enter the Gungeon
Furi
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Lovers in a Dangerous Spactime
Moon Hunters
Nex Machina
OneShot
Overcooked
Quantum Break
Samorost
Steamworld Dig 2
Styx: Shards of Darkness

 

[mastroego]

I don't even know what Steam Cash is, though I suppose I could make a couple of wild guesses

 

[Morgoth]

I don't even know what Steam Cash is, though I suppose I could make a couple of wild guesses

 

[ERYFKRAD]

. If you do prologue right you can gather around 6-7 people and arm yourself with old classic guns (cowboy repeaters and Colt revolvers) which is better than nothing.

Few things compare to the triumph of wiping out the mine with a Revolver and on your lonesome.

 

[Fedora Master]

Anyone got any experience with Vikings: Wolves of Midgard?
I like the norse setting a lot but the game has like 70 players right now.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Anyone got any experience with Vikings: Wolves of Midgard?
I like the norse setting a lot but the game has like 70 players right now.

Is that a multiplayer game or something that player numbers are important?

I tried the demo, controls feels weird. How can you fuck up something piss easy like control is action RPG?? It's not awkward control like Dungeon Siege 3 but for sure - it was designed for pads first.
Skills and abilites (gifted by the gods) are tied to the god you choose when you start a new game, but what is bad - they are tied to the weapons type. You will be stuck to certain weapons (bows, 2h, 1h or dual-wielding) forever.
I'm not sure if you can use other weapons without problem (prolog was too short). Not sure if your gods gift abilites charge up if you pick different weapons so beware or you wake up in the middle of the battle with no powers thanks to the retardred design.

You go from map to map doing objectives. Main - to bring prosperity to your village (you become a jarl after prologue, even if you're woman) by killing monsters (you kill a fkn giants in the prologue ffs) and finding some good folks in the frozen land, plus optional activity like collecting stuff, destroying objects and else. They bring rewards that helps later. You must do them on the first visit, you can't come back later to collect remaining stuff (unless it was demo limitation).
Skills unlocks with new levels in similar way like in Diablo3 , you have some health packs with you but their consumption resets the multiplier (because killing for points is a thing in far north), you can regenerate health at the bonfire (it does not respawn enemies, tsk).

Pick at -75%, wait for 1$ bundle or go play something better.

 

[Fedora Master]

Yea no, you're right. I tested it just now and it has some of the worst controls I've ever seen. This doesn't belong on Steam, it belongs on the Xbox Store at best.

 

[Sykar]

Are these two games any good? Worth the price? They look interesting.

StarCrawlers & The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians?

StarCrawlers as mentioned is nice but really light on character development. You have 3 trees with about 7 abilities usually 5 actives and 2 passives though it varies on occasion a little. You ever only have 5 slots so once you are done with a tree and start in a second you are only after the passives unless you feel there is an active which is worth taking over your main tree but that is rare.
There is no attribute allocation and you have some classes, no races and only 2 portraits, one male and one female for each class. There is a little text banter on occasion but so infrequent it might just be not there.

 

[cvv]

Is 7 Mages worth a buy?

My steam review:

A very solid turn-based blobber, harkening back to the glory of the 1990s. Quite hardcore too, especially compared to modern games. This RPG does not mess around.

Unfortunately the decision to make it for mobiles and only then a PC port killed the game. I mean the UI alone is gonna be killing you more than any critter. It's very clunky to control, using items, spells or getting some satus info is painful.

Luckily the game looks and sounds great, there are tons of great ideas, it's got the best bard "magic" system I've ever seen and as I said - it's tough, robust and a lot of fun, if you can get over the stupid mobile UI (and in the end, if you're a blobber fan, you will, trust me).

Take from it what you will. Anyway it is 2 bucks...

 

[Pablosdog]

My purchases

Wizardry 6,7
Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Tekken 7(I Own a fightstick and wanted to try it out)
Prey
I also picked up the Humble Monthly which contained(meh)
Quantum Break
The Long Dark
Warhammer Dawn of War III(will probably trade this one)

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Abu Antar]

I actually bought stuff this sale:
Ghost of A Tale
Skylar & Plux: Adventure On Clover Island
Styx: Shards of Darkness
鸿源战纪 - Tales of Hongyuan
The Vagrant
Willy-Nilly Knight

All of these might go cheaper, but they were at their current all time low.

 

[Gepeu]

I have Ghost of a Tale on my radar for some time, but there's no way I would buy an early access game. It should come out about April, shouldn't it?

 

[Abu Antar]

I have Ghost of a Tale on my radar for some time, but there's no way I would buy an early access game. It should come out about April, shouldn't it?

Sometime next year is all I know.

 

[Heretic]

Is 7 Mages worth a buy?

My steam review:

A very solid turn-based blobber, harkening back to the glory of the 1990s. Quite hardcore too, especially compared to modern games. This RPG does not mess around.

Unfortunately the decision to make it for mobiles and only then a PC port killed the game. I mean the UI alone is gonna be killing you more than any critter. It's very clunky to control, using items, spells or getting some satus info is painful.

Luckily the game looks and sounds great, there are tons of great ideas, it's got the best bard "magic" system I've ever seen and as I said - it's tough, robust and a lot of fun, if you can get over the stupid mobile UI (and in the end, if you're a blobber fan, you will, trust me).

Take from it what you will. Anyway it is 2 bucks...

Thanks for reminding me of 7 Mages. I wanted to try it but completely forgot about it.
It seems they didn't release any patches, so let's see if I can stomach the mobile interface.

 

[Heretic]

I have Ghost of a Tale on my radar for some time, but there's no way I would buy an early access game. It should come out about April, shouldn't it?

Sometime next year is all I know.

According to the last update, Ghost of a Tale should release in March 2018.
We have a thread about the game here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/ghost-of-a-tale-an-indie-project.82884

 

[Latelistener]

Something Lovecraftian with dat music:

Spoiler

 

[Zombra]

Last Door is good. ↑ Upvote ↑

 

[Latelistener]

 

[Latelistener]

From one of the negative reviews:

You can't move through bushes!!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

my purchases:







damn, i can't find anything i truly want, has the right price or isn't plagued by 30+ euros of mandatory dlcs.