The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Unkillable Cat]

So I spent last night trying to make heads or tails of the Steam sale, and it was the first time in some months that I use some of Steam's functions.

Ho-lee-shit, does Steam have a bad UI, especially when it comes to searching.

I want to browse and exclude some search parameters? Nope, I can only include search parameters, I still have to sift through pages of crap. I also see the games that I already own.

The included search parameters don't make much sense to begin with. I select "Keyboard + Mouse" as input, 585 pages of search results drop down to only 7 pages.

And going through the Discovery queue Steam recommended me 31 space-themed games out of 36, all because the last game I played was The Long Journey Home... which I only did for the cards.

Finally I find two games that I add to the cart, and was about to make the purchase when I recalled I was going to buy an in-game item in another game, to support the devs. I do that first, then return to my cart to find it empty. In the three minutes apart the cart had reset itself because reasons.

(I'm also not mentioning the times when the search results all kept disappearing because the servers can't seem to handle the load of a stupid mini-game, but that's an incidental problem and not a general one like the others.)

I'm serious when I say this: Anyone who can create and launch a digital distribution platform with a good, intuitive UI (and good customer support) today will take a sizable chunk out of Steam's market share. Because Valve doesn't give a shit about its customers anymore.

 

[hello friend]

the last game I played was The Long Journey Home... which I only did for the cards.

you what

 

[Don Peste]

I'm old and tired.

It will still be shit, but this can help:
http://www.enhancedsteam.com/
https://isthereanydeal.com/

I wanted to see all games developed by Arkane. I was at Dishonored's page, so I clicked at "DEVELOPER: Arkane Studios". It now redirects you to Bethesda.

 

[Dexter]

I'm serious when I say this: Anyone who can create and launch a digital distribution platform with a good, intuitive UI (and good customer support) today will take a sizable chunk out of Steam's market share.

That's not how monopoly power works.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Dex is 90% off.

Worth a try at that price. Beyond that I have a long wishlist but no desire to buy any of it.

 

[LESS T_T]

I wanted to see all games developed by Arkane. I was at Dishonored's page, so I clicked at "DEVELOPER: Arkane Studios". It now redirects you to Bethesda.

That's very inconvenient.

And funny: while for most external developers' (Rebellion, Interplay, Splash Damage for example) they left the old search page links, it seems Obsidian (for New Vegas) is the only company they bothered to link the new page. Maybe Obsidian asked them to while others didn't.

 

[mastroego]

I decided to go crazy. Despite the discounts being horrible, but one cannot always complain, I wanted to buy stuff.

So I got:
- War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2 (-33%)
- Warlock 2: The Exiles + all the DLCs required to run the highly recommended Renaissance mod.
Total expense just under 50 €.

Way more than I anticipated, then again, I won't have too much time to play stuff so these are supposed to last a long while.
Which applies to the download phase too, WTF 30 GB for the Xcom expansion!!!?!?! I'll never even start this game.

 

[Average Manatee]

Really fucking irritating how games that are 2+ years old still cost basically full price or more if you want the full version (i.e. with DLC). Herp derp -80% off a $60 game but then $100 of DLC is only -40% off.

 

[Latelistener]

 

[Ezeekiel]

Dungeon warfare 2 is about to come out on the 29th, finally. Seems to be getting little attention so far, so I figured I'd mention it.

The first one was a really nice trap-based defense game with lots of physics influence. I think it was on some of the big flash sites first and came to public attention that way.
Not sure about the new one, might just be on steam (?)... So I'm worried it'll flop or something because it's been ages since the last game and there's all but a few forum topics in the steam forum for the new one.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I feel like I'm obliged to post this video on Raven's Cry whenever I see it being mentioned somewhere

welp I know what I'm buying

 

[sullynathan]

207 games

TotalSpend 2018-06-21 23:47:03.927 $20.00
OldSpend 2018-06-21 23:47:03.927 $0.00
PWSpend 2018-06-21 23:47:03.927 $0.00

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[Zed]

I decided to go crazy. Despite the discounts being horrible, but one cannot always complain, I wanted to buy stuff.

So I got:
- War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2 (-33%)
- Warlock 2: The Exiles + all the DLCs required to run the highly recommended Renaissance mod.
Total expense just under 50 €.

Way more than I anticipated, then again, I won't have too much time to play stuff so these are supposed to last a long while.
Which applies to the download phase too, WTF 30 GB for the Xcom expansion!!!?!?! I'll never even start this game.

I also bought WL2 and the DLC for Renaissance.

Vampyr isn't on sale but there was a 20% discount on greenmangaming so I bought it after all.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Consensual Torture Simulator
now owns 6 more games

+3

Barony | The Mummy Demastered | Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith | EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair | Environmental Station Alpha | RIVE: Wreck, Hack, Die, Retry!

 

[DalekFlay]

I want Mummy Remastered but not at $15. It came out at twice the price it should have, especially with that recent Castelvania "homage" out there.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Also bought nuAliens vs nuPredator.
90$ discount is pretty good.

Origin is also good deal (not sure if addons are included):


Wow, no aliens versus predator 2 on steam? wtf/

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'm not sure nuAvP is even worth $1.50.

 

[DalekFlay]

I liked the human campaign okay, if I recall correctly. For $1.50 anyway.

 

[Humppaleka]

I had a few fun hours with it so 1.50 why not

 

[Astral Rag]

Nier Automatic
0% off

LOL

Godus
0% off

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Nier Automatic
0% off

LOL

Godus
0% off

16
playing now

 

[Baron Dupek]

nuAvP is awful. It's an console FPS so because of limited memory you fight with few aliens (4 at best) and need to melee them and then headshot them because they're bullet sponges like Predator in AvP2.

I decided to go crazy. Despite the discounts being horrible, but one cannot always complain, I wanted to buy stuff.

So I got:
- War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2 (-33%)
- Warlock 2: The Exiles + all the DLCs required to run the highly recommended Renaissance mod.
Total expense just under 50 €.

Way more than I anticipated, then again, I won't have too much time to play stuff so these are supposed to last a long while.
Which applies to the download phase too, WTF 30 GB for the Xcom expansion!!!?!?! I'll never even start this game.

I want to do the same with Divinity OS2, 20% and new Definitive Edition or whatever is coming soon so...
This or another bunch of 50-75-85% titles.

 

[Alienman]

Bought this ridicules game on Steam for one Euro:



It's basically Max Payne but (at least to me) double the difficulty of that game. It also have a really cheesy fun cop story.

Recorded a small video. This is only the first level. Think I died at least 20 times. Highly recommend it if you like Max Payne gameplay! Can't go wrong for 1 Euro/dollar.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Highly recommend it if you like Max Payne gameplay! Can't go wrong for 1 Euro/dollar.

I already had this somehow, I must have got it in a bundle at some point and just dismissed it. I'll give it a try

 

[Ninjerk]

Speaking as someone generally aligned with liberal politics, I hate the sound of this too. Why the fuck are you doing a period piece set in 1918 if the character is going to look and talk like a guy 100 years in the future?

I remember craving that Vampire game from seeing advertisements in magazines, but knowing we'd never have the money and/or computer to run it.