The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Lunac]

Used to be you could try these small-time shareware games (you call them "indie" now?) for free in shareware mode or get them in bulk in thousands on a single CD as a "Shareware Collection Vol 49!!!" for about $5 or $6. NOW you want me to pay up, UP FRONT, on average $5-6 for EACH, without even trying any of them?! Git da fuk outta here wit dat chit zoomboi!!!

Besides, my Steam has been in offline mode and firewalled since about 2017... so....

Anyone have any shareware discs they want to unload?


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[ERYFKRAD]

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[Poseidon00]

I downloaded this weird demo of a game called "coffee talk", where you basically just serve drinks to a fantasy city full of elves, orcs, and the other typical fantasy races. Not gonna lie, it's actually pretty cool. Worth a few bucks

 

[Sukhāvatī]

I downloaded this weird demo of a game called "coffee talk", where you basically just serve drinks to a fantasy city full of elves, orcs, and the other typical fantasy races. Not gonna lie, it's actually pretty cool. Worth a few bucks

You may enjoy VA-11 Hall-A too.

 

[J_C]

Let me beg for some money from you fine gentlemen. My games are available at a 60% discount. Get the bundle for a measly 2 euros.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12230/One_Bit_Bundle/

Sale ends in a little more than 24 hours.

supported you - wanted to gift another copy away, but it's disabled for your bundle (says something like being personalized for my own account)

...tried adding it again to the cart, but then both purchase buttons are disabled (for myself, and as a gift)

Don't know what could be the problem unfortunately. It must be some Steam shinanigan.

 

[jebsmoker]

Yeah most new games suck but this is one of the few horror games I've played from start to end many times. It's worth it.

 

[pOcHa]

meh, the first few hours are pretty good (the androids are especially great) but it gets quite tedious and repetitive once the alien actually shows up for real (not scripted sections)...

 

[Momock]

Let me beg for some money from you fine gentlemen. My games are available at a 60% discount. Get the bundle for a measly 2 euros.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12230/One_Bit_Bundle/

Sale ends in a little more than 24 hours.

I'll try this Long Road Home thing, since it is said it has puzzles.

 

[mastroego]

Yeah most new games suck but this is one of the few horror games I've played from start to end many times. It's worth it.

Almost sad to see it that cheap.

 

[Zombra]

It's worth it.

Jesus, that's a steal. Everybody buy this now unless you absolutely don't like horror games.

 

[jebsmoker]

We desperately need more games with a cassette futurism aesthetic

 

[Endemic]

Don't know what could be the problem unfortunately. It must be some Steam shinanigan.

Same thing happens for me. "Because the contents of One Bit Bundle are personalized for your account, it cannot be purchased as a gift."

Well, I bought it for myself anyway.

 

[Ninjerk]

I cba to embed the game link, but there's a game called Detective Grimoire that I've had sitting on my wishlist that supposedly does crime solving reasonably well. I just picked it up for 1.39 (retail price is about 7 dollars, I think).

 

[someone else]

It's worth it.

Jesus, that's a steal. Everybody buy this now unless you absolutely don't like horror games.

You don't fool me alien, you just want to make babies with my face.

 

[Zombra]

I cba to embed the game link, but there's a game called Detective Grimoire that I've had sitting on my wishlist that supposedly does crime solving reasonably well. I just picked it up for 1.39 (retail price is about 7 dollars, I think).

Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.4 hrs on record
Posted: Dec 28, 2019 @ 12:29am

Despite clue gathering, I did not feel like a detective as the deduction mechanics were too childish. The game has you put clues together, which is good, but if you assemble a wrong combination it simply honks at you WRONG and lets you try again. With nothing at stake you can just keep clicking things until you win. Disappointing.

 

[Ninjerk]

I cba to embed the game link, but there's a game called Detective Grimoire that I've had sitting on my wishlist that supposedly does crime solving reasonably well. I just picked it up for 1.39 (retail price is about 7 dollars, I think).

Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.4 hrs on record
Posted: Dec 28, 2019 @ 12:29am

Despite clue gathering, I did not feel like a detective as the deduction mechanics were too childish. The game has you put clues together, which is good, but if you assemble a wrong combination it simply honks at you WRONG and lets you try again. With nothing at stake you can just keep clicking things until you win. Disappointing.

I got the impression from this video there were a non-trivial amount of combinations to go through:

 

[Zombra]

I got the impression there were a non-trivial amount of combinations to go through

Meh. I don't remember exactly how it worked, I just remember I was disappointed that I could solve like 2/3 of the mystery and just guess the rest with no penalties for fucking up.

I mean for $1.39 and 2 hours you might as well give it a try, why waste time researching the wisdom of your purchase at this point?

 

[PrettyDeadman]

I got the impression there were a non-trivial amount of combinations to go through

Meh. I don't remember exactly how it worked, I just remember I was disappointed that I could solve like 2/3 of the mystery and just guess the rest with no penalties for fucking up.

I mean for $1.39 and 2 hours you might as well give it a try, why waste time researching the wisdom of your purchase at this point?

I the video I've seen there were hundreds of available answers per question.

 

[Zombra]

Fine. I'm lying. I didn't play it, I wasn't highly disappointed in it, and it advanced the genre brilliantly. Those 2.4 hours Steam says I clocked were just idling so I could trick strangers on the Codex. Good job, detectives! You caught me! Although I didn't play it I must say I completely loved it. The game is highly challenging, none of the "sentence structure" combinations make complete nonsense out of most answers and there are harsh penalties for guessing wrong. You should totally buy it and play it several times, it's a great use of your time and money. I profoundly apologize for trying to give anyone the benefit of my direct experience.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Fine. I'm lying. I didn't play it, I wasn't highly disappointed in it, and it advanced the genre brilliantly. Those 2.4 hours Steam says I clocked were just idling so I could trick strangers on the Codex. The game is highly challenging, none of the "sentence structure" combinations make complete nonsense out of most answers and there are harsh penalties for guessing wrong. You should totally buy it and play it several times, it's a great use of your time and money. I profoundly apologize for trying to give anyone the benefit of my direct experience.

I am not going to play it but I'll have you know you have been caught red handed as the crook you are.

 

[J_C]

Don't know what could be the problem unfortunately. It must be some Steam shinanigan.

Same thing happens for me. "Because the contents of One Bit Bundle are personalized for your account, it cannot be purchased as a gift."

Well, I bought it for myself anyway.

I will look into this, but as far as I know, there are no settings in the Steam developer site which prohibits gifting. Thank you for purchasing, it means a lot to me.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Used to be you could try these small-time shareware games (you call them "indie" now?) for free in shareware mode or get them in bulk in thousands on a single CD as a "Shareware Collection Vol 49!!!" for about $5 or $6. NOW you want me to pay up, UP FRONT, on average $5-6 for EACH, without even trying any of them?! Git da fuk outta here wit dat chit zoomboi!!!

Besides, my Steam has been in offline mode and firewalled since about 2017... so....

Anyone have any shareware discs they want to unload?

Nice job paying for demos, nerd. I'm circumcising your post as punishment.

Don't know what could be the problem unfortunately. It must be some Steam shinanigan.

Same thing happens for me. "Because the contents of One Bit Bundle are personalized for your account, it cannot be purchased as a gift."

Well, I bought it for myself anyway.

I will look into this, but as far as I know, there are no settings in the Steam developer site which prohibits gifting. Thank you for purchasing, it means a lot to me.

That error in particular is because the way you have the bundle set up (THE CORRECT WAY) is it drops the price on any pieces the customer already owns. So it doesn't allow gifting, even for a full bundle (Which is stupid, yes) because that could potentially let someone use their "Customer loyalty bonus" of being able to buy a single game via the bundle with the extra bundle discount and then gift it to people, allowing dreaded Steam arbitrage and shenanigans.

The other way to set up bundles on Steam is where you offer it as a lump, so owners of pieces of the bundle are still charged for the whole thing and the extra games are lost to the void. I don't recall the specific terminology between the two, though.

 

[J_C]

Used to be you could try these small-time shareware games (you call them "indie" now?) for free in shareware mode or get them in bulk in thousands on a single CD as a "Shareware Collection Vol 49!!!" for about $5 or $6. NOW you want me to pay up, UP FRONT, on average $5-6 for EACH, without even trying any of them?! Git da fuk outta here wit dat chit zoomboi!!!

Besides, my Steam has been in offline mode and firewalled since about 2017... so....

Anyone have any shareware discs they want to unload?

Nice job paying for demos, nerd. I'm circumcising your post as punishment.

Don't know what could be the problem unfortunately. It must be some Steam shinanigan.

Same thing happens for me. "Because the contents of One Bit Bundle are personalized for your account, it cannot be purchased as a gift."

Well, I bought it for myself anyway.

I will look into this, but as far as I know, there are no settings in the Steam developer site which prohibits gifting. Thank you for purchasing, it means a lot to me.

That error in particular is because the way you have the bundle set up (THE CORRECT WAY) is it drops the price on any pieces the customer already owns. So it doesn't allow gifting, even for a full bundle (Which is stupid, yes) because that could potentially let someone use their "Customer loyalty bonus" of being able to buy a single game via the bundle with the extra bundle discount and then gift it to people, allowing dreaded Steam arbitrage and shenanigans.

The other way to set up bundles on Steam is where you offer it as a lump, so owners of pieces of the bundle are still charged for the whole thing and the extra games are lost to the void. I don't recall the specific terminology between the two, though.

Oh man, thanks a lot. I would have never thought about this. But it is so stupid on Steam's part, because the current setup is more fair to customers.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Oh man, thanks a lot. I would have never thought about this. But it is so stupid on Steam's part, because the current setup is more fair to customers.

No problem! And yeah, it is stupid. I actually think they used to let you gift bundles like that provided you were still buying the whole thing but I could be misremembering, or they just let you gift partial bundles then too since it was the wild west.

 

[Konjad]

Decent adventure-horror game. Great atmosphere and interesting story, but very linear (although there are multiple endings) and short (depending on the ending 1-2 hours long). However, it is very cheap, so well worth it for one night playthrough.