• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    27 minutes ago

    Picked up Firewatch and Divinity Original Sin 1&2.

    FW is a short and sweet walking sim. Well worth the £1.60 or whatever I paid for it.

    No opinion on DOS yet because I doubt I’ll play that before the new year.

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    The Last Case of Benedict Fox being around 90% off was the only one with an acceptable price tag for me. Got it even cheaper via a bundle because I already owned Arise.

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    Shamelessly copying my comment:

    In order,

    Chorus - AA paranormal 3d spaceship combat game
    Cyber Hook - First person grapple hook platform racer
    Tangle Tower - Charming point and click detective game
    Patch Quest - Bullet hell roguelike
    Subsurface Circular - Robot murder mystery visual novel
    Yes Your Grace - Addictive story driven king resource management game
    They Bleed Pixels - Brutal 2d action platformer
    Devil Daggers - Single arena fps where you try to survive 500 seconds (and fail)
    Loop Hero Soundtrack - The game is pretty well known, but its soundtrack is amazing enough to buy or pirate even if you don’t want to play it

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    The Owlcat Pathfinder CRPGs aren’t on the deep discounts list, but Kingmaker is 85% off ($2.99) and Wrath Of The Righteous is 70% off ($11.99). Both are solid games.

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      Owlcat is a Russian company that is very outspoken pro-Putin, pro-Ukraine war. The EULA of the games essentially tells you that they’ll install spyware.

      Do not buy their games! If you already own them, do not install their games!

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        Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is an amazing game if you can look past the politics though. Also, the spyware thing is pretty standard now - it’s usually called “telemetry” in most EULAs. I haven’t read it closely enough to know if they’re overreaching any worse than others, but they did walk back including the AppFlyer tool after pushback from users.

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    From that list :

    • Keep talking and nobody explodes: incredible fun with friends, even better if the help has the documents physically printed, there’s this magic that happens when you frantically search for the right page and try to keep calm
    • Titanfall 2 : worth it just for the campaign, I don’t know about the state of multiplayer anymore (servers are back i think, no more need for a custom client), I last played it last year, people were understandably sweaty, movement and gameplay is unparalleled
    • Vermintide 2 : in its best state ever it seems, hours of fun and great challenges, interesting mods for qol and to add to the game’s longevity, I dream of when Darktide will reach that point- Firewatch : nice story, beautiful art direction, ending is “controversial” in that it is kind of abrupt with little payoff, but the journey is great, imo a really good walking simulator
    • Metro Exodus : superb open world, great conclusion to the series, pays off even more if you read the book, day night cycle, each map feels handmade given the amount of details, best “skewmorphic” interface in games

    Edit : fuck me i edited my comment and accidentally deleted the paragraph about Firewatch, tldr beautiful art direction

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      All excellent recommendations, and I’ll triple down on the Vermintide 2 recommendation. One of the best bang for buck indi games out there. Darktide has similarly hit a state where I can recommend it as well finally, even if it took an embarrassingly long time to get to a Vermintide 2 level of playability. If you like the -tide games, give it a go.

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    Any of the classic valve games (half life, portal, and their sequels). If auto shooters are your thing, vampire survivors is less than a small coffee. Dead space (the remake) is $15. Halo MCC is $10. Titanfall 2 is $3. The “new” tomb raider trilogy are all less than $5 each or get the bundle. Alan wake is $5. Prey is $3. And Batman Arkham origins is $2.

    Just a handful of good games for cheap. There’s many more out there.

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      Lot of great suggestions here- I grabbed MCC myself. Was kinda stunned that it’s… I think five games ranging from absolutely era defining (at least for me) to solid games. For $10 I’m not sure that can be beat.

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      Prey is awesome. I recently finished it after getting it in de the summer sale. Highly recommend!

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        there’s a mod that works pretty well for that… nucleuscoop (it might have rebranded… haven’t loaded it in a bit)

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      10 hours ago

      I got the new Tomb Raider games free on Epic, but it seemed more like torture porn than a game. Had to turn it off.

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    These are the ones I was interested in.

    I went for a few bundles because I already owned thief sim and one of the metro games, so the bundles were an even better deal.

    I checked the steam db website and a lot of these were all time low.

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    South Park: The Stick of Truth is a great RPG. You don’t have to be a South Park fan to enjoy it, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.

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      And if you are a fan, the game feels just like playing maybe a half season of the show. Jumping right in to episode after episode!

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    Can someone recommend some good 3-player games? Already bought Aliens: FE and I’m sick of Apex and DOOM.

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      It’s not very patient gamer of me, but if you want specifically 3-player games Space Marine 2 comes to mind immediately. Kinda pricey, though.

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    The Binding of Isaac Rebirth Complete Bundle as well as its individual components are at a new all time low. The game is an absolute classic and IMO it’s still the best at what it does. It’s perfect on the Steam Deck too.

    If you like the base game I highly recommend all the DLCs. Besides a ton of new content they also add many quality of life changes that make the game even more enjoyable.

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      I rarely buy games even on sale (don’t remember when I last bought a game, must not have been this year) but I’m definitely getting that one! That’s a steal. Just… how do I set a reminder to buy it in the morning? (okay I added an event in my calendar, I think I’m good)