Video Game Deals Catch-All

Rezzy wrote:

Well... that was dull.
I don't know if the clues there helped but what I did was

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on the linked category scroll to the upcoming tab and just keep hitting Show More until the one that doesn't say Coming Soon or Preorder pops up. Sometimes it took a while, but I found all of them this way. Fun?

My strategy was...

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I just went to the linked page and scrolled through the "featured" games (the tiled ones, not the list at the bottom) for each tab until I found it. The "price" for the correct game was always "cl.or th.4x"

Even easier - Look for the price of cr.ot struck out.

The main thing I'm getting from the Steam sale badge thing is that the Steam catalog is mind-bogglingly, overwhelmingly, big.

I'm starting to think that the flash sales of yesteryear were so effective not just because of the prices but because they asked you to only make a few decisions at a time. "Do any of this handful of games sound good? If not, come back in a few hours for some more choices," and now it's "Here's a zillion and a half games on sale and you've got two weeks to pick."

I really feel for developers trying to find an audience for their games in this environment.

Yeah, the badge thing seems to be at least trying to get people to look at some of the games they may have had no reason to search for before, but I suspect most people are just going to look up the answers on-line and not bother paging through the store.

The event stopped working for me after I got the 7th one this morning (first of the day because I got bored before). Can't even search up the game and have it link back to the main event page like before. I'm stuck on the horror one which is even less interesting a category than the previous one for me. Searching for the game name and th.4x never return anything after scrolling and loading a couple times, The main store page was also broken earlier today.

Also, at one point I made a thread for all the various sale events Valve had shared for 2022, but nobody responded so I assume nobody really cares all that much anymore. The one game I was ready to buy (Nier: Automata) at it's typical discount didn't get one this sale, too. Looking at isthereanydeal history shows that it hasn't ever gone on sale around the summer sale, but does around April/May and September.

Im finding the Interactive Recommender is really good at finding me something I'd like to try. If you go to https://store.steampowered.com/recom... (or in the app go to Store, mouse over Your Store, select Interactive Recommender) you can see a list of games ranked by a confidence score. You can add tag filters, exclude tags, and use a 'popular/niche' slider to see some different rankings.

Twice I've come here during the sale, nudged the Popularity slider a bit towards Niche and got recommendations for 2 games I ended up really enjoying (Orb of Creation, which scratches that Idle/Clicker itch while actually being neither an idler or a clicker. And DeltaV-Rings of Saturn, a 2d space mining game with delicate control physics, detailed damage modeling, solid ship component customization, and other AI miners, pirates, etc)

Give it a shot

Well I had a very different experience from you with it - moving it further towards niche just increased the number of sudoku games it showed me.

Which is odd given that I have never played a Suduko game on Steam. Nor want to

Maybe it knows you better than you do. Better give it a try.

Well, the game in clue 7 is probably "hidden" for me. I've marked everything as "don't hide", but I still can't find it. At all. Using all the tricks. Every time I refresh there are 1-3 games in several of the categories that are "hidden", and I'm sure it's one of them.

Sigh.

Robear wrote:

Well, the game in clue 7 is probably "hidden" for me. I've marked everything as "don't hide", but I still can't find it. At all. Using all the tricks. Every time I refresh there are 1-3 games in several of the categories that are "hidden", and I'm sure it's one of them.

Sigh.

Yeah, I had real issues at the last few as well (evidently #7, too) using a browser. I think they made it harder to finish off after the first couple days. Mine also reset on me when I tried looking at it in the Steam desktop app so I had to go through and redo all the previous ones, and I just used the app.

Epic has Iratus: Lord of the Dead for free. All the DLC can be had for $5.74 also. Game is like darkest dungeon but you play the bad guy. Had this game on my wishlist.

Also Geneforge 1 - Mutagen which is made by spiderwer software is free. I think the game is made by one dude. I played just the demo of one of his games and I think I put 40 hours into it. I don't know anything about this game.

The last free game is Hood: Outlaws & Legends. Seems to be one of those four player team games. Oh another game where you play the bad guy doing hood stuff.

My biggest beef with the Interactive Recommender is that I don't see a way to mark things as owned on other platforms.

Its top two recommendations for me are games that I've played extensively somewhere other than Steam, and quite a few in the list in general are the same.

There's also no way for me to just say, "Don't recommend this," for games that might, for example, come from a studio that I don't want to give money.

EDIT: You can do this on each individual store page using the "Ignore" button, both for owned elsewhere and completely ignore, but man, it would be so much better to be able to do that right from the Recommender page.

Geneforge is a classic and this is a remake that is better in every way. A steal at $20 and even better free.

I remember playing Exile from the same developer a lifetime ago. The splash art is etched into my memory, it's one of my earliest RPG memories. I must have had a demo disc or something, because I was quite young.

IMAGE(https://lparchive.org/Exile-3-Ruined-World/1-titleimage.png)

So I'm pretty excited to check out Geneforge!

Prime Gaming deals are up for July. Looks like some of them end on prime day, July 12. And then there will be a few big ones for Prime Day only like Mass Effect: Legendary.

So grab them while you can. A few goodies in there, like Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, currently being played for JRPG club here.

There's also 3 games that are from LegacyGames and require you to get an account and their installer. Prime is just giving you keys. Those weren't as clearly marked as previous Origin/GoG/etc games that only give keys have been in other months. So you could end up gifting those games or giving them away in key thread if you already own.

Bought Headlander and Kingsway on steam for $2 each.

The eshop has a Anti Hero Bundle for $4. You get three games Nefarious, Reverse Crawl and Underhero. You play the bad guy in all of them. One is a RPG, one is turn based strategy and the other is platformer. All have simple graphics and might also be on cellphones.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

The eshop has a Anti Hero Bundle for $4. You get three games Nefarious, Reverse Crawl and Underhero. You play the bad guy in all of them. One is a RPG, one is turn based strategy and the other is platformer. All have simple graphics and might also be on cellphones.

Nice find, thank you!

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For anyone interested that has Switch Online, Mario & Rabbids Kingdom Battle is free to play until July 12th.

Yeah trying to sell the upcoming sequel. Nice

Anybody want to do some last minute filthy enabling before the Steam sale closes?

Creeper World series, never really checked it out. Got Creeper World 3 for $5 and ended up getting the 4th and their space one after playing 3 for a few hours.

Timberborn for $20, awesome city building game, featuring Beaver citizens (have only been able to play about 3 hours so far- Early access but plenty of good content and well polished)

Sunshine Heavy Industries for $12 - cutest ship-building puzzle game ever. Very enjoyable. (Played dozens of hours during the sale)

Rings of Saturn for $5 - physics based space 2d space mining sim. If that doesnt make you instantly interested, its not for you, but if it does, just buy it (Played for 6 hours during the sale- Early access but plenty of good content and well polished)

Creeper World is great. I replay the whole series every few years. Going back to 1 and 2 are worth it, still great strategy and a good way to spend a quiet evening.

Dragon’s Dogma is under $5 and Resident Evil 7 is $10 if you want more Capcom in your life.

Ancient Enemy and Killing Floor 2 are the free Epic games this week

Just bought Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition for 12.49 on the Switch. I don't know when I will get to playing it but that was too cheap for a great game to not pick it up.

Link to DekuDeals where I saw it - they also have the PS version in case you are interested.

Ancient Enemy (free on Epic) is an entertaining game similar to that iOS Solitaire Golf game a while back. Its a solitaire card game, based on that Mahjong style where you have a card and you have to take a card from a pile that is + or - 1 from your current card, which uncovers new cards for you to use. You end up with big combos.

The game uses those combos for Puzzle Quest style combat. Gear up, use the combos to power your abilities and defeat the baddies.

Simple, fun.

Thanks for the description. Since I saw cards I was going to pass on it, but that sounds a bit more enjoyable making it more likely I'll give it a go.

I played it just now basically. It's a pretty decent solitaire game with a twist. I recommend it for light play. If it was mobile I think it would be better though.

Solitairica? That was actually free on epic at some point in the past, though it's $10 now. I played a hell of a lot of it on my phone. It's a much better mobile game though; a little light for PC time IMO.