Video Game Deals Catch-All

Budo wrote:

Not a major discount, but following the Steam Christmas sale, Midnight Suns just went on sale at -33% on Steam. Legendary edition, while pricey at ~$67 after the discount, does include the Season Pass. The game and the Season Pass separately with no discount is about $120. So not bad.

Stele wrote:

On sale at GMG too, cheaper at $35.

Wish they had Steam version for preorder but alas I'm stuck with Epic. Nice they have it now.

Legendary Edition on GMG comes in under $59 there. Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition is also $13.69.

With GMG too there are usually additional discounts you can apply to the games. May only be an extra 3 or 5 percent but all of it helps. Check the XP tab or even on the home page there are sometimes links to holiday codes for extra off - made use of a 5% one around Christmas. Also If you use Edge browser that just automatically cycles through some known codes and tries them all at checkout (these are typically not the same codes on the XP tab).

GMG is my main go-to.

Hitman 3 to become hitman world of assassination. Hitman 1 and 2 will be added for free and pulled from sale. Might be worth it to but hitman 3 now on sale as it will be upgraded and hitman world looks to cost $70.

While the trilogy's story is pretty simple, part of it is told in that Hitman 2 Expansion Pass that won't be in the base game (and which directly leads to the opening of Hitman 3). Presumably that'll be one of the available $10 upcharges after it becomes World of Assassination.

So in 3 you'll wander around Goldshire and the Barrens assassinating people?

Friendly reminder that the Epic sale ends (and coupon expires) at 11AM ET tomorrow and the Steam sale ends at 1PM ET tomorrow.

Both Ori games, Spiritfarer, and several other games at new low prices on Switch eShop! Check dekudeals for full list with price history.

For folks (like me) that have been on the fence for waaaay too long, Kerbal Space Program is one of this week's Epic freebies.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:

For folks (like me) that have been on the fence for waaaay too long, Kerbal Space Program is one of this week's Epic freebies.

YAY!!! I've had this on my steam wishlist forever

Nice, along with the standalone Shadow Tactics expansion! I have them both but will pass that along to friends.

Thanks!

Greed fall on sale on Steam

Someone wanna enable me? Is it like KOTOR or Mass Effect in a different setting?

Yes, it is 100% Mass Effect in a different setting. It is enjoyable if you like those games. And at that price point it is well worth it.

I played it while it was on Game Pass and I loved it. I'd say a no brainer for 10 bucks. Not quite ME or KOTOR, remember this one's not a AAA game. Think more like a Risen/Elex/Piranha Bytes type.

TMNT: Shredder's Revenge is free on mobile if you have netflix.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

TMNT: Shredder's Revenge is free on mobile if you have netflix.

Seems Netflix has added a ton of new games since the last time I checked.

Before Your Eyes was really good on PC. It likely translates to phone quite well since your primary input device is the camera seeing you blink.

Some others that jumped out to me: Spiritfarer, Oxenfree, Kentucky Route Zero

Gamedec - Definitive Edition is free on the Epic store currently. I had it on my list for awhile but never thought it looked good enough to pay $30 for. However free is another story!

farley3k wrote:

Gamedec - Definitive Edition is free on the Epic store currently. I had it on my list for awhile but never thought it looked good enough to pay $30 for. However free is another story!

Err, no, that one is free NEXT week. This week is First Class Trouble and Divine Knockout.

It shows as free for me.

I redeemed it for free already

You're all correct! There are THREE games free at Epic this week: Divine Knock Out, First Class Trouble, and Gamedec.

Next week is Epistory Typing Chronicles, which is actually a fun little game.

Podunk wrote:

It shows as free for me.

Well it does for me too now. Didn't earlier. Weird.

Stele wrote:

Both Ori games, Spiritfarer, and several other games at new low prices on Switch eShop! Check dekudeals for full list with price history.

And now with 2 days left in the sale, Walmart has digital prices even cheaper than the eShop. Celeste, Spiritfarer, Stardew valley, etc. all at new low prices for the next 48 hours or so. Just beat Nintendo's prices by 1-3 dollars in most cases but wow

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is being removed from Steam and other stores Jan 23.

Until then it looks like the game and the first 8 DLC episodes are free. So try it out. There's a few more pay DLC if you enjoy it, and grab those in the next 8 days if you want.

EDIT: Looks like the "free" DLC are just chapters that you can unlock through normal gameplay. But you can get the DLC to skip to them. Interesting.

After a solid weekend playing Sailing Era (PC) I can confidently opine the 10% off release discount is worth it. This is not a game in early access - for better or worse, everything is in the game. It will probably feature quite high in my 2023 GOTY list. I recommend grabbing it beofre the 19th Jan when the discount ends.

The English translation issues are almost non-existent - there was only one bug I saw - if a commodity becomes the subject matter of a quest, then it still shows the commodity's default icon but two Chinese characters are super-imposed (presumably meaning "quest item"). Other players have detected some bugs but they don't seem to be game-breaking.

Edit: the quest item translation bug was fixed about 6 hours after I posted these comments which bodes well for the game's future

The 2D artwork is beautiful. The in-game 3D rendering of the world map is not great, and you can see where the textures stop and start. The overworld 3D map looks like something from a phone game. I am still sold on the beautiful artwork for the character portraits and each port - although minor ports looked identical (recycling assets), the key ports such as Nagasaki, Amsterdam, London, Seville etc all had unique artwork which made discovering and re-entering those locations a pleasure.

The gameplay is less about Pirates (albeit you can take on bounties, or even challenge in-game fleets cruising around on the world map once you have the correct kind of ship modification in order to hail and interact with them) and more so about mini-games and commodity trading. I have two complaints about ship to ship combat - I never managed to get into the boarding sequence to play out a captain's duel. I ended up blasting everything to smithereens before I could trigger a boarding sequence - unlike Pirates, where you enter boarding combat as soon as you collide with the enemy ship. Secondly, the AI for your fleet (your flagship plus 4 other ships) is incredibly bad. It's okay if you overwhelm the opponent but if you're prima facie outgunned then prepare to lose your entire fleet as you single-handedly take on the opposition.

The commodity trading is somewhat like Star Traders, which isn't a bad thing. Think of it like this - if I bought East Asian porcelain for 4k gold and try to sell it in that cultural sphere, then it's treated as a local commodity and I get a small markup at best. If I successfully ship it all the way to Europe unscathed and I find a major port in prosperous boom time, I might achieve a markup of 400% in recognition of the scarcity of the good and the trouble I took to ship it all the way from East Asia. Similarly, trying to sell Japanese laquer goods to Japanese markets is not as profitable as selling it to, say, the Koreans or the Chinese.

On top of this, you also get culture-specific prohibitions such as Muslim ports refuse the sale of alcohol. So you're better off shipping your brandy and wines in London, etc.

The RPG element of it (collecting characters to play as officers, for land exploration etc) is extremely RNG. Skill checks occur and skill books / other events are based on character stats. RNG being so unpredictable, you could end up like me with a bunch of characters who can never use skill books. Speaking of skill books, they're written in different languages and mastering a new language is often checked by a different stat. Good luck with this system but honestly I'm having so much fun sailing all the corners of the world that I'm largely ignoring the RPG stuff.

The "romance" gimmick is hilarious. You have a maximum of 2 rounds of drinks with any particular waitress before your "beer goggles" get so bad you pass out for a couple of days to prevent people farming affection. 10/10 would pass out again for my anime waifus.

tldr; there's so much content packed into $25 or so of gameplay, such that even with annoying UI/menu design and so-so 3D graphics rendering, I was still hooked sailing across the world and mapping out port after port, upgrading my fleet, customising them etc.

Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is the Star Deal today on Fanatical @ $21.35.

Very tempting, since I've heard good things. But I still have yet to really dive into X-COM, so maybe I should do that first.

Rayman Raving Rabbids free on Ubisoft store for 4 days.

Personally can't get the store to load. But it should work at some point before the 23rd

Free on Epic this week: Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Free next week: Adios

merphle wrote:

Free on Epic this week: Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Free next week: Adios

Such a great typing game, played with my daughter.

GOG is giving away Haven Park for a few hours to mark their New Year Sale.

Solasta: Crown of the Magister Is on sale for $14 until January 26th.

Should I bite...I have so many games but I love the idea of a turn based D&D game - I like Pillars of Eternity but I have never loved the real time with pause system even back to Baldur's Gate. It just didn't feel D&Dish to me.