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[–] jBoi@szmer.info 1 points 3 days ago

The Witcher 1, 2, and 3 + DLC ;)

[–] Vincente@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I don’t recommend any games because I purchased a large backlog I can't complete.

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Ori & the Will of the Whisps is an incredible story, on sale for pretty cheap right now!

[–] mohab@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'll always recommend Catherine, Bayonetta, and Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion. Cheap, extremely fun, and very replayable.

Also, one of the best fighting games of all-time for $4: Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R.

And if you're a Persona person, maybe don't sleep on Persona 4 Arena Ultimax? Super fun fighting game and relatively cheap.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 6 days ago

Enter the gungeon is like 1.50

[–] SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Outer Wilds is on sale. Great game if you like space, puzzles or platforming!

[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

My personal greatest game of all time. Do go on blind tho.

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Celeste is 75% off and is a near-masterpiece of a game.

Portal 1 and Portal 2 are on sale again of course on the chance you haven't yet hit these absolutely classic legendary games.

Persona 4 Golden is 40% off and is awesome, and Persona 5 Royal is 60% and is even more awesome.

Metal: Hellsinger is 70% off and while it isn't a GOTY type game, it's a hell of a lot of fun if you're a contemporary metal music fan.

but my biggest recommendation is probably gonna be

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale at 80% for only $3.99 (US) which is an completely underrated hidden gem of a game and a huge recommendation for anyone who likes quirky cozy-hybrid games or who, like me, spent way too long on the shopkeeper segments in RPGs like Torneko Taloon's chapter in DQIV.

edit: why in the world would anyone ever downvote a personal recommendation comment? Weird behavior, fam

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Btw Recettear is getting a HD remaster in 2025.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Eyyy I hadn't heard that yet! That's awesome, thanks for sharing!

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[–] donio@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Undertale is at a new all time love at $0.99. It's not really my jam but it's the time to pick it up if you always wanted to play it but never did.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not really my jam

I watched someone's entire playthrough of it on YouTube, which I find to be a decent middle ground. In fact, someone else I know doesn't even game any more and just watches playthroughs; better to see an expert do it with insightful or fun commentary than to get frustrated from not knowing what to do, etc. when we have such limited time in our lives anyway. Maybe that's why I generally prioritize roguelites nowadays; if I'm gonna play something, I wanna ensure it's a unique challenge that possibly not even the devs have ever exactly seen, and not simply be treated like a rat in a fixed maze to figure out precisely or struggle otherwise when other people have done it.

Anyway, I digress; Infested Planet is $1.94 USD for another recommendation, and it's awesome. The trailer undersells it if anything.

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The inability to resize the Undertale window without using a third-party program like Sizer continues to be INFURIATING to me.

Undertale is a good game, but it just makes me so goddamn angry every time I open it to not have control over the sizing on my own goddamn monitor that I haven't been able to finish it.

[–] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Sounds like they should have called it Underscale

I’ll see myself out

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[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Doom 2016 for 2$, Titanfall 2 for 3$ and battlefield games from BF3 through BF1 also go for 2$

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

If you are the simmy type or like space, Elite Dangerous is insanely good, but has a learning curve up front. It's the only game I've put over 1,100 hours in and still haven't explored everything.

Subnautica is another game I can highly recommend.

If you wanna play games with friends (Elite is also MP), The Forest is a great game to bond over.

Black mesa is another banger.

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[–] DeadUncle@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Noita is currently 60% off and is hands down the best game I have ever played (kind of). It is ridiculously brutal and you will die very often but you have the potential to get ludicrously powerful as well. The game will cheese you so don't be afraid to cheese it back. In has so much content that beating the final boss for the first time is considered beating the tutorial.

Also if the some aspects are too bullshit for you there is a variety of mods to fix these, and there is absolutely no shame in using them.

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[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

The entire Creeper World series is on sale- Creeper World 1 and 2 are $2.49, Creeper World 3 is $4.94, and Creeper World 4 is $9.99. Personally, I don't like Creeper World 2 so I would suggest any of them but that one. CW2 is side on and I'm not a fan. CW1 and 3 are top down, and CW4 is properly 3D.

The first couple of Creeper World games used to be flash games you could play in browser, but after the age of Java games they ported them to Steam and kept making more and better games.

The basic concept is that it's a cross between a very simplified RTS and a tower defense game, with the added curveball that the enemy is just a liquid that won't stop showing up everywhere.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No Man’s Sky is down to $23.99. I remember the launch was poor but they kept working on it and improving it. I picked it up a couple years ago on Xbox and have enjoyed it

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

NMS was such a mixed bag for me. I spent over a hundred hours on it yet still walked away wondering what there was to do in the game.

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 21 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I added Cyberpunk to the cart. We’ll see if I actually purchase it.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mass Effect legendary edition (all 3 games + all DLCs) is on for 6 Euro.

That's a great deal IMO

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Here is a link to Steam DB showing popular games more than 50% off:
https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=50&min_rating=70&min_reviews=500

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Solasta Crown of the Magister for $8.99.

For me it's the best game ever to capture the D&D feeling. The custom Warlock subclass, Timekeeper, is ridiculously fun.

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[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Talos Principle is $5

Talos Principle 2 is $15

Highly recommend both games!

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago
[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Elite Is a space flight economics simulator.

Fly around buy here sell there look at stuff for fun and get into battles

Great game but you will want a hotas set up if you really get into it

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Rain World and its DLC Downpour are 50% off (just above 11 bucks)

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[–] spicystraw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Here’s what I picked up during the Steam Spring Sale:

DOOM - $1.99 (90% off)
Stray - $18.99 (40% off)
Undertale - $0.99 (90% off)
Celeste - $4.99 (75% off)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - $4.99 (90% off)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - $14.99 (75% off)
NieR: Automata - $15.99 (60% off)
Hades - $9.99 (60% off)
Devil May Cry 5 - $19.79 (67% off)
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[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

my reccomendation? whatever's on gog

in all seriousness, you can't go very wrong with games made by valve, portal especially.

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We picked up Journey and Star Traders Frontier. I've wanted to play Journey since it came out but I didn't have the proper console. Well, I forgot I put it on the wishlist, and that's a real good price so.

I've (sung? musically yelled at?) another person already.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like this indie game critic, he has a recommendation video for sale

https://youtu.be/uN51VdTNzTg

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