Games

Here's my decent haul. Some of them aren't really in the "Sale" as they just launched but have launch discounts.

• Control Ultimate Edition: Already own it on Epic, but was cheap enough to re-buy for easier Steam Deck play.
• Crab Champions: The meme song that become a really competent roguelike shooter!
• Dave the Diver: What if Lucasarts made a mini-game filled roguelike?
• DROP - System Breach: Sleeper hit for me. Intense puzzle/pattern recognition game with a great, simplistic hacking theme/style.
• The Entropy Centre: Big Portal vibes, but using time!
• Humanity: What if Lemmings, but you're an omniscient Shiba Inu. Plays great in VR too.
• Prey: Loved Deathloop but never had a chance to play Prey.
• Shogun Showdown: Crypt of the Necrodancer meets Slay the Spire - SIGN ME UP!

Bought dave the diver, just fought first boss and game feels fun for now.

The Steamdeck sale is tempting. I have been trying to decide if I need one (I don't need one, but that's not important).

Marvel's Midnight Suns Legenday Edition. I'm 30 hours in and LOVING it. I mean, I like XCOM, Marvel, Persona and deck-building games, so I feel like this was created for me.

It's a shame the game flopped though.

I went big, mostly indie games I’ve wanted to try for awhile, mainly for playing on Steam Deck

ELDEN RING, Escape Simulator, Vampire Survivors, Mini Motorways, Only Up!, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Celeste, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Rogue Legacy 2, Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection, Spelunky 2, Super Meat Boy, Pogostuck, Persona 3 Portable & 4 Golden, Kindergarten 1 & 2

Return of Obra Dinn. Actually bought it from GoG sale. Heard tons of hype about it.

Elden ring (finally!)

I got

High on Life

Ys IX Monstrum Nox

Stranger of Paradise FF Origin

Toukiden 2

Tales of Symphonia

DBZ Kakarot

Satisfactory- project zomboid - valhiem - oxygen not included

I grabbed Terraria and Tiny Tina's Wonderland. Looking forward to them both! Gonna boot up Terraria now, Tiny Tina's Wonderland will have to wait until some friends are free.

Raft. I'm getting reeeeeal sick of Bruce.

Lost Ruins, Ender Lilies, Halls of Torment

I've bought more this sale than the last 3 years combined.

Nier Replicant 1.123905814908(or whatever), Nier Automata, Dave the Diver, Raptor: Call of the Shadow and Crisis Core: Reunion.

I have Automata for the PS4 but wanted to play it on the SteamDeck.

I wasn't really interested in anything new until I saw that Dave the Diver trailer and it just clicked for me. I haven't played it yet.

I got Subnautica for £8.24, original Alan Wake for £4.64 and Surviving Mars deluxe edition for £8.74. Not bad!

I bought Anno 1800 and am really enjoying it, it's great that they modelled it closer to Anno 1404 but still innovated

I have some bigger games I intend to get later, but I bought Halls of Torment early. It's a "[X] Survivors" game like Vampire Survivors, with a heavy Diablo theme/atmosphere to it. It has some fun little changes on the genre and I'm having fun with it. Always funny how these $3-$5 games can be so entertaining.

Red Dead Redemption 2. I couldn't pass it up any longer!

So far I've picked up Cassette Beasts and Nier Replicant. The former is a monster tamer game which I really enjoyed. Mechanics were fun, and the world exploration was superb. You unlock abilities for movement kind of like BOTW/Hollow Knight.

Nier Replicant has hot androids

I got Sekiro because I'm a sadist.

I bought slay the spire, i have only been able to go on 1 run which was very fun, now waiting for some peoper time off to play again.

A steam deck. I'll probably get some games after payday.

I wanted to pick up the Washington and Oregon DLCs for American Truck Simulator, a game I almost never play but it always there waiting for me to pop back in for one run then uninstall lol.

Also picked up Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness (whew, that's a name alright) because I was just turned on to the show (which is awesome!) and wanted to play it, but full price seems like a total ripoff for such a jank niche game.

Now both are on my Deck for less then I spent at lunch yesterday, and I can get back to slowly poking at my backlog!

I've been getting into Warhammer lately so picked up boltgun and battlefleet gothic armada 2. Both very fun actually and definitely recommend

So far only Blasphemous, but that'll probably change. My wishlist is huge, and nothing's ever stopped me from growing my backlog before, so why stop now?

I'm a huge fan of metroidvanias, I've played almost all of the heavy hitters in recent years: Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Ori 1 & 2, Dust, Guacamelee, the list goes on. Blasphemous seemed right up my alley despite some positive reviews with heavy caveats. I'm mostly enjoying it but I really really hate all the insta-death pits. Nice that you don't drop all your currency on death but now I've gotta walk all the way back there, avoiding all the enemies and traps, and oop I've fallen in the same pit again and turned the game off. Besides that, the difficulty is somewhere between easy and challenging but fair. Recommended while cautioning patience.

RDR2 and the second expansion pack to Pathfinder WOTR

Witcher 3 and all DLC's :) it is my second time playing it and I love it as much as I did the first time

Post Void and A Short Hike. Also thinking about buying either Terraria or Don't Starve Together for me and my friend, but not sure which one

Nothing. It's the same sale for the past 5 years. I've already got anything I wanted.

Black Mesa. Been waiting to grab it before I play HL2

Nothing. There are better sales all year round.

Pinned the post as long as the Summer Sale lasts. Handy overview for everyone to discuss it.

Megaquarium, Big Pharma, Bus Simulator 21.

All of them are solid.

I got Cloudbuilt, the Deus Ex series (minus the first title,) Disco Elysium, Furi, Halls of Torment, Killer7, Lego Indiana Jones, Serious Sam 3 and The Walking Dead Telltale game.

Total was under 60 bucks. That's about 11 titles for less than the price of a new game. Steam Sale memes really didn't sugarcoat it, this shit hits DIFFERENT.

Not much. I bought Sea of Thieves and the newest DLC of China: Mao's Legacy. I'm having a blast with the first one, while the latter is very frustrating but really fun anyways.

No games (so far) because I have enough of a backlog to play but went for a Steam Deck (512 GB version because I like anti-glare and don't want to upgrade it right away) and dock. I rarely feel like playing at my desk lately but enjoy playing on my Switch on the couch, so the deck should help me work thorugh my backlog.