Steam Summer Sale: Because Valve Knows it's Easier to Sell Games Than Make Them

[mauve]

Sooooo. Steam Summer Sale is upon us yet again.

I've seen my Friends Activity page. I know you folks are buyin' games, even if only one or two. I KNOW WHAT YOU BOUGHT THIS SUMMER

Anyway. What did you buy this summer?

I ended up with Stories: The Path of Destinies (which looks good but has seriously the lamest, most generic name for a game ever), Banner Saga 2 (because sometime between December and now I apparently forgot how annoyed I got at the first one and decided I needed to give it another chance), and Ghost 1.0 (a metroidvania which I bought purely on a whim. It's decent so far, but I'm only about an hour and a half into it).

I was tempted by several other titles, but the file sizes of those games were just CRAZY huge so there's no point in even trying to buy them. Considering my rural interwebs can MAAAAYBE download 2 GB a day (if I let the computer run continuously for 24 hours and the wireless doesn't crap out at any time during that period), there's no way in hell I'll be able to download Arkham Knight's 45 GB. (As it is, I still have Metal Gear Rising: Revengance in my Download folder, unfinished and unplayed. I bought it in 2013. )


So. What've you guys picked up so far? Anything unexpected? Anything you've particularly been waiting for?

[Flarecobra]

Haven't bought anything, as I have 11 dollars in my account until the 1st. But I got my eyes on a couple.

[Arcanum]

Steamworld Heist, a 2D turn-based strategy shooter, basically 2d XCOM but with steambots in space, and way more forgiving (mainly no permadeath and no hard fail state), and with manual aiming on every shot and bullets can ricochet like crazy so you can pull of some neat trick shots.

Volume, a top down stealth game that was way more simplistic than I was expecting so I ended up refunding it.

Samura Warriors 4-II, dynasty warriors but with samurai in japan. Was getting angry at Overwatch's matchmaking so bought this to just murder things mindlessly. Loving it so far.

Dying Light season pass because I convinced a friend to buy the base game to play co-op, and apparently the base version (or, well, the only version of the core game on steam) comes with the season pass included now.

Momodora III with steam wallet funds from selling cards because it was like a dollar, and I loved Reverie Under the Moonlight (i.e. Momodora 4), so figured why not.

Move or Die 4 pack, a friendship ruining game. The 3 friends I gave copies to are going to pay me back, and because of exchange rate shenanigans my own copy will only end up costing me $4 instead of $7.whatever canadian (since my friends will be paying me in american, and it would've cost $6 US per copy)

Roguelands, a 2D roguelite rpg platformer, for co-op with the same 3 other people I got the Move or Die pack with.

And that's all I'm buying this sale.

[Bard The 5th LW]

It was free it so it doesn't count but I've been playing/just beat Princess Rememdy in a World of Hurt and it was cute/fun/simple which is really all I wanted out of it. Recommend it to anyone who needs to kill an hour or two!

Haven't actually bought anything otherwise. Games I'm looking at though are:

Stories: The Path of Destinies
Momodora: Reverie under Moonlight
Civ V + Expansions
The Fall


My backlog is long so I really doubt I'll get anything more than one or two of those games.

[Gregness]

I actually bought this when it came out, but Banner Saga II is on sale, and it's well worth your scratch. It's kind of like if Oregon Trail was about an incredibly bleak viking-style End of Days.

[phil_]

I hoped Undertale would officially release the Linux version for this sale. This hope was born in January. There is no Linux version.

[MuMu]

Haven't bought yet because I'm still selling cards and others itens but I'll most likely grab:

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (http://store.steampowered.com/app/413410) - A mystery game, in the likes of Phoenix Wright but much more anime.

Toren (http://store.steampowered.com/app/320820) - A cute indie brazilian adventure game about a girl that has to climb a tower for her freedom.

and Dex (http://store.steampowered.com/app/269650) - A 2D sidescroller cyberpunk rpg about the Singularity.

Outside of Steam, I'll most likely grab Mad Max from Nuuvem since it's scheduled to be cheaper than the Steam sale.

And that's pretty much it because ever since Steam abandoned the dailies I've been finding the prices to be very disappointing. Of course, the problem could also be that I already own all the cheap games ::V:

[BB]

This is the first time I've had a job while there was a sale on, and it happened to start the day before payday, so:

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Powered by cute girls, nostalgia, and in a surprising turn of events, hot boys.

[Aerozord]

Still trying to decide on which game on my wishlist to get, so far all I got was Hiragana Battle cause I thought it might help me brush up on my Japanese

[Magus]

I only bought Hotline Miami 2 and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath because I am very, very cheap.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Bought Momodora IV.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I hoped Undertale would officially release the Linux version for this sale. This hope was born in January. There is no Linux version.

Well good news! (https://twitter.com/UnderTale/status/754657063318454272)

[MuMu]

Oh, this thread is still here. Well, then I might as well make a correction: Mad Max turned out to be too beefy for my PC which is a shame because I've been itching for an open world game. Instead, I got the charming Invisible Inc. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/243970/) a stealth, XCOM-like game with roguelike elements which I still have barely touched becaused of Danganronpa, which I just finished.

And what a game that was! If you're itching for a mystery game on the PC in the veins of Phoenix Wright, with that same level of satisfaction when you crack a case and destroy your opposition, look no further. Despite being quite a bit darker than PW and being more...videogamey, it still is a excellent brain teaser which I'd heartily reccomend to anyone willing to defeat people by shooting evidence on their arguments.

[phil_]

Well good news! (https://twitter.com/UnderTale/status/754657063318454272)Why didn't this show up under "New Posts?" What are you trying to pull, forum robot, making me pay full price for a game?

I might pay full price for a game.:ohdear:

[Aerozord]

Why didn't this show up under "New Posts?" What are you trying to pull, forum robot, making me pay full price for a game?

I might pay full price for a game.:ohdear:

You really should just pay full price for a game

Especially since its ten dollars now so not like a sale would make a huge difference

[phil_]

If they don't fire me when this raise goes through, then I'm-a do it. Avoiding spoilers this long has been pretty difficult, I'm ready to dive in.

... On the other hand, if they do fire me, I'll need something to do in my new free time. Might as well just buy it now, huh?

[Nikose Tyris]

Phil, you should check your steam account.

[phil_]

You're too generous, Nikose. I will endeavor to "enjoy my fish girlfriend" asap.

[rpgdemon]

Undertale is amazing and I wholeheartedly support buying it full price. In fact, I want to pay more for it, having bought it on sale last weekend.

[Aerozord]

Undertale is amazing and I wholeheartedly support buying it full price. In fact, I want to pay more for it, having bought it on sale last weekend.

could buy and then give away copies