So far I’ve only picked up Hollow Knight and Thumper and they’re both really excellent. I’ll probably pick up a couple more games before the sale is over. My top prospects are Devil Daggers, Twilight Struggle, and Streets of Rogue.
Here’s what I’m probably getting:
Crusader Kings 2: The Reaper’s Due
LOGistICAL
Void Walker’s Arsenal (DLC for Dishonored 1, only DLC I don’t have yet)
Low Magic Age
Gemcraft - Chasing Shadows
That’s all, I suppose. I have more than enough games, so there’s a chance I won’t even buy those despite them being pretty cheap now, generally speaking. We’ll see.
EDIT: someone in a different thread mentioned Wuppo, which does seem interesting. I might add that one to the list. Maybe.
Haha! “A group of green cellular organisms gang up to seize the means of production…”
I hope they have a better plan for governmental oversight than we’ve seen since first implementation.
Woohooo!
All that other stuff is cool I guess. ;)
I think @tomchick likes this one. I think you would play at least 2 bucks worth. That’s a real bargain imho.
Oh yes, I loved it.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition for £9.99/$9.99 – Honestly no idea what this is about
Hahaha.
Hey, speaking of this, I put together a list of what I felt was the best space game deals of this sale. I hope y’all find it useful.
That’s an impressively sized list there Brian. Well made sir!
How does the deal work for Galactic Civilizations 3?You have to own 1 or 2 on Steam? I own both but I bought them from Stardock (I think-it was many moons ago).
Nice!
Which are the first person space sims in that list?
Evochron Legacy
Tachyon: The Fringe
X Rebirth
That’s it, right? Or any others?
Er…
Astrokill
Void Destroyer 2
Cool. The Astrokill trailer makes it look like 3rd person, I didn’t know that one was first person.
And Void Destroyer seems to take place in a Void, not in space. But I’ll count it. :P
Soma does have a terrible opening… which I kind of forgot about given how enjoyable the rest of it is. The drawer-simulator-leaving-the-apartment bit doesn’t really sell the sci-fi setting all that well. :/
Seeing X Rebirth in that list warms my little X-loving heart. :)
Remove two from this list.
Anno 2205 has an odd mechanic that you need money from one scenario to continue to another. I spent time getting my first town nice and beautiful only to find that I needed $50k to start the next scenario. That would require me to stare at the screen for an hour to get to the next mission. That is a terrible mechanic and I am refunding this. My patience for game developers acting like prats is nonexistent these days.
Day of the Tentacle has probably the most awful voice work I have heard in quite some time. It makes my ears bleed and within 10 minutes I turned this off to also get a refund.
I quote you as another data point supporting Pogue’s Law: there is nothing so awesome that it isn’t somebody else’s most hated thing ever. I consider Day of the Tentacle one of the best things to come out of LucasArts and really liked the voice work as one aspect.
Also quoting Pogue’s Law data point thingy, I felt that Anno 2205’s design choice for the zones to be heavily reliant on each other, actually added fun to the game.
I do not think I would have minded it as much if it told me beforehand what the requirements of the next scenario are. It did not. So I spent money on parks, beautification and so forth. These are the sort of things that people do in building games. Then I could not continue without either waiting an excessive amount of time or entirely starting over. Being punished for making a beautiful city is not my idea of fun.