Edit: it looks like the banner is incorrect. On the front page of steam it’s the right dates and says summer, but when I click on it to see all the sales it says spring with the dates for the spring sale. It’ll probably get fixed soon.
Can anyone recommend a game that can be played over zoom (preferably in a web browser) that isn’t:
- Jackbox
- What the Dub
- Rifftrax the Game
- Papa’s quiz
- Use Your Words
Guardians of the Galaxy was surprisingly good. More so than the movies, the game gives all the characters their due time.
Just make sure to stop when people speak, otherwise you’ll go past the invisible point that makes them stop and then you’ll miss out on the dialogue.
Could have taken some notes from God of War there.
Yeah truly an excellent gaming experience
- Antichamber
Physics puzzler with mind-bendy environments - Monster Sanctuary
Metroidvania creature collector where new creatures give you new movement abilities - CrossCode
Reminds me of the older Zelda titles but with more parkour and bouncy balls - Ender Lilies
Metroidvania, small girl uses the souls of fallen enemies to fight for her - Trinity Fusion
Metroidvania-Roguelike in a multiverse - Cassette Beasts
Cute creature collector with neat elemental interactions and fusions - Tactical Breach Wizards
A bunch of idiots try to prevent a coup by means of defenestration
+1 for tactical breach wizards. description is on point.
I will back up Cassette Beasts for having a strategically interesting turn-based combat system.
- Antichamber
Titan Souls is a fantastic boss rush game where you die in one hit but the bosses only take a few hits as well. You only have one arrow to shoot and you need to go pick it up or stand still to recall it to yourself before firing again.
That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.
Note: GOG is also having a sale
Anything of note? I am considering A Plague Tale Collection at 65% off. Dishonored: Complete Collection is also 80% off. I’m considering buying it to replay on PC, I only have it on PS4 and the performance wasn’t great.
Europa Universalis IV 90% off. Alan Wake 90% off. Prince of Persia series 80% off. Devil May Cry 1-4 67% off. Various Hitman games 90% off - the original is going for 79 cents. I could go on but I dunno what you’d be into. They have more recent games too, like Baldur’s Gate 3 20% off.
Anyway, mostly they’re the same discounts as on Steam at the moment so I dunno if it counts as “of note”. I just mention it because if you buy with GOG you get the game DRM-free, plus some people prefer to spend their money with the EU (as opposed to the USA) these days for obvious reasons.
Can someone recommend a bunch of good couch coop games I’ve never heard of
Tinkerlands. I just got it together with Novalands (which is a good time sink on switch). Haven’t started playing it yet, but it seems similar to terraria, but topdown and with more focus on coop.
I know the 2 games below have 2 player couch coop. Not sure if you can play with 4p local on EDF
- Dynasty Warriors 8 - beat up soldiers by the hundreds while watching Romance of 3 Kingdoms as a 3D anime. “Complete Edition” but still has fuckloads of DLC skins which aren’t worth it. Or just buy and pirate the actual complete thing later.
- Earth Defense Force 5 - Kill giant insects and aliens with building-destroying firepower. The story and narration in 5 takes itself too seriously, but it has many quality of life improvements over 4, which is overall a funnier game with the best infantry sing-along
Which ones have you heard of?
- Gauntlet Slayer Edition
- Good old dungeon crawling. 2014 revival of an 80s arcade classic.
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
- Defuse a bomb with your friends
- CATO: Buttered Cat
- Puzzle platformer featuring that joke about how cats and toast land when dropped
- Mosa Lina
- Aggressively randomized puzzle platformer
- Assault Android Cactus
- Arcade-style twin-stick shooter with pumping soundtrack
- Pizza Possum
- Very soft stealth game about stealing and eating lots of food
- Moving Out 2 (or 1 if you’re fine with local only)
- Drag and move furniture onto a truck
- Gauntlet Slayer Edition
If you can forgive the self promotion and enjoy platformers. Our game has (an admittedly challenging) couch coop mode.
Depends on which you did hear of. Spelunky you probably did, but is Octodad niche enough?
Ooh, try Full Metal Furies. I personally mostly played single player, but I think co-op should be cooler, though I only played a few stages.
Damn dude. The AAA games are still expensive, but I don’t think I’ve seen these kinda sales for indy/niche games in years.
Probably not a great economic indicator though.
Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it’s holding on.
I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it’s 8 years old.
I already bought them a week ago, but Furi and Blasphemous since a friend got them, and we already beat Furi together. Gorgeous game, though the walking sections make me not want to play again, especially since my Furier difficulty save reset.
Also Bloodstained to go with Blasphemous in a bundle, since I was thinking about it for a while, and Beastieball, since I saw some posts from one of the devs on Bluesky a while back and they seemed cool. And the game seems to have great reviews.
I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.
What’s with the cynicism? Game is a boss gauntlet, what do you mean “get away” like they’re some AAA developers getting away with a lazy design choice? You can enable auto walking in those segments and go refill your water or something, but that was a creative choice, not a “let’s cut corners—they won’t even notice” choice.
I mean “get away with” as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don’t just throw in sad music and expect the audience to ‘buy into’ the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you’re just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.
The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking… but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn’t make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.
Yeah, but it’s a boss gauntlet from an indie developer… the whole point is the boss fights—this is where all the resources went. Everything you demanded above requires more development hours (more money) or better creative choices. For an indie game, pumping money in any place other than your core gameplay experience is not an option most of the time, and poor creative choices aren’t always made out of laziness.
You talk like you know they had the resources but decided to “half-ass” it, which’s an odd assumption to make about a trivial part of the game. I agree these parts should’ve been skippable from the get-go, and I understand how frustrating walk-and-talk segments can be in action games and I agree they don’t belong there at all, but none of this justifies the cynicism.
Well, either the thing should be done well, shouldn’t be done, or, if put in the game and it isn’t a good part of the game, it should be criticized.
They decided to put it in the game, full stop.
It was a terrible portion of the game, and I’m criticizing it. As the other fellow said, the developers put it in to craft a certain feeling, and it absolutely sucked at creating that feeling AND dragged my enjoyment of the game down.
One of the devs boxed, and while I can’t find a source, I heard the walking is supposed to give the same feeling as stepping into the ring. Which is pretty neat.
But I started turning on Youtube as early as after the 2nd boss…
Director is a wannabe film director and sighted Steven Spielberg’s Duel as the main inspiration too.
Speedrun mode in Furi auto skips walking segments.
Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO’d?
No ranking, IIRC.
Just got Disco Elysium since I keep hearing how it’s great.
I’m debating Fallout 3 or New Vegas. Both are super cheap without DLC and pretty cheap with the DLC. I’ve owned both historically back in the day but neither survived and apparently I didn’t get them on steam back then. The DLCs would really be interesting at this point but I am so cheap I can’t convince myself
Dear God no. Refund Disco Elysium if you can. Some shady asshole ended up stealing the game from the original creators so any purchases you make ends up lining the pockets of the thieves.
The original creators have actually encouraged people to pirate the game instead.
Check the mega thread here to get started. The game is excellent, just don’t give your money to the slimy suit that stole the game.
Too bad the mods of .world suck and blocked dbzer0
Damn, that article is from 2022. Did they get recourse?
It’s probably all still in litigation. A big defensive for legal challenges such as this is to prespone as much as possible to run out funds for the claiment.
Two of my favourite games being mentioned? I have been summoned.
Disco Elysium is an absolutely amazing visual novel+. Treat it like a novel whose pages you can read in any order. It doesn’t really behave like a classic RPG, the dialogue options are very un-punishing. Feel free to explore them, feel free to be weird, feel free to commit to wacky ideas. The game rewards that. Lastly: the murder case exists as scaffolding, not purpose. Don’t tunnel vision on it, enjoy exploring the world building, the characters and the protagonist.
If you’re only playing one of those two Fallout games then New Vegas should be a no-brainer, especially if you haven’t played its DLCs. Those are, in my opinion, the very best content New Vegas has to offer and should definitely not be missed. Each DLC is extremely different, and they’re all so good that I can never decide which is my favourite.
I picked up FNV late last night. I yet again have more games than time!
As do I, as do I. And still I purchased more only just now.
Enjoy the FNV DLCs! Make sure to play Lonesome Road last, as that is the culmination of the DLC storyline. I recommend starting with Honest Hearts, and then Dead Money and OWB can he played in any order in the middle. I probably prefer OWB first.
Well, I bought RoboCop.
I mean, after that third movie he wasn’t doing so hot so I suspect Murphy’s pretty cheap……
Yeah, but I’m cheaper so I only paid for the mass produced version. No movie bullet holes for me I’m afraid…
Here are some “patient” games I’ve played that are on dollar-bin deals right now. Some are actually cheaper off-Steam, so in those cases, I link there instead.
- Black Mesa — 90% off, tied all-time low
- The fan-made remake of Half-Life
- Crypt of the NecroDancer — 90% off, new all-time low
- Rhythm roguelike
- Downwell — 75% off (cheaper on GOG)
- Shmup platformer about jumping deeper into a well
- Gato Roboto — 85% off (cheaper on GOG)
- Little metroidvania featuring a cat in a mech
- Her Story — 90% off (cheaper on GOG)
- Freeform detective game with FMVs
- Bastion — 80% off (same price on GOG)
- Action RPG with painted art, and Supergiant Games’s debut title
- Psychonauts — 80% off (same price on Itch)
- 3D platformer where the levels are in the minds of interesting characters
- Note: It’s an old game that works a bit weird on modern hardware, so check PCGamingWiki for tweaks
- Grapple Dog — 75% off, tied all-time low
- Grappling hook platformer with Nitrome-style pixel art
Thanks for the suggestions! I picked up a few of these I didn’t already own.
Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!
You only listed Bastion, but the other Supergiant games always go on sale as well. Anyone interested, do yourself a favor and get Transistor and/or Pyre instead or as well.
I’ve been a long time Supergiant fan and it was a thing of gaming beauty to see Hades have such success as it masterfully blended all 3 of their games into the perfect package. Bastion was their first and my least favorite (probably because of it). But it is still worth playing for sure.
Transistor was the first I played and what made me fall in love with their studio. God tier soundtrack, incredible setting, and innovative real time/turn based combat gameplay.
Pyre is the black sheep but my favorite. It is undeniably unique gameplay. But, true talk, you really play it for the story, and that is very much not my gaming MO. It’s indescribable and any fan of Hades wouldn’t receive that game without Pyre coming first. If you liked even 1 character in Hades, you owe it to yourself to play this. I’m not a fantasy fan but I adore the world they crafted. And it is, somehow, probably Korb’s best soundtrack.
Patience may reward you with even lower prices. But they routinely hit this low in every big sale these days. And the risk of not playing them before you die far outweighs the extra dollar you might save.
Psychonauts required following a guide very, very closely to get it working correctly with a PS5 controller on the Steam Deck. Worth it!
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- Black Mesa — 90% off, tied all-time low
Bloons TD 6 is $1.39 so I bought a copy for my wife so we can play together.
That’s a steal. It’s a great game
Cyberpunk is on sale for 65% off so I finally picked it up (and its DLC). Currently downloading, I’m looking forward to checking it out. I tried it out shortly after launch, I think a demo or a friend’s house, but it never clicked for me so I didn’t get it. It was also incredibly buggy. I heard it’s far better now though, especially with the DLC, so I’ll give it a real shot.
Don’t expect RDR2-but-cyberpunk (in terms of the open world) and don’t expect a blank slate character RPG: you have some choices for characterization but V will always be V.
If you can get on board with that it’s a great, immersive action game with a good story and some well written characters.
Good to know, I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks!
It’s more stable, interesting, and alive than any Fallout, Elder Scrolls, or GTA game in my opinion. If you like any of those, there’s a good shot you’ll enjoy it.
I think Skyrim feels more alive because you can talk to every NPC and most of them have unique conversations.
Most NPCs in CP2077 are animated decorations.
While true you can talk to more NPCs, the largest city in Skyrim has like 40 people. I find cyberpunk’s world feels more realistically populated for a giant city.
It looks more realistic but it breaks immersion when they turn out to be not interactive.
But yes I agree that CP2077 has a realistic looking crowded city.
I feel like it never broke my immersion cause how often are you stopping every stranger in a real life metropolis to talk to them? Seeing all these nameless people walking by is very much what it’s like to walk around a city in real life.
I love all of those. I’m excited to play it tonight
Dying Light is pretty cheap at $5 USD/EUR
And once again, Steam runs into various errors for me because of the high number of people getting in on the sale.
A beautiful reason to be inconvenienced. Enjoy gaming harmony my friends.
