Games

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).

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

Got myself Fallout 4 for on my deck

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

I got

High on Life

Ys IX Monstrum Nox

Stranger of Paradise FF Origin

Toukiden 2

Tales of Symphonia

DBZ Kakarot

Halo infinite, hollow knight, dead cells, and the orange box. Already played dead cells on switch a bunch so I know I'll love it (though a couple new dlc's have released since I last played, yay!). As a fan of the metroid series I'm also super excited for hollow knight.

I finally pulled the trigger on Celeste after hearing so much about it for years.

Dave the Diver

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

Just dropped a crisp fiver on Oblivion, figured 17 years of people telling me to play it was reason enough to give it a shot

Harvestella. My wife has like a thousand hours in Stardew. She gets a present and a job offer today. It's a good day for her.

I resisted the temptation, as I don't have the time and space to play the 5 games I already own.

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

So far:

• Metro Exodus
• Super Blood Hockey
• Zero Sievert
• Grounded
• Biped

Not on sale but also got BattleBit

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.

Lumencraft

Yes, Your Grace

The Final Station

Now to actually play them!

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.

Nothing really. I have 1000+ games owned that I have never played. Though it is always tempting. I might buy the outer wilds.

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

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 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!

X4: Foundations - though I probably won't get around to playing it til later in the year...

Bought Deathloop. I never was super excited about it, but it looks like it's worth 15EUR. Still thinking about Jedi Survivor, but I'm usually not spending that amount of money on games.

Nothing

I bought me and my buddy a copy of Core Keepers. He mentioned he was interested but he tends to not have the extra funds for games so I got him a gift.