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  • FruitLips@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Tachyon: The Fringe for $2 and some change for the nostalgia. Doesn’t quite hold up w/ a max resolution of 1024x768, but had a great time in circa 2000. Maybe I can beat it this time.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      In some ways, I think we have to accept the early years of “8 indie games for $2!!!” is over. Inflation has hit, and indie devs have to buy their coffee too. If you really want a near-freebie, keep an eye out for bundles on Fanatical, where they’re sometimes $3 each game.

    • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
      8·
      23 hours ago

      They aren’t.

      You’ll maybe see a handful of games convince you that the prices are low because a select few of them have deep discounts. But I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen games retain their price point regardless of what event it is.

        • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
          2·
          23 hours ago

          I guess the sales are what you make of it. I mean, it’s easy for me to say that the sales suck because I and probably others, have been spoiled filthily with great sales of the past. Like 2010 - 2018 was the greatest time for video game sales with staggering discounts that have given the Steam Sale its reputation.

          Nowadays you have to really spread yourself out. IsThereAnyDeal shows me that GameBillet appears to have better sales than Steam’s in comparison.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    I’ve been touching a lot of grass recently and when I do game, it will be the same 3 games or so again so I’ll pass this one and probably subsequent sales

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    56·
    2 days ago

    My initial thoughts are these sales are somehow getting even less exciting every time. It is clear that games should only be purchased on sale now as prices don’t seem to drop otherwise.

  • krooklochurm@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Anyone have any recommendations? I enjoy rpgs and strategy games. Anything that can be played with a controller is ideal.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      If you’ve been holding off on Cyberpunk 2077, it’s in a really solid state nowadays, and has a pretty dang good main story with lots of roleplaying options, and plays well with a controller.

      Terra Nil is a cool relaxing solarpunk strategy/builder game about restoring the environment. Not sure how complete controller support is, but its rated playable for the steam deck (could be hit or miss).

      The Mass Effect series supports controller, and they’re pretty fun sci-fi RPG’s with good characters.

      Disco Elysium is a more text heavy RPG. I personally bounced off it due to its theme, but it’s pretty unique, worth a shot if you click with it.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)

      It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.

      • krooklochurm@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        That seems interesting.

        Is the story good? Are there chances to be really evil? And is it ever funny?

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          19 hours ago

          Tyranny (a different RPG by obsidian) puts you in the role of a fairly high ranking judge working for a brutal expanding empire. You have the option to play a really nasty person if you wish. Not terribly funny though, usually quite a serious vibe.

        • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          It’s fairly solid. You get to divine status so you can be a swarm, necromancer, or demon as far as evil goes (technically there’s also devil but that one’s… weirder to get to) and I guess Archon kinda comes off “evil” in that it doesn’t give a shit about anything other than “law”

          Edit: forgot to mention the same studio also made WH40k: Rogue Trader and that’s also got plenty of evil options

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      19·
      1 day ago

      I miss the “flash sales”.

      They got rid of them, and the Steam Sales were effectively just the regular discounts you can get anywhere else.

      That and people like Rockstar figuring out that you can put “50% off” if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for.

      • thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        The regular price of Red dead 2 on steam is still the full release price even though the game came out 6 years ago. That way they can mark it 70% of and still overcharge.

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          24 hours ago

          I’m sort of going to blame Sony and Microsoft here as well. Since their game subscription services came out, games going on permanent discount seems to be a thing of the past. I reckon they’ve been told to do it just to make the subscription services look better value.

          Back in the day, as far back as the ZX Spectrum for me, games would come out at full price and then a couple of years later would come out in a budget range. Even Nintendo would do it on the GameCube. Now it’s just full price forever because fuck you.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        In some ways, I try to acknowledge the original race to the voting on prices was sometimes bad for indies. The Factorio dev even saw the writing on the wall and decided to head it off, declaring “This is the game’s price floor. Buy it or don’t.”

      • HotDog7@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for

        That’s how I feel when people try to justify $60 gacha skins with “But you also get all of these lovely in-game materials!” Well I don’t want any of those shit. I only wanted the skin. Now sell me the skin by itself without all the other crap.

  • Elextra@literature.cafeEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    I still find these exciting. I gifted my friend Portal 2 since she just got into gaming. Slay the Spire for like $2.50 is a steal.

    Like a lot of you… I have many of these but its exciting for gamers that have to ration or haven’t picked these up before and you never know what you may find.

    Last sale I picked up Skyrim for $3. Never played and I had a blast!

  • Stupendous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It’s like 3 games a year now that I don’t already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let’s buy a game id never otherwise buy and try

  • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    Just a heads up that you can browse and set filters on steamdb to see new historical lows for games(obviously based on steam pricing only).

    Some notable historical lows are Silksong, KCD2, Arc Raiders, Hades II, Megabonk…

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      AC7 is great I must’ve dumped over a hundred hours trying to ace all the missions. You’ll be hard pressed to find better value.

      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
        2·
        1 day ago

        I mean it is 6 years old. It is also possible that Project Aces’ licenses for the aircraft is expiring soon, so they may have to delist the game.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
    19·
    2 days ago

    Baldurs Gate 3 is 25% off. I’ve been waiting for bigger sale but don’t think it’s coming soon.

    • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
      16·
      2 days ago

      That game is not going to reach 50% for another 2 - 3 years, I’m afraid.

      At worst, it may be one of those games where it could be 10 years old and still be 35% off.

      • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Generally, companies are trying to maximise profit, which means that the price will be reduced only when it’s stopped selling at the previous and they want to make sales the next, more price-conscious, segment of the market. They might want some quick bucks if the company is in financial trouble, or to ‘make the news’ with a sale if they need some publicity.

        BG3 sold shedloads, is still selling shedloads, was on multiple games-of-the-year list and generally ranks amongst the best games of all time, often at the top; and Larian seem sufficiently flush with cash from the success of it. So like you say, don’t hold your breath waiting for a big sale, it doesn’t make sense for them to do that.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        It is not and as somebody who was patient with Civ VI and ultimately loved it after it was fleshed out, I don’t think it ever will be. The “play three different civs over the course of each game with a leader unrelated to any of them” thing they stole from humankind is not going away so if you’re not a fan of that you’re just going to have to skip this one.

        • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          It’s still so weird to me that they did that. AFAIK Humankind did okay, wasn’t like a massive hit or anything, but the makers of Civ seem to have decided to drop everything and chase it around for some reason.

      • kopasu22@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        It’s…aight. Not as good as VI yet.

        It hasn’t received any significant gameplay changing DLC yet, and usually Civ games don’t really come into their own until then.

      • bklyn@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        honestly, I don’t know. I’ve never played a civ game is didn’t get hopelessly addicted to, but I haven’t really had the money for it yet. plus it has some DRM bullshit on it, so pirating it isn’t an option (yet).