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    Celeste is 75% off and is a near-masterpiece of a game.

    Portal 1 and Portal 2 are on sale again of course on the chance you haven’t yet hit these absolutely classic legendary games.

    Persona 4 Golden is 40% off and is awesome, and Persona 5 Royal is 60% and is even more awesome.

    Metal: Hellsinger is 70% off and while it isn’t a GOTY type game, it’s a hell of a lot of fun if you’re a contemporary metal music fan.

    but my biggest recommendation is probably gonna be

    Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale at 80% for only $3.99 (US) which is an completely underrated hidden gem of a game and a huge recommendation for anyone who likes quirky cozy-hybrid games or who, like me, spent way too long on the shopkeeper segments in RPGs like Torneko Taloon’s chapter in DQIV.

    edit: why in the world would anyone ever downvote a personal recommendation comment? Weird behavior, fam

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    Just a reminder that while we all love Steam, they run an underage gambling ring in the form of CS skins, which they refuse to address.

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      On the third game myself, I can’t believe I didn’t play these sooner. I understand the hype this series generated now.

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    We picked up Journey and Star Traders Frontier. I’ve wanted to play Journey since it came out but I didn’t have the proper console. Well, I forgot I put it on the wishlist, and that’s a real good price so.

    I’ve (sung? musically yelled at?) another person already.

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    I dont know if I can recommend them yet, but I picked up Enter the Gungeon, Heavy Rain, Undertale, Doom, and Pillars of Eternity.

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    Elite Is a space flight economics simulator.

    Fly around buy here sell there look at stuff for fun and get into battles

    Great game but you will want a hotas set up if you really get into it

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      I keep trying to get into Elite but it never clicks for me. I was flying around earlier trying to dock into a station but everyone was refusing me so I closed the game. I’ll probably look up a new players guide before giving it another attempt later.

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        Was it Elite Dangerous? Stations grant docking clearance if you’re within range when you request it; I think it’s about 7500 meters. Check out the in-game the tutorials. One of them teaches this.

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          Unfortunately it was due to being “friends only.” Player fleet I guess? I just couldn’t figure out how to filter them out before I got there and kept coming across them.

          That range one caught me out once but I figured that one out since it tells you to come closer. I’m going to take that tutorial suggestion though. Cheers!

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            Ah… Yes, it was most likely a fleet carrier, then. Those are owned by players, and not always open to the public.

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    Noita is currently 60% off and is hands down the best game I have ever played (kind of). It is ridiculously brutal and you will die very often but you have the potential to get ludicrously powerful as well. The game will cheese you so don’t be afraid to cheese it back. In has so much content that beating the final boss for the first time is considered beating the tutorial.

    Also if the some aspects are too bullshit for you there is a variety of mods to fix these, and there is absolutely no shame in using them.

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    Solasta Crown of the Magister for $8.99.

    For me it’s the best game ever to capture the D&D feeling. The custom Warlock subclass, Timekeeper, is ridiculously fun.

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      I don’t see it mentioned elsewhere - but if we’re going down the CRPG route and enjoying it I’d recommend to others Divinity Original Sin 1&2.

      I’d also recommend Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. But it’s age might scare some people away – so I typically don’t lead with that.

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    If you are the simmy type or like space, Elite Dangerous is insanely good, but has a learning curve up front. It’s the only game I’ve put over 1,100 hours in and still haven’t explored everything.

    Subnautica is another game I can highly recommend.

    If you wanna play games with friends (Elite is also MP), The Forest is a great game to bond over.

    Black mesa is another banger.

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      How does Elite Dangerous compared to starfield? I’m 20 hours into starfield but finding it quite fun.

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        I have 1000 hours in Elite and it’s nowhere near as on rails or limited. It’s set in a full scale Milky Way where you can pick up missions from a station’s bulletin board, hunt pirates, or just pick a direction and jump to make discoveries, spending months alone scanning systems. The game has well developed lore that regularly updates through an in game feed, but it’s mostly background fluff unless you want to strengthen your faction or if there’s a major community event. It’s also a good time to jump in since new ships have been added and the galaxy is rebuilding after the last war event.

        o7 #KRAITKREW

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      Can you elaborate where your confusion lies? It’s a digital good, there is no marginal cost. So they can pretty much price a game however they want. So pricing is mostly about maximising revenue, i.e. get as many sales as you can at the highest possible price.

      A sale is a relatively straightforward strategy where you first sell the game at a high price to all the people who are fine with paying a lot, then you lower the price to sell more copies to the people who weren’t willing to pay the higher price. The result is more total profit. There is a time limit too to create a sense of urgency (“I better buy now so I don’t miss the opportunity”).

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    The entire Creeper World series is on sale- Creeper World 1 and 2 are $2.49, Creeper World 3 is $4.94, and Creeper World 4 is $9.99. Personally, I don’t like Creeper World 2 so I would suggest any of them but that one. CW2 is side on and I’m not a fan. CW1 and 3 are top down, and CW4 is properly 3D.

    The first couple of Creeper World games used to be flash games you could play in browser, but after the age of Java games they ported them to Steam and kept making more and better games.

    The basic concept is that it’s a cross between a very simplified RTS and a tower defense game, with the added curveball that the enemy is just a liquid that won’t stop showing up everywhere.

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        BF3’s campaign was average. It had an interesting story and had some memorable parts but other than that it felt short and generic.

        BF4’s is worse though. It was just as short and generic as BF3’s in terms of gameplay, but so was the story and the general presentation this time around. Not to mention that it’s really damn buggy, the bugs that were present during the game’s launch were never patched for the campaign. For instance, the FOV slider doesn’t work at all.

        I haven’t played any of the other camaigns so I can’t proprerly judge them.

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            Looks like that was removed from Steam a while back. It had a single player campaign from what I read.

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          Battlefield Hardline’s campaign was actually good, though. It felt like a cop movie, which I thought was a neat change for the series.

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    No Man’s Sky is down to $23.99. I remember the launch was poor but they kept working on it and improving it. I picked it up a couple years ago on Xbox and have enjoyed it

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      It is way more of an enjoyable experience now than it was on launch. I just still find it sort of flawed on a core level. The exploration is clearly supposed to be a primary focus of the game, but I just find it incredibly bland after a bit. After I finished with that, I don’t really know what to do with the game aside from… keep flying around trying to find something worth finding.

      I put 40hrs into it. I don’t regret that, but I also have zero interest in continuing to play it past that.

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      NMS was such a mixed bag for me. I spent over a hundred hours on it yet still walked away wondering what there was to do in the game.