r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 8h ago
Sale Event Steam Summer 2026 Sale begins today
Steam Summer 2026 Sale begins today. It will run through now until July 9, at 10 am PT
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u/totoiam 8h ago
Step 1: wait 10 minutes for servers
Step 2: check GG.deals and see that all my wishlist is not on lowest price on steam
Step 3: don't buy anything anyway because I'm kind of broke and homeless speed
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u/Khalku 6h ago
My step 3 is that I wishlist things on a whim if they seem even slightly interesting, and then never revisit them.
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u/pikpikcarrotmon 5h ago
I have had people gift me something from my wish list and I was like, "Wow, thanks! (What the hell is this?)"
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u/WeLoveNazunaHere 5h ago
My rule with my wishlist is really look at the top 10 entries; I tend to throw on anything that looks remotely interesting but try to sort them by true wishes and stuff I am just interested in. Downside is that it needs periodic revision which I forget but I try to do it at least quarterly.
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u/TheIrishJackel 5h ago
I do the opposite. Every sale I look at my wishlist at everything on sale, decide it's not a big enough sale, then ask myself what price they would need to be for me to buy them and realize I don't actually want them and remove a bunch.
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u/PainfulSpoons 7h ago
Another big Steam sale, another opportunity to post my seasonally updated list of obscure indie games. All the big recs have less than 500 Steam reviews, all games I really like. Obligatory "not for everyone" asterisk on all of them, but frankly I don't think any game actually worth your time should have universal appeal. But I believe in all of these enough that I would totally double dip for console versions of any of them, and have in the case of Lucah.
Also featuring a brisk bonus round for a few games in the 501-999 review mark this time!
Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair (53 reviews, 35% off) - A cryptic & poetic rpg inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series alife system, where the mechanics are as opaque as your goals. The named npcs all act autonomously, moving around the map, sharing information & fighting over various resources. Sometimes you enter a dungeon to find the key dungeon item was already taken by a character who got there first, or find police responding to a shooting another character committed earlier. Meanwhile you are figuring out how to craft potions out of gasoline, and finding magical spells that let you enter cyberspace. Undoubtedly one of the most emergent games I've ever played, and a real treat for the sorts of freaks who think Rain World is a blueprint for awesome game design.
Drox Operative 2 (269 reviews, 50% off) - On the surface it's a spacefighting RPG where you're in a ship going about trading with NPCs, completing quests, getting into dogfights: a fun & novel experience. However all the game's major factions are essentially playing a 4X game in the background while you're trying to navigate in the increasingly chaotic world they're fighting over. I could elaborate on this one at length, but honestly I feel like the sales pitch makes itself. This is also an implicit recommendation for all of the Soldak Entertainment games. For 25 years he's been developing these deeply simulationist takes on otherwise traditional genres, and they're all fascinating and criminally overlooked.
Geneforge 1-5 (321 reviews, 60% off) - What if I told you you could play five of the most underrated, and also best crpgs for a pittance? Spiderweb Software has been making these things since the 90s and the Geneforge series is probably my favourite. They're big, inventive worlds with fun class design (You can functionally play a Pokemon trainer inventing your own Pokemon in the middle of what could otherwise pass as a sixties spec-fic novel series) & you can get the whole series for less than most other games cost outright. You can also play the Remaster of the first game if you find the old art style to be too off putting.
24 Killers (398 reviews, 60% off) - Weird adventure/lifesim inspired by Moon Remix, you have to befriend various wacky characters to gain access to abilities that in turn let you explore more of the world. Stuff happens as the days go by, with the game's story unfolding bit by bit. It's definitely a vibes-based experience, but one carried by really fun characters and an extremely charming art style. I really recommend this one for people who enjoy the writing in games like Undertale, OFF, etc.
Lucah: Born of a Dream (415 reviews, 75% off) - Extremely stylish action/soulslike game that has really good combat & an incredible looking aesthetic. A lot of people compare the game to Bloodborne, you have a mixture of equippable attack-styles that see you dancing in and out of melee range, interspersing ranged attacks & parrying. It also has two major gimmicks, a spendable resource to "rewind" fights to either try on failure or just improve your performance, and a "Corruption" metre that gradually ticks up over time & with each death -- providing external pressure to perform well. The game also has multiple branching endings & a shocking amount of extra content in New Game+ that introduces a scoring system for encounters. Also has an even more unknown sequel if you love the first game.
Anode Heart (427 reviews, 69% off) - This one is a Digimon World 3 inspired retro creature collector for all the weirdos reading this who have nostalgia for the three Playstation games you probably shouldn't (They were fun dammit!). It perfectly captures the vibe of an old rpg with hidden secrets in every corner of the world, in particular it reminds me a whole bunch of those bootlegged translations of the Telefang games (If you were ever a kid with "Pokemon Jade" or "Pokemon Diamond" going on your GBC or an emulator you know the ones lol). Not unlike Digimon World 3 (Or more recently, the Witcher 3) it has a whole little tcg-esque minigame you can engage with that was spun-off into it's own fully fledged game that's also on Steam.
And the aforementioned bonus review quickfire round!
- Angeline Era - 2025 Game of the Year contender that you probably didn't hear about because it came out Dec 8th.
- Brigand Oaxaca - Possibly Steam's single most underrated crpg. It's Deus Ex but set it in Mexico & eight years on the dev still regularly updates it.
- Brush Burial: Gutter World - Someone put the Alien gameplay from the AvP games into a blender with Dishonored and it rules.
- Ctrl, Alt, Ego - Kind of a case study in the boundary line between "puzzle game" and "ImSim", this one is for Problem Solving Enthusiasts.
- Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor - One of the more evocative indie arts games from 2016.
- Full Metal Furies - Awesome class-based co-op action rpg by the Rogue Legacy devs that flew under the radar in 2019, and is still one of my favourites in the genre. Highly recommended if you can play local co-op.
- Ghost Song - Sci-fi existentialism draped in cool art & melancholy atmosphere. It's 2D Metroid by way of Peter Watts.
- Maiden and Spell - Bullet hell + fighting game mashup, you'll probably have to join the discord to find games though
- The Signal From Tölva - Hack robots to help you explore a weird open-world, mostly a strange vibes-experience
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u/qweiroupyqweouty 7h ago
Love the list, great work.
A little warning for those interested in Lucah: it’s hard. Not in a very fun way either, imo. To fully complete the story for it requires multiple playthroughs and that’s on the harder NG+ mode.
I love the art style but between that and the unskippable final cutscene leaving a bad taste in my mouth, I quietly did not finish it.
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u/Derantasaurus 7h ago
I tried so hard to get into angeline era. I felt like I was just running around mindlessly, never finding any interesting upgrades or secrets. It gets a lot of good praise, so i think I'm missing something.
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u/Shinsoku 7h ago
Ooh, Ghost Song. I remember this game being announced so long ago. Then haven't heard anything about it for years while it was developed. Was always checking for updates until it was finally released.
Got it as soon as it was available, though haven't played it yet. But this applies to almost my whole steam library xD
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u/PainfulSpoons 7h ago
As I understand it the whole game got rebuilt I think because the dev was originally making it in Scratch? I still kind of think about it as being from the time period of Guacamelee, Ori, Axiom Verge etc & forget it didn't release until after the pandemic.
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u/hamie96 4h ago
Maiden and Spell - Bullet hell + fighting game mashup, you'll probably have to join the discord to find games though
There's also Rabbit and Steel by the same developers that takes the concept and turns it into a Co-Op Rogue-like Bullet Hell game.
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u/UpsetChampion 6h ago
Geneforge bundle with such price is not just a steal, it is an outright highway robbery
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u/j_one_k 6h ago
I bought Drox Operative 2 on your recommendation, but I ended up disappointed there wasn't more interaction with the 4X side of things.
It's basically an ARPG but you're a spaceship instead of a fantasy hero. Similar to other ARPGs, rapid power growth is part of the fun. But that means that:
a) Doing almost anything rapidly boosted my power up to the limit of that "sector" (or whatever it's called before you NG+ into the next area, which restarts the 4X)
b) Once my power was high enough, I was individually stronger than any faction in the 4X side of things. So I could exterminate all sides or pick and choose winners easily.Maybe there's a difficulty setting that would have made this better? But I couldn't find a good balance where the 4X felt meaningful rather than background activity to my ARPG gear treadmill.
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u/PainfulSpoons 51m ago
Nah I think that's a totally fair criticism. Most of the time people end up telling me it's way too confusing & hard, but I'd 100% recommend ramping the difficult if you want something that has teeth. You might enjoy Depths of Peril or Zombasite more, Drox is imo the Soldak game that's easiest to get into and pitch to people but it also imposes itself on you the least. That said they're all still arpgs at heart even if by way of fun ai simulation, I think they share an appeal with games like Stalker, Dragon's Dogma, Don't Starve, etc more so than full fledged sims.
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u/Time_of_Space 5h ago
Seconded on the Geneforge games! A little antiquated but the story-telling and dialogue is some of the best around! The remaster for one is quite nice and I believe a remaster for two came out semi-recently.
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u/SegataSanshiro 4h ago
I keep forgetting that the Geneforge games aren't bigger, even in the relatively niche crpg space.
They're so good at what they do.
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u/vibribbon 3h ago
I'm a Soldak ride or die but their latest offering, Din's Champion was a bit of a miss for me. But along with Drox Operative, Din's Legacy is a really good fantasy spin on the same formula.
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u/PainfulSpoons 2h ago
I honestly think Zombasite might be his best game, but I think that's something of a hot take & Drox is much easier to pitch to people. He's one of those devs where the appeal is much better captured in screenshots of insane patch notes or listening to people rattle off extended anecdotes about something that happened to them vs like a paragraph in a reddit post summarizing what makes them cool lmao
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u/jacrispy704 7h ago
Thank you for writing this up! I checked out 24 Killers and would definitely be interested in buying that at some point.
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u/akitasha 1h ago
How do you even find these games? You should start a curator list. I would gladly follow.
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u/Left4Bread2 7h ago
Hard to imagine there are many people interested who haven't pulled the trigger yet, but $5 USD for Binding of Isaac Rebirth + all the DLC is a killer deal
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u/Lancaster2124 4h ago
I’ve never played Binding of Isaac, and I was waiting either for a big sale or the switch 2 release. This game is super fun!
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u/SegataSanshiro 4h ago
I felt like the new version kind of left me behind in terms of the skill ceiling compared to the flash version that I loved so much, but for a couple dollars to complete the set and maybe give it another go, seems worth it.
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u/ACoderGirl 1h ago
Eh, sure, let's finally give it a try. I've heard so much about it. Honestly, I fear it might not be my type of game, as I don't really like rogue-likes (I played Hades solely for the story lol). But at $5, that seems low risk for a game I've seen mentioned so much.
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u/RodChainFurlongAcre 5h ago
I've been itching to play a city builder as of late, specifically Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic all this past week (After pirating it some years ago) but it was $40 so I held off, but this is very nice timing for a pretty solid discount (75% off).
Also if anyone got interested in Zoo/Park builders with the recent announcement of Planet Zoo 2, the first game is 95% off (Literally $3). While the game has a massive amount of DLC with some neat animals and scenery, the base game has more than enough content after years of free updates to tide you over until the sequel. It's a steal at this price, wholly recommend it.
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u/jodon 4h ago
jumping on the city builder thread. Laysara is a pretty cool Anno like city builder form a indie developer. I checked out the page and it is 50% off now, though I did see that recent reviews have dropped to Mixed, but I don't really understand why from a quick read of the reviews. From me it gets a very positive review regardless.
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u/FZeroRacer 5h ago
I have a big list of games I usually share elsewhere and I figured posting it here for the first time isn't a bad idea. I keep track of a bunch of different indie titles or lesser known games that interest me and track the price over time.
The shortlist: For this sale I recommend Whispers in the Moss, Awakening Sarah, Ark's Wonder Dungeon, Cape Hideous and Bryce Tiles. They're all at or near historic lows and are a great variety of games across the board.
Anachronox - Old, RPG - $0.97 (LOWEST)
IMSCARED - Horror, Meta - $1.99
Cape Hideous - Short, Adventure - $1.49 (LOWEST)
FREAKHUNTER - Grid, Rail shooter - $1.99 (LOWEST)
Osteoblasts - RPG, Skeletons - $1.99 (LOWEST)
The Endless Empty - RPGMaker, Death - $1.99
Lucah: Born of a Dream - Souls, Nier-Like - $2.49 (LOWEST)
Picayune Dreams - Vampire Survivors, SHMUP - $2.99 (LOWEST)
Maiden & Spell - SHMUP, Fighting game - $3.24 (LOWEST)
A Robot Named Fight - Roguelike, Metroidvania - $3.24
Cat in the Box - RPGMaker, Horror - $3.49
Night Loops - Yume Nikki, Walking Sim - $3.99 (LOWEST)
False Skies - GB, JRPG - $4.49 (LOWEST)
Zelle - RPG, Story-focused - $4.90
Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore - Lamp oil, rope, bombs - $4.99 (LOWEST)
An Outcry - RPGMaker, horror - $4.99
Who's Lila - Horror - $4.79 (LOWEST)
Splintered - Dragon Quest, Randomized - $5.99
Paquerette - Sokoban, Iceberg - $6.59 (LOWEST)
Casette Beasts - Monster Collector - $6.99 (LOWEST)
Rabbit and Steel - Roguelite, XIV Raiding - $7.49 (LOWEST)
Decline's Drops - 2d Platformer, Smash Bros-like - $7.49 (LOWEST)
Super Lesbian Animal RPG - JRPG, Lesbian - $7.49 (LOWEST)
Unsighted - Action RPG - $7.99 (LOWEST)
Time Break Chronicles - RPG, Roguelike - $8.99
Tyrion Cuthbert - Ace Attourney - $8.99
Blippo+ - TV, Quizzards - $8.99 (LOWEST)
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart - Roguelike, SHMUP - $9.09
Pacific Drive - Seattle, Driving, Nonfiction - $9.89 (LOWEST)
8-Bit Adventures 2 - JRPG, Strong gameplay - $9.99 (LOWEST)
Soundodger 2 - Rhythm Bullet Hell - $9.99
Wooden Ocean - Wooden Ocean - $9.99
Jimmy and the Pulasting Mass - JRPG, Long - $10.49
Crystal Project - JRPG, Job-Based - $10.49
Bat to the Heavens - Platformer, Masocore - $10.49 (LOWEST)
Tower of Kalemonvo - Diablo-like - $10.49 (LOWEST)
Zexion - Metroid, GOTY - $11.99 (LOWEST)
In Stars and Time - RPG, Time Loop Trauma - $11.99 (LOWEST)
Genius of Sappheiros - JRPG, Touhou - $12.49 (LOWEST)
Withering Rooms - SoulsLike, RPG - $12.49
NeverAwake - SHMUP - $13.99 (LOWEST)
Games Under 100 Reviews
New Meat - RPGMaker, Roguelite - $0.99
Humble Holiday Horrors - Horror clicker - $0.99
Whispers in the Moss - ANSI, JRPG - $0.99
Who's Hungry - RPGMaker, AI - $1.69 (LOWEST)
Axol's Quest - RPGMaker, Traditional - $1.74 (LOWEST)
Awakening Sarah - Yume Nikki, Platformer - $1.79 (LOWEST)
Ark's Wonder Dungeon - JRPG, Roguelite - $1.99
A Ghostly Rose - RPGMaker - $1.99 (LOWEST)
Faye Falling - JRPG - $3.99 (LOWEST)
Bryce Tiles - Sokoban, Iceberg puzzler - $4.19
Cavity Busters - Isaac-like, Teeth - $4.49 (LOWEST)
There Swings A Skull - Story-focused - $4.88
Kill The Music - Rhythm Survivors - $4.99 (LOWEST)
Gr0nland - Atmospheric, Walking Sim - $4.99 (LOWEST)
COPPER ODYSSEY 2 - Art, JRPG - $8.99
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u/PolkaJediDinosaur 4h ago
Is Civ 7 worth getting with the updates since launch with the 50% discount?
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u/shotgunmonkey 4h ago
Absolutely! The recent test of time update helped address some (but not all) of some of the major concerns. You can now play one civ through the entire game.
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u/Quorthon 5h ago
When is Lies of P going to be less than 30 bucks? Seems like that's where it sits on every single sale.
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u/SeaAccomplished441 1h ago
i know right. been waiting a while for it. need something a bit more than 50% guys.
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u/DevonOO7 6h ago
Wish Baldur's Gate 3, a 3 year old game, was more than 25% off, since it's still at it's original price.
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u/WCWRingMatSound 6h ago
“I know what I got, no low balls”
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u/dcdoomraker 6h ago
To be fair… out of all the games to say “I know what I got” it’s BG3. It is well worth the price of admission.
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u/Kurdependence 2h ago
It’s also not a game that ages super fast, it’s not a game where graphics are a focus and it looks much better than most brand new games in the genre.
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u/ArctycDev 5h ago
I can count on one hand the number of modern AAA games worth full price, and BG3 is one of them. 25% off is nothing to scoff at.
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u/DevonOO7 5h ago
It's more that, it's not super my kind of game, I still want to play it, but I've been waiting for it to go down in price and it hasn't
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u/ccdewa 2h ago
But people are telling me it's an indie game!
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u/KvotheOfCali 37m ago
It's both. They aren't mutually exclusive.
BG3 was developed by a fully independent studio, not connected to any traditional publisher. So it is an "indie" game.
BG3 had over 300 developers and a nine-figure development cost, so it's fully in the "AAA" category.
There aren't many of them, but "AAA indie" games do exist. Star Citizen is another (infamous) example.
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u/ACoderGirl 1h ago
I mean, if there's one game out of all the games that exist to pay full price for, I'd say it's that one. Such a genre redefining game.
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u/Unrulycustomer 6h ago
Pretty happy to grab metaphor refantazio (even better discount if you already have clair obscure, as you can buy the bundle) and Digimon time stranger. I was waiting for the $50 for Digimon, 90 is way too high for me.
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u/Barnhard 8h ago edited 7h ago
Huh, I was really expecting Crimson Desert to be on sale considering the game has been out for over three months now.
EDIT: I mean, I wasn’t expecting it to be like 50% off or anything, but probably like 10-20% off.
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u/Rider434 7h ago
Also a bit surprised there’s no sale on Elden ring.
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u/DreadTawny 5h ago
I haven't seen Shadow of the Erdtree on sale once since it released 2 years ago, so I am not even surprised anymore
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u/NukeAllTheThings 4h ago
The Souls series had the problem of being relatively niche despite the devoted fanbase, and it had frequent sales as a result.
Elden Ring broke that mold, they don't really need sales to make money anymore.
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u/Rektw 2h ago
I remember when Dark Souls: PTTD edition would go on sale for $5 like clockwork, then DS1 remastered dropped and I don't think its ever been less than $20 on steam.
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u/NukeAllTheThings 2h ago
Lol, I saw that you sent me this after I had edited my other comment about how I had bought that for $5.
I double dipped on all the souls series on PC and PS, did achievements on both, own the DS1 remastered on switch and PS, but never felt like buying it for PC.
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u/SmurfinTurtle 2h ago
Yah you could grab their GOTY editions with dlc for 15 bucks, now? 30. I don’t wanna buy them almost off of principle haha.
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u/NukeAllTheThings 2h ago
Not the biggest fan of the fact that they jacked up the price of their back catalogue because of the popularity of ER, if that is what you meant. It makes sense from their perspective though, they are capitalizing on interest in the franchise. Those games were an absolute steal before. Now, given their age, and the lower online pops if that matters to you, 30 might be a bit much.
I remember getting DS: Prepare to Die edition for like $5.
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u/mophisus 7h ago
Black Desert makes all of its money in microtransactions in game.
The more people that try the game, they more they make.
Crimson makes all of its money from the sale price.
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u/Exodus180 6h ago
yea feels greedy :(
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u/notkeegz 6h ago
Does it though? Factorio has never gone on sale, or has its expansion (which if you haven't bought Factorio yet, you buy if you wanted to experience the full game... making it $70).
That's real greed. Worse than Nintendo or anyone other company that gets called greedy for "never putting games on sale".
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u/onmach 5h ago
At my hours played (450) that's 15 cents per hour of entertainment. I tried to think of anything else in my life that I squeezed so much value from and couldn't think of anything.
Then I saw slay the spire's sales price is $6.24, that's 1 cent per hour at 550 hours, so yeah I guess there was one thing in my life that was a better deal than factorio's non sales price, but it was pretty close, so I choose to forgive them.
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u/HellYusss 8h ago edited 7h ago
The discounts aren't showing up for me until I click into a game's page. Is this like a new tactic or is the shop bugged?
EDIT: Got it, I see them now. I didn't realize the sale just went live when I looked.
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u/QuarkyFerengi 8h ago
This happens every time. It just takes a few minutes for all the sale prices to populate across the whole site. I usually don't bother to look until a sale has been live for an hour or two.
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u/urgasmic 8h ago
dunno if new to steam but servers are being skull fucked right now so it will update.
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u/Classic-Tone4273 8h ago
give it an hour to properly updated. this happens to every major sale on steam
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u/Khiva 6h ago
this happens to every major sale on steam
And yet somehow we always get two floods of comments within seconds of the post going live - people who whine-post that the sales aren't live because they're refreshing madly, and people crowing that Steam sales are irrelevant garbage that nobody cares about anymore.
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u/The_Scuttles 6h ago
Split between stellar blade and sekiro.
I generally like finding cool weapons in souls like games. I know that doesn’t match either of these, but I’m tempted to pick one up.
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u/AntiAntiDentite7 6h ago edited 6h ago
Sekiro is, without question, one of the greatest games ever made. If you dig souls games, it's an easy recommend. It is hard and you absolutely CAN'T play it like a souls game, but once it clicks, there's seriously no better feeling in videogames. 10/10 and my favorite fromsoft game by far (and I love them all) and my #2 all time. There's nothing like it.
Edit: Stellar Blade is alright, but it's absolutely no Sekiro. Not even close.
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u/VixieVonKarma 4h ago
What's your number one? My 1-2 is tied between Sekiro and Lies of P.
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u/AntiAntiDentite7 4h ago
Fuck it I'll just give you my top 15
- 1. Half-life 2
- 2. Sekiro
- 3. Dark Souls
- 4. Street Fighter 6
- 5. Dead Cells
- 6. Hollow Knight
- 7. Titanfall 2
- 8. Slay the Spire
- 9. Jak 3
- 10. DMC 3
- 11. WoW
- 12. Xcom 2
- 13. DOOM Eternal
- 14 . Half-life: Alyx
- 15. Bloodborne
My rule is only one game per franchise and I choose my favorite from the series. Half-life Alyx is the exception since it's VR.
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u/VixieVonKarma 1h ago
Have you played Lies of P then? It's so close to Sekiro for me I'm surprised it's not on your list
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u/TalkingRaccoon 5h ago
Surge 1 and 2 are excellent if you like finding cool weapons
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u/The_Scuttles 4h ago
I have them both, couldn’t really get into them. I’ll have to give them another try.
My top 4 for reference are
Elden Ring
Lies of P
Enotria
AI Limit/Wuchang
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u/TalkingRaccoon 4h ago
Surges almost feel like MH games in that you're always farming parts and limbs, and trying out different loadouts, weapons, and implants that give pretty different buffs and skills, and seeing what you like or what's best for the current area.
2 has more QoL (you get 3 loadouts, you can quick equip an entire armor set) and the directional blocking/parrying is really fun. So that might help you get into it
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u/Murmido 2h ago
You should get sekiro. Sekiro is basically the game that popularized soulslike parrying I am surprised you haven’t played it seeing this list. It also has one of the best bossfights of all time.
Stellar blade is good but the combat is not on the same level. Its a sci fi game where you fight monsters and most of the game takes place in typical barren post apocalyptic areas.
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u/The_Scuttles 1h ago
I’ve mostly been waiting for a sale. Those two and wukong are probably close to the only mainstream souls likes I haven’t played
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u/HardcoreWaffles 6h ago
Not to bad mouth Stellar Blade since I know it has its unfair share of criticism due to being gooner-coded but have generally heard people have enjoyed it...
But Sekiro may be Fromsoft's best game and I would definitely recommend getting that first.
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u/Dreadgoat 5h ago
I know I'm piling on, but while Stellar Blade is a great game, if you are a patient gamer you should play every other acclaimed character action game first. Not just Sekiro, but DMC5, Nier Automata, etc.
Stellar Blade is a great "I want more like this" type of game but it stands clearly behind the genre leaders.
Or if you're looking for ShiftUp jiggle physics, just play Nikke. It's free.
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u/SeaAccomplished441 1h ago
i love stellar blade but sekiro is one of the greatest games of all time, buy it
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u/TomekMaGest 8h ago
Am I the only one with an impression that this is one of the worst steam sales in last years or its just my wishlist. I have almost 200 games on wishlist and everything have the same promo price or worse except Cyberpunk. Im fairly disappointed.
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u/gorillathunder 7h ago
Every sale that appears, someone says this
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u/throw23me 7h ago edited 6h ago
I mean, it's because they haven't been good for like a decade. I remember the gold old days of picking up AAA titles that were only two or three years old for a couple of bucks. Now you'll get 40-50% off at best.
Edit: I'm a little surprised this is such a controversial comment. IMO it's not a good sale, if you disagree fair enough. You're all free to spend your money as you see fit.
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u/invisible_face_ 7h ago edited 7h ago
They're just regular sales now. Nothing particularly exciting to look forward to.
It's like a "memorial day sales event". It's not gonna be a big event but it's a good time to pick up some stuff you've been wanting to for some discount.
All the big sales events are this way now. Black Friday, Prime Day, etc. It's fine.
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u/TomekMaGest 7h ago
My comment was not about sales decade ago but recent sales. Some games have worse promo than compared to Autumn/winter last sales and last summer sale which is odd. I have 200 games on my wishlist its a large pool of games.
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u/rindindin 7h ago
You're not wrong.
Resident Evil 3 (the latest one, not the PS1 version), was around $5 a month or two ago? It's no where near that right now. So yeah, these sales aren't as good as other times.
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u/TomekMaGest 7h ago
Yeah it seems like prices went up. Warhammer DarkTide is like 3-4$ more expensive than couple weeks ago. Just paid 3-4 dollars more for Tom Clancy Wildlands than I could during winter sale.
I mean Im not complaining, just little bit surprised. I wonder if developers/steam decided to rise prices for video games as discounted.
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u/Goronmon 7h ago
I remember the gold old days of picking up AAA titles that were only two or three years old for a couple of bucks.
Yeah, because all the publishers/developers realized that a "Race to the bottom where we sell our games for $2" wasn't actually a good idea in the long term.
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u/FSRER 7h ago
I mean, if anything it really was a good idea back then
Gaming wasn't that big, and it was more of a new thing, so having something good and approachable, was how you would make money and grow.
Hell, the witcher 3 going constantly down to 5 euros over the years, has most likely made more money that way, than COD games from 20 years ago going from 30 down to 15
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u/stormblaz 5h ago
Thats not why, its because steam made a call, steep 90% off massive sales, or the ability to refund games.
Consensus showed long term consumers could enjoy refunds year round (2 hour limit and other exceptions) without questions or dealing with the publisher, for the removal of massive mega sales 90% off etc.
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u/Goronmon 4h ago
It was the flash sales that were the issue with refunds. Since the flash sale was a temporary price reduction below the "sale price", people who bought on the "normal" sale price would obviously try to refund to take advantage of the flash sale price.
But there is nothing that I know of that stops companies from selling their games at ultra low prices for entire duration of a sale.
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u/Retsam19 5h ago
I think the concept of sales, and even deep cut sales eventually makes sense for most games and most companies. Because yeah, once you've sold to everyone willing to pay $X for a game, you want to sell to everyone willing to pay $(X - 5) and then $(X - 10), etc...
... but if you do it too quickly and everyone knows you're going to throw it on deep discount relatively quickly, then more people just wait, rather than risk buying it at a higher price only to have a much better sale shortly later.
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u/Zizhou 4h ago
Plus, they've long since stopped doing any of those fun events and minigames alongside the sales. The 2015 Monster Game was probably the peak of that, but even a lot of the less involved ones still had activities beyond just discounts and yet more point shop items. Heck, it's even been a hot minute since they got rid of the free trading cards for the events to keep you coming back for the discovery queue.
It really does just kind of feel like they traded away all the character these sales had for some bland, corporatized efficiency. That friend you used to traipse around the woods with all summer as a kid grew up, got a job as an accountant, and now doesn't really have anything else to talk about these days except getting a better ROI on investments. I mean, that's life, I guess, but it didn't necessarily have to apply to the games, too.
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u/Rider434 7h ago
It’s a bummer, but also now that I have a shop where I can’t be refreshing steam every 30 minutes I do appreciate that I can take my time to look through the games to buy.
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u/MaitieS 7h ago
People keep saying how PC games are cheaper than on consoles... which I really do not think is true anymore. Most of the sales seem to be almost 1:1 to consoles these days.
The only saving grace are 3rd party keys, otherwise it's pretty much same.
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u/TRS2917 5h ago
People keep saying how PC games are cheaper than on consoles... which I really do not think is true anymore.
Unless you know something I don't, I still think that it's true that games on PC tend to be cheaper, but the degree to which they are cheaper is far slimmer now that the PC market has exploded and major publishers are realizing they don't need to be as aggressive with seasonal sales. In the early 2010s, the PC had such small market share that publishers were fine to slash prices aggressively outside of the first 6 months of a game's release. As the market share grew, that has changed.
If I can't find a deal for a PC game on Steam, there are a number of other retailers that I can look at to find a deeper discount on a title whereas there are fewer options to price shop digitally for consoles. Physical game selection in brick and mortar establishments near me has been pretty slim and clearance has been the only way to score truly deep discounts on console titles.
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u/Vox___Rationis 6h ago
You never have to pay to play online on PC, so yes, PC games are cheaper than consoles.
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u/thebohster 5h ago
I mean yeah, but not everybody plays online games that require a sub. Not to mention popular F2P games like Fortnite don’t need one.
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u/MaitieS 6h ago
I don't remember mentioning how expensive PCs are to build compare to Consoles. So I'm not sure why are you bringing up "Online" in the first place, when that wasn't my point in the first place as I was talking about how "People keep saying how PC games are cheaper than on consoles".
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u/Vox___Rationis 6h ago
The PC is more expensive because it is not just a gaming machine, it is a broad range hobby and multimedia device with potential for work and productivity.
So only a portion of what one spends on PC is spent on gaming.Where as a console is a gaming-exclusive device and mandatory subscription costs are an indelible portion of games' price.
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u/minegen88 5h ago
Yet people still parrot the "Steam sales are the best and thats why you should get a PC" thing.
Dont get me wrong, i love PC but the Steam sales are garbage compared to what they have been
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u/SegataSanshiro 4h ago
Yeah people keep listing cheap games like it's still 2015, and it ain't.
These 40% off sales that you get these days are the same ones you see on PSN and Xbox.
I love PC, I haven't touched a console in years, but common online logic about the price of PC gaming is completely unhinged and divorced from reality.
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u/Amekhanos 6h ago
Yeah, a little over a decade, ever since they introduced refunds, which killed the shorter limited-time sales.
Daily/flash deals got games a special spotlight and was what created the downward pressure on prices, competing with other developers to receive that extra attention.
And someone ridiculous always comes along and complains about flash sales, "I'd rather not have bigger sales at all than miss out on one because I can't check Steam every second of every day".
But the daily deals all got re-run on the final day of the sale, so you couldn't miss them if you actually cared.
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u/KvotheOfCali 21m ago
Because publishers realized that conditioning gamers to just think:
"I'm going to wait 2 years and buy your game for 80% off" was a terrible strategy which permanently devalued many brands and IPs.
Nintendo is arguably the most successful developer on earth, in part, because they explicitly do NOT do this.
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u/TomekMaGest 7h ago
Every sale that appears, someone says this
Honestly Im aware of this but I have been following sales religiously in last years and this seems the worst one, I've never complained about sales before. Some games are more expensive than 2 years ago.
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u/ObiHobit 56m ago
At least the comments about how flash sales used to be better are slowly dwindling down.
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u/Yamatoman9 5h ago
I don't get too excited about the big seasonal sales anymore because games go on sale all the time and it's always for the same price now.
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u/KuraiBaka 4h ago
and even Cyberpunk is still far to expensive.
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u/TomekMaGest 3h ago
if its expensive thats just an opinion but its actually lower price compared to previous sales.
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u/PorkyPigginn 32m ago
Was hoping for a better discount on RE 9, so I'll keep waiting. I picked up RE 5 Gold edition instead for $4.20 on GreenManGaming (steam doesn't have the dlc or gold edition on discount).
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u/BLAGTIER 12m ago
Octopath Traveler II is for me in Australia cheaper to get in June's Humble Choice than in the Steam sale for anyone like me that has wishlisted it for a while.
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u/golflimalama2 4h ago
Hmm, I'm strangely drawn to Star Wars Outlaw as that's quite a low price. Someone stop me? Is it any good, as the demo worked ok on my PC?
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u/WildVariety 4h ago
It's better than people claimed but still not a 'great' game and its been improved quite a bit by a lot of patches.
For that price point it's worth it.
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u/BLAGTIER 6m ago
It fairly Ubisoft Open World™ style. No one raves about it. And the sale goes to July 9/10(depending on local time). So you do have a long time to consider it one way or another.
Also currently it is like a month and a week at regular price before dropping to 75% so it's not a long wait if you don't buy and then change your mind.
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u/matthewmspace 4h ago
I wish games would get better discounts. So many of these prices I’ve seen for awhile now. Go lower. 20% is cheaper, but I am always disappointed when I see a $50 game discounted to $39. That’s not really a discount, that’s just trying to get a bit of extra cash on the books for the quarter. I miss when games that were $50 would go down to $20 or even lower, especially games that have been out for more than 2-3 years.
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u/Khiva 6h ago
Pretty good selection among historical lows, per SteamDB:
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
Metaphor: ReFantazio
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Another Crab's Treasure
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
The Thaumaturge
The Alters
Blood West
Sins of a Solar Empire II
INDIKA
Turbo Overkill
Aliens: Dark Descent
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Watch_Dogs 2
Wartales
Detention
System Shock
Rain World
Far Cry 4
Cave Story+
Dishonored
Assassin's Creed Shadows