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[–] anthropozaen@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Anno 1800 is 5 bucks. I love it, but you need to deal with Uplay as well

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Here is a link to Steam DB showing popular games more than 50% off:
https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=50&min_rating=70&min_reviews=500

[–] Bloodyhog@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Borderlands 3, if you somehow missed it, for under £5 is just a good value.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Idk why you got downvoted. Borderlands 3 for $6 is a pretty good deal. And $16 for the complete edition isn't bad either. I already own the full collection on steam so I can't see the price of that, but when I bought it during the last sale I wanna say I spent like maybe $50 on the entire Borderlands series.

There really is a "Lemmy hive mind" starting to form, just like reddit.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

there's an option to split the updown vote display on Lemmy

[–] Bloodyhog@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I don't think there were downvotes, just me myself removing 1 upvote (as I am a shy person). I bought it at full price myself, and have no regrets.

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

my reccomendation? whatever's on gog

in all seriousness, you can't go very wrong with games made by valve, portal especially.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 25 minutes ago

Good Old Games.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I just bought Suicide Squad (I know, I know, but it was on sale and I want to experience it at least a little); Pine; and Sniper Elite 2R, 3 and 4.

I'm very excited to get into the Sniper Elite games. I played 5 back when I had Game Pass, but never finished. I figured the others might be just as good.

[–] ThePancakeExperiment@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago

I got myself and can recommend:
Returnal (29.99€) (Rogue-like shooter),
Wisper (6.99€) (Open world exploration) and Crossroads OS (3.74€) (Puzzle game).
I can further recommend:

Studio System (8.84€) (Horror),
With My Past (6.59€) (Puzzle),
Signalis (13.99€) (Horror).

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

I picked up civilization VI (for my PC), hades and outer wilds for my deck.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Talos Principle is $5

Talos Principle 2 is $15

Highly recommend both games!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 9 hours ago

The Mafia Trilogy is $15 for the whole shebang, or $7.50 for any one of the individual games. I grabbed Mafia 3.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 37 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] sniggleboots@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

Have you played BPM: Bullets Per Minute? If so, how would you say it compares? I like metal and I like shooting demons, but that one never really grabbed me, I'm not sure why.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

I haven't ever played BPM, I'm sorry.

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[–] spicystraw@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Here’s what I picked up during the Steam Spring Sale:

DOOM - $1.99 (90% off)
Stray - $18.99 (40% off)
Undertale - $0.99 (90% off)
Celeste - $4.99 (75% off)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - $4.99 (90% off)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - $14.99 (75% off)
NieR: Automata - $15.99 (60% off)
Hades - $9.99 (60% off)
Devil May Cry 5 - $19.79 (67% off)
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