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EDIT January 6, 2024:

All games have been accepted by the winners! Thanks everyone for your participation! I loved reading the different messages and hearing some of the positives, the things that made you feel hopeful, and a bit about some of the games you've played. While I wish I could give you all more copies of games, we will do another giveaway like this in the future.

Stay safe, and happy 2024 ahead!

EDIT January 5, 2024:

Minor edit for posterity. All games have been claimed apart from God of War. Each winner of God of War never responded so I'm working down the list through a randomizer to select the eligible winner for this game. I'll update this post one final time as soon as we have an eligible winner that claims this final giveaway.

EDIT January 4, 2024:

There was no response received for the selected winners for Elden Ring and God of War.

I am re-drawing for both these games and will update this post once these final two game codes are accepted by the new winners.

EDIT January 3, 2024:

All games have been claimed apart from two: Elden Ring and God of War. Considering it is the holiday and there may be some obligations, I'm extending the 24 hour window by another 24 hours. If the winners do not reply by Jan 4, 2024 ~ 9 AM ET, they will be forfeit and I will re-draw new winners.

EDIT January 2, 2024:

Giveaway Ended! All winners have been notified, but they have 24 hours to respond. If the winner does not respond, I will re-draw for the new winner the next day until all codes have been exhausted.

I will also be editing this post periodically to acknowledge who won and if they accepted.

I loved reading all these comments, and thanks for everyone responding here and also sharing an optional story! There's a lot of positivity and hope out there, which makes me also feel the same.

P.S. - I really wish I could afford more games to giveaway to you all, but we can certainly do something like this in the future and perhaps make some kind of collaborative giveaway.

Stay safe, and happy new year ahead!

Original Post:

Happy Holidays everyone!

In spirit of the holiday and the upcoming new year, I want to do something nice for you all and give away 10 Steam codes for some of my favorite games that I've played recently!

Games I'm giving away:

  1. ~~Elden Ring~~ - Winner @chaogomu@kbin.social
  2. ~~God of War~~ - Winner @MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world
  3. ~~Hogwarts Legacy~~ - Winner @silentknyght@lemmy.world
  4. ~~Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition~~ - Winner @stefano@lemmy.world
  5. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered~~ - Winner @OriginalMP3@lemmy.world
  6. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales~~ - Winner @b_crussin@programming.dev
  7. ~~Persona 5 Royal~~ - Winner @Commiunism@lemmy.wtf
  8. ~~Returnal~~ - Winner @Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de
  9. ~~Tales of Arise~~ - Winner @kamenridermaddie@lemmy.world
  10. ~~UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~~ - Winner @mwproductions@lemmy.world

How to Enter:

  • Comment on this post with the one game you are interested in.
  • Optional: Share a story about something that made you happy or hopeful this year. Or share a story about a game you recently played that you loved.

Restrictions:

  • You can only enter once, and pick only one game.
  • Your Lemmy account must be at least 30 days old and have participated recently in Lemmy/Fediverse.
  • If your account appears to be a bot, troll, or spam account, you will not be selected.
  • Moderators of the !PCMasterRace@lemmy.world community are not eligible.

Winner Selection:

  • I will randomly select eligible winners below.
  • You will be notified via two ways: I will @ mention you and reply on your comment to this post. I will also send you a private message.
  • If you are selected, you will have 24 hours to respond to me to claim your eligibility.
  • For transparency, please also reply to my public-facing comment so that others know you received and claimed the code successfully.
  • If I do not get a response from you within 24 hours, you are forfeited and a new winner will be redrawn the next day.

Deadlines:

  • You must enter by end of day December 31, 2023, local time.
  • I will start drawing 10 winners either on Jan 1 and Jan 2. (Hey, I have family obligations so I'll do my best to start on Jan 1.)

Disclaimers:

  • This not a sponsored post of any kind. I purchased these keys myself for the sole purpose of this giveaway.
  • They activate only on Steam as Retail OEM keys.
  • These keys come from Game Billet, a legitimate reseller. They do not come from sketchy places like G2A (NEVER, ever do business with G2A or companies like them).
  • Steam Support: How to activate a Product Key - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2A12-9D79-C3D7-F870

Proof:

Cheers (the holiday kind),

CatZoomies | PCMR Moderator, on behalf of the moderation team

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[–] Gumus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

[–] Temperche@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I would love to have God of war. This year was the first year with my first baby, and seeing her grow over the months has been a joy.

[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Hey, I'd be really interested in Elden Ring :)

[–] Shocker_Khan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Happy holidays.

Hogwarts Legacy please. Not my type of game, but I know my partner would love it.

Quick story. In my adult life I've always been into charity. A couple of years ago a friend created his own 501c non profit. He was getting stuff together but then got overwhelmed and depressed and just couldn't focus on it anymore. Fast forward to a couple of months ago. I hit him up to see how he was doing and he felt inspired but still overwhelmed. Didn't know where to pick things up.

I started giving pointers (from my background in project management) and he asked if I would help him get this charity off the ground. Of course I said yes. He voted me in officially and that has been my whole world since then. Yeah I still have my regular job, and yeah the charity thing is solely volunteer, but I'm playing to my strengths and I'm conducting this thing the best I can.

We finally did our first utility relief from donations just a few weeks ago and it felt good. Going to really kick it in high gear in 2024.

[–] VesperLlama@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I would love to get Persona 5.

Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

I've always kind of wanted to play Elden Ring. I don't think its ever been my style, though I've wanted to give it a go on my steam deck for awhile now. Personally, I think any of these other lovelie people would deserve it just as much.

One thing I've been rather happy about, is my life was completely upended by a not so great roommate. Though everything turned itself around when I found some better influences on my life. Now I can happily say I'm a sober man, who's also almost got his shit together.

[–] AndyNarkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

This is really nice. I would like Hogwarts Legacy

[–] Rinn 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've finally decided to give Cyberpunk 2077 a shot, deciding that it has had enough time in the oven, and... yup. I'm happy to have waited all these years to play something that's a finished product, runs well, looks beautiful and is engaging and fun to play. Honestly I spend half of my time in this game just walking around the city - it's the first city in a game that feels realistic, with all the street markets, food stalls, drunk people wandering the streets at 4 am...

BG3 was overall the best game I've played this year though.

I would like Persona 5 Royal, never really had a chance to get into this series but I've heard good things!

[–] CrabSticks@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Mile morales please.

Cheers.

[–] fellstone@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

I've always wanted to try God of War.

[–] molme@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Tales of Arise would be my choice!! I'm glad that you are doing things like this, making Lemmy and this community stronger!!!

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Merry Christmas! I'd like Returnal.

[–] Mir@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hogwarts legacy is very cool

[–] Kittenstix@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Returnal

There are 3 cockatiels living with me(I rescued them, not in Australia) and I had a pen with a string attached to it and was writing when two of them flew over and started fighting over the knot in the string, not an active fight just one would start chewing on the knot and then the other would pull it away and back and forth it went for a good 20 minutes.

I really enjoyed watching them passive aggressively fighting over a toy, it was cute.

[–] amazingBarry@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

My wife doesn't game much buy she is a MASSIVE Harry Potter fan. I wonder if she would play Legacy if we had it.

Thanks for doing good for people.

[–] hangyor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Horizon zero dawn please and thank you!

I finally had that moment in life where I could sit back watching TV with my family and just breathe and be grateful for everyone and everything I had. Where most of the stress of day to day was lifted and I could just.... be.

[–] kdm@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hogwarts legacy!

Just picked up a new steam deck and would love to check it out on there

[–] Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

This year for the first time I tried to cook a seitan roast with crackling. Also vegan potato dumplings as well as bread dumplings and gravy. It turned out quite okay. I would just like to experiment with better spices to make the taste of the seitan roast more intense.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Put me in for Hogwarts. Thanks for bringing these to Lemmy and happy holidays

[–] ecdis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

Thank you CatZoomies and a merry Christmas!

[–] sam2099@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I would like Returnal if you would be kind.

Happy holidays everyone.

[–] fedev@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be great!

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Gotta be in it to win it!

Horizon Zero Dawn would be great, never got around to playing those games.

This year has been quite the ride, I started a new job and I've really loved it. It can be a lot of work sometimes, but it's work that I enjoy, so the days sometimes just flash by which is great. As far as gaming goes, I played a lot on my Switch this year. I sunk nearly 200 hours into Tears of the Kingdom. I'm a huge Zelda fan, so I tried to milk it as long as I could before getting the credits to roll.

[–] gingerwolfie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Persona 5 Royal

Thanks!

[–] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I have a new GPU coming and Returnal would be awesome to play on it.

[–] dualistic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I would love Horizon, thanks!

[–] msp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Elden Ring. For the story, I remember those days that you stay up with your friends doing a full run! Not much time to do that these days, but the nostalgia always kicks in this time of year. :

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Happy holidays :) put me in for elden ring, thanks!

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Entering for horizon zero dawn :)

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sweet man, been Wanting to play returnal for a while but haven't had the time lately

[–] Ashen44@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Would be pretty happy with Persona 5 Royal. I played it on ps4 back before I had a good PC but I never got far because playing on console is very inconvenient for me!

As for something that made me very happy recently, they finally announced the next monster hunter game, my favourite game series of all time! AND it's finally a pc release on launch! I'm definitely upgrading my computer when that one comes around! Also I passed all my college courses that I was really worried about failing, but you know, priorities.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition

That is quite a list of games, thank you! This year I met someone in the most random way and we really like having each other in our lives. It's awesome to have a new friend who might turn into much more!

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered would be awesome. I keep waiting for it to be 50% or more off but I have to be a patient gamer.

Thanks for doing this. Good luck to all.

[–] whiskyjack@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Elden Ring, please.

Thanks for this, and Merry Christmas! Hope yours is wonderful!

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 11 months ago

Merry Christmas OP! I'll pick Persona 5 Royal

Here's what made me happy this year:

  • I got married!
  • I landed my first job as a programmer (and got promoted a month after)

Happy holidays everyone

[–] Pr0v3n@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ooooh Returnal! I’ve been wanting to play it with a mate for quite some time but that price tag has been quite the hump to get over… Best of luck everyone in the giveaway! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope you all have a better year than this one~

[–] Sawy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Hey, thanks for being so generous. Happy holidays.

If I were to pick, I would like to play Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Returnal

Considering BG3 is not on this list, you should absolutely consider giving it a playthrough. I've never played a crpg I liked, and my wife had never played one at all, and now we're on our 4th playthrough. It is a legitimate masterpiece and the hype is well-deserved

[–] krush_groove@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Very cool of you to do this! I would love to check out Uncharted, I've never played it.

My happy/hopeful story is that the company I work for is looking pretty good for next year and this year was already pretty good. So I'm looking forward to the new year!

[–] ksp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Happy holidays!

I'm interested in Elden Ring.

Thank you for your generosity!

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales.

My son played the hell out of the first one and would probably like that one as well, so I’ll try for that. Thanks so much for doing this and Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas.

[–] leon1qotsa@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring for Tales of Arise!

Merry Christmas and kudos for this giveaway 🎊

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

It would be so cool to win a Spiderman game or that Hogwarts game!

Something that made me happy this year? We got a new dog after our last dog got sick and died right before Christmas. The most curious part? The death day and birth day are the same somehow

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 11 months ago

I'll throw my hat in the ring for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

Things that made me happy this year? I started a new job in Jan that has been great. Company treats it's employees like people the work is enjoyable.

Thanks for doing this and happy holidays.

[–] Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Entering for Marvel's Spider-man: Miles Morales.

I recently got back into Elite: Dangerous. It's an mmorpg where you're first person flying a spaceship, it's pretty realistic too physics wise except for a top speed in space. But without it, there would be no dogfights. So instead of getting into risking my hard earned virtual money refreshing my skills I decided to risk someone else (significantly less) money by joining a strangers crew. We went bounty hunting for space pirates, the dude was very friendly and all went well. I would launch from a tiny ship stored on board of his larger ship and give him fire suppoty. It was great until some npc rammed me, and I started spinning, rapidly, along two axis at once. Oh did I mention I was playing in vr? Unpleasant was an understatement.

So I've now bought a gigantic passenger ship, painted it chromatic blue and called it the vengabus. I listen to audio books while piloting it. It's very relaxing. Definitely better than becoming increasingly dizzy from the faster ships in the game.

[–] PoscoBumbleroot@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is fun! I'm in for Hogwarts Legacy! Happy holidays to all y'all filthy animals!

[–] cr3w@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

i'd like to play elden ring

[–] Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Marvel's spiderman remastered would be freakin awesome! Thanks for the chance

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

I've always wanted to try out Elden Ring but have been holding off on it to work through my backlog. Just finished Bully for the first time and I gotta say it was one of the best open world games Rockstar has made despite the PC jank. Everything about it was just so charming it's hard to believe conservatives lost their shit to this game just for the title of the game.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for doing this!

The game "spider man remastered" looks interesting, never tried anything like it!

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