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[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Age of Wonders 4 has been a surprise and a delight. I was actually so impressed with it I ended up buying my best friend a copy yesterday.

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[–] DeadUncle@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm making myself finish Fell Seal before I start it, but I picked up Triangle Strategy at what gg.deals says is the record low price. As an FFT fanboy, it looks great (and so is Fell Seal for that matter).

[–] quietserena@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ooh thank you for mentioning Triangle Strategy. It's been on my mind because it seems it'll scratch that FFT itch but I didn't have it in my wishlist.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Mass Effect legendary edition (all 3 games + all DLCs) is on for 6 Euro.

That's a great deal IMO

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

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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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] donio@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Undertale is at a new all time love at $0.99. It's not really my jam but it's the time to pick it up if you always wanted to play it but never did.

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[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Doom 2016 for 2$, Titanfall 2 for 3$ and battlefield games from BF3 through BF1 also go for 2$

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[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like this indie game critic, he has a recommendation video for sale

https://youtu.be/uN51VdTNzTg

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 15 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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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[–] Daggity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Caves of Qud has a small discount. I’ve been playing it a lot lately on the Steam Deck.

[–] anakin78z@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago

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.

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