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  • Old and hidden games that deserve more love

Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages, story that get better as you play, insane amount of ship/play style customization.

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, good lore and excellent world building, "easy" and forgiving crpg.

Wirewalk()↳, a short and loving gameboy like rpg, less than 100 reviews.

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Mass Effectβ„’ Legendary Edition, no comments need, new historic low

Psychonauts 2, good game although it's "cheaper" on gamepass.

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Hades is a steal at 5$, if you're into more casual gameplay vampire survivors is also a steal at 3.50 (includes all the dlc), if you want something in between brotato has been a wonderful purchase for me. If you want more of the frantic play style, but shorter sessions and less RPG decision making elements, 1 finger death punch is only a buck.

All of the source games are on sale, I recommend portal> portal 2 /half life 2 > left 4 dead 1&2

Slay the spire for < 2$ is an absolute steal, if you think you might like deck builders that's one of the o.g's. another most excellent deck builder, monster train, is also less than 2$, I cannot recommend them both highly enough.

The room is an excellent puzzle game, especially for 75 cents, not personally sure about it's sequels but I've heard they're equally good.

Don't starve for 2.50 is amazing, but if you're at all multiplayer inclined, get 'don't starve together' (I believe it comes with a second copy you can give to anyone)

Hexcells, hexcells 2, and lyne are great if you like puzzle games (everyday genius square logic is also great, but not on sale and no longer supported by devs) delete is also good, and on sale, but it's much more once over it's done game (like the room)

Doom (2016?) Is a great first person shooter at 4$, and fallout new Vegas is a great first person RPG at the same price.

FtL at 2.50 is amazing, and after you've sunk a hundred hours into it, download the 'across the multiverse' fan made expansion, and sink another thousand hours into the game.

And if you're considering Diablo 4, I plead with you to give path of exile a fair shake first, it's free to play, only cosmetic micro transactions, and so much more fleshed out of experience.

I stand by each of the above games, if you give any of them a fair shot and walk away considering it an actual bad game, hit me up, let me know what made it bad, and I'll toss you a game key (of my choosing) of equal or greater value (than the sale price of the game you thought was bad)

Edit, not sure where the hell I got those prices from, I think it may have been showing me "complete the bundle"prices on games I already owned that had bundles with everything else I also owned? I'll go through and change my reviews based on the prices I find, it'll definitely change a couple of my "absolutely must have at this price"

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Cralder@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't Starve no longer gets updates since the studio only focuses on Don't Starve Together now. So I would recommend Don't Starve Together even if you don't want to play multiplayer.

[–] Vcio@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, this is important, i have "dont starve" and was planning to get the dlcs eventualy.

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you find out about this ?

[–] Cralder@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

My friend who loves the game told me about it when they stopped adding content to DS a few years ago. You can see it on the steam updates. DST gets content updates all the time but DS only gets the occasional bug fix update.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Seconding the FTL recco, it's an absolute steal that cheap!

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regarding your comment on Diablo 4… Is that really the case? I played Diablo 2, skipped 3 and then played Diablo 4 a few weeks back during the free weekend on Steam. I’m admittedly a casual player, but I enjoyed it a lot. I didn’t love it, though I like it. It was familiar with clear improvements, and I was able to jump right into the game and had an enjoyable experience (I’m aware others could have a different experience especially end game). Gameplay was smooth, UI was simple to navigate while chilling on the couch with a controller, story was interesting, fights were satisfying, and the choices I made for skill progression and weapons all made for a decent experience in the 6-7 hours I played till the level 20 cap. I don’t care about character customization with cosmetics, and have never/will never spend money on mtx especially in a game with this hefty price tag. With all that in mind, the trial was enough to make me consider buying it on sale, and am now considering it again.

But I’m frugal, and have heard from sources online and friends that Path of Exile is Diablo but much better, so I tried it. I gave it 2 hours, and I was personally lost. Not sure if it was the UI which felt clunky and unfamiliar, or the story that didn’t draw me in, or the fact that it felt almost expected to read through wikis to be able to get a decent build, but after two hours I didn’t have fun and uninstalled it. Is it worth it to try again and see if it will scratch the arpg itch?

[–] Jjcool27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved diablo 2 and 3 but 4 was very meh for me. Path of exile was very confusing to me so I dropped it. You should give grim dawn a chance. It's so good.

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh nice, grim dawn looks neat, and very inexpensive for the base game. I’ll check it out.

[–] Jjcool27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Game often goes on sale along with the dlc. If you decide to give it a chance, check out grimtools for fun builds, calculators, and many more tools. The game is actively being developed after so long, and it's just so fun to play. It's what diablo 4 should have been.

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[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The storyline and level design on those games is amazing. They were a ton of fun the first time through and I find myself picking them up again every few years and I still enjoy them.

[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed! I love how different you can play each level as well. Although I generally end up murdering everyone after I mistakenly alert a guard ...

It's also one of only a few games I spent the time to read all the fun "flavor text" notes and books. That and "Control" - both have solid extras that actually add to the story and make you feel immersed in the world.

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Hah, I also failed many times and alerted the guards and ended up having to kill everyone. Getting through some of the levels while maintaining stealth can be really tricky.

I still need to check out Control. I agree that the readings in Dishonored were pretty interesting.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll throw in a recommendation for Sanctum 2. It drops to $2.99 every sale and has been hundreds of hours of fun.

Picked this up based off this comment – enjoying myself so far – appreciated.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am once again here to recommend Prey 2017.
$2.99 USD for a banger triple A Immersive Sim, it's so cheap it's like you're mugging Todd Howard

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Great recommendation here. I really enjoyed Prey.

[–] Vcio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's like immersive sim is cursed, excellent games but poor sales.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Prey was a great game but it's endgame killed the experience for a lot of people, just a lot of backtracking if I recall

[–] Auduras@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal highlight in addition to the great games listed below is Divinity Original Sin 2. Such a great game, and super cheap ($13.50 for the base game).

Divinity Original Sin 2

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When BG3 came out and was getting a lot of great reviews I hadn't yet realized that it was made by Larian. I was talking to a friend about it and was like "Wait, the guys who made Divinity made a D&D game?"

Divinity is a lot of fun and is a great tactical in depth RPG. I particularly love the animals in it. Larian does a great job of giving them all big personalities and deep stories.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

My OS2 character has animal comms and I swear some of those little fuckers have the best stories.

[–] ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Vcio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love this game as well, but they recently raise regional prices in steam πŸ˜”

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Superflight has been my favorite game to unwind and listen to music too for years, and now its less than a dollar, total steal

[–] stagen 2 points 1 year ago

I'm getting this one, looks relaxing and I bet it'd be wonderful on my ultra wide monitor I got myself for Christmas.

[–] Brendan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Picked up Terra Nil and I’m really enjoying it. One of those games you can play to relax and calm down after a long day.

It's a somewhat beautiful game, but the recycling gets sooo tedious.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Loved that game

[–] ShadowFox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lumines Remastered, really fun tetris-like with trippy music and visuals. The guy who made it would later go on to make Tetris Effect.

[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Loved it on my psp back in the day. Highly recommended.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I noticed control and death stranding are cheaper on fanatical in case anyone was after them. I'm disappointed in this sale to be honest. I only picked up gta4 this time round. I had it before on the ps3 and even now its not at the lowest it ever was.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Warhammer 40k : Boltgun is an absolute blast if you like your doom-esq shooters. Showing as 80% off, but I don't know how that's going to show in other regions

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[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does the DRM free situation work on steam exactly? For those of with steam decks, how does that work? Games can still be taken down.

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

If the game doesn't have DRM, you can download it through steam, keep a copy of the files and it will work without steam. AFAIK, Steam doesn't remove things from people's libraries, only from the store. I have a few games that aren't sold anymore, but you I can still download and play them just fine. It's the same on the Steam Deck, but playing a game through Steam is more convenient.

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[–] stagen 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've still got games in my inventory that's no longer on the store, so I guess they're always available if you bought them.

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if you uninstall or delete the game, you can reinstall them at a later time? Can you take the game out of steam? Can you launch the game without steam?

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[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A Short Hike

A Short Hike is an excellent and short game. Super fun, very chill, great music, the whole package.

Interesting recommendations

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hellblade is like 5 bucks. Get.it.now.

[–] silentknyght@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nice recommendation. Purchased!

STAR WARS: Squadrons I'd on sale for Β£1.75, definitely worth picking up at this price

[–] Grofit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Roadwarden, think it's 40% off at the moment, an extremely well written text based rpg (with pictures), it's more than a visual novel but less than a typical RPG.

Highly recommend trying it

[–] UserMeNever@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

SUPERHOT is Β£5.39 (70% off). Time freeze shooter.

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