Any of the classic valve games (half life, portal, and their sequels). If auto shooters are your thing, vampire survivors is less than a small coffee. Dead space (the remake) is $15. Halo MCC is $10. Titanfall 2 is $3. The “new” tomb raider trilogy are all less than $5 each or get the bundle. Alan wake is $5. Prey is $3. And Batman Arkham origins is $2.
Just a handful of good games for cheap. There’s many more out there.
I wish Halo MCC had split screen on PC
there’s a mod that works pretty well for that… nucleuscoop (it might have rebranded… haven’t loaded it in a bit)
Bah, it’s Windows only. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Prey is awesome. I recently finished it after getting it in de the summer sale. Highly recommend!
Second this on Prey. Definitely is a love letter to immersive Sims like System Shock and Deus Ex. Hell there is a rumor that before Bethesda wanted to cover up the homicide of Prey 2, “Prey” 2017 was going to be called Neuroshock. Shame Arkane Austin was forced into live service shit with RedFall that they obviously had zero interest in and most original Arkane alumni left before the inevitable closure when they saw the writing on the wall.
Lot of great suggestions here- I grabbed MCC myself. Was kinda stunned that it’s… I think five games ranging from absolutely era defining (at least for me) to solid games. For $10 I’m not sure that can be beat.
I got the new Tomb Raider games free on Epic, but it seemed more like torture porn than a game. Had to turn it off.
lol, yeah. The animators definitely have a kink. They’re still pretty fun games, though.
There were certain “sudden death” sequences I had to repeat a couple times and the torture porn aspect is an issue there.
Cant go wrong with Grim Dawn. One of the best modern arpgs with regular huge updates, expansions and modding support.
I played through it again a couple months ago but when I went to check the DLC it looks like they haven’t ever done more than 35% discount even though they came out in 2017 and 2019. Meanwhile the base game has done 90% off in the past (also the current price). Guess they figure if you like it enough to go looking for DLC you’ll probably pay more.
Just when I thought I kicked that game they bringing out a new expansion
Picked up Firewatch and Divinity Original Sin 1&2.
FW is a short and sweet walking sim. Well worth the £1.60 or whatever I paid for it.
No opinion on DOS yet because I doubt I’ll play that before the new year.
Divinity 2 is great, it’s similar to BG3 (since the same studio made it) just not as long / expansive. The main gimmick of the game is you can spill shit on the floor to change how the next battle plays out, barrelmancers will love it.
From that list :
- Keep talking and nobody explodes: incredible fun with friends, even better if the help has the documents physically printed, there’s this magic that happens when you frantically search for the right page and try to keep calm
- Titanfall 2 : worth it just for the campaign, I don’t know about the state of multiplayer anymore (servers are back i think, no more need for a custom client), I last played it last year, people were understandably sweaty, movement and gameplay is unparalleled
- Vermintide 2 : in its best state ever it seems, hours of fun and great challenges, interesting mods for qol and to add to the game’s longevity, I dream of when Darktide will reach that point- Firewatch : nice story, beautiful art direction, ending is “controversial” in that it is kind of abrupt with little payoff, but the journey is great, imo a really good walking simulator
- Metro Exodus : superb open world, great conclusion to the series, pays off even more if you read the book, day night cycle, each map feels handmade given the amount of details, best “skewmorphic” interface in games
Edit : fuck me i edited my comment and accidentally deleted the paragraph about Firewatch, tldr beautiful art direction
Titanfall 2 multiplayer is still up and running! Both PvP and Co-op!
Oh yeah coop was my favourite, the difficulty always felt right
All excellent recommendations, and I’ll triple down on the Vermintide 2 recommendation. One of the best bang for buck indi games out there. Darktide has similarly hit a state where I can recommend it as well finally, even if it took an embarrassingly long time to get to a Vermintide 2 level of playability. If you like the -tide games, give it a go.
I go most of those but not Titanfall 2. Thanks for the tip!
Patient in that it came out way back at the beginning of twenty ‘ought twenty-four, cheap in that its fifty percent off; the new prince of Persia game is precisely correctly priced at twenty dollars and fun as hell.
Shamelessly copying my comment:
In order,
Chorus - AA paranormal 3d spaceship combat game
Cyber Hook - First person grapple hook platform racer
Tangle Tower - Charming point and click detective game
Patch Quest - Bullet hell roguelike
Subsurface Circular - Robot murder mystery visual novel
Yes Your Grace - Addictive story driven king resource management game
They Bleed Pixels - Brutal 2d action platformer
Devil Daggers - Single arena fps where you try to survive 500 seconds (and fail)
Loop Hero Soundtrack - The game is pretty well known, but its soundtrack is amazing enough to buy or pirate even if you don’t want to play itGrim dawn is the best arpg of all time imo even better than d2
It’s like $2.50
But the DLC is 10x that
And it works offline.
Ballionaire is a pretty great stoner game. It’s a pachinko roguelite–excuse me, autobonker
South Park: The Stick of Truth is a great RPG. You don’t have to be a South Park fan to enjoy it, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.
And if you are a fan, the game feels just like playing maybe a half season of the show. Jumping right in to episode after episode!
Xcom 2 complete for like 10 or so. Excellent deal
Gonna shill for war of the chosen real quick:
WotC fixes a lot of serious integral problems in the base game. In my opinion, XCOM enemy unknown is better than XCOM 2, but WotC easily beats both. So if you’ve heard bad things about XCOM 2, then keep in mind it’s probably fixed in WotC.
The Binding of Isaac Rebirth Complete Bundle as well as its individual components are at a new all time low. The game is an absolute classic and IMO it’s still the best at what it does. It’s perfect on the Steam Deck too.
If you like the base game I highly recommend all the DLCs. Besides a ton of new content they also add many quality of life changes that make the game even more enjoyable.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia. Sort of a recent fangame title, by today’s standards, but if you’re looking for some cool mid-to-late-1990s-inspired PC dungeoneering action (Shin Megami Tensei being a heavy inspiration), it’s currently at ninety-two percent off.
Touhou… Now that’s a name I haven’t heard since 2010
From The Depths.
Half off, stupid time sink.
Incredibly hard an unintuitive though. Expect to need to watch countless tutorials before you build something usable. Defo not really for people who game like 3hrs a week.
Oh yes, the learning curve is almost a wall.
These are the ones I was interested in.
I went for a few bundles because I already owned thief sim and one of the metro games, so the bundles were an even better deal.
I checked the steam db website and a lot of these were all time low.
Yay for state of decay 2!
At first I thought you had “CHANGED” and immediately thought “ah, fellow degenerate”
That game is way too hard tho
My suggestion for the steam winter sale is chech out the GOG winter sale. But maybe that’s just me.
Maybe make a separate post for it?
