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Well I've thoroughly enjoyed my first big proper Steam sale as a Deck gamer

 

Been spending a good hour a day trawling round looking at stuff I've never heard of/considered before.

 

One last run maybe for that £4 I got sitting in the account which would be rude not to use.

 

Saw an older Sky Force shmup for only £1.79 which looks interesting or maybe the isometric Lara Croft & the Guardian Light plus all DLC for £2 and change.

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Somewhat undercounting, as it only counts up to December 14th and December was, as usual, my most Steam-heavy month. The inclusion of its latter half would have seen both my Steam Deck use rocket, and the entry of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist and Civilization V as my second- and third-most-played games of the year, respectively:

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(the lack of counting offline play cost the Steam Deck here, as time spent playing in cafes was ignored, not to mention the significant proportion of time spent playing, er, emulated games. If they were counted, I'm reasonably confident Persona 3 FES would be in the overall top 5 along with SoulCalibur)

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hmm!

 

It makes sense when I remember that I play Cyberpunk through gog, and Flight Sim through Gamepass, and Disco Elysium through Epic. But still, I think I am more than a bit hooked, they won't have clocked nearly as much time.

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Looks like Valve are working on a feature to allow game downloads from one PC to another on the same network:

 

 

Would be a pretty huge deal for people with multiple PCs in their house, or those living in places like university dorms. I already manually move files over to a new PC to avoid long download times, this would basically be an automated version of that.

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It’s seemingly quite a big day for cool releases. Here’s two more to tempt you:

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1942010/Vengeful_Guardian_Moonrider/

 

From the dev who brought you Odallus and Blazing Chrome. Inspired by Shinobi and Kamen Rider amongst other things. Looks and sounds awesome.

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1786230/Breakers_Collection/

 

Revival of a niche Neo Geo fighting game, this has been updated to modern standards with online crossplay and rollback netcode. Seems to be a real labour of love.

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Gotters

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A new sale emerges ……..

 

Base builder fest, 10% off Dwarf Fortress and loads more long ass games with tiny text and lots of icons

 

I want to play them but just don’t understand them

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14 hours ago, Gotters said:

A new sale emerges ……..

 

Base builder fest, 10% off Dwarf Fortress and loads more long ass games with tiny text and lots of icons

 

I want to play them but just don’t understand them

 

I want to play lots of them but they are just too expensive and the bet ones never get big reductions.

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Yeah Rimworld has been on my wishlist for ages, it seems to get about 10% off at most in sales normally. I don't know if I'd enjoy it or Dwarf Fortress more; I do know that both appeal mightily and yet I won't have a clue what the hell I'm doing and will abandon them barely touched as I won't have time to make the learning stick in my brain.

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Yeah probably gonna fry my brain trying to play strategy games for the first time and got Age of Empires 2, Oxygen not Included and Rimworld tutorials all in my head at once !

 

Already for me they feel more playable on the Deck than when I tried that sort of thing in the past on console, just a lot of icons and menus and concepts to take in.

 

I know I should just try one at a time but this PC lark and sales is still too tempting. 

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I keep repeating myself but as a recent PC gaming convert Steam is almost a hobby in itself.

 

Quite fancy Besiege at under £5, looks like a medieval siege weapons Banjo Nuts & Bolts, plus with an xbox version coming soon could benefit from a control scheme upgrade. 

 

 

 

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The thing is, once you adjust to Steam it's possible to sort of become immune to it's sales to an extent.

 

Not entirely but these days logging in and seeing 10 games on my wishlist at 50% off doesn't make me flinch. Unless I'm really a lose end in terms of what I fancy playing I know another 10 will be there next week. Or there'll be some bundle.

 

But it is immense fun finding what gaming can be after looking outside the comparatively shitty pricing on console stores.

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I'd say it's not just the sales and discounts, though that of course helps, it's the depth and variety of PC gaming away from the big publisher AAA stuff which I've long lost interest in. There are just so many great looking interesting games out there. 

 

Steam is so inviting to just dive down rabbit holes where the reviews point you to other things you've just never heard of, then you take a look at something like GGdeals to see if it's available cheaper elsewhere. 

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8 minutes ago, Gotters said:

I'd say it's not just the sales and discounts, though that of course helps, it's the depth and variety of PC gaming away from the big publisher AAA stuff which I've long lost interest in. There are just so many great looking interesting games out there. 

 

Steam is so inviting to just dive down rabbit holes where the reviews point you to other things you've just never heard of, then you take a look at something like GGdeals to see if it's available cheaper elsewhere. 

 

Very very true. That breadth is incredible.

 

I think particularly for many gamers who are a bit blinkered (no offense). Read about what they play on the formats they play on and little else. So suddenly walking out into the PC world and realising just how big gaming is beyond that. And how much of it you can play for a fraction of what you paid for one or two games before.

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15 minutes ago, thesnwmn said:

The thing is, once you adjust to Steam it's possible to sort of become immune to it's sales to an extent.

 

Not entirely but these days logging in and seeing 10 games on my wishlist at 50% off doesn't make me flinch. Unless I'm really a lose end in terms of what I fancy playing I know another 10 will be there next week. Or there'll be some bundle.

 

But it is immense fun finding what gaming can be after looking outside the comparatively shitty pricing on console stores.

Yeah, my personal trigger is once something hits 75% off, which is inevitable if you are happy to wait. And I am,as I am have hundreds of other games to play.

 

It is fun going on a journey of discovery too, as @Gotterssays. I use the discovery queue feature and that can then take you on a wild ride of different stuff and has opened me up to genres I never had an interest in previously.

 

It helps that steam is pretty user-friendly to navigate, too. 

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Subnautica is the one you want to buy in this sale. They made a ton of improvements to it recently as well, runs way smoother now.

 

But yeah I rarely buy stuff on steam sales, I've acquired so much stuff on previous sales that I'm not short on interesting choices (like Subnuatica, which I bought years before actually playing it)

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13 hours ago, Gabe said:

Yeah, my personal trigger is once something hits 75% off, which is inevitable if you are happy to wait. And I am,as I am have hundreds of other games to play.


Yes I wait for 75% off also.  Always keep adding to your wish list. Mines at over 500 games. Just got an email from Steam to say Prey which is on my wish list is 85% off until 1st Feb 🤔 

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