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I've about $50 in my steam wallet and I'm wondering what this community would think are must-haves. I'm currently eyeing Satisfactory and Potion Craft and am worried I'm missing out on any great deals.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Disco Elysium is 75% off.

Prey (and Mooncrash) are 75% off. Most other Arkane games are too, and they're all top notch (except Redfall :/)

Killer7 is 75% off.

Ace Combat 7 is 85% off.

Dying Light (and The Following expansion) are 80% off.

CONTROL is 75% off.

All the Deus Ex games are >80% off, really can't go wrong here.

Pillars of Eternity I and II are 75% off.

Lots of great deals on high-profile games this sale, and I highly recommend everything on this list.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't there something with disco elysium and whoever is profiting off of it now is not the original creators?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, iirc the developers, who'd spent bloody ages developing the world for the game, we're effectively kicked out during a hostile publisher takeover. They're seeing none of the money from sales, nor do they hold the rights to their own property.

I might be misremembering some parts here, but the main point is that the devs were fucked over, aren't profiting off their property, can't do anything new with the property.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

🏴‍☠️ it is then.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

It's a clusterfuck really, but yeah the lead writer, designer and artist were all fired and lost the rights to the IP. Litigation is still ongoing I think, and hopefully Kurvitz, Hindpere and Rostov can regain the right to at least produce more work in the IP in the future. Heartbreaking for Kurvitz especially since he's built the IP with and for his friends from the age of 15.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The original developers were forced out of the studio, allegedly through fraudulent means, but I'm not sure whether they lost royalties from sales as well. I can't find anything confirming one way or the other, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Control is great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I loved Discord Elysium! Going to pick up Pillars of Eternity because of your comment. Never heard of those games and looks cool.

Going to try these on my Steam Deck, not sure how the controls work with controller yet. ProtonDB gave both a platinum rating, yet Steam says playable lol. If it's anything like Divinity Original Sin 2 then I'm excited.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ProtonDB gave both a platinum rating, yet Steam says playable lol

Steam's checkmark rating is based on a very specific set of criteria, like if the game plays well on gamepad, if the UI elements work on small displays, if it requires keyboard input, etc. Yellow check means the game will play, green means it theoretically has an experience which is on par with native console games.

ProtonDB only cares how good the Linux compatibility is in general, not specifically on the Steam Deck.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Disco Elysium is Verified. The only reason Pillars is Playable and not Verified is because the game doesn't always have the correct button prompts.

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[–] MUGGY8464 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Resident Evil 7 is $8 its really fun but I can only play like an hour at a time or I feel like my heart will pop out of my chest.

Subnautica is $10 I haven't gotten it yet but heard it's really good.

Deep Rock Galactic $10

Valheim $12

Hollow Knight $8

Fallout New Vegas $7

Slay the Spire $9 rogue like deck builder

Castle Crashers $3

Batman Arkham Collection $9 four great games for that price is an amazing deal

Spyro Trilogy $10

Undertale $3

Sleeping Dogs $3

Death's Door $8

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sleeping dogs is a great game. I never liked any GTA games or anything else in that style but I fell in love with that game. Great combat, fun story, great atmosphere and and beautiful representation of Hong Kong.

[–] Kftrendy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+100 to Sleeping Dogs! Seconding everything you say - plus it has the pork bun vendor.

[–] MUGGY8464 3 points 1 year ago

A man who never eats pork buns is never a whole man!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Subnautica is so much fun. I spent hours and my wrists on Sub 1 and 2.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Many might already own it, but if you don’t it’s worth the money

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m actually making my first “full” play through. I played it when it first came out got 40 hours in and got stuck in a death loop save where my next save was like hours behind.

Just reinstalled it with “through the valleys” mod collection and it’s amazing. It’s a vanilla+ like experience and really fun. So this time I’m actually going to complete it. Then I’ll eventually get around to Skyrim again and actually try to finish that 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do that! Definitely! I have like 3000h in both combined. I got hooked instantly when I first got Oblivion when it came out

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Divinity Original Sin 2 is 60% off and easily the best RPG I've ever played. You get a ridiculous amount of freedom as if it's a DnD campaign, and you're on a quest to become god.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

+1 for Divinity, Red Prince Theme is a banger

Also, I'll yield to none!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Valve Complete Pack is 96% off for a total of $6.54. Portal 1+2, Half-Life 1+2+episodes, Left 4 Dead 2 are all must-haves if you don't already have them, fantastic games that explain why people clamor for Valve to make more games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's an amazing value.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I recently bought Dave the Diver (even though it is not discounted by that much) and I‘m having a blast playing it.

It’s a mix of rouge lite, exploration, farming and restaurant sim with a ton of exploration, interesting characters and a nice art style. The sense of progression is very addictive. Would definitely recommend.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Dave The Diver rules. I picked it up because it happened to release recently, not specifically because of the sale, and I love it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, worth it. I love that it is just so blatantly videogame-y. The damn mirror? Yeah, sure. Makes sense, game.

[–] Micaragua 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I’m hooked on this game too. Even though it’s just 10% off for release, it’s cheap to begin with, so totally worth buying now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The binding of isaac complete pack is at 38€ at the moment, pretty expensive but worth it, i've spent around 2000 hours with the game

Also Brotato is a nice little game and its like 4 bucks at the moment

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a heads up: Humble Bundle posts in like an hour. I'm waiting for that drop so I can make sure I don't overspend lol.

-Outer Wilds and Return of the Obra Dinn are must plays. About $27

-Definitely recommend the spiderman games.

-I'm looking at a game called Cloudbuilt. It's $7. This review is selling me "If Mirrors Edge and Sonic decided that they wanted to have a baby but then megaman x was upset cause he always wanted to have a baby with mirrors edge so he inserted nano machines to make the baby a bit more like him this game is what you would end up with!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I could forget everything about Obra Dinn for a better 2nd play. That game is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Beautiful side scroller. Amazing graphics and soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whatever you get, if you still have just a bit left in your wallet, QUBE is only 99¢

https://store.steampowered.com/app/239430/QUBE_Directors_Cut/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get most of my games from Humble Bundle now days but I grabbed:

Hades - great roguelite from steam deck

Subnautica below zero - subpart continuation of one of the best games this millennia

Technomancer - purely because mortismal gaming suggested it

24 euros. Worth it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The metro games are like 10$ usd for all 3 absolutely amazing games

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely, all of them good in their own right, but Exodus so good and expansive that the other two combined feel like an awesome prologue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

These games are so great! I played the original 2033 back when it came out and bought the redux version later, the changes they made were great. I also love the feel of the open world in redux, it feels as alive as a nuclear wasteland can feel

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been really enjoying cross-code on my potato of a laptop. Arpg with a heavy puzzle focus. Only single player, but coop would be too frustrating with the platforming elements

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cassette Beasts! Amazing monster trainer/Pokemon like with quality of life improvements everywhere, a crazy amount of "shinys" as each monster can spawn as any element, good story and tunes, and awesome art. Definitely worth picking up.

Also Eastward doesn't get enough love. Touching story, brilliant art and music, solid mechanics and a whole, deep turn based retro rpg within the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It is also made in Godot, which is a free and open source engine!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I picked up Tunic and having a blast with it so far.

Got binding of Isaac complete bundle as well, yet to get to that but been on the wishlist for a few months

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Snowrunner is great fun

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Borderlands 3 is 85% off

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