Steam - Summer Sale Starts
 

The Steam summer sale is now underway and will finish July 8th 10am Pacific time.

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I bought four games already. Encased, Desolate, Escape the Pacific, and Home Behind. The latter is kind of an outlier. The rest are survival games of varying degrees.

I will try to resist buying games…

Must resist.

Backlog too long.

Games in progress too long.

meh from my wishlist 58 on sale just 4 are over 70% discount
i grabbed this https://store.steampowered.com/app/3…actics__Glory/, might be interesting for football fans

For me so far, Aeon of Sands and Chrono Trigger.

Resistance is futile!

Embrace!

i can generally resist unless it's under ten bucks.

Even then, 10.99 tends to lure me :D

If you buy them without playing them you still help the industry. See it as a donation. So, if you can afford the games, you don't need to fight against the urge…

I try to buy EA games that get frequent updates over a long period of time. Those games are generally worth backing even if they don't ever completely leave Early Access.

For instance, 7 Days to Die has been in EA since 2013, but I've dumped over 1000 hours in the mega Zombie survival game. Same with Road to Eden and SCUM. Those have been updated a ton over the years.

Another game that I bought EA was Valheim and they really haven't released a single true update yet. Just some tiny tweaks.

So far I got :

Shieldwall Chronicles
Donjon de Naheulbak
Gaia Beyond
Hand of Merlin

They all had been sitting on my wishlist for a while, waiting for a sale :-)

I was checking out Desolate yesterday. Have you tried it yet? It looks interesting, but some of the reviews are holding me back.

So far, nothing has struck my fancy. At least Kingdom Come: Deliverance is keeping me busy!!

I only looked at the Home Behind game so far. It was uninteresting, but like 99¢ or something. I won't even bother to refund it at that price. I'll probably check out Escape the Pacific and Desolate this weekend. I'll let you know what I think, natch.

I went ahead and grabbed a copy. Let's compare notes on Monday. ;)

I already played the prologue which is really short and acts as the tutorial. It's got a janky, low-budget look and feel, but the setting seems kind of neat so far.

I refunded it. It's okay but I'm not too big on the combat of this one and I generally don't like psychological games. I just wanted to try it for a bit and see if it had enough crafting to keep my interest, but it was low crafting for the most part.

I found Desolate to be fairly average as far as open world horror survival goes. The usual clunky combat, etc., but without the other features that keep something like 7 Days to Die interesting. I kept it for co-op reasons, though (I somehow got two keys - one from a Humble Bundle, not sure where I got the other from.)

I just realized Saki and Purple have left. Take a vacation and things change.

nothing to buy and even if there was i woudn't buy it on steam…

I haven't really dove into it yet, but yeah, it does seem pretty average. I like the atmosphere, but the visuals and gameplay are very derivative of other games. It's obvious that STALKER and Bioshock were big influences.

I prefer games like Desolate over stuff like 7DtD though for the same reason you and crpgnut prefer the opposite. I like crafting in games but not when I have to build bases and defend them. I like to constantly be on the move and exploring the map.

Yeah Dolby, I'm pretty much the same. If I do see something appealing, I'll try to get it via GoG before thinking about acquiring it on steam. I'll use the platform, yet it still irks me in some primal way.

I bought Atom and Bard's Tale 4, both of which have been on my wish list for some time.

I've played a couple of hours of Atom and it hasn't made the best first impression. All of the dialogues only go one layer deep (and all of the questions are the same for every NPC; "How's life", etc), and the quests have been trivial. But of course I'll keep at it and hope it's just an early game thing.

So ended up buying trouble shooter as it was on sale.

Atom has dialogue with pretty much every non-hostile NPC in the game, which is a bit frustrating because the great majority of those dialogues are pointless timewasters. I think we'd both prefer the more normal RPG system where some NPCs have full dialogue, typically because they have something important to say, and background NPCs just have a single line.

I don't mind building bases but I absolutely despise having to defend it and rebuild. I love loot but I'm not big on things that are supposed to be scary. I used to like 7 Days to Die before it grew too big for its britches. I'd say versions 15 was the best version of that particular game.

Encased is very good though and gives that great Fallout Interplay vibe. It was easily the game of the sale for me so far.

I continue to be very tempted by it, but I'm committed to waiting for a 1.0 release.

im doin good - so far about 50 bucks spent, capping it there.

Hopefully… :)

Encased is awesome, I have to agree. I played it a couple hours, I already love it.

It has everything I like about classical rpgs, beautiful isometric top down graphical world, well designed setting, small details all over the place contributing to the richness of the atmosphere, numerous skills and attributes to make a character how you want it, great exploration, and a UI that actually makes sense and is easy to use.

But now, even though I am sorely tempted to keep exploring the game world, I don't want to spoil it too much. And I see that patches often make saved games incompatible, so I am trying my best not to keep playing. It's hard to resist, but I want to play it when my saves won't get wiped out.

Yeah, I agree with you. It's pretty much why I stopped playing the game last year. I think it's best to wait for version 1.0 to be released to enjoy the game properly.

I don't know. I enjoyed talking with pretty much everyone in the game. It gave a good vibe of the world and lot of background info that I thought were pretty interesting. It's the sort of game where you often return to the same location and you get to know a lot of NPC, which is something I enjoy much more than visited dozen of "generic" towns and villages like in Skyrim.

Encased should be released in September… if they can keep that date, they have a record of broken promises. But even if that changes it doesn't look too far away, so IMO it's best to wait for the full release instead of playing the EA.

That being said, the EA is really playable, there are bugs but they didn't bother me as much as those in Solasta (but "your mileage may vary" as they say). GOG tells me I've already spent 90 hours in that game :D

For me it's easily the preferred game I'm expecting this year so far, after Pathfinder.

This is my second or third Steam sale that I managed or intend to manage not buying anything. I realized I keep buying stuff, and only play 1-5% of the games in my list. So I intend to no longer buy anything, unless it's a game I really really want and expect to play as soon as I purchase. My backlog is just way too big.

Plus I have the HumbleBundle sub that fills in most random stuff plus 1-2 AAA games once in a while.

One of the things I did that helps, is disable steam emails when things on my wishlist go on sale. That way, I have to physically go look at my wishlist, and see what's on sale.

It's addictive, you know. A new shiny.
I install stuff, play it, then forget I have it installed when another shiny catches my eye, or people here are gushing about a game

I bought several but only two rpgs tortured hearts and trials of fire. Ive put soon 20 hours into tortured hearts, its very addicting.

I'm in the exact same boat. There are several games that are dirt cheap on my list that I'd normally buy, but I'm passing up this time. I have games that are many years old I haven't got around to.
For example, there has been talk about reviving the Dead Space franchise, and I haven't even started DS 2 or 3 (yes, I own them!). I've only played the first hour of Prey (and it was excellent). I haven't finished Witcher 3!
The full list is really quite embarrassing.

Dead Space 2 is a must-play if you liked the first game. DS3 is skippable though. They went down the wrong path with that one.

Finally bought Pathfinder Kingmaker. It's a bargain price and I feel I can't put it off too much longer.