Edit: it looks like the banner is incorrect. On the front page of steam it’s the right dates and says summer, but when I click on it to see all the sales it says spring with the dates for the spring sale. It’ll probably get fixed soon.
Guardians of the Galaxy was surprisingly good. More so than the movies, the game gives all the characters their due time.
Just make sure to stop when people speak, otherwise you’ll go past the invisible point that makes them stop and then you’ll miss out on the dialogue.
Could have taken some notes from God of War there.
Yeah truly an excellent gaming experience
Can someone recommend a bunch of good couch coop games I’ve never heard of
I know the 2 games below have 2 player couch coop. Not sure if you can play with 4p local on EDF
- Dynasty Warriors 8 - beat up soldiers by the hundreds while watching Romance of 3 Kingdoms as a 3D anime. “Complete Edition” but still has fuckloads of DLC skins which aren’t worth it. Or just buy and pirate the actual complete thing later.
- Earth Defense Force 5 - Kill giant insects and aliens with building-destroying firepower. The story and narration in 5 takes itself too seriously, but it has many quality of life improvements over 4, which is overall a funnier game with the best infantry sing-along
Which ones have you heard of?
- Gauntlet Slayer Edition
- Good old dungeon crawling. 2014 revival of an 80s arcade classic.
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
- Defuse a bomb with your friends
- CATO: Buttered Cat
- Puzzle platformer featuring that joke about how cats and toast land when dropped
- Mosa Lina
- Aggressively randomized puzzle platformer
- Assault Android Cactus
- Arcade-style twin-stick shooter with pumping soundtrack
- Pizza Possum
- Very soft stealth game about stealing and eating lots of food
- Moving Out 2 (or 1 if you’re fine with local only)
- Drag and move furniture onto a truck
- Gauntlet Slayer Edition
Relevant?
Can anyone recommend a game that can be played over zoom (preferably in a web browser) that isn’t:
- Jackbox
- What the Dub
- Rifftrax the Game
- Papa’s quiz
- Use Your Words
Tic Tac Together is team-based recursive tic-tac-toe. When both teams try to claim the same square at the same time, they have to fight for it by playing a subgame. Or a subsubgame. Et cetera. It’s surprisingly strategic. How much board control should you give up to secure a contested square?
I’ve heard good things about Sunderfolk but haven’t played it myself. It has hex-grid tactical combat with co-op done via smartphone, so only the buyer of the game needs to share their screen.
I’ll check those out and thanks!
Titan Souls is a fantastic boss rush game where you die in one hit but the bosses only take a few hits as well. You only have one arrow to shoot and you need to go pick it up or stand still to recall it to yourself before firing again.
That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.
Here are some “patient” games I’ve played that are on dollar-bin deals right now. Some are actually cheaper off-Steam, so in those cases, I link there instead.
- Black Mesa — 90% off, tied all-time low
- The fan-made remake of Half-Life
- Crypt of the NecroDancer — 90% off, new all-time low
- Rhythm roguelike
- Downwell — 75% off (cheaper on GOG)
- Shmup platformer about jumping deeper into a well
- Gato Roboto — 85% off (cheaper on GOG)
- Little metroidvania featuring a cat in a mech
- Her Story — 90% off (cheaper on GOG)
- Freeform detective game with FMVs
- Bastion — 80% off (same price on GOG)
- Action RPG with painted art, and Supergiant Games’s debut title
- Psychonauts — 80% off (same price on Itch)
- 3D platformer where the levels are in the minds of interesting characters
- Note: It’s an old game that works a bit weird on modern hardware, so check PCGamingWiki for tweaks
- Grapple Dog — 75% off, tied all-time low
- Grappling hook platformer with Nitrome-style pixel art
You only listed Bastion, but the other Supergiant games always go on sale as well. Anyone interested, do yourself a favor and get Transistor and/or Pyre instead or as well.
I’ve been a long time Supergiant fan and it was a thing of gaming beauty to see Hades have such success as it masterfully blended all 3 of their games into the perfect package. Bastion was their first and my least favorite (probably because of it). But it is still worth playing for sure.
Transistor was the first I played and what made me fall in love with their studio. God tier soundtrack, incredible setting, and innovative real time/turn based combat gameplay.
Pyre is the black sheep but my favorite. It is undeniably unique gameplay. But, true talk, you really play it for the story, and that is very much not my gaming MO. It’s indescribable and any fan of Hades wouldn’t receive that game without Pyre coming first. If you liked even 1 character in Hades, you owe it to yourself to play this. I’m not a fantasy fan but I adore the world they crafted. And it is, somehow, probably Korb’s best soundtrack.
Patience may reward you with even lower prices. But they routinely hit this low in every big sale these days. And the risk of not playing them before you die far outweighs the extra dollar you might save.
Psychonauts required following a guide very, very closely to get it working correctly with a PS5 controller on the Steam Deck. Worth it!
Thanks for the suggestions! I picked up a few of these I didn’t already own.
- Black Mesa — 90% off, tied all-time low
Damn dude. The AAA games are still expensive, but I don’t think I’ve seen these kinda sales for indy/niche games in years.
Probably not a great economic indicator though.
Well, I bought RoboCop.
I mean, after that third movie he wasn’t doing so hot so I suspect Murphy’s pretty cheap……
Yeah, but I’m cheaper so I only paid for the mass produced version. No movie bullet holes for me I’m afraid…
I’d buy that for a dollar
I’d rather use that dollar and buy an older game i haven’t played than spend it on pretty skins.
Amen to that
Bloons TD 6 is $1.39 so I bought a copy for my wife so we can play together.
That’s a steal. It’s a great game
Cyberpunk is on sale for 65% off so I finally picked it up (and its DLC). Currently downloading, I’m looking forward to checking it out. I tried it out shortly after launch, I think a demo or a friend’s house, but it never clicked for me so I didn’t get it. It was also incredibly buggy. I heard it’s far better now though, especially with the DLC, so I’ll give it a real shot.
It’s more stable, interesting, and alive than any Fallout, Elder Scrolls, or GTA game in my opinion. If you like any of those, there’s a good shot you’ll enjoy it.
I love all of those. I’m excited to play it tonight
And once again, Steam runs into various errors for me because of the high number of people getting in on the sale.
A beautiful reason to be inconvenienced. Enjoy gaming harmony my friends.
Just got Disco Elysium since I keep hearing how it’s great.
I’m debating Fallout 3 or New Vegas. Both are super cheap without DLC and pretty cheap with the DLC. I’ve owned both historically back in the day but neither survived and apparently I didn’t get them on steam back then. The DLCs would really be interesting at this point but I am so cheap I can’t convince myself
Dear God no. Refund Disco Elysium if you can. Some shady asshole ended up stealing the game from the original creators so any purchases you make ends up lining the pockets of the thieves.
The original creators have actually encouraged people to pirate the game instead.
Check the mega thread here to get started. The game is excellent, just don’t give your money to the slimy suit that stole the game.
Damn, that article is from 2022. Did they get recourse?
It’s probably all still in litigation. A big defensive for legal challenges such as this is to prespone as much as possible to run out funds for the claiment.
Any updates since that original post from 2022?
Too bad the mods of .world suck and blocked dbzer0
Soulstone survivors is solid for $10. Vampire survivors x action RPG with large number of unlockables
Tower wizard just came out but it’s amazing at $3
Tower Wizard is really good. If you want a taster of the style, the dev has a previous game Magic Archery which is 100% free (no microtransactions), just a very good, short, incremental game.
Looks cool but I’ve never played a clicker game. I like Melvor Idle but I’m not sure how much I would like simply repeatedly clicking on things to progress
Totally understandable, but this one is set up so you’re not actually just clicking more than a few seconds at the beginning. And then it is really streamlined going forward so you’re actually doing micromanagement on your tower. You can click on something to slightly boost its production speed, and pretty early on you can unlock an auto click where you just cover your cursor over or something if you wanna boost it, but it’s totally optional
There’s a million free versions of this game on any appstore. This is just like, idle clicker + wizards
Picking up Rogue Legacy 2 at half off. I really enjoyed the first one
Finally bought the Dead Space remake and WOW do I love this game. It’s even better than I remember the original being.
