Firewatch (if you want something super chill and short with a good story) or Hollow Knight (if you want something longer, action-focused and a decent challenge) would be my personal suggestions.
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Steam Summer Sale 2017 |OT| The Weather's Hot and the Deals are Not
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Firewatch (if you want something super chill and short with a good story) or Hollow Knight (if you want something longer, action-focused and a decent challenge) would be my personal suggestions.
I also got a weirdly high number for doing my queue. I think it was a glitch.
helloresolven
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Guilty Gear Revelator is on sale, but the bundle with Revelator and REV2 is not 
. That's kinda lame.
. That's kinda lame.Rickenslacker
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I'd go with the third, it's a bit of a "best of" for the series and the second is a bit of a quirky divisive entry.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Good online multiplayer or co-op games to look out for?
CertifiedFP
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Picked up Pillars, Tyranny, and Killing Floor 2. Think that'll be all for me this sale.
...Oh and, out of curiosity, why is it almost every single 3rd party title (Barring SDN44 recently) Paradox publishes uses Unity? It made me hesitant to touch Pillars or Tyranny due to my... History with Unity performance issues I don't get in much more ambitious Unreal 4 titles.
Dark Souls 3.
Dark Souls 2 only if you reaaaaly like the series and desperately want more after 100%ing DS1 and 3 + DLCs.
...Oh and, out of curiosity, why is it almost every single 3rd party title (Barring SDN44 recently) Paradox publishes uses Unity? It made me hesitant to touch Pillars or Tyranny due to my... History with Unity performance issues I don't get in much more ambitious Unreal 4 titles.
Dark Souls 3.
Dark Souls 2 only if you reaaaaly like the series and desperately want more after 100%ing DS1 and 3 + DLCs.
Dragoon En Regalia
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As always, I'll vouch for Xanadu Next, a chronically overlooked and underrated dungeon-crawler from the same developer which brought us the Ys and Trails games. Feel free to get more details in the OT.
Unknown Soldier
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They will never surpass that one year the Steam Summer Sale had the actual game you could play or just allow to AFK while you leveled up forever. Too bad.
edit: It was Steam Summer Sale 2015
Stumpokapow
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I think the 13 is a bug where they hadn't yet flipped the queue over from the last sale event and they granted me all the cards I should have got from the last event. But what I'm curious about is if that somehow reset the number of cards I'm entitled to for this sale or something.
As an example, this is what I see now:
I got the second one on steam. The first one is not on sale tho. Regular price.
Pillars has some pretty severe performance issues, (I think it's basically impossible to get better than 45fps in one section of the game) but it's worth playing through them. I have only played the intro to Tyranny, so I'm not really sure if it's much better.
I have started with the 3rd one. It was so damn addicting and overall is amazing game. I just got the second on. You won't lose anything by playing the 3rd one first its not a heavy story based game.
2 is in the current Humble monthly, so that's your best bet if you have to buy something today.
The first one is significantly better than the others, though, so I'd probably just say wait until it goes on sale again, as it happens fairly frequently.
sad part is they aren't even trying to surpass anything, this one looks like something an intern whipped up over the weekend.
Kadin
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Just so I'm not confused, you guys are talking about trading cards, not stickers? I got 3 sets of stickers for going through discovery queue, looking at my activity feed and then going into the store preferences.
I got 2 random cards but I don't recall what triggered them.
Stumpokapow
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No, I mean trading cards.
uncredited male
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I was going to pull the trigger on Grim Dawn and then I realized it is the Titan Quest engine. Not really feeling that ATM.
Spiritreaver
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Bummer.Guilty Gear Revelator is on sale, but the bundle with Revelator and REV2 is not
Also this series is a mess with its 100 different editions.ramoisdead
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You can't really go wrong with either one. Firewatch if you want some interesting narrative with some gorgeous art style, Hyper Light Drifter if you want a Zelda like game, Hollow Knight if you're looking for a great Metroidvania game, or Nex Machina for that awesome co-op arcade-like gameplay from Housemarque.
It's a toss up between Nex Machina and Hollow Knight for me.
UpDownLeftRight
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Oh cool, Kinda figured it was VR only from the awesome gifs. I'll pick that up then. Thanks!
Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Enhanced version of the Titan Quest engine and they made a number of improvements to the gameplay, but yeah, if you hated Titan Quest, Grim Dawn's probably not for you.
tensuke
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3 is better, but if you get 2 get it on humble monthly instead since it's the same price and you'll get 5 or 6 more games with it in a couple weeks.
It doesn't play at all like Titan Quest. At least the original. Definitely more Torchlight 2 + Diablo 2.
Guilty Gear Revelator is on sale, but the bundle with Revelator and REV2 is not
and the discounted price is still higher than the standard pricing of the ps4 version :/
I think I'll go for Hollow Knight and see for myself if it can keep up to Ori and the Blind Forest.
As an example, this is what I see now:
Wow weird. If it still says -1 tomorrow then you probably can't get any more steam cards.
SirMossyBloke
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I kinda want Cities: Skylines but the amount of DLC is kinda putting me off. Some of it isn't on sale and they all add up to a hell of a lot.
Are any of them not really worth buying?
Are any of them not really worth buying?
Seconding this, so much. If you like Falcom's other games (particularly Ys), Metroidvania-like connected worlds (in this case, I'd compare it to Dark Souls 1 or Vagrant Story), action CRPGs like Nox, or non-traditional storytelling (a major element of the story is finding writings from the past and trying to understand their relevance), I'd strongly suggest giving it a look.
pantsattack
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same thing happened to me
They're quite different games, though I haven't put a whole lot of hours into either of them. Dead Cells is a lot like Rogue Legacy; get as far as you can, die, upgrade your stuff a bit, repeat. Hollow Knight is pretty tough, very long, and a fantastic game.
Also Hollow Knight is very much a complete game, Dead Cells is still getting stuff added. If I were to choose now, I'd probably choose Hollow Knight and get Dead Cells at a later date with more content.
ChoppedandScrewed
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Yeah, this was literally the only thing I was planning on buying during the sale, but of course it's pretty much the only game without a discount.
DS2 gets a lot of hate, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I can't recommend where to start, since I've only played Bloodborne and DS2, but I can vouch that DS2 (and Bloodborne, of course) is a good game.
If possible, I would play Bloodborne first. But I'm guessing you probably don't have a PS4 since you'd likely have played it by now.
They're to be sold for a tidy profit to people who value showing off jpegs on their Steam profile page, in turn incentivizing you to buy yet more trash to add to your backlog.
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