Discussion Steam Spring Sale live now through the 20th.

[balloonshark]

The Steam Spring Sale is live now through the 20th for those waiting for a sale.

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Here is a "deep discount" page with a handful of games. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/special_deals

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Huh, that snuck up.

I generally had a policy to only pick up games during the winter sale, but this last sale was so disappointing with some games even going up in price from the Autumn sale that I think I'll have to modify my thinking.

I'll commit $100 to games in a year and pick up what I really want when it drops below my $10 trigger price.

Hopefully the drought of new video cards forces some deeper discounts... The usual enthusiasm around buying that game you wanted cause you got a shiny new GPU isn't going to be in play this time around...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

It do be like this

 

[GodisanAtheist]

A couple games have caught my eye:

Quantum Break - The forgotten Remedy game, only $8 so I will be getting it. It sounds like Remedy made the strange decision to have all the cutscenes in the game be streamed rather than local (disk space I guess?) and the streaming servers just ain't what they used to be causing weird buffering issues. We'll see.

Wh40K Shootas Blood n' Teef: nice couch co-op side scroller featuring everyone's favorite Orks. My kids are taking an interest in 40K so this is sort of a no brainer.

Pentiment: A gorgeous little choose your own adventure style game by Obsidian, sounds like it's extremely well written and is just a joy to look at, with a medieval "illuminated manuscript" visual style. Never seen anything like it.

Robocop Rogue City: Dead or alive, you're coming with me. Nuff said.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

A couple games have caught my eye:

Quantum Break - The forgotten Remedy game, only $8 so I will be getting it. It sounds like Remedy made the strange decision to have all the cutscenes in the game be streamed rather than local (disk space I guess?) and the streaming servers just ain't what they used to be causing weird buffering issues. We'll see.

I think this is set in the Control universe? I need to play both, they are in my libraries.

Wh40K Shootas Blood n' Teef: nice couch co-op side scroller featuring everyone's favorite Orks. My kids are taking an interest in 40K so this is sort of a no brainer.

Cool!

Robocop Rogue City: Dead or alive, you're coming with me. Nuff said.

Bought the Alex Murphy edition from Fanatical for $10 the other day. I've seen nothing but great things about the faithfulness to source material. Being an OG Robocop fan this should be epic.

 

[JTsyo]

Was thinking about picking up BG3 but I see it's still around $50. I still have Outer Worlds and GOW5 to play through. I'll hold off for the summer sale I think.

 

[balloonshark]

Stray is under $14 at gamebillet and gamersgate. Both stores are listed at isthereanydeal so they should be legit.

Gamebillet $13.39.

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GamersGate [gamersgate.com] has Stray for $15.83 - $2.37 when you apply promo code OFCITSTHEORANGEONE in cart = $13.46.

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[Racan]

Bought the Alex Murphy edition from Fanatical for $10 the other day. I've seen nothing but great things about the faithfulness to source material. Being an OG Robocop fan this should be epic.

One thing I was disappointed with is that they could get Peter Weller to voice Robocop, but they couldn’t get the iconic Auto-9 SFX wtf?! Luckily on PC we have mods.

 

[Stg-Flame]

I didn't want to grab anything until I saw Dragon's Dogma 2 at almost 50% off and decided to grab that and Metro Exodus just three minutes before the sale ended. I was contemplating Stalker 2, but I want a new monitor before I jump into that one.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Ended up with only Quantum Break and Shootas, Blood & Teef as both have been on my list for a while and both dropped below the $10 mark.

I know Steam sales have fallen from grace a bit, but Devs have really leaned into the meme by jacking up base pricing and then offering a "deeper" discount to end up at a higher price than I've seen games go for in random weekly sales.

A couple games i was looking at were actually cheaper in the immediate post sale "sale" than they were during the sale (and all still too pricey for their age regardless).

Ah well, I am deep into a couple separate gems from the library at the moment and still have a huge backlog (of progressively less and less interesting games however) so I can hold out till the next one.