Here’s my decent haul. Some of them aren’t really in the “Sale” as they just launched but have launch discounts.
- Control Ultimate Edition: Already own it on Epic, but was cheap enough to re-buy for easier Steam Deck play.
- Crab Champions: The meme song that become a really competent roguelike shooter!
- Dave the Diver: What if Lucasarts made a mini-game filled roguelike?
- DROP - System Breach: Sleeper hit for me. Intense puzzle/pattern recognition game with a great, simplistic hacking theme/style.
- The Entropy Centre: Big Portal vibes, but using time!
- Humanity: What if Lemmings, but you’re an omniscient Shiba Inu. Plays great in VR too.
- Prey: Loved Deathloop but never had a chance to play Prey.
- Shogun Showdown: Crypt of the Necrodancer meets Slay the Spire - SIGN ME UP!
Good reviews and suggestions. Added a few to my wishlist for better sale prices later! Shogun looks like one to keep an eye on.
oh, Prey is amazing as an immersiv sim!
Great list, and I appreciate the short summary for each game. I’m definitely sold on Shogun Showdown now, but I better wait a bit to get it since it’s not discounted and I bought enough games this sale already lol.
Bought dave the diver, just fought first boss and game feels fun for now.
I see this one mentioned everywhere, and it does look really interesting, especially the resteraunt management aspect of it – are you still enjoying your time with it?
I’ve been obsessed with it in the last two weeks, I’ve played it every day since 1.0 released… Just checked and I have 27.8 hours played on steam. I absolutely love it! Just reached final boss, but feel like I have few more hours of content to do
yeah, theres bit story and kinda interesting too. quirky character. restaurant management seems simple for now but enjoyable enough. Mostly just enjoying diving and catching fish.
The Steamdeck sale is tempting. I have been trying to decide if I need one (I don’t need one, but that’s not important).
Building off what the other guy said, you’ll want to upgrade the hard drive when you can, I got the 64gb one and got two 500+ gb sd cards, but the shaders needed for the games can only be stored on the internal memory from what I’ve seen, and even having a few larger games installed has filled up the majority of my internal storage, to a point where I couldn’t download updates for flatpacs or run some games due to so LITTLE storage. I’m going to look into upgrading my drive because it became such a problem for me
Check out CryoUtilities. Can easily store shader caches with each game and eliminate your issue entirely. Yay open Linux ecosystem!
If you consider, consider also to buy the one with the lowest storage. It is not that hard to upgrade it yourself. You end up with even more storage than the most expensive model (if you’re planning to buy that one). You only miss the anti-glare etched glass and a custom profile background. But you can buy a anti-glare screenprotector if needed.
I didn’t need one but I wanted one and it was a good idea.
Dooooo it
I’ve had mine since launch, I’ve used it less this year since my company cut all travel, but I’d definitely recommend it.
Mainly I use it as a home console, since I don’t have another console and it’s great having all the Steam library right there. I set up Heroic Games Launcher and play Rocket League quite often.
I’d thought of getting an Xbox before as it’s also okay with Game Pass for just playing something on the TV to relax. But it seems that’s really going to end up like Netflix with the decreasing quality and increasing price, and paying 500+ EUR to be locked into that doesn’t seem great.
Then what really sealed the deal was when I visited my brother and we couldn’t watch the World Cup on the Xbox. Like you have some of the best hardware in the world, and can’t stream video because they lock it down so much. Whereas the Steam Deck is so versatile.
I actually started thinking about it because I will be traveling for work this summer for the first time since 2019. I don’t expect to do much more traveling though, so mostly I would just use it in a more comfortable chair where I use a laptop today or while waiting for my kids at various events.
I play it with my kids. My 7yo and I are bonding over his playthrough of Zelda A link to the past. He gets to do all the exploring and puzzles and I get to beat the hard parts (for now)
I went big, mostly indie games I’ve wanted to try for awhile, mainly for playing on Steam Deck
ELDEN RING, Escape Simulator, Vampire Survivors, Mini Motorways, Only Up!, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Celeste, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, Rogue Legacy 2, Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection, Spelunky 2, Super Meat Boy, Pogostuck, Persona 3 Portable & 4 Golden, Kindergarten 1 & 2
Marvel’s Midnight Suns Legenday Edition. I’m 30 hours in and LOVING it. I mean, I like XCOM, Marvel, Persona and deck-building games, so I feel like this was created for me.
It’s a shame the game flopped though.
Quiet hit, perhaps? Won’t really go out of date.
Return of Obra Dinn. Actually bought it from GoG sale. Heard tons of hype about it.
One of my favourite games. Great choice if you like puzzles!
A quick note to set you up to possibly enjoy it best: Most of the gameplay is intended to go on in your head, as you mentally assemble clues and go and re-check things. Don’t be discouraged if it takes you a long time to progress part some scene.
I got
High on Life
Ys IX Monstrum Nox
Stranger of Paradise FF Origin
Toukiden 2
Tales of Symphonia
DBZ Kakarot
Raft. I’m getting reeeeeal sick of Bruce.
Satisfactory- project zomboid - valhiem - oxygen not included
I haven’t played PZ but the rest are great choices! Easily 30+ hours in each. ONI, over 100 hours.
I got Sekiro because I’m a sadist.
I’ve bought more this sale than the last 3 years combined.
Nier Replicant 1.123905814908(or whatever), Nier Automata, Dave the Diver, Raptor: Call of the Shadow and Crisis Core: Reunion.
I have Automata for the PS4 but wanted to play it on the SteamDeck.
I wasn’t really interested in anything new until I saw that Dave the Diver trailer and it just clicked for me. I haven’t played it yet.
I bought slay the spire, i have only been able to go on 1 run which was very fun, now waiting for some peoper time off to play again.
Great game, I am very impatient though so I die a lot of times.
I reached till the end but lost to the spire. It reminds me a lot of FTL in that regard.
There’s a lot of replayability even in vanilla. I’ve put a hundred hours in after doing it a few times and uninstalled so I could play other games!
I love that you can calculate things as you go along, and understand if it’s going to come off.
Sound good, i tend to play games with high replayability value more, some of my favourites are, enter the gungeon, cultist simulator, binding of isaac, darkest dungeon and spleunky. STS was on my list for a long time, i knew i would love it!
If you want to learn how to play better Jorbs’ videos are a good resource
Yes, thanks, ill check out his channel!
I grabbed Terraria and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. Looking forward to them both! Gonna boot up Terraria now, Tiny Tina’s Wonderland will have to wait until some friends are free.
I got Subnautica for £8.24, original Alan Wake for £4.64 and Surviving Mars deluxe edition for £8.74. Not bad!
Enjoy Subnautica! If you can I recommend going in as blindly as possible, and READ all the things! Oh, what I’d give to be able to forget everything about it and play it again for the first time…
I picked up Surviving Mars and played through the tutorials. Fascinating game.
Elden ring (finally!)
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