This weekend's PC game deals include new bundles filled with regular and VR games, a double freebie featuring Guacamelee, and a whole lot of discounts for Obsidian titles, Tomb Raider, and more.
While owning the games is great, the site could be improved if they crosscheck and mention all of those games if they are in the XBox gamepass available on PC.
Most of the time you will be able to finish those games in a month and have a cheaper deal that way.
Out of this list, the following games are on the gamepass:
Forza Horizon 5
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Grounded
The Outer Worlds $19.79 on Steam
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Pillars of Eternity - Hero Edition
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Deep Rock Galactic (No Crossplay though)
House Flipper
Road 96
Fallout New Vegas Ultimate
Injustice 2 Standard Edition
Frostpunk
Generation Zero
Moonlighter $2.99 on Steam
No Man's Sky $29.99 on GOG
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Middle-earth: Shadow of War™ Definitive Edition
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition
Additional similar Titles:
Crusader Kings III
Mortal Kombat 11
Some of the EA Play and Ubisoft connect games might also be available to play, they do have a partnership with Gamepass. These are just harder to look up in the client
What’s the alternative for those of us who own a steam deck and don’t want can’t install windows? Streaming with xcloud is not a viable option since the main feature I need (besides portability) is the hability to stop the game in any moment and resume in the same place instantly.
I think game pass is great with all the games they provide. I’ve used it for some time and I really like it but I’m on a different place now where I need certain features more than a lot of great games
Without Windows you will have to stream it probably:
if you have a normal PC but you just prefer using the steamdeck anywhere at home, you could stream your PC with Sunlight&Moonlight (kinda like steamlink but people say it works better)
GeforceNow might also work
If you own an Xbox you can also stream from there instead of using xcloud. This should also be no issue for quick resume.
Other Options requiring Windows:
I believe you can install Windows to a microSD so you can just use the SD card if you want to boot to windows instead.
Don't! All the sales go to the people that basically defrauded the original creators and pushed them out of the business. Find another way ahem to get it.
Steam summer sale is a little less than 2 weeks. I imagine it'll go in sale for the same price, if not lower. Better to wait to see if you can get a better deal.
I'd definitely pick it up during the Summer Sale. With the DLC coming out soon and rumors of it being a soft relaunch of a lot of stuff, it's likely they'll keep it out of deep sales for a while
Honestly highly recommend Cyberpunk. I was never part of the hype train and played it early this year and was blown away by how much it made me like the world I was in. I might be biased though, because I watched Edgerunners first and bought it 10 minutes aftwer watching the last episode.
I can't explain why but there's something really special about Cyberpunk that's a thrill. I am looking very forward to Phantom Liberty.
I was reading that the Phantom Liberty DLC is going to improve the base game as well. Would you recommend waiting until Phantom Liberty releases to play the base game, or just play it now?