Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!

Yeah truly an excellent gaming experience

+1 for tactical breach wizards. description is on point.

I will back up Cassette Beasts for having a strategically interesting turn-based combat system.

Anything of note? I am considering A Plague Tale Collection at 65% off. Dishonored: Complete Collection is also 80% off. I'm considering buying it to replay on PC, I only have it on PS4 and the performance wasn't great.

That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.

Relevant?

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

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

Tinkerlands. I just got it together with Novalands (which is a good time sink on switch). Haven't started playing it yet, but it seems similar to terraria, but topdown and with more focus on coop.

If you can forgive the self promotion and enjoy platformers. Our game has (an admittedly challenging) couch coop mode.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771200/Cat_Box_Paradox/

Depends on which you did hear of. Spelunky you probably did, but is Octodad niche enough?

Ooh, try Full Metal Furies. I personally mostly played single player, but I think co-op should be cooler, though I only played a few stages.

Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it's holding on.

I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it's 8 years old.

I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.

Speedrun mode in Furi auto skips walking segments.

Two of my favourite games being mentioned? I have been summoned.

Disco Elysium is an absolutely amazing visual novel+. Treat it like a novel whose pages you can read in any order. It doesn't really behave like a classic RPG, the dialogue options are very un-punishing. Feel free to explore them, feel free to be weird, feel free to commit to wacky ideas. The game rewards that. Lastly: the murder case exists as scaffolding, not purpose. Don't tunnel vision on it, enjoy exploring the world building, the characters and the protagonist.

If you're only playing one of those two Fallout games then New Vegas should be a no-brainer, especially if you haven't played its DLCs. Those are, in my opinion, the very best content New Vegas has to offer and should definitely not be missed. Each DLC is extremely different, and they're all so good that I can never decide which is my favourite.

Thanks for the suggestions! I picked up a few of these I didn't already own.

Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!

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!

I am the milkman

Don't expect RDR2-but-cyberpunk (in terms of the open world) and don't expect a blank slate character RPG: you have some choices for characterization but V will always be V.

If you can get on board with that it's a great, immersive action game with a good story and some well written characters.

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.

That's pretty much the norm on the first day.

I'll start looking tomorrow and compare all the offers.

Yep, the sale is THAT GOOD.

I got it cheaper during an Epic Store sale, but not by much.

Grab it anyway and the DLC, because it's amazing. And listen when it tells you to play with a controller. Really. So many people bounce off it because they can't fly the ship. Mouse and keyboard really is not the way.

Yea I personally couldn't get really into it. I mean it's fascinating, beautiful, very intense (it has all the extremes of space)..... but I'm stuck and can't find the motivation to go further. It's pretty cryptic. If you're into puzzle games you might crack it better than I do

I picked it up and put it down a few times because I kept getting stuck and felt like I wasn't making any progress, but holy shit when I finally got a small amount of assistance from a friend and got things moving it was like an avalanche and it all unraveled magnificently.

The DLC was somehow even better than the base game by quite a wide margin for me, but I absolutely had to get help starting it because I couldn't figure out how without cheating.

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/outer-wilds/info/

Store low at the major retailers (incl. Steam) is $15

According to SteamDB, 40% is tied for the all-time low.

IMO outer wilds has a strong tone of optimism and hope in the face of existential dread, so I think you're probably good on that front. And if you're at all a fan of environmental storytelling and don't hate physics sims, I think you'll like it just fine. If you're super unsure, maybe watch like the first hour (or less if you find your answer early) of someone doing a blind playthrough and see if the manner of storytelling grabs you.

They really fixed most of the aging game problems with the remake imo. I tend to prefer my horror with some agency to fight back.

Good to hear, I think I won’t have time to get around to it this year so I’ll hold off for now

Dude. Fair warning for anybody getting into Vampire Survivors.
It's designed with bunch of video lottery type effects.
This thing will grab you and not let go. Particularly after you get good at it.
Each round is 30 minutes. I think that's so people will step away regularly instead of being stuck there. Seriously, its addictive.

(And cheap, and fun, and constantly getting free updates, and dev has his own damn wiki not on fandom.)

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

From those that I bought, It's probably the game I've played the most, though it is more of an idle game than anything else and at higher levels it became old really quick (for me).

There's a million free versions of this game on any appstore. This is just like, idle clicker + wizards

Go for Elden Ring!! If you have not played any soulslike before this game is a great introduction to the genre. It's also so BEAUTIFUL, the lore is amazing, and most importantly...it's so fucking fun! An experience you won't forget.

Personally, I’ve never played the Ace Attorney games so I can’t comment on them, but between Elden Ring and Lies of P I’d suggest Elden Ring if you’ve never played it. Lies of P was fun but it never quite hooked me the same way. Also if you’ve never played a Soulslike before, Elden Ring is a fantastic place to start. The DLC is also amazing, and is probably my favourite add-on content of any game ever. It was a bit controversial at launch for being very difficult, but I think that’s kind of the point.

Elden Ring is definitely the easiest to get into, but I think by the end becomes the hardest of all the Souls games on a normal playthrough. Due to its open world though it is easy to trivialize the game if you’re really struggling, with the exception of the final boss of the DLC who is just a brick wall no matter what (or at least was at launch, I haven’t played the DLC in a little while so that might’ve changed). Elden Ring wasn’t my first Souls game, but it was for all my friends who played it, and they all loved it just as much as I did. I’d put it in my top 3 of all time, maybe #1.

With all that being said, Lies of P is still a really good game, and I’m sure other people feel differently than I do comparing the two, those are just the thoughts of a massive Elden Ring fan so maybe take it with a grain of salt.

The only one I don't have is the Miles Edgeworth one, I still need to start Apollo Justice.......

I may be a patient gamer, but I could stand to be even moreso