[Meta] Ending soon - Soulslike(-adjacent) Giveaway!
[Meta] Ending soon - Soulslike(-adjacent) Giveaway!
Hey guys! As a little thank you to the community and in light of the current ongoing Steam Summer Sale, I would like to give a little back to the community: I'm giving away a number of soulslikes and soulslike-adjacent titles. I'm not made of money, so sadly, I can't give away the "best" titles there are (Edit: They're getting better by the hour now π), but there should be something interesting in the mix here. :D
I'm giving away copies of:
- 2x Hollow Knight (thanks to TheOakTree π)
- 5x Blasphemous (thanks to TheOakTree π)
- Nioh: Complete Edition
- Mortal Shell
- Thymesia
- The Surge 2
- Elden Ring (thanks to Demigodrick π)
- Dust: An Elysian Tail (thanks to p3e7 π)
- Lies of P (thanks to an anonymous donation π)
Requirements:
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Post a comment here. Ideally, you'll include which of these titles you already have, so you don't get a duplicate in case you are pulled as a winner.
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You need to be from the EU. Because of regional pricing differences affecting which countries can be sent Steam gits to (needs to be within a 10% price difference between the two countries), I cannot send you a gift if the difference in pricing is too big. Gift cards would be a solution, but I don't have that much money :]
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You need to be subscribed to the community at the time of entering the giveaway (no minimum amount of time being subscribed). You don't need to be a Lemmy.Zip user either. However, your account needs to have been created before 20th June 2025.
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You need to have a Steam account (duh) and be fine with adding me on Steam, so I can gift the game to you. From my research, a 3-day period of us being friends is not required here since I'm not gifting a gift card but a game.
The giveaway will be open for 48 hours how many hours it is until Friday (lol) from when the post is live on 30th June 2025 to 10 pm CET on 2nd 4th July.
The giveaway will be handled by Zippy Bot ie. the winners will be pulled automatically. This means that at the end of the giveaway, I will lock the thread and Zippy will pull six seven eight 14 random entries as winners. The six seven eight 14 winners will be given the games from top to bottom in order of messages received. Wishes for certain games will be taken into consideration where possible.
Should the order I get you pulled as a winner coincide with a game you already own, we might be able to do some switcheroos with the other winners - we'll have to see when it's time.
This is the first time I'm doing a giveaway like this, so please don't rip my head off if something goes wrong - I'll do my best. :D
Ninja Edit: An informal request of mine would be that if you're pulled as a winner, that you consider making a post about the game you won. It can be your experience with the game, why you like it/don't like it etc. It helps contribute a little to the community and people would likely be interested in different perspectives outside my own lol. No pressure tho :]
Another edit: I've set the last day of entry to 4th July on Friday, so we can do manual edits and adjustments if something goes wrong
Yet another update: @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip was kind enough to throw in a copy of Elden Ring to give away too, so there's 7 people winning something here. :)
Tired of these edits yet?: @p3e7@lemmy.zip was also kind enough to add a different game to the mix: Dust: An Elysian Tail. Thank you!
ediiiiiiiiit: @TheOakTree@beehaw.org came in clutch and donated another 16β¬ for the giveaway. Theoretically it's meant for half of a copy of Lies of P, if someone wants to chip in that is, or for several more copies of Blasphemous and Hollow Knight. I'll give this a day or two to see if someone wants to pay the other half - otherwise, there'll be a couple more winners in the end. :D Thank you, oh mighty Oak Tree ππ»ππ»ππ»
more edits: thanks to an anonymous donation, we can offer a full copy of Lies of P now. The funds we had recently received for half the copy will be used for more Blasphemous and HK now. :)
Thank you for being part of the community and enjoy your week!
I suck at souls like games, but it did get to the second stage of the boss in Elden Ring, never finished it tho.
Edit: I would be down to write a post venting my frustrations in dying over and over again
Awesome :)
Yea it's always a journey to get started in the genre. But once you get going and it clicks, there's no coming back :D
I'm in! I don't have any of these, so anything would be nice!
I like this ! (not taking part in the winning, i have the games i am interested in from the list already, and still trying to digest last years steam summer sale. :D
Really cool idea! :]
I don't need a game, but thanks for doing this.
You claim you can't include "the best" games, and yet you have included Hollow Knight. I'm disgusted by the insinuation.
I'll have to edit the post for sure now since a copy of Elden Ring was thrown into the mix too :D
I'm with you on this. I also throughly enjoyed Blasphemous, and am looking forward to starting Blasphemous 2 soon. Dont need a game, just need more free time!
Such generosity thanks yes please count me in for any of these
Nice dude
Thank you for organising this!
Owned titles: hollow knight. Hoping for Dust, it looks like my sort of game.
Gotcha! Thanks for entering
Not entering (don't care for Soulslikes nor am I from the EU), but I want to thank you and demigod for doing a giveaway. Anyone willing to do a giveaway, especially with things they're buying with their own money, is really cool.
Love how this message implies that that person's name is Demigod Rick
appreciate it πππ»
Not from EU and don't have steam but cool to see these, good luck all else!
Same, I've had my eye on blasphemous for a while and it's cheap right now, but I just don't have any time. Great to see a giveaway to build community.
Same, but i don't game a ton and plan on picking up at least one game this sale so I'll be fine. Love the idea though ^^
Thanks for doing this. I dont need a game, just cool to see stuff like this.
I love seeing lemmy game giveaways :) I am not entering the giveaway, but Hollow Knight, Blasphemous, and Elden Ring are all so good!
Druid, I am not in the EU, but if you PM me I'd be happy to PayPal you some funds to add a few copies of Blasphemous! I just picked it back up after dropping it the first time around (on switch), but I'm really enjoying it now.
(Or, if someone can go halfsies with me on Lies of P, I'd be willing to chip in for that instead)
Wow, that's so generous of you! I'll message you
This givaway is not for me, but thank you for doing this! Good luck to everyone :)
Good luck to everyone participating!
I have all of the games listed except Thymesia and Mortal Shell.
Though this account was created only yesterday, this is a mirror of my older lemm.ee account so I hope it qualifies? I can't exactly comment from the old one now.
Normally, that would disqualify you from the giveaway since it's a hard restriction I have set for the giveaway when creating it - wouldn't be able to make adjustments now without re-doing the giveaway.
However, we might be able to manually add your account to the giveaway by Friday. Since I know you and can vouch for your prior existence and contributions on here (lol) plus lemm.ee's recent closure, we can make that exception. :)
I've extended the giveaway window to Friday to accommodate for that
I'm on the same boat, but I don't need another game, even though my hoarding evil me is telling different. I'm happy there're still these generous gestures to be seen here in fediverse. Good luck to everyone!
Thank you! That's very kind of you :)
Thanks for doing the giveaway. Could I have Hollow Knight, please?
Im in!
May I have hollow knight please π
don't include me in the drawing, i just wanted to say this is awesome! best admins and best instance ever
good luck to everyone
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Awesome! Great to see! Sadly my old account was purged yesterday with lemm.ee... Been here since the Reddit-API-Exodus a few years back.
If I might be elgible still, I'd love to get Elden Ring. Got the DLC for my birthday, but don't have the base game :D. Nioh, Lies of P or Mortal Shell would be great, too, since I got the other games already.
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Already got my reponse from Zippy :D
Unfortunately your account is too new enter this giveaway. I am a Bot. If you have...
Anyways, I'd like to add "Dust: An Elysian Tail" into the mix. I got a spare key in my inventory for aeons. And since Hollow Knight is on the list, another Metroidvania might fit into the mix.
If there's a way for you to prove that you've had a lemm.ee account prior, we can probably still fit you in. Not right away, but by Friday at the latest.
And thanks for your contribution! Would you like me to add your game to the current 7?
Wow, great. This is my old account: https://lemmy.zip/u/p3e7@lemm.ee
And yes, please add Dust to the list.
Im from canada but if theres any way i could be eligible for any of the games i would greatly appreciate it. Except hollow knight, i just got the kingsoul today after 43 hours.
Canada might be tough because the Euro value for some of the games is more than 10% less in Canadian Dollars, thus Steam likely prohibiting the transaction. We'll figure something out tho
The only game I don't already have in here is Nioh, and after seeing Iron Pineapple's recent video on the latest installment, I'd be delighted to be able to give it a try! π
Also, huge thanks to @Druid and @Demigodrick for running this kind of stuff. β€οΈ
Appreciate you π
Thanks for doing a giveaway! I haven't played Thymesia or The Surge 2 yet but I hear they are great.
Oh cool, I'm in.
I already own Hollow Knight, Blasphemous and Elden Ring.
Thanks and good luck y'all!
Thanks for this giveaway, really nice idea :) I have non of the games and would be happy with any of them.
I don't have any of these games =)
Edit: I made my account on the 20th =/
So that's actually an exception we didn't expect and are not quite sure how the bot will handle. I asked Demigodrick about it and he doesn't know right now either. Should we find that you're exempt from participating, we'll happily add you manually since that's quite the edge case
Thank you!
Edit: hey, that was a joke. Can you unsubscribe me or something? I have too much games already.
Zu spΓ€t, mein lieber Herr Monk Γ
We'll just pull someone else should it come to that :D
I have hollow knight, blasphemous, nioh and mortal shell. Love the first two, can't get into nioh or mortal shell somehow. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough?
yay, giveaway, can I participate from Ukraine or EU rule is strict? I would like to get Blasphemous :D
(I own Hollow Knight)
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It depends on what Steam storefront you're using. If it's the Ukrainian, it probably won't work because the Euro value in the EU storefront is a lot higher than the equivalent Ukrainian value. If you're using the European storefront, there should be no issue. However, should you get pulled, I should be able to find a key elsewhere or find a different solution - we'll figure something out. :)
Thanks for the giveaway. I'd like either Blasphemous or the Surge 2.