Steam Deck @sopuli.xyz Cmar @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

What is everyone getting this Steam sale?

I was looking at getting some roguelikes / lites (already have ToME, CoQ), unfortunately Cataclysm DDA is not on sale.

Krone Hotel at 90% off looks like a decent choice too. Then there’s Jupiter Hell, which I recently stumbled upon and looks great too.

I’d also like to get some of the FF games, though I’ve played VI, VII, IX and a bit of XII, it would be nice to revisit some of the older ones I haven’t played almost since the PSX era.

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For my budget of ~25€ the following games ended up in the library:

Subnautica

Super Bit Blaster XL

Pony Island

Hollow Knight

Little Inferno

Vampire Survivors

I'm especially looking forward to Subnautica and Vampire Survivors. The former because of the probably good story and the latter because this kind of game is completely new to me, but the visuals appeal to me a lot.

I had Pony Island a few years ago and just had to have it again because I liked the dark humor and thinking outside the box.

Super Bit Blaster XL I had played quite quickly "through" (achievements), because I was still practiced from the more difficult predecessor. ^^
Hades :)
- Hades is sooooo good!
I finally picked up Graveyard Keeper and all the DLC. Really fun game and plays great on the Steam Deck.
I got a steamdeck. Should receive it Tuesday or Wednesday.
It is unlikely that Cataclysm ever goes on sale, because the steam release basically is just a donation. You can get the game for free on the official website: https://cataclysmdda.org

There you can also donate other amounts than the Steam price.
Thinking of picking up Stray. My GF loves cats and has been waiting for a sale.
You know that Cataclysm DDA is Free software, right ?

Just open the terminal and execute

sudo pacman -S cataclysm-dda
Looks like this is when I finally buy Dead Cells, kinda surprised it took this long
My new Steam Deck.
I’ve reached a weird sort of critical mass where steam sales no longer provide me with dopamine
- Same. The critical mass being the amount of unplayed games...
  
  After Dyson Sphere Program, I don't need anymore games...
So far I've bought: SOMA, Call of the Sea, FAR: Changing Tides
- SOMA is one of those games I wish I could forget and play again for the very first time.
  
  I get scared easily, I'll probably shit my pants but I heard great things about the story and atmosphere so I'll give it a try.
I bought Subnautica and ended up playing it all day
- I'm jealous. Wish I could play that for the first time again.
  
  Same. The game is so good. Low key terrifying at times.
Ori and the Blind Forest, after recently completing WotW.

GTA IV

Stanley Parable: ultra deluxe. Loved the first one.

The Beginner's Guide

Some local multiplayer games to play with my partner on the dock:

It Takes Two

Unravel 1 & 2

ibb and obb

Pummel Party

Sonic All-Stars Racing

I also considered Hollow Knight and Dead Cells, but prefer to get games on GOG when available.
- Does GTA IV run well on the deck?
  
  I gave up after ~2 hours, since I didn't enjoy driving around the world, but in that time it performed great on the Steam Deck.
Necesse. It's like top-down Terraria with colonists that organize your chests for you. Great early game content, anyway.
- How do you like the controller support? Well. If you've tried it.
  
  Not the guy you responded to, but I have experience with the game and stream deck.
  
  The controller works fine, although I can't help but think some buttons for actions are incorrect. Like cancel on one menu is one button, but a different button elsewhere. I believe controller support was somewhat recently added though so maybe it's just not fully baked.
  
  I suppose I could contact the author and let them know my feedback.
Had a bigger haul at GOG, but for Steam I got:

Persona 5 Royal (through Humble because of my Choice discount making it just under 30 bucks)

Another World (double-dip on Steam because the GOG release doesn't have the original Amiga ROMs as bonus content)

Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (a new NES homebrew game published by Digital Eclipse - always been a decent emulation publisher)

NOMAD (another classic emulated title)

Castle Crashers (one of my "indie titles to get" games on the old list)

Battleblock Theater (same reason as Castle Crashers!)
- What'd you snag at GOG?
  
  Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
  
  Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
  
  Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I've heard it got a great modding community)
  
  Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
  
  Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn't pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG's new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG's own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
  
  Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that's been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
  
  Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn't wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
  
  True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)
Poverty
Honestly, nothing.

I've been consumed by Diablo IV right now.
- Get a Steam Deck and play Diablo while lying in the hammock in the garden...
Poverty

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