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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Initial scrolling of the Steam Summer Sale seems pretty lackluster, but digging through the comments sections in other threads, a few gems have stood out, and it doesn't appear we have a thread dedicated to this yet, so post what you think are the best deals here!

Not mandatory ofc, but it'd be helpful if...

  • One game per top level post, so comments stemming from it are focused on on just it.

  • Hyperlink the game title to its Store Page

  • Include both the normal and sale price / %off

  • Include a short blurb about the game - if it's one you've played before, what did you like about it? If you're diving in blind, what grabbed your attention?

Good hunt'n!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ghostrunner 2 is 80% off for $17CAD and runs great on the deck. It looks like some of the best speed swordplay vibes from Cyberpunk and I'm stoked to play it.

Also picked up Rage for 5 bucks.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Just picked up Bloons 6, (~$1, 90% off) for those who like tower defense games. Lots of unlockable content and metaprogression, if that's your jam.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ultimate Chicken Horse $5.24 (65% off, matching the all-time low)

Design platformer levels with your friends, then race them to the end, locally or online. Points are only awarded if someone died, so make the level extra dangerous!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

My kids played this till their eyes bled. Great local screen party game.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Assault Android Cactus $4.99 (75% off, matching the all-time low)

Slick arcade-style twin-stick shooter with a pumpin' soundtrack. Clear out arenas full of robots, build up combos, and go for a high score. A large roster of characters offer a wide variety of playstyles. There's also 4-player local co-op.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Overcooked! 2 $6.24 (75% off, matching the all-time low)

Chaotic co-op cooking, local or online. Complete restaurant orders quickly in increasingly absurd scenarios. Cook in a haunted kitchen, above a mineshaft, in the middle of the highway, or on a burning hot air balloon that crashes into another restaurant! This is the kind of game that people joke will ruin friendships.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gato Roboto $1.99 (75% off, matching the all-time low)

Polished metroidvania with great monochrome pixel art. You are a cat piloting a robot suit. It only lasts a few hours, but they're hours well spent.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Tunic $14.99 (50% off, new all-time low)

A little guy in a green tunic picks up a sword and goes on an adventure, but the game is in an unknown language and you only have a few pages of the manual. It's like a metroidvania but your progress is based on knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Inscryption $7.99 (60% off, new all-time low)

You find an old, abandoned video game and load it up. It's an atmospheric, spooky card game, hiding layers of secrets for you to discover. The less you know before starting the game, the better your experience will be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for that. Added to my wishlist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, if you like creepy games and card games just buy it without looking closer - it is an incredible experience that shouldn't be spoiled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've heard many glowing reviews with this same sentiment. In order to avoid most spoilers, may I ask you here - if I didn't enjoy Undertale, would I still like this? I didn't enjoy the metagaming that undertale did, making fun of the player for reloading a save. It felt dishonest. Does Inscryption also do this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this is anything like undertale, and I didn't like it either. It doesn't make fun of you for reloading iirc

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hypnospace Outlaw $4.79 (a bizarre 76% off, new all-time low)

Explore a remarkably authentic simulation of the 1999 World Wide Web as a moderator of a Geocities-like website hub. Rather than just being a joke about the corny retro graphics, it's a heartfelt funeral for that era of the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Celeste $1.99 (90% off, new all-time low)

Hard but fair precision platformer by an expert of platformer design. Excellent controls, deep platforming mechanics, and a cathartic story about internal and external struggles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is the character trans? I have flinished the whole game and I can't recall that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://maddymakesgames.com/articles/is_maddy_trans/index.html

Is Madeline Canonically Trans?

Well, yeah, of course she is.

This feels painfully obvious to a lot of (mostly trans) people, and likewise it feels painfully obvious to me too, in retrospect. It has also become painfully obvious to me that I, myself, am trans. But these are things that I was not aware of during the development of Celeste, where I was writing Madeline and speaking from her perspective. Creating Celeste with my friends helped me reach the point where I could realize this truth about myself. During Celeste’s development, I did not know that Madeline or myself were trans. During the Farewell DLC’s development, I began to form a hunch. Post-development, I now know that we both are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So she is essentially retroactively trams.

Not that I mind, but it is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Read further, while the author didn't realize what she was doing it is a trans narrative through and through, and the free dlc ending did contain the flag because by then she did know.

When Madeline looks in the mirror and sees her other self; when she attempts to abandon her reflection, who then drags her down the mountain; when the two reconcile and merge to become stronger and more complete… that was all unknowingly written from a trans perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, Maddy is trans. This is both from word of god and a hint in the background of a piece of art in-game.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Well now there is a dedicated post. Yours. 😄

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

hackmud ~~$19.99~~ $14.99 (25% off)

If you're into scripting or hacking you should check this game out. It's an interesting twist on the Multi-User Dungeon genre. The game presents mostly as a command-line interface where your goal is to seek out targets to pwn for money/points. NPC targets will have vulnerabilities you need to find and exploit in order to expose a hackable part. Once found you engage hackermode where you'll have a timelimit to break the target's security (mostly through bruteforce cracking). The game allows you to write short scripts in JavaScript to automate searching for vulnerabilities and cracking security.

Being Multi-User, there are other users online doing what you're doing and you're free to chat with them and exchange scripts. You're also free to write malicious scripts that will steal money/points from others who don't check scripts before running them!

The part I found cool was that the game mirrors IRL hacking much closer than other hacking games. You'll often need to submit incorrect data to NPC targets to get an error message that will contain hints about where to go next. Ex. A webpage has "News" and "About Us" sections. You can request a section that doesn't exist to get an error message that shows all acceptable sections: "News", "About Us", or "Employees". You've found a hidden section! Using scripts to send a bunch of mal-formed data at a target and then analyzing which ones generate an exploitable error is part of real-life security testing.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

This War of Mine: Complete Edition ~~£26.93~~ £3.91 (85% off)

In my opinion one of the greatest games but also one of the saddest. If you already own the game then I highly recommend all the DLC as they all bring some interesting scenarios to the game.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

GRIP: Combat Racing ~~£24.99~~ £2.49 (90% off)

Spiritual successor to Rollcage with a great soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Completely forgot about rollcage. Wild to me that anyone remembers that game enough to make a spiritual successor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's a classic and the originals still hold up today.

Rollcage Redux (1)

Rollcage Extreme (2)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Trombone Champ 60% off

Trombone Champ is the world's first trombone-based rhythm music game. Unlike most music games, you can freely play any note at any time. You're not just following along with the music, you're actually playing the music!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This one plays great on the steam deck. I played the happy birthday song for my kids and it was awful in the most amazing of ways.

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