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I picked up Total War: WARHAMMER III and Pennon and Battle, both strategy games. I'm thinking of getting Baldur's Gate 3 as well. This should keep me busy for a while. My holiday plan is to stay home and game!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Nothing. It was a difficult choice, but it was a necessary sacrifice in favor of the games, collecting dust in my library :*-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Assassins Creed Odyssey and Fields of Mistrial.

Wasn't ajlot i wanted that i didnt already have.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Noita!

Also the Dead Cells DLCs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Noita is easily the best game released in few years, great buy!

I personally grabbed quite few beers

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The talos principle 1 & 2. Playing through 1 now, and it's excellent. Some of the puzzles are complex, but most can be solved in 5-10 minutes and give a nice "ah-ha!" moment. It reminds me of portal 2, but with a heavier and more ambiguous story about the nature of life and consciousness. Highly recommended.

Also been playing some Dome keeper and Peglin. Both also excellent in their own ways.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thaumaturge. Very atmospheric I think. Also, I think the setting is quite fresh, and I think that should be rewarded.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did they release a fifth installment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2257010/Creeper_World_IXE/

I've watched a couple gameplay videos by the dev and it looks good.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Finally playing Battlefield 1 and Battlefront 1, cause $3 is a good price to wait for. Only for the single player. I don't care about multi-player. Streamed from my PC to Steam Deck is great.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t use steam too much, but I did get Minishoot Adventures, and it’s excellent.

It’s like if Zelda was a bullet hell. The base difficulty isn’t too hard, but it’s challenging enough. And you get to explore and do dungeons. It’s really fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation! I hadn't heard of it before but bought it on sale today. Looks pretty good and I appreciate they have options for people who suck at bullet hell games 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You’re welcome!

When you die in this game there’s no real penalty other than going back to the last checkpoint. So even if you leveled up or something you keep that, you just might go back a few screens. It’s great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh that sounds right up my alley! Looking forward to this on the Deck

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Bustafellows (95% sale). I have a huge backlog of [email protected] to play, and Bustafellows is not on it. But it was also like $2 so… worst comes to worst, I play the game some day, hate it, and my purchase serves to signal "hey, English-speaking ladies who do not live in Japan also like otome games, localizing them is a good business choice". Which means more otome for me! I have heard of so many Japan-only games that sound so cool but also I cannot play them because I won't understand a damn thing the characters say, and they are usually super story-based.

The Magic Circle. I forget what recommendation list I saw it on to be honest, but it still seems to hold up as something I would like and think is cool.

I like [email protected] games, so I was going to grab Parkitect, saw it in a bundle with more tycoon games, grabbed the bundle to also collect Project Hospital and Game Dev Tycoon. (I already had Parkasaurus.)

I also like automation games. I think its community might be on a dead instance… maybe I'll make a new one. Finally grabbed myself Factorio (will never be on sale) along with Satisfactory (finally out of Early Access. I will never buy an EA game, I will always wait for it to exit EA).

Finally, Sun Haven. Stardew Valley fan, from what I have seen of SH it seems like something I'd like, and price dropped.

Aside from Factorio, everything I grabbed was on sale. Aside from Satisfactory, all the sales were 50% or more.

Might get more. We will see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I've been playing Parkitect over the last months, it's pretty fun! Usually I don't stick with Tycoon games for long, but I did >10 campaign levels there.

Only bummer is that the tooling around blueprints is pretty underdeveloped (can't sort/tag them, very inflexible), and it gets tiring to recreate all the basic decorations around food courts etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I got Gelatine after forgetting about it being in my wishlist for half a year

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I like boomer shooters and immersive sims, so I picked up Selaco and Fallen Aces. Both are good so far. Selaco has some maze-like levels that can be a bit annoying, but the gunplay is very fun and the level of polish and detail is very high. Fallen Aces is awesome for the amount of ways it gives you to deal with the goons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Some friends and I gift each other some games each year, and I got Cyberpunk. I'll wait for the new GPU releases before I play it though, since I want to check it out with path tracing.

Also, some Rogue-likes. The latest Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, and AK-xolotl.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Cyberpunk with full path tracing is still one of the prettiest games out there. And I also think - in its post 2.0 state - that it's just a very good game too. I recommend the Ultra+ mod to squeeze out even more performance and visual fidelity from the engine.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk. Never played either one, but I'm starting with Stardew

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Wayfinder, Gothic and Blades of Time so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

a few games i pirated earlier in the year, heh, and Pathologic 2, Lunacid (as of a few seconds ago), Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (to check out the openrct2 mod), dwarf fortress, & Odallus the Dark Call.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Skyrim VR! Just got a headset and it's neat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Neva and Plucky Squire. Oh and Islets.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Picayune Dreams! A "vampire survivors" -like as if you are schizophrenic and on acid simultaneously. A great $3

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dread Delusion and Lunacid. Also thinking of finally picking up Factorio

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Lunacid! I forgot how excited I was for that to come out. Swooping in to snag it now, thanks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I always read someone talking about picking up Factorio like they are they are casually announcing they are starting experimenting with narcotics. Have fun! Make a plan to quit before it breaks up your family.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I tried the demo and had an "uh oh I really like this" moment

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't remember if it was on sale, but I got 10 Dead Doves on a whim and I'm not dissapointed so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I picked that up too and the first 5 minutes I was not prepared for.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I haven't bought anything. We've still got another week to go though, so I might pick up something. I'm a patient gamer so I'm still waiting for Cyberpunk and expansion to come down in price. Otherwise there isn't a whole lot that interests me right now.

I'm mostly waiting on updates for a few games I already own: Balatro is getting a big update in the new year, Enshrouded, Against the Storm, and Timberborn. I should get back in to BG3 too. I bought it on release and put 20 hours in and then just... stopped playing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

lockdown protocol and astroneer is pretty solid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I will vouch that even without the Phantom Liberty expansion Cyberpunk 2077 is fantastic. Phantom Liberty is awesome though, the story is intriguing and the new area is really well done. Everytime I visit Dogtown in that game I'm always like "damn this place is a fucking trash warzone," the devs really nailed the vibes.

Anyways absolutely amazing game, and it's half off it probably won't go below half off for another year I'm guessing. Like you, I got into it after some major updates so I didn't experience all the crap at release - to me the game is a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wanted to play It Takes Two with my gf when it launched. Hoping to convince her now that she's my wife

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is my favorite game ever!!! Enjoy the experience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It Takes Two is an amazing couples game that my girlfriend refuses to play again because of one scene lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Aye, that’s the one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Oh It Takes Two is a good one! Played it with my partner a while back and had a great time!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Worshippers of Cthulhu

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