merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

golden 90% discounts fading into the ether

I think it's better than the last big sale, at least for indie games. I recommend English Country Tune, from the guy who made Stephen's Sausage Roll. 90% off, under $1.

other stuff I bought:
The Sea Will Claim Everything
Pony Island
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Kero Blaster, from the creators of Cave Story
Shadowgate 2014
Castle in the Darkness
Subject 13
Sega MegaDrive and Genesis packs 1-5 -- around 20 cents per game
something called Teddy Floppy Ear Bundle for $1

I've got like £11 in unused credit from trading card sales so I think I'll cash that in and pick up a steam controller for an effective £17.

Beyond that, I might grab Prison Architect and Divinity: Original Sin. Maybe Sniper Elite 3 too.

i can recommend prison architect + divinity - both good, solid (tho not classic) games

Feel like we almost should have a knowledgebase/wiki for our cheap Steam sale recommendations

anyone tried subnautica? one of the rps writers is heavily recommending it and it looks interstng.

i bought it b/c of that RPS article, it is very pleasant but even in non-survival mode is a little more minecrafty than i want. i have zero interest in resource management, just let me chill

maybe there's a straight chill mode idk i'ma go back to it tonight

picked up Please Don't Touch Anything ($0.99) and BloodGate ($0.89). most of the other stuff i'm interested isn't particularly discounted. sad!

those are in my cart too, heh. thanks Trump voice

subnautica has a chill mode yeah -- "exploration" i think. me on whatchu playin:

subnautica -- my go-to oculus demo: a standard post-minecraft survival game of the kind that now seems to be most of steam, but in the (alien, cartoony) ocean. can't play it that often, at least not with the thing on my head, cuz it scares me -- the 360-degree vulnerability; the distant groans of vast, unseen fauna. mostly play it as an environment, not a game, but wish i had the patience to craft myself a submarine or whatever. (would be less scared if i had a submarine.)

it's v pretty and the deeps are frightening to look at.

oh you still have to craft stuff to have stuff, even in the chillest mode -- maybe that's what you meant. i never made anything much more advanced than the handheld scanner.

http://www.wingamestore.com/

These guys have Borderlands: Pre-Sequel for $12 american. Anybody wanna play co-op?

Pack Gems into a Sack

Action Failed
You do not have enough Gems.

life is strange is FINALLY available on the mac and the first ep is currently free on steam. i know what i'll be doing tnite (if i'm not throwing away another promising character in nethack)

I paid 75p for the latest humble bundle and I got two games I already owned but didn't realise I already owned, plus Duke Nukem Forever.

so steam has made converting cards into wallet funds harder, because you now have to confirm every single sale by email or phone app. previously it was easy to use a game idler and an auto-seller, but no more.

Anno games on sale this weekend. Might give in and actually pay money for 2205

EDF is finally available for PC and it's 30% off until the 25th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/410320/

stardew valley supposedly coming out for mac next week!!!

The new PSN summer sale overlaps heavily with my "big RPGs I meant to play but hadn't got around to buying yet" list. So I've got Witcher 3, Divinity Original Sin and Dragon Age Inquisition for £41 total. That's something like 10p per hour of gameplay, struggling to remember a better cost/entertainment ratio really. Course the downside is that these days I seem to fit in about 2 hours of gaming a week at most. So this lot is going to keep me busy for the next four years.

^^^ hitting the realisation that my current Steam Library (sans stuff on my wishlist) might well see me out.

Of course in a couple of years they'll come up with something where you can fit a jack behind your ear and game while you sleep.

LOL @ at the "We Need to Go Deeper" theme
https://www.gog.com/promo/20160808_weekly_staff_picks_we_need_to_go_deeper

new humble bundle = nuclear throne for $10 which really is enough on its own but you also get lethal league, the beginner's guide, galak-z, lovers in a dangerous spacetime, octodad, super time force ultra, and new games coming -- ALL MAC COMPATIBLE

yeah, the survive this bundle is also pretty rad.

galak z and super time force are both really fun

aw yeah, i'm in for HIB 17

why is nuclear throne good again

yr asking bc you don't like it or bc you want me to pitch it? it's a post-apoc roguelike that is v demanding but rewarding w/ a fun aesthetic + lots of variety in weapon loadouts, monsters (w/ interesting sets of behavior), hidden secrets, replay-ability, etc. i think binding of isaac fans would like it.

the latter, idk, i read the humble bundle summary and i was like 'have i played this game or not'

i don't know if yr description appeals to me or not -- i played like twenty, thirty hours of binding of isaac and yet i'm pretty sure i don't think it is 'good' in any worthwhile sense

if you don't think binding of isaac is good, a) you probably won't like nuclear throne and b) you and i clearly want different things from our games :p

i prefer nuclear throne to binding of isaac but that is largely because i don't like the binding of isaac aesthetic at all.

I like Nuclear Throne a whole bunch but I greatly prefer the way BoI handles shooting. both games, however, are extremely great (although I mostly play both on Vita while I have a movie or whatever on in the background).

Galak-Z is also phenomenal although I am incredibly bad at it. in general I have a lot of love for games which play like SNES games with current-gen physics/logic/memory under the hood (see also: Spelunky, Rogue Legacy, Risk of Rain)

fantastic sierra humble bundle (sadly none for mac)

between HIB 17, the Capcom one and this one in 3 weeks they're killing it a little too hard for my wallet

synchronicity with the latest http://www.filfre.net/ article, which was about Sierra/KQ4 and made me super nostalgic for Sierra games even though the general gist was that KQ4 was horrible and impossible and not even fun (but had good sound)

I sort of want the Gabriel Knights and QfGs but the "pay more" options are a bit pricy for a bunch of elderly games which I'll never play and which were probably immensely frustrating so maybe I'll just put down a buck for the Space Quests and Police Quests

(I think PQ1 was my first graphical adventure? People say it's ridiculous how often you die, ohh man you die just because you didn't walk round the car before driving wah wah waah, but I played when I was young and quite bad at even basic game interaction and saving/dying every 20 seconds was all part of the game to me, constant instadeath not really bothering me tbh. PQ2 however, where I left the scene of the crime prematurely after my colleague told me to chase the bad guy and I got stuck in an insoluble state... or that annoying chasm walk in KQ3 which was bad enough the first time but should definitely have been unnecessary all subsequent times...)

"a bunch of elderly games which I'll never play"

new board description

man nuclear throne is actually pretty good i'm sorry i talked trash about it

<3

Tempted by nostalgia for PQ1 and The Beast Within but yeah they'll never get played.

i own all of those classics already. where's laura bow, actiblizzard?

tropico 4 free right now on humble

thx grabbed it

Some decent minimum-tier games on humblebundle.com
Odallus: The Dark Call -- A platformer inspired by Castlevania: SOTN. Got a big gameplay overhaul a few months ago.
Broken Age
Titan Souls

I mixed up Odallus and Slain. Both based on SOTN but Slain was the overhauled one.

Huge ass charity bundle for Planned Parenthood and ACLU:

https://itch.io/b/149/a-good-bundle

any recommendations on the best of the bunch?

those are a lot of games i've never heard of

Read Only Memories, Gone Home, Proteus are all worthwhile.