merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

Steam autumn sale is up, probably the most interesting thing is that weird Steam controller which they are discontinuing and so now selling for £4/$5 plus shipping.

there's a better than usual sale on google play (the android store) too. Lots of board games adaptations.

already bought the weird Steam controller, i've always been curious how it feels. strange that they're killing it after just having released Index, though

Portal 2 is 71p in the stream sale!

Might take a punt on Dead Space - lots of reports of problems on win10 but it's cheap enough to risk.

Dead Space is good

Anyone likes the awesome pixel art banner should check out the artist on insta: https://instagram.com/waneella

cool thanks!

good banner, good pixel art instagram, thanks

and I note a soda machine in the banner & many of the other pics for fans of the Video Game Soda Machine Project

(I have become slightly obsessed with video game soda machines since reading the piece about them/vgsmproject in Wireframe mag a month or two ago)

Mega Mall Story 2 sounds like a game I have to play

I could never get the hang of the Steam controller, I even offered it for free to a friend who refused it. I guess I'll keep if for historic reasons now then.

picked up Tron 2.0 for a couple of quid, other than that nothing on my wishlist at any decent discount. Might have a browse tonight though.

Rayman Legends is free on Epic fyi

...but it doesn`t seem to work! lol

any great deals? thinking about grabbing code vein for ps4 for $35...

I bought Persona 5 for $10.

that's a great price for it -- i already own it or i'd jump at that

is ark survival worth getting on ps4 for $17? i haven't played it on any platforms. castle crashers for $8.99 (might be a good game to play couch co-op with my kids?). is code vein worth $35 or wait until it's persona 5 priced? would i like monster hunter world ($15) haven't played any of them in the series. catherine: full body for $30? haven't played it in any version. detroit: become human for $10 (lol not for any price is my suspicion). v much appreciate any recommendations esp if u know anything about my taste but even if u don't

castle crashers is a great co-op game. pretty old at this point, but i assume it's an hd remaster?

Catherine is ... enough that you wanna wait until it's lower

Superhot is today's Epic Games free giveaway

Anyone want these humblebundle games on steam for free? I'm not going to play them.
Middle Earth Shadow of War
Shadow of the Tomb Raider

this is a great $10 deal:
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/sweet-farm
Stardew Valley, Samarost 3, Ultimate Chicken Horse and some other stuff. $10 for Stardew is cheap!

and another great one for a good cause; this amounts to an entire library for $25
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/australia-fire-relief

a total no-brainer, feel good purchase.

this week epic store giveaways include anodyne 2 and a short hike which are 2 of the best indie games of the past while and will be high on my c&p ballot

i was just reading about A Short Hike yesterday, looks up my alley

ooo yes everyone play short hike. will feature prominently on my ballot

Mutazione is also good, also free on Epic

A bunch of free and cheap game on itch.io right now. Mu Cartographer is interesting and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine has been on my wishlist for a while.

https://itch.io/c/757294/games-to-help-you-stay-inside

nice share, danke schoen!

whoa ty for posting that, i've heard really great things about lucah born of a dream

Tomb Raider (2013) and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris are free on Steam for a few days

Watch Dogs and Stanley Parable free on Epic this week

More Steam freebies:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/442070/Drawful_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/939620/Pleasure_PuzzlePortrait/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/760620/Deiland/

Bunch of free stuff listed here, mostly GOG, but Steam, Epic, itch, PS4, Xbox One, mobile too:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/free-games-to-claim-right-now-gone-home-monument-v/1100-6474874/

(alas I think the mobile games may be region-specific, or at least I can't seem to get myself a Monument Valley 2 for Android here in the UK, alas)

...alas

https://www.bandainamcoent.com/

PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 is available for free starting from - April 24, 2020 at 10:00am PDT to May 10, 2020 at 10:00am PDT - for the PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PCs via STEAM®.

Total War Shogun 2 free on Steam until May 1, if that sharpens your katana

Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics: 9XPM2-WWALM-ZEEG6
Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game: 7IYA9-BNJYG-5XQBN

PC only

i forget what the right thread is for keys. good bundle tho. i grabbed it for scythe, twilight struggle and a few others

I took Mysterium, thanks. If anyone wants Jurassic World Evolution or Niche I can give them away.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14956/Square_Enix_Eidos_Anthology/

I own a good chunk of this, but 100%-to-charity game bundles are my Proustian madeleines. Besides already being incredibly cheap at $40, it gets pro-rated down if you own pieces of it already, which you probably do. Ends tonight.

Man, imagine wasting my life playing through Legacy of Kain again. But in a good way!

Yeah that ended up at £20 for me because I already have everything I want from it. Bought it anyway. :-/

I downloaded Legacy of Kain collection a couple of years back and realised that none of the 3d ones have built-in controller support, and the cameras for early 2000s games are way worse than you tend to remember. Watched some fun outtake footage of Simon Templeman and Tony Jay camply bantering between takes on Soul Reaver recently tho 🤘

Steam codes going if yous want any of these:

N8R2Y-D396C-0XY2H
Yakuza Kiwami

PNTX6-XVXM9-B0FZT
Middle Earth: Shadow of War

MWGI7-VVBLT-GZIHV
Street Fighter V

I took Yakuza.. thank you! I'm half way through Zero and that's my first one.

I just noticed this thread. I'm sure I have a bunch of codes on humblebundle.com I haven't used.. hopefully something decent. I'll post this evening.

Okay, but this isn't the thread for that - it's First Come, First Served: A Thread for Offering Duplicate Games from Bundle Sales as Gifts

(though it's pretty unlikely someone would have that one bookmarked and not this one)

(but thank you in advance!)

I took Shadow of War, which I've been meaning to try for a while now after enjoying Shadow of Mordor. Thanks, Sgt. Biscuits!

I nabbed SFV. Thank you, Biscuits.

thanks Andrew. Done!

Enjoy, all!

Tried the demo of Ghostrunner earlier (synthwave Mirror's Edge with Hotline Miami margin of error), seems like it has a lot of potential, but the Steam controller support was too much of a mess to get far with it

Other things I've dabbled with recently:
Got SpellForce 3 free with a games for NHS workers offer, a little janky but impressive that it combines warcraft and a party-based RPG so well

Iratus: Darkest Dungeon but you play as the bad guy and build a nasty monster team that inflicts psychological horrors on nervous peasant crossbowmen. Good crack so far

Mount and Blade 2: in a bit of a rough state still. Immediately got back into the same loop of pitifully missing people from horseback, chasing bandits halfway across the map and every NPC I talk to saying no, they haven't heard any rumours and they don't need any work done