merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=origin_systems&page=1&sort=popularity
around $3 for the first 6, $1.5 for 7.

I'm not sure which is the best to start with, i'm only familiar with VI and VII but I want to try them all.

Sleeping dogs is $3…dang, may need to replay that one

control's free on epic

awesome, thanks

https://kotaku.com/shadowrun-trilogy-is-free-and-amazing-1847172837

not mac compatible sadly

i imagine it would work with wine

they're on Steam for Mac, but never got updated to 64-bit :(

Epic store has Obduction for free. If you liked Myst and Riven, it's by the same creators and it has a similar vibe.

Seems like a good collection of casual puzzly games. 75% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14003/Calm_Quarantine/

LYNE's a good-un

The only one i've played, and I agree.

https://kotaku.com/four-of-the-best-pc-games-ever-are-free-right-now-1847448962

https://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals/
Forager for ten bucks

almost missed yoku's island express free on epic for 2 more days

https://itch.io/s/56530/talk-like-a-pirate-day-2021

epic winter sale with the $10 endless breadsticks is back

$6 for hades and inscryption, $8 for disco elysium, $11 for death stranding, $15 for hzd

i bought gris in the stream sale knowing full well that it's going to sit there only partially downloaded alongside all the others until the end of time.

(laptop only gets booted into Windows about once a month and i download a couple of hundred MB then, if i remember)

loop hero is free on epic store today. devolver digital roguelike/card game.

i got it like i do with most of the Epic freebies - remember it being very well regarded last year. still haven't played a single game in my Epic library though lol

all 3 of the nu-tomb raider games are free on epic today. i don't expect these are very good but might be worth trying at the low price of $0

ty will grab. have some combination of them on so many platforms already, what's one more

hah, rise must've been an older freebie (the second one), already in my library

I think I 100%’d all three of them. The plots are weak and things like the endless climbing get old fast but they’re so picturesque and my brain apparently never gets sick of that “ooh, secret passage!” feeling.

is there any exploration in the newer TRs or is it mainly running down a corridor?

They borrow heavily from Uncharted, so it’s pretty on rails at times. I think usually the first time you go through an area it’s fairly scripted, but then they open world it afterwards so side quests and stuff feel more free. Like, they give a good illusion of exploration.

The second at least* has a couple of big open areas (the size of four or five of the other levels) that you can wander around in - you have plot beacons that tell you where to go next so that frees the developers up to make it looser.

*can't remember the first, haven't played the third yet.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/overwhelmingly-positive-gems

Might get this just for There is No Game: Wrong Dimension which I've heard very good things about. Anyone here played that?

I've played it. Lots of fun.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32498/Bioware_Mega_Collection/

Death Stranding free in the Epic store this week

loved death stranding, collaboratively repairing the world was so satisfying

Metro: Last Light Complete Edition free on Steam until 25th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/43160/Metro_Last_Light_Complete_Edition/

Spooky fishing game Dredge is 25% on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/

33% off everything on epic store including new games like Talos Principle 2.

I just noticed that a bunch of my Steam wishlist is on sale but I didn't get any email notifications -- this happen to anyone else?

I got a Spring Sale notification

I know a sale is coming up when I start to get emails saying I've sold cards on the market, as per this week
I don't understand why people buy cards before a sale tho?

Metal gear rising: reveangance, el shaddai ascension of the metatron and ffviii are my pick ups

i bought ender lilies and deedlit in wonder labyrinth, two metroidvanias, because that's all i've been playing lately.

this month's humble choice has Hi-Fi Rush and the Yakuza RPG. pretty nuts.

Marvel's Midnight Suns free on EGS! https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns

<3 Majik

Magik, dammit.

https://www.polygon.com/deals/24176923/tell-me-why-dontnod-free-pride-month-deal-sale

Charity bundle with Tunic and over 400 more games
https://itch.io/b/2863/california-fire-relief-bundle

excellent bundle, bought!
can recommend Misericorde, a murder mystery kinetic (i.e. no choices) vn set in a 15th Century convent, one of the best things I read last year

i've been waiting for all 3 parts of that to be out before i dig in but it looks cool

i'll buy this bundle, but damn 400 is too many to go through, to be real

a few i've liked:

tangle tower is a good detective game in the phoenix wright mold
octodad is very silly, especially when played co-op
cosmic express is an excellent pen&paper style puzzle game from the creators of a monster's expedition
elephantasy flipside is a creative and hard isometric zelda/metroid style game without combat