merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

possibly the full schedule

This got sent to me a few hours ago, I wasn't sure if it's real or not.

But now, as New 'n' Tasty leaked to come out today, this list is most likely true. Still take it as a grain of salt. I'll give you more info where it's from. pic.twitter.com/0vTNgMec3n

— jovanmunja (@jovanmunja) December 18, 2020

generally disappointing but tbh i've never played any of the free games

Looks like the list is right. I looked up all these games cuz I don't have a clue. An alarming amount of them are survival/loneliness sims. Interested to try "Night in the Woods"... which looks busier than the title suggests.

alien isolation is free on epic today

Night in the Woods was also in the big itch.io bundle for racial justice, if you bought that.

I'm a huge first Alien movie nerd but even I thought Alien Isolation was a bit pants - should be called Android Isolation amirite?

I never played it but I've heard some people say positive things about it. It certainly has a great look.

steam sale even lamer than usual, most stuff in my wishlist is 10-30% off and they're not even doing the $5 token thing any more. bah humbug.

odd there's nothing to compete with Epic's endless $10 coupons? They both must've had a great year

Brigador free on GOG til tomorrow sometime, looks like a hoot

A solid bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/humble-heal-covid-19-bundle

Definitely solid, but I already own 22/27 of the titles from older bundles

NBA 2K21 is free on Epic at the moment.

they're doing the $10 never ending coupon thing again too... can get hades and outer wilds for $10, death stranding for $14, disco elysium and outer wilds for $20, RDR2 for $30

I'm going to pull the trigger on actually buying something from the Epic Store... eventually... because of those coupons

Just bought the complete Ultima games set from GOG cos they were cheap as.

Is Ultima 4 the best starting point? I played bits of these games but never got very far.

Just bought the complete Ultima games set from GOG cos they were cheap as.

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