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[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

We picked up Journey and Star Traders Frontier. I've wanted to play Journey since it came out but I didn't have the proper console. Well, I forgot I put it on the wishlist, and that's a real good price so.

I've (sung? musically yelled at?) another person already.

[-] DeadUncle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Noita is currently 60% off and is hands down the best game I have ever played (kind of). It is ridiculously brutal and you will die very often but you have the potential to get ludicrously powerful as well. The game will cheese you so don't be afraid to cheese it back. In has so much content that beating the final boss for the first time is considered beating the tutorial.

Also if the some aspects are too bullshit for you there is a variety of mods to fix these, and there is absolutely no shame in using them.

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[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

Elite Is a space flight economics simulator.

Fly around buy here sell there look at stuff for fun and get into battles

Great game but you will want a hotas set up if you really get into it

[-] Harrk@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I keep trying to get into Elite but it never clicks for me. I was flying around earlier trying to dock into a station but everyone was refusing me so I closed the game. I’ll probably look up a new players guide before giving it another attempt later.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 19 hours ago

Was it Elite Dangerous? Stations grant docking clearance if you're within range when you request it; I think it's about 7500 meters. Check out the in-game the tutorials. One of them teaches this.

[-] Harrk@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Unfortunately it was due to being “friends only.” Player fleet I guess? I just couldn’t figure out how to filter them out before I got there and kept coming across them.

That range one caught me out once but I figured that one out since it tells you to come closer. I’m going to take that tutorial suggestion though. Cheers!

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours ago

Ah... Yes, it was most likely a fleet carrier, then. Those are owned by players, and not always open to the public.

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[-] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago
[-] el_psd@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago

"Hands On Throttle And Stick;" i.e. flight sim gear

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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you are the simmy type or like space, Elite Dangerous is insanely good, but has a learning curve up front. It's the only game I've put over 1,100 hours in and still haven't explored everything.

Subnautica is another game I can highly recommend.

If you wanna play games with friends (Elite is also MP), The Forest is a great game to bond over.

Black mesa is another banger.

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[-] SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago

Outer Wilds is on sale. Great game if you like space, puzzles or platforming!

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago

My personal greatest game of all time. Do go on blind tho.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Absolutely, what i would give to play again with no knowledge

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I’ve still never beaten it. I’m near the end I’m pretty sure. Great game.

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[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Solasta Crown of the Magister for $8.99.

For me it's the best game ever to capture the D&D feeling. The custom Warlock subclass, Timekeeper, is ridiculously fun.

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 5 points 23 hours ago

I don’t see it mentioned elsewhere - but if we’re going down the CRPG route and enjoying it I’d recommend to others Divinity Original Sin 1&2.

I’d also recommend Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. But it’s age might scare some people away – so I typically don’t lead with that.

[-] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doom 2016 for 2$, Titanfall 2 for 3$ and battlefield games from BF3 through BF1 also go for 2$

[-] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

I've never played any BF games. Do they have good single player campaigns?

[-] knightly@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago

Not since Bad Company 2 like 15 years ago

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

BFBC2 was the best BF I've ever played. I wish I would have known that at the time.

[-] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago

Looks like that was removed from Steam a while back. It had a single player campaign from what I read.

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Battlefield Hardline's campaign was actually good, though. It felt like a cop movie, which I thought was a neat change for the series.

[-] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

BF3's campaign was average. It had an interesting story and had some memorable parts but other than that it felt short and generic.

BF4's is worse though. It was just as short and generic as BF3's in terms of gameplay, but so was the story and the general presentation this time around. Not to mention that it's really damn buggy, the bugs that were present during the game's launch were never patched for the campaign. For instance, the FOV slider doesn't work at all.

I haven't played any of the other camaigns so I can't proprerly judge them.

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The entire Creeper World series is on sale- Creeper World 1 and 2 are $2.49, Creeper World 3 is $4.94, and Creeper World 4 is $9.99. Personally, I don't like Creeper World 2 so I would suggest any of them but that one. CW2 is side on and I'm not a fan. CW1 and 3 are top down, and CW4 is properly 3D.

The first couple of Creeper World games used to be flash games you could play in browser, but after the age of Java games they ported them to Steam and kept making more and better games.

The basic concept is that it's a cross between a very simplified RTS and a tower defense game, with the added curveball that the enemy is just a liquid that won't stop showing up everywhere.

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[-] donio@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

Undertale is at a new all time love at $0.99. It's not really my jam but it's the time to pick it up if you always wanted to play it but never did.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

The inability to resize the Undertale window without using a third-party program like Sizer continues to be INFURIATING to me.

Undertale is a good game, but it just makes me so goddamn angry every time I open it to not have control over the sizing on my own goddamn monitor that I haven't been able to finish it.

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 10 points 22 hours ago

Sounds like they should have called it Underscale

I’ll see myself out

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 23 hours ago

I think I missed the window on Undertale. Who knows, if I played it when I was 17 I might have a different opinion but the whole "I'm so quirky and random" schtick doesn't really land with me.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not really my jam

I watched someone's entire playthrough of it on YouTube, which I find to be a decent middle ground. In fact, someone else I know doesn't even game any more and just watches playthroughs; better to see an expert do it with insightful or fun commentary than to get frustrated from not knowing what to do, etc. when we have such limited time in our lives anyway. Maybe that's why I generally prioritize roguelites nowadays; if I'm gonna play something, I wanna ensure it's a unique challenge that possibly not even the devs have ever exactly seen, and not simply be treated like a rat in a fixed maze to figure out precisely or struggle otherwise when other people have done it.

Anyway, I digress; Infested Planet is $1.94 USD for another recommendation, and it's awesome. The trailer undersells it if anything.

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Never heard of it and I can swing $1.94 – thanks.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

No Man’s Sky is down to $23.99. I remember the launch was poor but they kept working on it and improving it. I picked it up a couple years ago on Xbox and have enjoyed it

[-] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

NMS was such a mixed bag for me. I spent over a hundred hours on it yet still walked away wondering what there was to do in the game.

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It is way more of an enjoyable experience now than it was on launch. I just still find it sort of flawed on a core level. The exploration is clearly supposed to be a primary focus of the game, but I just find it incredibly bland after a bit. After I finished with that, I don't really know what to do with the game aside from.. keep flying around trying to find something worth finding.

I put 40hrs into it. I don't regret that, but I also have zero interest in continuing to play it past that.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I dont know if I can recommend them yet, but I picked up Enter the Gungeon, Heavy Rain, Undertale, Doom, and Pillars of Eternity.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Can someone explain videogames sales to me? How can a game be 12$ and 8.99$ the day after?

[-] sushibowl@feddit.nl 5 points 19 hours ago

Can you elaborate where your confusion lies? It's a digital good, there is no marginal cost. So they can pretty much price a game however they want. So pricing is mostly about maximising revenue, i.e. get as many sales as you can at the highest possible price.

A sale is a relatively straightforward strategy where you first sell the game at a high price to all the people who are fine with paying a lot, then you lower the price to sell more copies to the people who weren't willing to pay the higher price. The result is more total profit. There is a time limit too to create a sense of urgency ("I better buy now so I don't miss the opportunity").

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[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 21 points 1 day ago

I added Cyberpunk to the cart. We’ll see if I actually purchase it.

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

I was thinking about this one too. Not sure if I'll buy it, but it's the only one I'm considering at the moment.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Rain World and its DLC Downpour are 50% off (just above 11 bucks)

[-] el_psd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Rain World is very, very niche in its appeal, but it's perhaps the best argument for games as art that I've ever come across. I've never had to rethink what a game even is in order to engage with something before.

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