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Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 6 months ago by simple@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world

What're you buying?

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[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 57 points 6 months ago

The GOG summer sale is ongoing as well

https://www.gog.com/promo/2025_summer_sale

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 34 points 6 months ago

Still unemployed so I'm not even looking. If capital doesn't want to hire me, they can't have any more of my money.

[-] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Looking at how few places are hiring now compared to 2 years ago is honestly terrifying.

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[-] Aliktren@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago
[-] mohab@piefed.social 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Been mid for a few years now, in my experience. Most of the games I bought over the past two years I did outside of the Summer sale because most discounts are all the same anyway.

I've been eyeing Okami and it was 50% last week and it's 50% again now.

I pulled the trigger on The Wonderful 101 in March at 55% and I was worried I'll regret it in the Summer sale… it's 55% again.

Been also eyeing Lost Judgment… 70% in March and 70% again now.

[-] caut_R@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I shouldn‘t buy anything, cause God knows I have enough, but I‘ll probably get a couple DLCs (for Risk of Rain 2) and hopefully that‘s it (Narrator: „It wasn‘t“)

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[-] mrmule@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All these have been on my wishlist for ever. Finally made the purchases today.

  • Stardew Valley
  • Disco Elysium
  • Kerbal Space Program

Edit to add Disco Elysium has been refunded. Thanks everyone for the advice.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 19 points 6 months ago

Disco isnso good. But even the devs said they would rather have it that people pirate the game bacause they got fucked over and don't make money of the game anymore.

[-] BlackAura@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I actually looked up the source for this and couldn't find it.

That being said I agree with the sentiment.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Summer Stale.

I miss the old sales, when games had deep discounts and the deals cycled like every 2/4/6/8 hours.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

consumerism is a disease. i can't believe I'm still seeing people asking for gamified fomo bullshit.

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[-] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

yup, but in exchange would you give up the refund process that we now have?

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[-] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah idk if its nostalgia or wut.

In my head, the sales were much deeper like you say, but I could be wrong.

I also miss when the sale would start and there'd be a minigame or some type of event. They've really been streamlining a lot of stuff though I think to reduce network traffic maybe, or maybe they haven't had the time for events when they are redesigning their whole client and steamos and stuff.

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[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

One of my favorite games of all time, The Talos Principle, is on sale for $5. There's a remastered version but honestly the original holds up really well. It's a first person puzzle platformer game similar to Portal but the main point is the story, which is a really thought provoking philosophical exploration of humanity, machine consciousness, and self determination. It is legitimately the most interesting game I've played in the past 5 years and it has really caused me to think about these topics in ways I hadn't before.

Myself I am buying Persona 5, Pizza tower, and the Phoenix Wright trilogy. I have been wanting to play Persona 5 basically since it came out, and I got to try Pizza Tower a few weeks ago at a friend's house and really loved it as a fan of the Wario Land games. Phoenix Wright is just nostalgic for me and there really aren't similar games out there.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

WARNING : Playing excellent, well told, thought provoking puzzle games about AI will make you so much madder about the silly folk that say "I turned AI sentient" folk. 🙄

Great game, solid sequel too.

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[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago

Elden ring only 40% off? I feel betrayed

[-] caseofthematts@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Since Elden Rings success, fromsoft games don't get deep discounts, really. They raised prices for the Dark Souls games, as well.

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[-] MisshapenDeviate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

And no discount for the DLC or complete edition

[-] enshu@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I bought

  • Nine Sols
  • Gris
  • Celeste
  • Outer Wilds
  • Unravel Two
[-] Habitforming@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Gris is a fun afternoon jaunt. I just picked up Outer Wilds finally, too. Looking forward to it quite a bit after reading a lot of reviews.

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[-] bamboo 9 points 6 months ago

Seems like the store is down or not loading, at least for me. My bank account is happy at least.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

The opening is always a bit naturally DDOS'd. It'll smooth out.

[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Was hoping for a discount on Spilt Fiction. Nothing so far.

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Split Fiction is worth the MSRP. Ideally it’s great if you can get it on a discount, but this is one of the few games I’d pay full price for. My spouse and I loved it.

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[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 8 points 6 months ago

I wish Expedition 33 was more than 10% off. I get why, but still.

My wishlist has some sub $5USD games so I'll probably drop 20 or so. I really don't need the extras though. According to SteamDB, I've only played about 41% of my 714 games - and that doesn't include all the GOG and free Epic/Amazon games I've snagged over the years.

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[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

~~Bah. Bought Animal Well for $18 last night, but just saw now it was included in a bundle for $7.~~

Edit: praise steams refund policy

Edit2: Jesus christ I'm an idiot

[-] Asetru@feddit.org 11 points 6 months ago

7 bucks? Saw that and immediately opened steam.

Am I missing something? That's the only bundle I found for animal well...

[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm sorry:(( I'm dumb.

I have Dredge already, and I had bought Animal Well for $18 last night. That left Inscryption as the final game in the bundle. Steam dynamically prices games in the bundle and since I already had two games, I saw the bundle as $7 and got confused.

I literally just refunded animal well, waited for the refund confirmation, went to rebuy animal well in the bundle, and saw the bundle was now priced at $24 (because I still already have Dredge).

Sorry I got your hopes up :(

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[-] piyuv@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I haven’t played a single game I bought from last summer sale ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I think I'm going to get the Dead Space remake (90% off currently), Granny: Escape Together (I like horror), and Escape the Mad Empire to start.

Might pick up more later in the sale, but this will keep me busy.

Remember you can get things refunded if you don't end up liking a game.

[-] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

uh, I was just about to buy the dead space based on your message here but then I saw it has denuvo, so no buy :(

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[-] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I bought: Drova - Forsaken Kin, Kamiko, Spiritfarer, & Beseige

[-] gilindoeslemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Animal Well for me and teardown for my kids. So far…

[-] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 6 months ago

Why is Persona 3 Portable more expensive than Persona 4 Golden? Why is SEGA being so stingy with only a 20% discount. Another 5% (on the SALE price) if we use the Persona bundle. Why SEGA...? It's the oldest and ugliest one. Why...

[-] a_jackal@pawb.social 4 points 6 months ago

I got gnome jigsaw puzzles and the frog DLC for against the storm

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