Hades is a steal at 5$, if you're into more casual gameplay vampire survivors is also a steal at 3.50 (includes all the dlc), if you want something in between brotato has been a wonderful purchase for me. If you want more of the frantic play style, but shorter sessions and less RPG decision making elements, 1 finger death punch is only a buck.

All of the source games are on sale, I recommend portal> portal 2 /half life 2 > left 4 dead 1&2

Slay the spire for < 2$ is an absolute steal, if you think you might like deck builders that's one of the o.g's. another most excellent deck builder, monster train, is also less than 2$, I cannot recommend them both highly enough.

The room is an excellent puzzle game, especially for 75 cents, not personally sure about it's sequels but I've heard they're equally good.

Don't starve for 2.50 is amazing, but if you're at all multiplayer inclined, get 'don't starve together' (I believe it comes with a second copy you can give to anyone)

Hexcells, hexcells 2, and lyne are great if you like puzzle games (everyday genius square logic is also great, but not on sale and no longer supported by devs) delete is also good, and on sale, but it's much more once over it's done game (like the room)

Doom (2016?) Is a great first person shooter at 4$, and fallout new Vegas is a great first person RPG at the same price.

FtL at 2.50 is amazing, and after you've sunk a hundred hours into it, download the 'across the multiverse' fan made expansion, and sink another thousand hours into the game.

And if you're considering Diablo 4, I plead with you to give path of exile a fair shake first, it's free to play, only cosmetic micro transactions, and so much more fleshed out of experience.

I stand by each of the above games, if you give any of them a fair shot and walk away considering it an actual bad game, hit me up, let me know what made it bad, and I'll toss you a game key (of my choosing) of equal or greater value (than the sale price of the game you thought was bad)

Edit, not sure where the hell I got those prices from, I think it may have been showing me "complete the bundle"prices on games I already owned that had bundles with everything else I also owned? I'll go through and change my reviews based on the prices I find, it'll definitely change a couple of my "absolutely must have at this price"

Dishonered - $2.49

Dishonered 2 - $2.99

Really good atmospheric action assassin games.

My personal highlight in addition to the great games listed below is Divinity Original Sin 2. Such a great game, and super cheap ($13.50 for the base game).

Divinity Original Sin 2

I'll throw in a recommendation for Sanctum 2. It drops to $2.99 every sale and has been hundreds of hours of fun.

I am once again here to recommend Prey 2017.
$2.99 USD for a banger triple A Immersive Sim, it's so cheap it's like you're mugging Todd Howard

Everyone loves Baldur's gate3 and with good reason. But if you want a different love letter to the originals, I highly recommend pillars of eternity: https://store.steampowered.com/app/560130/Pillars_of_Eternity_II_Deadfire/

It's a big party based RPG with an original setting and system. Good story. Great characters. Many interesting classes. Sheds a lot of dnd-isms, but you can still see the heritage.

I like the second more than the first, but they're both good. The second switched to per-encounter powers instead of per-rest, so you don't need to camp or hit the inn nearly so often.

Also I really want them to make a third game. Maybe if more people buy it they will!

The Riftbreaker love this game

Superflight has been my favorite game to unwind and listen to music too for years, and now its less than a dollar, total steal

Picked up Terra Nil and I’m really enjoying it. One of those games you can play to relax and calm down after a long day.

I noticed control and death stranding are cheaper on fanatical in case anyone was after them. I'm disappointed in this sale to be honest. I only picked up gta4 this time round. I had it before on the ps3 and even now its not at the lowest it ever was.

Lumines Remastered, really fun tetris-like with trippy music and visuals. The guy who made it would later go on to make Tetris Effect.

Warhammer 40k : Boltgun is an absolute blast if you like your doom-esq shooters. Showing as 80% off, but I don't know how that's going to show in other regions

A Short Hike

A Short Hike is an excellent and short game. Super fun, very chill, great music, the whole package.

How does the DRM free situation work on steam exactly? For those of with steam decks, how does that work? Games can still be taken down.

Hellblade is like 5 bucks. Get.it.now.

STAR WARS: Squadrons I'd on sale for £1.75, definitely worth picking up at this price

Interesting recommendations

Roadwarden, think it's 40% off at the moment, an extremely well written text based rpg (with pictures), it's more than a visual novel but less than a typical RPG.

Highly recommend trying it

SUPERHOT is £5.39 (70% off). Time freeze shooter.