Steam+ Deals Mega Thread (All PC Gaming Deals)

Neuro5i5

Neuro5i5

CAGiversary!
Feedback
151 (100%)
This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 11 Downvote
In case anyone has some free time since you're probably not buying a bunch of games on Steam, I thought I'd plug a game I've been playing a lot recently: Hero Siege . (85% off, $5.99 $0.89) 

It's described as a rogue-like action-adventure, and I'd add twin-stick shooter into that as well, particularly if you play as the godly archer. It's super easy to get into, not complicated to learn, and easy to pick up where you left off without losing all of your progress.

+ arcade-like action

+ upgrade pathways that are easy to understand and have meaningful impact

+ random elements in each level keep things fresh

+ optional pathways (crypts, dungeons, etc)

+ tons of enemy types

+ tons of player types

+ progress open up shortcuts to later levels from the overworld

- no real story, but that's not the point of the game

- it sucks to lose some of your relics if you die.. but hey, rogue-like

I bring this up in case any of you enjoy this type of game and have idled it for cards, leaving it to rot in your library. It's worth giving a shot.

There's a good bit of DLC, which adds player classes, level types, and enemies/loot. None of it is on sale for 85% off, but it's worth picking up if you're enjoying the game. Some achievements require the DLC.

 
Sheesh, I was sure Mad Max would have dipped below $20 this sale.  This 66% shit is annoying.  

I had planned on spending some gabenbux on it too.  

Oh well - I bet it'll hit a sale somewhere before the end of the year.  Like others say, I'm sure very few publishers are willing to discount a game deeply for the length of the entire sale..

 
Last edited by a moderator:
i was hoping gta v would be $29.99 atleast, since i want to use some steam money i have been saving up.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
hal said:
In case anyone has some free time since you're probably not buying a bunch of games on Steam, I thought I'd plug a game I've been playing a lot recently: Hero Siege . (85% off, $5.99 $0.89)

It's described as a rogue-like action-adventure, and I'd add twin-stick shooter into that as well, particularly if you play as the godly archer. It's super easy to get into, not complicated to learn, and easy to pick up where you left off without losing all of your progress.

+ arcade-like action

+ upgrade pathways that are easy to understand and have meaningful impact

+ random elements in each level keep things fresh

+ optional pathways (crypts, dungeons, etc)

+ tons of enemy types

+ tons of player types

+ progress open up shortcuts to later levels from the overworld

- no real story, but that's not the point of the game

- it sucks to lose some of your relics if you die.. but hey, rogue-like

I bring this up in case any of you enjoy this type of game and have idled it for cards, leaving it to rot in your library. It's worth giving a shot.

There's a good bit of DLC, which adds player classes, level types, and enemies/loot. None of it is on sale for 85% off, but it's worth picking up if you're enjoying the game. Some achievements require the DLC.
Click to expand...
you should also give this free to play game a try if u enjoy rogue like action adventure games, it is called "Aberoth" http://store.steampowered.com/app/354200/

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Talos Principle been cheaper before? IsThereAnyDeal is down for me.  Worth the ten spot or should I hover for a fiver?  Hoping GMG will price match... 

 
Over the summer (I think) there was a glitch where Talos Principle from China was cross-region tradeable and really cheap.  I think people were asking two keys for it so how you want to translate that to "cheaper" is up to you.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
So there's no daily sales? Everything I see on sale now will be the same price tomorrow and until the end? Are they going to be adding sales as time goes on? Couple things at prices I would bite but don't want to if chance of more sales.
 
ghost1914 said:
So there's no daily sales? Everything I see on sale now will be the same price tomorrow and until the end? Are they going to be adding sales as time goes on? Couple things at prices I would bite but don't want to if chance of more sales.
Click to expand...
If it's already on sale then it shouldn't be going any cheaper. If it's not on sale at all (ie anything Ubisoft that's not old as dirt) then it may show up fashionably late for a sale price one of the days.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Outside of the "world traveling" some of y'all do, it seems like the sales frenzy is all but dead these days.  GMG seems the last hold out for "better than the rest, but not by much" sort of deals. 

 
I blame the economy on the Steam sale sucking, needs to go back to being shit so we can get super deals =p. 

Anyways, the Balls of Glory DLC for Pinball FX2 is 50% off ($4.99), it was full price during the black friday sale. Sadly I didn't like any of the tables I tried for that one (iirc the Archer one barely has any soundbites and it's way too easy to lose the ball), even though I like the idea of having at least the Archer and Family Guy tables. The rest of the tables are discounted the same as before. 

The Masterplan is already 75% off ($4.99), doesn't look like it was in the previous sale. Seems a really cool idea, so probably going to pick it up and will write a mini-review depending if I get it before the end of the sale.

 
Wow Steam, you call this a sale?

Was out of the PC Gaming community for 6 months until I bought a MSI Gaming Laptop

And I bought $200 worth of Steam Cards. Utter disappointment after reading/catching up what I missed in the last 6 months for no flash sales or community vote sales.

Well, I got to spend the wallet somehow: I did buy some DLC for Payday 2, a $10 upgrade from Dark Souls II to the Scholar of the First Sin, and Quake Live but yeah, not gonna buy Fallout 4 at full price.

 
TheKbob said:
Outside of the "world traveling" some of y'all do, it seems like the sales frenzy is all but dead these days. GMG seems the last hold out for "better than the rest, but not by much" sort of deals.
Click to expand...
Been on a serious decline for years. Hell, even Tony was eventually reduced to recycling shitty Rockstar deals over and over as publishers finally wised up that "We'll make it up in quantity!" wasn't going to work when cutting prices 75-80% four months after release.

That said, I expected that the semi-annual Steam seasonal sales would hold out for longer than this...

 
Last edited by a moderator:
hal said:
In case anyone has some free time since you're probably not buying a bunch of games on Steam, I thought I'd plug a game I've been playing a lot recently: Hero Siege . (85% off, $5.99 $0.89)

It's described as a rogue-like action-adventure, and I'd add twin-stick shooter into that as well, particularly if you play as the godly archer. It's super easy to get into, not complicated to learn, and easy to pick up where you left off without losing all of your progress.

+ arcade-like action

+ upgrade pathways that are easy to understand and have meaningful impact

+ random elements in each level keep things fresh

+ optional pathways (crypts, dungeons, etc)

+ tons of enemy types

+ tons of player types

+ progress open up shortcuts to later levels from the overworld

- no real story, but that's not the point of the game

- it sucks to lose some of your relics if you die.. but hey, rogue-like

I bring this up in case any of you enjoy this type of game and have idled it for cards, leaving it to rot in your library. It's worth giving a shot.

There's a good bit of DLC, which adds player classes, level types, and enemies/loot. None of it is on sale for 85% off, but it's worth picking up if you're enjoying the game. Some achievements require the DLC.
Click to expand...
My recommendation if you like less-actiony roguelikes in recent years has always been Tales of Maj'eyal.

It's more of a traditional "turn-based" tactical rogue-like of old, with modern quality-of-life improvements (like removing the need to ID everything, respec, compare item features etc.) and is simple and approachable enough for a newbie if you want to just hack and slash but yet has a ton of customization and depth if you want to with its huge amount of skill-trees and classes, perfect for people who likes to tinker with builds.

The loot and dungeons are interesting enough (dungeons are randomly generated from their own unique templates) for a few playthroughs with different approaches but the main draw for me is the class/skill system. There's even an "adventurer" class that allows you to pick from all the skill-trees once you're experienced enough with the game to power-game/min-max it just for fun.

Best of all it's free downloaded directly from the dev's website with a donation system if you like supporting them, as opposed to all the recent greedy cash-grabbing free-flashgame-to-paid-on-steam conversions that doesn't offer anything extra (other than DLCs/microtransactions/pay-to-avoid-grind) when you pay for it.

It's complete with source code (lua) too so you can mod it yourself if you don't like anything about the game.

 
Versafied said:
not gonna buy Fallout 4 at full price.
Click to expand...
While I completely understand your initial gripe (I dont like the fact they got rid of the categorical deals like flashes) expecting to have seen this game espc onsale at any discount (even a measly 10%) was a stretch from the get go. Even with the dailies, flashes, comm choice, this game would almost certainly not have been one. Its just over a month old and has been the #1 seller practically the entire time. Even in this sale its still in the top sellers.

I would expect nothing on Fallout 4 in terms of a discount until March-ish at the earliest regardless of the way the Steam sale is composed.

 
Several years ago digital game distribution wasn't as big as it was now.  Steam had to have massive discounts to attract people to their platform.  It also helped cultivate a consumer base for things like TF2 hats and DOTA2 skins.  Other places like Amazon, GG, etc. had to follow up to compete with Steam.  Once Steam had a massive user base they pumped the brakes instead going into overpriced nonsensical shit like Steam boxes, Steam controllers, VR, and other junk.  No competitive Steam sales = no reason for the other outlets to bother pushing aggressive discounts of their own.  Said it a couple of years ago: 66% is the new 75%.

Personally, I'm not interested in too many games that have come out in recent years that aren't seemingly perpetual Early Access titles.  After being disappointed with how Darkest Dungeon turned out I'm not willing to sink more money into them until I see a 'release' version.

Re: Fallout 4, it's a mega hit.  Skyrim is $5 because it's over four years old.  Maybe six months from now you'll see Fallout 4 at $30ish regularly.  That said from what I've seen the game is fairly disappointing with the minecraft shit tacked on for filler content.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Mooby said:
Several years ago digital game distribution wasn't as big as it was now. Steam had to have massive discounts to attract people to their platform. It also helped cultivate a consumer base for things like TF2 hats and DOTA2 skins. Other places like Amazon, GG, etc. had to follow up to compete with Steam. Once Steam had a massive user base they pumped the brakes instead going into overpriced nonsensical shit like Steam boxes, Steam controllers, VR, and other junk. No competitive Steam sales = no reason for the other outlets to bother pushing aggressive discounts of their own. Said it a couple of years ago: 66% is the new 75%.
Click to expand...
A certain distribution site from the land of Starbucks seems content with thriving on their market transaction profits and using those to fund endeavors into hardware, VR, etc. Steam machines haven't made a splash and the controller got a mixed response. If VR is a big dud of empty hype and marketing bullshit, I wonder what Valve does after that.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
^^^^^

WUT WUT?

maxresdefault.jpg


 
So it's 66% off and I know Eww gross icky poo etc etc not 75% off or in a bundle, butt (amirite?)

Castaway Paradise is $5.09

Fun little game if you like Animal Crossing. Developer is constantly doing updates and adding things too. I actually *gasp* played it quite a bit.

3BjD0s4.png


 
I have high hopes for the Rift and plan to fakeybro the fuck out of that.  I tend to only scout out games I really want now... culled the wishlist, hid a bunch of bundle garbage from my game page, and have been less about the +1 these days.  Fallout 4 is pretty good if you're jonesing for more Fallout.  I was and I got it for around $40~$45 range from the *opens trenchcoat of steam keys* "What're ya buyin', strangah?" style websites.  I think it's totally worth it and I like the stupid Minecraft tack on.  

It's not original and you shouldn't buy it on that premise.  It's definitely a let down from the typical leap forward you see in Bethesda games.  That hasn't stopped me from enjoying it, but I can see how it will/does stop others. 

 
inm8num2 said:
A certain distribution site from the land of Starbucks seems content with thriving on their market transaction profits and using those to fund endeavors into hardware, VR, etc. Steam machines haven't made a splash and the controller got a mixed response. If VR is a big dud of empty hype and marketing bullshit, I wonder what Valve does after that.
Click to expand...
maybe they'll go back to things they're good at, like making games

 
According to this, Fallout 4 activated nearly 2.5mil copies on Steam between its Nov 9th launch and December 1st.  By way of comparison, GTA V activated ~3.6mil copies on Steam between April 1st and December 1st (though that also had non-Steam copies available).

Fallout 4 wasn't going to go on sale.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
is gta v at $35.99. the lowest price it has been from steam? i am thinking about fakebroing it, so i can farm some virtual in game cash to buy me a virtual in game yacht. because it cost like 7 million in game cash to buy one.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
TheKbob said:
Fallout 4 is pretty good if you're jonesing for more Fallout. I was and I got it for around $40~$45 range from the *opens trenchcoat of steam keys* "What're ya buyin', strangah?" style websites. I think it's totally worth it and I like the stupid Minecraft tack on.

It's not original and you shouldn't buy it on that premise. It's definitely a let down from the typical leap forward you see in Bethesda games. That hasn't stopped me from enjoying it, but I can see how it will/does stop others.
Click to expand...
Fallout 4 is fun. Do you like exploring radioactive ruins with supermutants and Mr. Handys and Brotherhood of Steel and power armor and ghouls all with a 1950s Cold War retro-future pastiche? Fallout 4 has that. Do you like deep RPGs? Then you're in the wrong place. I don't just mean Fallout 4, I mean that Bethesda sucks at making deep RPGs so stop expecting them. Skyrim's story was boring to the point where I kept forgetting what the plot actually was. Fallout 3's ending was beyond retarded. New Vegas was... outsourced to people who could write.

Bethesda is good at making worlds to poke around in and Fallout 4 delivers. Bethesda sucks at making compelling story-based reasons to poke around in their worlds so stop acting surprised when they fail again.

 
TheKbob said:
Talos Principle been cheaper before? IsThereAnyDeal is down for me. Worth the ten spot or should I hover for a fiver? Hoping GMG will price match...
Click to expand...
I have a 50% off coupon for Talos Principle that I never used since I got it from Nuuvem for cheaper. You can have it if you want, I think it expires at the end of the year and will stack with its current discount.

 
Master Miguel said:
I have a 50% off coupon for Talos Principle that I never used since I got it from Nuuvem for cheaper. You can have it if you want, I think it expires at the end of the year and will stack with its current discount.
Click to expand...
I'd appreciate that. Been looking forward to getting that and Rocket League as my last stack for the year.

 
Master Miguel said:
I have a 50% off coupon for Talos Principle that I never used since I got it from Nuuvem for cheaper. You can have it if you want, I think it expires at the end of the year and will stack with its current discount.
Click to expand...
Huh. Looks like I didn't get that coupon. Anyone else have a spare?

 
inm8num2 said:
A certain distribution site from the land of Starbucks seems content with thriving on their market transaction profits and using those to fund endeavors into hardware, VR, etc. Steam machines haven't made a splash and the controller got a mixed response. If VR is a big dud of empty hype and marketing bullshit, I wonder what Valve does after that.
Click to expand...
I doubt anything practical. They could probably close down Steam and still coast for years on the profit they've made. Of course most of that profit goes to Gabe... who was a billionaire in the first place. It's a problem when you have no real motivation to produce tangible results. Valve is now Gabe's playground where he gets to spend millions on things he thinks the industry needs.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
bread's done
Back
Top