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Welcome to the Steam Deal Thread V9! I'm your new host, Psydero.
You can find link to past threads at the bottom of this post. Read post #2 of this thread for Steam FAQs and more.

Steam Sales on Steam

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Steam Sales Elsewhere on CAG - Updated 11/2


Indie Bundle Threads - Updated 8/26

Free Stuff - Needs Updating

There are quite a few free and free2play games and mods on steam. You can find a full list here. Note that free games are not permanently attached to your Steam account like actual purchases would be. You'll need to manually download a game again from the website if you uninstall it.

Past Special Sales
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Past CAG Steam Deal Threads

 
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No way, dudes.  There's only one film trilogy.  The one... with The One.

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Lot of Focus Home Interactive stuff getting registry updates.  Maybe a Weekend promo or the new Humble Weekly?  Stuff like Divinity 2, Runaway, and a bunch of crappy arpgs like Silverfall (yeah, it is), Loki, RAW, etc.

 
My goty 2013: Gone Home. Far and away. Nothing will compete with my tears. fuck, my gotd last decade. That game spoke to me on ten different levels. My emotional core was picked up and placed. 

I shed praise for Dear Esther. My mind near exploded when I came in contact with Gone Home. Most beautiful thing I've experienced in say the last 2-3 years, maybe more. Elevated instantly into my top 5-10 pieces of art across the board of all time. Downright moving. Few games [any?] have twisted my guts up and made me cry, similar to the intense feelings of young intense love.

 
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sleeping_lights_on said:
My goty 2013: Gone Home. Far and away. Nothing will compete with my tears. fuck, my gotd last decade. That game spoke to me on ten different levels. My emotional core was picked up and placed.

I shed praise for Dear Esther. My mind near exploded when I came in contact with Gone Home. Most beautiful thing I've experienced in say the last 2-3 years, maybe more. Elevated instantly into my top 5-10 pieces of art across the board of all time. Downright moving. Few games [any?] have twisted my guts up and made me cry, similar to the intense feelings of young intense love.
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Bolded actually makes me much less interested, this amount of adoration can only be met with disappointment. Glad you enjoyed it, though.

To offer another opinion on War in the North, I've only played co-op (switching between characters for various sessions) but I find it perfectly competent and usually enjoyable. Combat can get a little frustrating at times, but the characters are cool and you get to go to Rivendell!

 
sleeping_lights_on said:
My goty 2013: Gone Home. Far and away. Nothing will compete with my tears. fuck, my gotd last decade. That game spoke to me on ten different levels. My emotional core was picked up and placed.

I shed praise for Dear Esther. My mind near exploded when I came in contact with Gone Home. Most beautiful thing I've experienced in say the last 2-3 years, maybe more. Elevated instantly into my top 5-10 pieces of art across the board of all time. Downright moving. Few games [any?] have twisted my guts up and made me cry, similar to the intense feelings of young intense love.
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Sarcasm?

 
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travathian said:
Defense Grid + DLC. Yah me.

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Impressive work.

DG was the end of the tower defense genre for me. I liked it, but my particular set of gaming skills are not suited for such a genre. I couldn't make it past one of the first levels. It was really frustrating and humbling. Realized I had too many other games in my BL to spend time on a game that wasn't playing nice. Though, I was really interested in the AI story.

To chime in on trilogies, the best trilogy is The Godfather.

 
Frithsblessing said:
DG was the end of the tower defense genre for me. I liked it, but my particular set of gaming skills are not suited for such a genre. I couldn't make it past one of the first levels. It was really frustrating and humbling. Realized I had too many other games in my BL to spend time on a game that wasn't playing nice. Though, I was really interested in the AI story.
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Did you try changing the difficulty? Surprisingly there are actually several options, which should have made it playable to most :)

 
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To chime in on trilogies, the best trilogy is The Godfather.[/quote]
The Godfather and Back to the Future for me. I love them equally

About defense grid and almost all TD games: it is better to have few but specialized towers. You (almost) ever know what kind of enemies are coming, so you can choose what kind of towers you need... and instead of buying a lot of them, is better to level up (if possible) the most important ones. Oh, and you always need a "speed-down" tower.
 
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Frithsblessing said:
Impressive work.

DG was the end of the tower defense genre for me. I liked it, but my particular set of gaming skills are not suited for such a genre. I couldn't make it past one of the first levels. It was really frustrating and humbling. Realized I had too many other games in my BL to spend time on a game that wasn't playing nice. Though, I was really interested in the AI story.

To chime in on trilogies, the best trilogy is The Godfather.
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You know, DG is also the end of the genre for me, but for the opposite reason. I have several other TD games, some quite interesting, but none of them has made me nearly as interested as Defense Grid did. I have close to 120 hours on DG, and if I combine the time spent on all my other TD games I won't get close to half of that time, even including Plants vs Zombies, which is a great game. If I take PvZ out of that, then I'd be surprised if the sum is close to 10 hours. And I have several TD games on Steam.

 
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As for trilogies, just so at least one person mentions it: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight.

 
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facls said:
You know, DG is also the end of the genre for me, but for the opposite reason. I have several other TD games, some quite interesting, but none of them has made me nearly as interested as Defense Grid did. I have close to 120 hours on DG, and if I combine the time spent on all my other TD games I won't get close to half of that time, even including Plants vs Zombies, which is a great game. If I take PvZ out of that, then I'd be surprised if the sum is close to 10 hours. And I have several TD games on Steam.
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I have DG tied with Orcs Must Die 1&2. DG holds the crown for traditional TD games, and OMD wins in the FPS TD side. I've either purchased or demo'd most all of them on Steam, and only the first Sanctum is even in the ballpark with these two. Maybe Defender's Quest too, but something about it just annoys me and I can't figure out why.

The funny thing is, I would have 100% DG long ago, but there was a key aspect I never knew about til I posted a complaint on the message boards, and someone responded with "that's already in the game." doh

My suggestion for anyone having difficulty with the early DG levels, is to simply read the long guide posted on Steam, and watch a few of the walkthru videos on Steam. Once you 'grok' the metagame, it is like seeing the Matrix.

 
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MIND LINK said:
This thread is like a pet cemetery sometimes.


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SERIOUSLY, WHERE?
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I think these are the asshole devs who complained and lied about groupees not paying them so I doubt we'll be getting Steam keys.

Edit:

And weekend deals:

TWD - 75% off

DLC 50% off

Focus weekend

Shitty focus pack for $60

Game of thrones for 75% off

Mars War Logs for $10

and other deals.

 
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Hoarder said:
There's been no bundles with Focus games have there? I'm thinking about picking up several since some of the games I don't have got price cuts.
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Blood Bowl (Legendary Edition) and the Sherlock games were on Groupees Bundles. I'm thinking about this this myself, Silverfall, Loki and R.A.W look awful and like bundle material but i'm kind of a sucker for ARPGs.

 
jrodri86 said:
Blood Bowl (Legendary Edition) and the Sherlock games were on Groupees Bundles. I'm thinking about this this myself, Silverfall, Loki and R.A.W look awful and like bundle material but i'm kind of a sucker for ARPGs.
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The only Sherlock game that's published by Focus Home on Steam is Testament, so the only Focus Home game that's been bundled is Blood Bowl, AFAIK.

 
spoderman said:
The only Sherlock game that's published by Focus Home on Steam is Testament, so the only Focus Home game that's been bundled is Blood Bowl, AFAIK.
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Opps my bad :p, still every time is see Focus Interactive i can't help but think this games are gonna end up on a bundle.

 
Poor people buying Metro Last Light for $20!  2000x more than I paid for it! (Best Buy online glitch FTW!)

More on topic, didn't Steam have a Halloween sale last year?

 
At last a Steam sale on TWD: 400 Days. I think I've held out long enough for my TWD fix.

Frithsblessing said:
Impressive work.

DG was the end of the tower defense genre for me. I liked it, but my particular set of gaming skills are not suited for such a genre. I couldn't make it past one of the first levels. It was really frustrating and humbling. Realized I had too many other games in my BL to spend time on a game that wasn't playing nice. Though, I was really interested in the AI story.
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It may just not be your thing, but you ought to consider looking at a video or two of the particular level you're having trouble with. There's likely just a single thing you need to change that will make the difference. Timing, tower placement, and tower choice all matter greatly. Timing being the component that's most often overlooked.

It's such a terrific game and once you understand a few strategies you may end up enjoying the rest of the game.

 
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Why are all the Sherlock Holmes games on sale though and listed under the Focus sale?
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My guess is they have a good relationship with focus home, and focus home doesn't mind promoting their games? That, or it was something they agreed with Steam on. I know for sure most of the Sherlock games aren't published by Focus Home, because when people asked why Testament wasn't included in Groupees, Frogwares responded with "we can't include it because it's published by Focus Home".

 
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Meh, none of these interest me and/or have been cheaper/bundled. I was almost considering Cities XL because I've been wanting a city building game, but then SecurOM had to show it's ugly head :headache:

I want Fez to be Humbled already...

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
I want Fez to be Humbled already...
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When it is, I feel bad for the other developers whose games are in there with it. I foresee several people giving 0% to developers (while failing to notice that it's possible to select things even more specifically in order to just deny money to Fish).

Not a huge margin, in the long run, but still several.

 
spoderman said:
My guess is they have a good relationship with focus home, and focus home doesn't mind promoting their games? That, or it was something they agreed with Steam on. I know for sure most of the Sherlock games aren't published by Focus Home, because when people asked why Testament wasn't included in Groupees, Frogwares responded with "we can't include it because it's published by Focus Home".
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Weird though since Focus lists all the Sherlock games on their own website and at least publishes the retail version of it. I have to think Focus actually has a say in all the Sherlock games, but likely not total control of them on Steam.

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Weird though since Focus lists all the Sherlock games on their own website and at least publishes the retail version of it. I have to think Focus actually has a say in all the Sherlock games, but likely not total control of them on Steam.
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Yeah, it's odd. Focus Home publishes the retail disc versions, but if you look on the Focus Home site, all of the downloadable ones are published by Frogwares. Also note that Testament took a lot longer to get the DRM patched out, due to it being published by Focus Home, while all of the older games had the DRM patched out much faster IIRC. I don't think they're restricted by Focus Home at all for the Steam versions, aside from Testament.

 
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MrNinjaSquirrel said:
Meh, none of these interest me and/or have been cheaper/bundled. I was almost considering Cities XL because I've been wanting a city building game, but then SecurOM had to show it's ugly head :headache:

I want Fez to be Humbled already...
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Cities XL Platinum is the latest version and it doesn't have securom. According to the developer, the previous Cities XL 2011 has securom removed but it is not updated on the steam store page.

 
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