Games

Superflight is 59¢, I cannot stop playing this shit

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon
• Sunset Overdrive
• Your Only Move is Hustle
• Death's Door
• Super Woden GP 2

Shadow of the doubt

Return of the obra dinn

Hypnospace outlaw (haven't played yet)

Lucifer among us (criminally short)

Into the breach

Curse of the dead gods

Sea of survivors

God of weapons

Tanuki sunset

En garde

Human fall flat

Later alligator

Dredge

Hades

Party hard 2

Abandon ship

Passpartout

Cloadpunk

Lil gator game

Mosa lina

Not sure how well known it is, but on a friend's recommendation I bought Cassette Beasts. I just got a second hand Steam Deck and it's a fun combination. It's basically a Pokemon-like game, but with its own charm. Instead of pokeballs you record monsters with cassette tapes. It's quite a goofy game and I'm enjoying it so far.

If you do get it for the Steam Deck, you should play it with compatibility mode set to Proton 8, because then it somehow uses 40% less battery or something.

I didn’t get it during the sale, but Cocoon. Such a fun little puzzle game with great art direction. It’s well worth its price tag despite being a fairly short game.

Tunic is on my list and I’ll probably pick it up later this week.

I finally bought horizon zero dawn! I just hope to have some time to play it...

Warhammer 40k: Boltgun

Looking forward to playing it this week

Cloudpunk and a DLC for the crazy good Not for Broadcast game.

Nothing here, but Black Mesa was outstanding. Could not put it down.

Not related, but OP, if you get the chance I recommend at least trying out Project Wingman in VR with joysticks.

Holy shit, was it a transcendent experience.

I beat the campaign with a controller on a monitor my first time around, but on my second playthrough I played it in VR and I found there is nothing like looking for bogeys and tracking them by peeking around your cockpit.

More related to the prompt, but if anyone wants a recommend:

I just beat both Pentiment and Return of the Obra Dinn and both were truly the historical detective / mystery games that I've waited so long for.

Go into both completely blind and report back. I guarantee you, that you will not be disappointed.

I've bought a bunch of Wadjet Eye games; Unavowed, Gemini Rue, Primordia, Strangeland, Shardlight, Technobabylon and The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.

And aside from that, Return of the Obra Dinn.

I've already played Gemini Rue, and I'm finishing Unavowed.

I picked up Forager. It's kind of addictive....

I bought Nuclear Blaze and have been having fun with it.

Cattails. It's like Stardew Valley but with cats. I played the first game on Switch and just picked up the sequel to play on Deck.

I already own the game so this is more of a reccomendation.

Civ6 is only £5 right now and all the dlc only costs £20 in the bundle. It's an easy game to reccomend for anyone who is even a little interested in strategy games.

I bought (the) Gnorp Apologue, really nice idler

Squad is definitely one of them! Also the Battlefield Collection is on 89% sale (only includes the ones since 2011 tho)

Flower

Someone mentioned SpaceBourne 2 in another thread the other day, so I checked the reviews which made it sound like a pretty good game and it was on sale so I bought it.

Mechanically, it's awesome. Polish wise... It needs work. Text-to-speech voice overs (which I hope are placeholders because they are jarring as fuck), kind of a mishmash of aesthetic design that makes me think the assets are merely freebies on the Unreal store, just missing that general pizazz that shows off the quality.

Not that it takes away from the fun, which is the most important part. The best way to even describe the game is "Mount & Blade in space." It combines some of the best aspects of Elite Dangerous, X3/X4, NMS, and Stellaris into its own thing, and it is super cool to play if not look at (though the crazy set piece things in the MQ are super fucking cool; like being eaten by a space kraken and then escaping in a smaller ship while avoiding thousands of little squiddy things, and they're actually there not like some BS particle effect or optical illusion).

I bought the old homeworld games. I remember really enjoying them way back when, and the third game finally comes out in 24 so I thought I'd give them a play through to catch up. Still good.

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya is the only lesser known game. I bought in this sale.

It's a new release so maybe this doesn't count but against the storm is excellent

Cruelty Squad is very often overlooked because of how it looks, but it’s genuinely one of the best indie games I have ever played

Picked up The Ascent and Dead Cells this time around.

I‘m thinking about Aragami 2, but my coop mate and I still have a buncha games to chew through tbh. The first game was a blast.

I got Just Cause 3 and the Quake 2 Remaster.

Heartbound - indie game in constant development

i picked up SPRAWL this sale. really fun retro-style shooter so far, the sense of movement is especially satisfying.

I got This is the Police a while back but finally installed it. Surprisingly engaging given how it forces you to be a corrupt and shitty cop to survive. Feels like copaganda, but thankfully I can separate fiction from reality.

Only buy a couple or so games a year these days, been really enjoying an arena fighting game I came across a little while ago. Only just started putting a few hours into it but always appreciate a game that makes you have to work on skill to progress.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/973230/We_Who_Are_About_To_Die/

Gave this one as a gift - Opus Magnum.

Fun and satisfying production puzzler.

Twilight Town, a cyberpunk boomer shooter about a guy wanting to give a body to his AI gf.

Shadow of Doubt has just recently come under my radar. Its a procedurally generated voxel noir game.

Void Stranger