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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of October 27
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Killer7 is currently 75% off on Steam until 8th November, but with a huge caveat.
Grasshopper Manufacture released an update to the game yesterday to coincide with the sale. This update adds several quality of life improvements, upscaled textures, and upscaled animated cutscenes.
So what's the problem? I hear you ask... The developers lazily ran all the game's textures and animated cutscenes through an AI upscaler and made no effort to clean up any blemishes or inaccuracies. Some of the cutscenes and new textures look downright atrocious and you cannot roll back to a previous version of the game nor toggle between original/upscaled graphics.
There's a high (but not probable) likelihood that NIS America and Grasshopper Manufacture will roll back the update.
A few good deals on Steam right now:
Citizen Sleeper for 8 bucks. Haven't played it but it's been on my wishlist for a while so might as well give it a go.
Dirt Rally 2 for 2 bucks. I've played the first game and enjoyed it, so 2 bucks for some improved graphics seems good if you enjoy racing games.
Lots of Lego games on sale. Plenty of good ones in there. I especially love the LOTR and Hobbit ones, or the Star Wars ones for the nostalgia from playing Lego Star Wars on the wii some many years ago.
Shadow of Mordor + Shadow of War for 7 bucks. Fun games, unique nemesis system, good for some mindless orc-killing.
Fallout sale (ending soon). New Vegas is my favorite game in the series, but I really enjoyed 3 and 4 as well if anyone hasn't played them.
Hogwarts Legacy for 18 bucks. Admittedly I don't know much about this game, but my wife loves it so seems like a good deal for any Harry Potter fans out there.
Citizen Sleeper is the best game I've played in quite a long while, and I highly highly recommend it if you like Time/Resource Management and Interactive Fiction games... Although it's somewhat light on the management aspect, it's not super challenging, and it's mostly an IF game. Similar to Disco Elysium, the writing is absolutely top-notch in it, and it manages to get you to fall in love with the characters in a short amount of time. The only disappointing thing about it is its length. After 16 hours of play I felt pretty much done with it despite not having found absolutely all of the endings yet (only got 22/27 achievements). So I'm really hoping that Citizen Sleeper 2, which is due out in 2025, will be much much longer.
That's some high praise! But totally in line with everything else I've read about that game. Been on my wishlist for a while, and it seems to be going on sale regularly now that the sequel was announced.
The reason I've been putting off playing it is because it feels like the type of game I should really focus on and give my full attention rather than my usual method of playing something while having some show or sports game going on the second screen, then jumping back and forth between those two as well as doing stuff around the house as needed. Lots of pausing and unpausing involved, lol. Probably why I play the same few games over and over: I'm so used to them that I don't really need to think too much about what I'm doing, so I can pick up and play without being bogged down trying to remember what's going on or what I should be doing.
It's not quite as intense or deep as Disco Elysium, so you don't need to totally focus on it like you do DE. But it does still require a decent amount of your attention, and I definitely wouldn't recommend trying to play it in spurts or pausing/unpausing frequently, otherwise you will likely forget what you were doing, and not get as engrossed in the story. But unlike DE, it's not hundreds of hours long though. You can finish it in 6-7 hours if you don't care about finding all the endings. So it doesn't require nearly as much of a commitment as DE, and my complaint about it being too short may actually be a positive for you, in this case. :P
Thanks, it's crazy how much my values/priorities in gaming have changed over the years. As a teen I used to care so much about games being super long and replayable, and would regularly look up reviews to that effect. This was both because I had a lot more free time and not that much money to spend on games. Now with all these big life responsibilities I find myself having the opposite problem: less free time, constant 'interuptions', and enough disposable income to buy whichever games I want (thought I still almost never buy games at full price, too frugal for that). I just want a game to be either pausable (playable in spurts like you said), or brief and good quality. There's a ton of really great games out there that I just know won't jive with this play style, but what does qualify have become some of my favorite genres, namely roguelikes (Balatro, Slay the Spire, Monster Train) and strategy games (EU4, CK3), and then short memorable games (Celeste, Witcher: Thronebreaker, and hopefully Citizen Sleeper) that take me like two or three sessions to finish but are worth their weight in gold.
NP, and heh, I totally understand where you're coming from, intellectually... but I can't actually relate too much, personally. Even though I'm in my 40s I still haven't quite gotten to the grown-up phase of life, and maybe never will since I have no intention of having kids and such. So I still have time for regularly playing hundred+ hour games, and get disappointed when a game I am loving is not long enough. :P
p.s. We have very very similar taste in games. I adore roguelikes, especially deckbuilder ones. And I also have almost 3000 hours played in EU4, and about 800 hours in CK2+CK3. ;)
BTW, if you want another short (~3 hours), memorable game, you should check out GRIS if you haven't already. I don't know if it would even qualify as a "game", since there is almost no challenge to it, and the mechanics are super simple... but my god is it ever engrossing and beautiful! It's one of the very few games to give me full body chills while playing it, and make me cry at the end even though not a single word was said during the entire experience. The only other game I can think of that did the same was Ori and the Blind Forest, but it's a lot more challenging, and a lot longer (~10 hours).
The Night School Complete Bundle is 96% off on Steam.
It comes with:
It’s also a complete-the-set bundle, so if you already own some of the items, you still get the full discount but only pay for the remaining ones.
I played Oxenfree for May’s Backlog Burner and liked it. Also, shameless promotion: we’ll be starting a new Backlog Burner for November in just a few days!
Anyway, Oxenfree is a solid atmospheric narrative game that’s got mild spookiness, good voice acting, and lots of dialogue choices. It took me about five hours to finish.
Steam's week long Halloween sale has started!
Weirdly the Resident Evil games and DLCs aren't on sale, what's up Capcom?
So now I have my eye on Crow Country, which is a Playstation 1 style horror survival game, 20% off
Resident Evil games are on sale now btw
I saw Crow Country a couple weeks ago and I have to say I'm intrigued. Anyone played it yet?
Edit: I caved and picked it up this evening. Played for about 2 hours and it's been fun so far. I think it's pretty fairly priced and I can definitely recommend it if someone connects with a lot of the reviews and the screenshots in the game listing like I did.
EGS Free games of the week
Witch it:
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/witch-it-3624a9
Ghostwire Tokyo (previously given away):
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostwire-tokyo
Little Nightmares and Dark Pictures bundle from Humble:
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/dark-pictures-and-little-nightmares-halloween-horror-collection
If you like story based horror games, I'd recommend this bundle, I really enjoyed all of the games with friends, though I did miss the last one!
Oh hey my friends and I have played some Dark Pictures games together too! It's good fun, not sure how well it translates to a solo experience, but I also only watch horror movies with them too. Having them on PC will surely be an upgrade over the PS4 copies, it would lag through QTE prompts, causing us to fail without a chance to press the button (which I suppose is also a warning for players on lower spec systems).
I wish they still had friend passes for the later games. :( needing both people to own the game makes it harder to convince people to play
Yeah that is a bit bogus. There is the Remote Play Together that should work for local multiplayer like those though! I've done it with Overcooked on a fiber connection and it worked well, though a QTE game would probably push the limit on latency.
Who's Lila is on sale right now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697700/Whos_Lila/
for 6$, it looks like such an interesting mechanic, might try it out.