Giveaway Type: Standard giveaway (all entrants will receive a copy of their desired game)

Delivery method: Steam keys

Entry Requirements:

1. Send a PM to another Tildes user with a personal note letting them know what you appreciate about them.

2. Respond to this comment with your choice of game.

Additional Details:

• You can choose to send more than one PM to more than one user (please do, there are SO many people here deserving of appreciation!), but each entrant will only receive one game.

• Please do NOT name the person(s) you appreciated in your post, or post the contents of your appreciation(s) publicly. It’s meant to be a private affirmation!

• Please make your comment genuine. I’m not trying to force anyone to be disingenuous with these appreciations, I’m instead wanting to provide an impetus for others to put their honest feelings about others into words. The last thing I want is for someone to get a hollow appreciation in their inbox just so the person who wrote it can get a free Steam game. This is about finding an excuse to affirm someone, rather than fabricating an affirmation as a means to an end.

• I am NOT eligible as an appreciatee (is that a word?), so you must choose someone else! I’m not doing this to farm compliments, and I’m well aware that people tend to value someone who’s giving out free stuff. :)

• You do NOT need to provide proof to me that you’ve sent your PM(s). This is entirely trust-based, and I trust our userbase here.

I have chosen three games that I very much enjoyed (and which were available at low enough prices that I could buy them in bulk to meet demand). Though inexpensive, these are not chaff or fodder, and I can personally vouch for each as a quality gaming experience in its own right — something I personally stand behind and consider worth playing. Choose the one that sounds most interesting to you!

• Quantum Conundrum

This is a first-person puzzle game from the lead game designer for Portal. The similarities between the two are evident, but I think this game suffered unfairly from being constantly compared to its predecessor, as nearly everywhere you go people critique it for not living up to the (incredibly high) bar set by the first game. I think it’s a perfectly enjoyable game in its own right, and one that I think more people would enjoy if they stopped looking at it for what it’s not and instead celebrate it for what it is.

• A Normal Lost Phone

I strongly recommend against looking up ANY information about the game before you play, even the store page. This is a short narrative adventure about finding a stranger’s phone and going through its contents to find out about its owner. The game is mostly reading with some light puzzles, and it takes less than two hours to get through, but I thought it was a compelling and interesting way of telling a modern story in a modern method.

• Virginia

This is a first-person narrative adventure told entirely without dialogue. The game features a fantastic art-style, cinematic flair (e.g. jump cuts), and a disjointed, surreal storyline. Responses to the game’s plot are very mixed, with many frustrated at the game’s deliberate opaqueness, with others seeing this as one of its biggest strengths. I fall in the latter camp, and found the game genuinely compelling to experience even though I’m far from certain I actually understood what was going on.