Steam Deals & Sales

[Dasquian Belargic]

It's (almost) a new year, so here's a new Steam deals thread! The holiday sale is on at the moment, so there's no better time to splurge your $$$ on games.

66% off Sonic Generations today. Worth it for anyone who looks back fondly on playing Sonic 1 & 2 in their younger days :)

Bastion is also 66% and a great game so go buy it.

[Peter McCoy]

I got both of them. Had my eye on Bastion for a while now, and I just love Sonic! I just bought my fiancée a Nintendo DS Sonic mega collection thingy with 1, 2, 3 and S&K on it.

New deals are up, the Gothic pack is pretty sweet! Cities In Motion also has me tempted.

Terraria is once again on offer. Seriously, I cannot recommend that game highly enough. I only bought it because it was on offer at the time but I'm so glad that I did. For people who enjoyed Minecraft but were frustrated by a lack of palpable progression or challenge, this game has both. A very large number of enemies and plenty of lootable and craftable weapons, armour and tools, plus it supports multiplayer with (at least) 8 players but I think the max is somthing crazy like 256 players.

It has boss fights, different biomes to explore, and in the recent content update it now allows you to kinda enchant your equipment for a fee to make weapons hit faster or do more damage etc.

Buy it! Only £1.49 or a 4-pack is £4.49!

[Peter McCoy]

L.A. Noire Complete Edition now 75% off!

[Dasquian Belargic]

L.A. Noire Complete Edition now 75% off!

Just grabbed that myself.

[Dasquian Belargic]

This weekends deal is Age of Empires III complete edition at half price: http://store.steampowered.com/app/105450/?snr=1_4_4__40

If you're so inclined, you could also pick up Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West at a 50% reduction too: http://store.steampowered.com/app/42120/?snr=1_4_4__106

[Agent Procyon]

I keep forgetting to check the Steam deals. >_<

If Skyrim winds up on offer at any point, could someone let me know? I want to jump on the Dovakin bandwagon, but I can't really justify the £35 pricetag at the moment. :\

Edit:

Today seems to be Sonic Weekend! http://store.steampowered.com/sale/Sonic_Weekend (http://store.steampowered.com/search/?specials=1)

50% - 75% off on a bunch of Sonic titles. Games that even I've played, and I'm one of the least gamer people on the planet.

[Peter McCoy]

Space Pirates And Zombies (http://store.steampowered.com/app/107200/) is the Weekend Deal!

66% off, making it £2.79 at the moment. A fantastic bargain for a fantastic game.

[Dasquian Belargic]

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/skyrim_midweek

Skyrim midweek madness :o

Good time to pick up Oblivion or Skyrim at a discount

[Dasquian Belargic]

Jedi Knight collection on sale: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2103/?snr=1_4_4__43

[Dasquian Belargic]

Wolfenstein has 75% off right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/10170/

Alan Wake is now available on Steam, at a 15% discount: http://store.steampowered.com/app/108710/

[Dasquian Belargic]

50% off Saints Row The Third until 10am PST on Monday https://store.steampowered.com/sale/saintsrowweekenddeal?snr=1_4_4__40

[Park Kraken]

Shogun 2 Total War is marked at 75% off (down to 7.50$ USN from 29.99$ USN) as a promotion for the upcoming expansion. Offer ends March 22nd.

EDIT: Portal 2 is also marked down by 50% (from 20$ down to 10$), that offer ending also on March 22nd.

[Tear]

Shogun 2 Total War is marked at 75% off (down to 7.50$ USN from 29.99$ USN) as a promotion for the upcoming expansion. Offer ends March 22nd.

EDIT: Portal 2 is also marked down by 50% (from 20$ down to 10$), that offer ending also on March 22nd.

Thanks Kraken! Good find. I was JUST about to buy it last weekend at 29.99$ good thing I held off. Yoink!

[Alexia Sturkov]

Morrorwind and Oblivion are on sale, along with Bastion and Deathspank.

[Dasquian Belargic]

There's an 'Arkham Bundle' available on sale right now for anyone who doesn't have Arkham City yet: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/14530/?snr=1_4_4__112

[Peter McCoy]

Check out Orion: Dino Beatdown on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/104900/

It's an open-world co-op survival class-based FPS with dinosaurs!

[Droo]

66% off Portal 2: http://store.steampowered.com/app/620/

[Dasquian Belargic]

50% off Rayman Origins (which is excellent), From Dust and Shoot Many Robots this weekend!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Pre-order Hitman Absolution at 10% discount: http://store.steampowered.com/app/203140/

[Dasquian Belargic]

Cities XL 2012 at 75% discount this weekend: http://store.steampowered.com/app/201760/

[Peter McCoy]

Very good game if you like city building. While the game has depth and complexity, its quite easy to play, just be sure to do the tutorials and after that the maps are really nice to look at. You basically get a planet with loads of city sites to build on. Each map has its own natural resources such as arable land, oil and ground water. And though separate cities, they are all linked via trade. So if you have a city with plenty of farms you can export that excess food to another of your cities needing it. This could be for cash or another resource in demand - all those farms may not have left room for heavy industry so if you dont have a coty with that commodity in excess, start a new. Ity amd rhrow down those heavy industrial zones.

The freedom of zone placement and road direction/shape allows for sone really nice urban planning. I like having long curved roads round a lake for my elite citizens, with plenty of trees.

[Dasquian Belargic]

75% off Deus Ex Human Revolution: http://store.steampowered.com/app/28050/

[Dasquian Belargic]

The Steam Summer Sale is coming... http://www.computerandvideogames.com/357102/valves-steam-summer-sales-plan-leaks-out/

[Halajiin Rabeak]

I snagged the Bethesda package. Looking forward to another jaunt around New Vegas, and another absolute murder-spree in Skyrim. =)

[Park Kraken]

Bethesda and Strategy First Packages for me. This'll satisfy my cravings for the next few years (although I will be picking up C&C Generals 2 and the SCII Expansions when they come out).

[Peter McCoy]

Nothing for me thus far. Gonna really wait and save money unil something impossible to pass up comes by. I was tempted to gorge on all the Magicka DLC but having not played it in so long I thought it a waste of money. I'll wait for my wishlist items to go on a daily offer below their current sale price: Arkham City and Assassins Creed Revelations

[Peter McCoy]

My waiting just payed off - Assassins Creed Revelations is now 66% off! CLICK!

[Kyran O'Hurn]

I think I saw Arkham City on sale the other day. Might be mistaken though.

[Peter McCoy]

Its got 33% off at the moment but I'm waiting to see if it goes any cheaper. Also Two Worlds 2 is down 75% from £19.99 to just £4.99 - once again my waiting has paid off! :-)

[Yog]

Alan Wake for 75% off was a good deal earlier today :)

[General Dan]

I pulled the trigger on Frozen Synapse. Just gotta find a not-slammed time for the servers to be running so I can play against somebody. This game is...complicated.

[Halajiin Rabeak]

Just snagged the Saints Row III Franchise Collection on its special price today of $25. I was going to get it for my PS3, but this is a WAY better deal!

Also, I've had all kinds of fun modding the heck out of Skyrim. Macho Man Randy Savage dragons and My Little Pony horses? Yes, yes indeed. =)

[Yog]

Fallout: New Vegas for 4,99€ and 75% off on all the DLC is a great deal. :thumbup

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Feeling spendy still from this weekend so I just scooped up the entire Assassin's Creed franchise for about $35 since I have only been borrowing copies from my roommate and haven't really finished any of them :ohno

Of course...I also picked up KOTOR for about $2 and Amnesia for $5 for shits and giggles. Whoo...

[Dasquian Belargic]

You need to get more coop stuff! Like L4D :D

[Selinica Miriya]

Took advantage of summer sale. :eee:dance

Nabbed Myst and Riven (Can't help myself - fond memories of this stuff)... as well as Fallout: New Vegas and Mass Effect 1 & 2. I haven't really played computer games since I was about 12 years old (i.e. Quake. Yes, the first one). So, yeah. The last three are utterly new to me. There's so many more games I want, but I'm trying to be reasonable right now. :shakefist

I need to make a list to rival my boardgame wantlist! :o

[Dasquian Belargic]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Steam :D

[Halajiin Rabeak]

Snagged Bastion, Just Cause 2 and the Batman franchise pack, as well, when they'd gone on sale. I'm good and set for games for a very, very long time, now!

[Dasquian the Elf]

^ Good choices! Those are all a lot of fun. Plus plenty of replay value.

[Droo]

50% off Skyrim today!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Dawnguard (the new Skyrim DLC pack) is supposed to be out on Steam right now, though I can't see it yet.

[Park Kraken]

This should be the link to Dawnguard;

http://store.steampowered.com/app/211720/

[Dasquian Belargic]

Cheers, I see it there now :) I guess the Steam store just hadn't updated yesterday.

[Dasquian Belargic]

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/quakecon2012

66% off the New Vegas Ultimate Edition today, thanks to Quakecon

[Dasquian Belargic]

I've got a 75% off Portal 2 voucher thing in my Steam inventory if anyone hasn't got the game yet

[Crusader]

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/battlefield-3/1226151p1.html

Today is the 10th anniversary of Battlefield so Battlefield 3 only costs $10 on Origin!!! Buy it! It's awesome!

[Park Kraken]

All of the Total War games are on sale, including a package deal of the bunch, which oddly despite its proclamation doesn't include the original Shogun or Medieval Total War titles.

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/TotalWarWeekend/?snr=1_4_4__118

[Droo]

Left 4 Dead 2 is free to play this weekend on Steam. You can preload the game now.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Sounds like we may need some weekend zombie slaughter..

[Dasquian Belargic]

There's a Halloween sale on until the end of today, including most 'scary' games. 75% off a bunch of stuff. http://store.steampowered.com/sale/halloweensale_2012

[Ilias Nytrau]

There's at least five games on my wishlist I could get for like... ~$30 altogether. Even better if I'm allowed to finally get ME3 along with that (although not on Steam, of course...).

I hope I can get away with it. :dance

[Dasquian Belargic]

33% off Dark Souls - http://store.steampowered.com/app/211420/?snr=1_4_4__106

75% off Nuclear Dawn - http://store.steampowered.com/app/17710/?snr=1_4_4__43

Also free to play this weekend is Death Rally, which you can buy at 50% discount - http://store.steampowered.com/app/108700/?snr=1_4_4__40

[Peter McCoy]

Get Dark Souls! If you dare!

[Dasquian Belargic]

If heard it's rock solid to beat...

but I'm holding out for the Christmas sales.

[Peter McCoy]

You just have to be more methodical and patient with enemies - even the seemingly puny ones you initially encounter. But its got a solid fighting system with combat mechanics that are very responsive and visceral.

For instance you can to a reposte if you time it perfectly - deflecting a blow with your shield rather than just blocking it, opening the enemy up for a massive counter-attack. But miss the timing and you're wide open yourself. I'm always too much of a shithouse to try it and just keep my guard up until there's an opportunity to lay in a few sneaky blows (which there usually is since I favour the uchigatana which is a very fast-swinging samurai sword with very good reach).

[Dasquian Belargic]

75% off Max Payne 3
33% off XCOM
50% off Sleeping Dogs

get some games

[Captain Untouchable]

But miss the timing and you're wide open yourself. I'm always too much of a shithouse to try it and just keep my guard up until there's an opportunity to lay in a few sneaky blows (which there usually is since I favour the uchigatana which is a very fast-swinging samurai sword with very good reach).

I prefer a sansetsukon - it's a slow-swinging weapon with very good flexibility. We should spar some time, Peter.

(I know, I know. I'll pay the damned pun jar. :rolleyes)

[Yog]

Europeans, get Skyrim for £7.99 (http://www.gamefly.co.uk/Download-The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim/5002231), using the discount code NOV20OFFUK

You will then get email with a code which can be used to activate game on Steam.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Just grabbed the complete Saints Row the Third collection at 75% discount.. just £7.50!

[Yog]

I bought Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition for 10 euros :dance

http://store.steampowered.com/app/200260

[Dasquian Belargic]

75% off Deus Ex: Human Revolution right now - fun game!

[Peter McCoy]

Civ 5 and DLC's all 75% off! Epic game!

[Dasquian Belargic]

75% off Sonic Generations http://store.steampowered.com/app/71340/?snr=1_4_4__sdd

Also Arkham City if you somehow don't own it already http://store.steampowered.com/app/200260/?snr=1_4_4__sdd

50% off Borderlands 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/?snr=1_4_4__syd

[Yog]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Batman Arkham City GOTY and Civilization V with expansion pack + DLC are all incredible deals for the moment, with 75% discounts.

[Crusader]

Today Castle Crashers is on Sale for 3,99€ or 11,99€ if you are buying it as a 4 player pack!

[Dasquian Belargic]

The good thing about this sale is, even if you missed out on something, you know the Christmas sale is just around the corner

[Dasquian Belargic]

Steam Holiday Sale is on right now :ohno

[Captain Untouchable]

There's a game in the Steam sale called "Carrier Command: Gaea Mission".

I have never heard of this game before, but it seems to be some sort of combo of first person shooter, tanks, fighters, and some kind of "upgrade your ship" type dealio. Anyone know anything about it?

[Peter McCoy]

Its awful.

EDIT: Thats unfair for me to say. Rather, the reviews say its awful.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I've barely gotten anything at all from this years holiday sale.

Are the deals not as fantastic as normal, or do I just own everything already? :ohno

[Peter McCoy]

Mine is a combination of having most of what I'd want, and the rest not having quite enough of a discount.

[Korax]

Here's a discount. 75% off Max Payne 3 right now.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/204100/

that's a pretty righteous deal IMO if you don't have it yet

[Zereth Lancer]

Mine is a combination of having most of what I'd want, and the rest not having quite enough of a discount.

This is where I'm at also. I've mostly just picked up little things like Indie games and the Borderlands 2 Season Pass when it went on sale briefly. A lot of games tempt me but I know I'd either play them or only play them a little and move on to something else. So for now just buying the games I know I'd actually play.

[Dasquian Belargic]

66% off Max Payne 3 right now on Steam

[Peter McCoy]

For those who don't use GOG.com, System Shock 2 is now available on Steam and a currently reduced price of £4.89 - 30% off. That makes it slightly cheaper than on GOG.com ($9.99 or £6.50), but the normal price of £6.99 will be 50p more. Not much difference really but still, SS2 FTW!!!!!

And by the way, if you haven't already then please check out my youtube channel at youtube.com/superego13itch where you can watch as I fearfully explore the Von Braun myself and shriek like a pansy at the sight of chimpanzees.

/shameless plug

[Peter McCoy]

Baldur's gate: Enhanced Edition is 75% off for the Midweek Madness but I'd advise against getting it. It's supposedly not a very good update and I've read that the definitive way is to play the GOG.com vanilla versions with a mod that lets you play all four titles (both games and their expansions) in order in a seamless playthrough.

[Satkia Beltrak]

I'm trying to ignore the sales this year, due to money being tight. So I'm kinda hoping I don't drool too much over some items... A girl can hope. *lol*

[Park Kraken]

2K Games Weekend Sale is going on right now on Steam. Picked up the Civ 5 Expansions Brave New World and Gods and Kings for 33% and 50% off respectively. XCOM Enemy Unknown is the main deal for today's sale with it being 75% off. Scrolling down the list, I also saw where Borderlands II is 50% off and Bioshock: Infinite is 33% off.

[Dasquian Belargic]

BioShock Infinite is 66% off right now - buy eet

[Droo]

75% off Bioshock Infinite and Dishonored!

[Morgan Evanar]

I got Dishonored at a discount a while ago, but Bioshock for $10? Hahhahahahaha yes.

Also SR4 for $20

[Peter McCoy]

Steam Christmas Sale

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 1, December 19th

Daily Deals

Dishonoured -75% | £3.74/$7.49
Dead Island -75% | £4.99/$4.99
Assetto Corsa -25% | £22.49/$29.99
The Stanley Parable -40% | £5.99/$8.99
Monaco -80% | £2.39/$2.99
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Pre-Order) -33% | £13.39/$19.99
Batman: Arkham Origins -50% | £19.99/$24.99
Space Hulk -66% | £7.81/$10.19
Bioshock Infinite -75% | £6.24/$9.99 ALSO Bioshock Triple Pack -81% £9.31/$14.99

Recommended Buy's: Bioshock Infinite (or the Triple Pack if you're mad enough to not have any of them!), Dishonoured (the DLC for this game is also on offer for -50% or get the Game of the Year Edition for -66% with all DLC included),The Stanley Parable (a charming indie title expanded from a Half-Life 2 mod which focuses on how games tell stories with one of the best gaming narrators ever!)

Flash Sale 1

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive -75% | £2.99/$3.74
Dive-Kick -75% | £1.74/$2.49
Typing of the Dead -50% | £7.49/$9.99
Guns of icarus Online -75% | £2.49/$3.74

Flash Sale 2

Mirror's Edge -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Electronic Super Joy -90% | £0.54/$0.79
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale -75% | £3.24/$4.99
Toki Tori 2+ -85% | £2.24/$2.24

Flash Sale 3

Spore -75% | £7.49/$4.99
Speed Runners -66% | £2.37/$3.39
Torchlight 2 -75% | £3.74/$4.99
P-51D Mustang -66% | £10.19/$13.59

Community Choice 1: FTL: Faster Than Light -66% | £2.37/$3.39

Community Choice 2: Alice: Madness Returns -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Community Choice 3: Hard Reset -75% | £2.49/$3.74

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 2, December 20th

All deals have apparently been altered since going live earlier this evening. The current Daily Deals are all now much better value!

Daily Deals

Total War: Shogun 2 Was -50% | Now -75% | £6.24/$7.49
Crysis 2: Maximum Edition Was -50% | Now -75% | £6.24/$7.49
Final Fantasy VII Was -33% | Now -66% | £3.39/$4.03
Farcry 3 Was -50% Now -75% | £4.99/$7.49
Fex Was -50% | Now -75% | £1.74/$2.49
Omerta: City of Gangsters Was -66% | Now -75% | £7.49/$9.99
Nether Was -20% | Now -40% | £8.99/$11.99
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Was -66% | Now -75% | £4.74/$6.24
Train Simulator 2014 Was -40% | Now -82% | £6.29/$9.89

Recommended Buy's: Farcry 3 (a solid open-world FPS with RPG elements), Fez (a charming 2D/3D indie puzzle-platformer), Total War: Shogun 2 (not personally a fan of the Total War games but there's no denying the awesomely epic scope of this series - historical RTS fans will no doubt enjoy!), Final Fantasy VII (some people love it, some people hate it. Personally I love it. If you've never played it, you should! I recommend Googling a way to get the original CD-quality audio to replace the inferior midi-quality PC soundtrack)

Flash Sale 4

Music Creator 6 - Touch Was -50% | Now -66% | £13.59/$16.99
Divinity: Dragon Commander Was -33% | Now -50% | £14.99/$19.99
Project Zomboid Was -10% | Now -25% | £7.49/$11.24
Eve Online Was -75% | Now -90% | £1.29/$1.99

Flash Sale 5

Blade Symphony -80% | £2.39/$2.99
Verdun -75% | £3.24/$4.24
Payday 2 -55% | £11.24/$13.49
The Secret World -67% | £8.32/$9.99

Flash Sale 6

Universe Sandbox -80% | £1.39/$1.99
Memoria -50% | £8.49/$9.99
Papers, Please -50% | £3.49/$4.99
Eador: Masters of the Broken World -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Community Choice 4: Risk of Rain -33% | £4.68/$6.69

Community Choice 5: Bulletstorm -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Community Choice 6: Sword of the Stars: The Pit -80% | £0.99/$1.39

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 3, December 21st (Late due to damn crap work shift!)

Daily Deals

Forced -50% | £5.99/$7.49
Age of Empires 2: HD Edition -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Starforge -50% | £7.49/$9.99
The Wolf Among Us -33% | £12.72/$16.74
Ace of Spades: Battle Builder -75% | £2.49/$3.74
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive -75% | £2.99/$3.74
Darksiders 2 -80% | £6.99/$9.99
Sleeping Dogs -80% | £3.99/$4.99
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 -50% | £3.49/$4.99

Recommended Buy's: The only two that really stand out for me as must-have games are Sleeping Dogs and Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic 2. Sleeping Dogs is a great open-world action game set in Hong Kong which just oozes John Woo's cinematic style, and KOTOR 2 is one of the best Star Wars videogames out there along with the first game with a fantastic story and some great writing courtesy of Obsidian Entertainment (Chris Avellone).

Flash Sale 7

The Binding of Isaac -75% | £0.99/$1.24
XCOM: Enemy Unknown -75% | £7.49/$9.99 (surprised this isn't cheaper already.)
Craft the World -33% | £8.03/$10.04
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut -75% | £3.24/$4.99 - awesome game, great price!

Flash Sale 8

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit -50% | £9.99/$9.99
3DMark -50% | £9.49/$12.49 (graphical performance benchmarking program)
Sid Meier's Civilization V -50% | £9.99/$14.99 (I'd be surprised if this doesn't get a better deal before Christmas and New Year are over!)
Angry Game Nerd Adventures -55% | £5.39/$6.74

Flash Sale 9

Kerbal Space Program -40% | £11.99/$16.19
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot -50% | £7.49/$9.99
Deponia -90% | £1.59/$1.99
Sir, You Are Being Hunted -40% | £8.99/$11.99 - A brilliant indie survivor game with elements of exploration and horror as you traverse a bleak landscape of spooky countryside, tundra, hills and villages while avoiding death at the hands of the top-hat-wearing, bemonacled robots patrolling the country lanes. It oozes Britishness and is rather tense!

Community Choice 7: Red Faction: Guerilla -80% | £2.99/$3.99 - Great open-world game set on Mars with unique physics/stress-based destruction system allowing you to take down entire buildings that consist of traversible floors and enterable rooms filled with equipment by blowing up structural supports and walls. Need a shortcut to get away from the bad guys? Easy, blow out the wall or floor.

Community Choice 8: Legend of Dungeon -85% | £1.04/$1.49

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 4, December 22nd

Daily Deals

Rogue Legacy -67% | £3.95/$4.94
Tomb Raider -80% | £5.99/$9.99
Antichamber -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Crusader Kings 2 -75% | £7.49/$9.99
Max Payne 3 -80% | £2.99/$3.99
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Shadow Warrior -75% | £7.49/$9.99
Dragon Age Origins -75% | £3.74/$4.99
The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings - Enhanced Edition -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Recommended Buys: Possibly the best day so far! Oblivion, Dragon Age: Origins and The Witcher 2 are all solid RPG's with tonnes of content to last many many weeks. And if Oblivion interests you, I'd recommend splashing out a tad more on the Deluxe Edition. Crusader Kings 2 is a great grand-strategy game from Paradox. Rogue Legacy is a fun rogue-like RPG-platformer with quirky features. The reviews have so far put me off, but a -80% price has me tempted by Tomb Raider. The Max Payne series is a solid action-shooter and while I haven't played it yet I expect Max Payne 3 to be just a great as the first two games. The other two games, I'm sorry to say I know nothing about.

Flash Sale 10

La-Mulana -90% | £1.19/$1.49
DuckTales: Remastered -60% | £4.79/$5.99
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Surgeon Simulator 2013 -75% | £1.74/$2.49

Flash Sale 11

Mount & Blade Collection -80% | £5.99/$6.99
The Bridge -85% | £1.04/$1.49
You Don't Know Jack - Classic Pack -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Strike Suit Zero -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Flash Sale 12

Eldritch -80% | £1.99/$2.99
AwesomeNauts -75% | £1.74/$2.49
Garry's Mod -75% | £1.49/$2.49 - A virtual toybox using Source engine assets, which plays host to unlimited amouns of fun with wacky mods and game modes - Prop Hunt especially!
Blackguards -50% | £9.48/$12.49

Community Choice 10: Machinarium -75% | £1.87/$2.49 - A fun point-and-click adventure game with gorgeous hand-drawn landscapes and characters and a lovely soundtrack. The puzzles themselves can be quite hard.

Community Choice 11: The Walking Dead -75% | £5.24/$6.24

Community Choice 12: Battlefield 2: Complete Collection -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 5, December 23rd

Daily Deals

Shadowrun Returns -55% | £6.74/$8.99
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs -50% | £6.49/$9.99
Arma 3 -40% | £23.99/$35.99
Borderlands 2 - Game of the Year Edition -75% | £9.99/$14.99
Trine 2: Complete Story -90% | £1.39/$1.99
Reus -75% | £1.74/$2.49
Contagion -75% | £2.99/$3.74
Castle Crashers -75% | £2.49/$3.74
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist -50% | £14.99/$29.99

Recommended Buys: Borderlands 2 GOTY for -75%, that's a hell of a lot of content! Plus lots of replay value thanks to 6 playable classes with their own upgrade paths, across the core game and it's expansions. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs for -50% is also a very good deal for a great horror adventure. (I'd also like to point out that Amnesia: The Dark Descent is on offer for -80% £2.59/$3.99). Finally, Trine 2 is a fun puzzle-platformer with co-op play!

Flash Sale 13

Cities XL Platinum -80% | £3.99/$5.99 (While SimCity 2013 is a better game in my opinion, this is a fun, engaging city builder that looks great, especially once your city grows bigger and you see that skyline!)
Dead Space 2 -75% | £3.74/$4.99 - a steal at this price and a cracking action-horror game - especially the second half once it becomes more about horror than action.
Brutal Legend -90% | £1.49/$1.99
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition -66% | £6.79/$10.19

Flash Sale 14

Skyrim -75% | £3.74/$7.49
Display Fusion -80% | £4.59/$5.99
NASCAR The Game 2013 -75% | £7.49/$9.99
Ys I and II Chronicles+ -75% | £2.99/$3.74

Flash Sale 15

SteamWorld Dig -25% | £5.24/$7.49
Darkout -33% | £6.69/$9.99
Outlast -66% | £5.09/$6.59
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav -80% | £3.19/$3.99

Community Choice 13: Solar 2 -80% | £1.39/$1.99

Community Choice 14: Chivalry - Medieval Warfare -75% | £4.74/$6.24

Community Choice 15: Braid -80% | £1.39/$1.99

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 6, December 24th

Daily Deals

State of Decay -50% | £7.49/$9.99
RPG Maker VX Ace -75% | £12.49/$17.49
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition -60% | £5.99/$7.99
F1 2013 -66% | £10.19/$16.99
FTL: Faster Than Light -66% | £2.37/$3.39
Call of Duty: Ghosts -33% | £26.79/$40.19
The Sims 3 -60% | £11.99/$7.99
Rocksmith 2014 -33% | £26.79/$40.19
Surgeon Simulator 2013 -75% | £1.74/$2.49

Recommended Buys: State of Decay is a great XBOX Live Arcade title that got ported to PC. Now with keyboard and mouse support as well as the use of an XBOX360 controller, it's a fun zombie apocalypse survival sim where you have to scavenge for food and medical supplies as well as the trials and tribulations of people management when your camp isn't a happy one, all while staying one step ahead of the growing ravenous hordes of undead prowling the streets. Baldur's Gate is a fantastic AD&D RPG from Bioware-Interplay with great characters and writing and some awesome-looking spellcasting. And with an alignment system where you choose at character creation whether to be Good or Bad, Lawful or Chaotic, or some mixture in-between, it proves for some interesting social interactions and companion options, as well as repeat playthroughs. Plenty of gameplay to be had here! FTL is a fun indie rogue-like spaceship management game which requires you to command a crew and balance power requirements of various systems while exploring a randomly-generated star-system which can have you run into various combat encounters as well as things such as hazardous asteroid fields, stars undergoing supernova, slavers, mercenaries, ambushes, abandoned stations, lost civilisations and more. The action always stays on your ship with dialogue boxes giving flavour text and details about other actions, but it's the tension of the ship-to-ship combat that really shines. Clever tactics such as using ion cannons to cut off the enemy's oxygen supply until the crew suffocate will allow you to obtain more scrap (used for upgrades and purchases) than if you destroy them outright, although an array of lasers and missiles can win a fight just as effectively, but you won't feel as proud of such outcomes. I kinda rambled about that one, but it's just a superb indie game! Finally, though it's not for everyone since it's not really a game, creative-types might find RPG Maker interesting. From what I've seen, it's a very powerful game development kit with plenty of DLC adding new art assets to make almost any kind of RPG game you want.

Flash Sale 16

Dishonoured -75% | £3.74/$7.49
Rise of Venice -75% | £7.49/$9.99
Total War: Rome II -50% | £14.99/$29.97
Rise of the Triad -80% | £2.39/$2.99

Flash Sale 17

System Shock 2 -75% | £1.74/$2.49 Check out my playthrough on my Youtube channel here! (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3tySCK0cxC1881GdNIGx2A00xZn5DLr4)
Pinball FX 2: Paranormal Table -75% | £0.49/$0.74
War Thunder - Ace Adventure Pack -50% | £12.49/$19.99 (this is an addon pack for a Free to Play game)
TrackMania2 Stadium -75% | £1.99/$2.49

Flash Sale 18

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 -75% | £3.74/$4.99
Final Fantasy VIII -33% | £6.69/$7.99
How To Survive -70% | £3.59/$4.49
On the Ranslick Precipice of Darkness 4 -70% | £1.19/$1.49

Community Choice 16: Gnomoria -75% | £1.49/$1.99

Community Choice 17: Super Hexagon -90% | £0.19/$0.29

Community Choice 18: Sacrifice -80% | £1.39/$1.99

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 7, December 25th

Daily Deals

Football Manager 2014 -50% | £17.49/$24.99
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim -75% | £3.74/$7.49
Terraria -75% | £1.49/$2.49
Payday 2 -55% | £11.24/$13.49
Endless Space -75% | £6.24/$7.49
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition -75% | £3.99/$4.99
Europa Universalis IV -50% | £17.49/$19.99
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum -70% | £4.49/$5.99
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut -75% | £3.24/$4.99

Recommended Buys: A -75% saving on Skyrim returns from one of Day 5's Flash Sales. I'd have thought most of us here would have this by now but if not, you cannot go wrong with this awesome Bethesda RPG at such a great price. Also, Terraria is a great indie procedurally-generated sandbox-survival game with MetroidVania gameplay elements. You may have seen the Early Access for Starbound on Steam - if you're curious about Starbound, check out Terraria to get a taste of the gameplay you'll encounter in Starbound (though I must stress how great Terraria is in it's own right!). Again, Deus Ex returns from Day 3's Flash Sale at the same -75% price - again, this is a superb RPG with a very well-realised world and plenty of nooks and crannies to go poking around in if you're the explorer-type and like to see what lies either side of the main quest-line. Finally, I have to sing the praises of Europa Universalis IV - a game I've only recently fell in love with. A grand strategy game from Paradox which lets you play as pretty much any country ever from 1444 up to the 1800's. With various starting points, you can lead your chosen nation to greatness as you forge alliances, commit to royal marriages to secure your throne's succession, establish trade routes across the globe, colonise the New World, oversee religious harmony throughout your provinces or simply wage war on all fronts in an attempt to annex all those who would stand between you and world domination. Interesting, varied game mechanics keep things active all the time and tough choices need to be made beyond what to build and who to attack. Will you choose to lead one of Europe's powerhouses such as England or France, or one of the lesser, smaller countries and try to grow your power? Though the entire globe is explorable, the game can be as small or as big as you like depending on your ambitions (and who you ally with or piss off!) Check it out!

Flash Sale 19

Kingdoms Rise -33% | £8.03/$10.04
The King of Fighters XIII Steam Edition -66% | £7.81/$10.19
Guncraft -75% | £2.99/$3.74
Dungeon Defender's -85% | £1.49/$2.24

Flash Sale 20

PAC-MAN Champion Edition DX+ -33% | £5.35/$6.69
Might & Magic Duel of Champions Free to Play (DLC reduced)
LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes -50% | £12.49/$14.99
Saints Row IV -60% | £15.99/$19.99

Flash Sale 21

Substance Designer 4 -66% | £25.83/$33.99
Maia -25% | £13.48/$18.74
Euro Truck Simulator 2 -75% | £3.74/$6.24
Cook, Serve, Delicious! -75% | £1.74/$2.49

Community Choice 19: Shelter -75% | £1.74/$2.49

Community Choice 20: Papers, Please! -50% | £3.49/$4.99

Community Choice 21: Guacamelee! Gold Edition -75% | £2.99/$3.74

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 8, December 26th

Daily Deals

Hotline Miami -80% | £1.39/$1.99
NBA 2K14 -50% | £14.99/$14.99
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition -80% | £3.99/$5.99
Gone Home -66% | £5.09/$6.79
Wargame: Airland battle -75% | £7.49/$9.99
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing -66% | £4.07/$5.09
Killing Floor -75% | £3.74/$4.99
DmC: Devil May Cry -75% | £7.49/$12.49
Anno 2070 -75% | £4.99/$7.49

Recommended Buys: Hotline Miami is a retro-style action game with a focus on melee and firearm combat. Basically in each level you have to kill everyone. Levels comprise of various rooms and often multiple floors, and enemies are dispersed throughout. The trick is to proceed through the levels effectively by picking the enemies off one by one as much as possible, since it's easy to get overwhelmed and usually a single hit will kill you. But the same goes for your own attacks, and even if your hit only knocks them out, you can finish them off while they're down. It sounds simple, but the game oozes style, with a killer techno 80's soundtrack and a setting of late 80's Miami. The story evolves over time between missions as you travel around the city, visiting clubs, stop off for pizza and visit the video store (VHS!!!). And then there's the three mysterious masked strangers who you seem to see in your dreams. Dark Souls is a brilliant and punishing action RPG requiring patience and understanding to succeed in. Even the simplest of enemies is capable of killing you in a few hits if you are careless, even when you're of high level. It's all about understanding your enemy and timing your attacks to land when their defense is down. The world is Lordran - a land filled with undead and demons and beasts - dragons too! As well as some truly strange-looking foes! Whether magic, miracles, or cold steel, you must cut through the numerous enemies as you grow in power via the souls obtained through your fallen enemies. Souls are also a currency for purchasing items such as weapons and armour or upgrades for them. Be sure to Google the small fan-fix which unlocks the higher resolutions (unles the game has now been patched!). Finally, Killing Floor is a darker, Counter-Strike-like alternative to Left 4 Dead as you and your friends play as mercenaries in a London overrun by demons and the undead. Earn cash through kills to spend at the weapons dealer between rounds to purchase better guns and gear, and see how long you can last. There's plenty of optional DLC too if that's your thing.

Worthy mentions are Devil May Cry, Anno 2070 and Gone Home, though I've not played any of them but have heard good things.

Flash Sale 22

UnEpic -50% | £2.99/$3.99
Bastion -85% | £1.71/$2.24
The Cave -75% | £2.99/$3.74
Lost Planet 3 -75% | £7.49/$12.49

Flash Sale 23

Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Star Wars Battlefront 2 -50% | £3.24/$4.99

- Great multiplayer game with a decent single-player campaign storymode. Fight on-foot as a soldier in either the Clone Wars or the Galactic Civil War, as generic troops or unlockable characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi or Boba Fett. Also use vehicles such as AT-ST's and speeders. And even play on space-maps as you defend your capital ship while attackig the enemies using starfighters and bombers - even land a transport in the enemy hanger and use it as a spawnpoint. Lots of fun to be had with this game!

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger -66% | £4.07/$5.09
Test Drive Unlimited 2 -75% | £3.74/$4.99

Flash Sale 24: TBA

Community Choice 22: Tower Wars -75% | £1.49/$1.99
Community Choice 23: TBA
Community Choice 24: TBA

Steam Christmas Sale - Day 9, December 27th
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 10, December 28th
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 11, December 29th
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 12, December 30th
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 13, December 31st
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 14, January 1st
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 15, January 2nd
Steam Christmas Sale - Day 16, January 3rd

[Dasquian Belargic]

This was another Steam sale when I didn't pick up too much. I am trying to be more selective in what I buy, and skipped a few arguably solid deals, settling on 'The Wolf Among Us' as my Christmas pick.

What about everyone else? Anything you bought that you've been playing over the holiday period?

[Park Kraken]

Not really. I picked up a little bit here and there but by far I was buying things for other people's wishlists when it went on sale. A friend bought me Leviathan Warships which has been a fun play, both single and co-op.

[Rossos Atrapes]

Picked up Rome II for half off. Supposed to be on until the 17th!

[Sassy Du'Wook]

Ubisoft Weekend Feb 20th - 24th. Up to 75% off on Ubisoft titles.

[Park Kraken]

The Summer Sale should be coming up soon. Speculation puts it at early to mid July.

[Park Kraken]

Just for those who missed it, the Steam Summer Sale is on early this year.

[Park Kraken]

Okay so I've decided this year that I'm only going to buy games that either genuinely pique my interest or that friends want and so far I've managed to find one that I've purchased that fits both categories and that would be "Banished" at -50% for 9.99$. I'm curious to see how this game compares to previous Anno settlement titles (1503, 1602, etc.).

[Peter McCoy]

As I understand it's quite a different game in the sense that you're essentially managing a community as opposed to building a settlement. The goal is to have your community survive. Crops cannot grow during winter, so you have to stock up enough supplies to last until spring when you can plant anew. Skills and technology are brought in by travellers who journey form afar to join your community, but letting them in risks disease if they bring germs with them. Your community grows when your people have children and those children live long enough to grow up and become productive.

And it was made by a single guy!

[Dasquian Belargic]

I told myself I wasn't going to buy anything in this sale.. and then I did.

Steam, I wish I could quit you

[Peter McCoy]

Steam sounds like it could be a drug in a cyberpunk game.

[Peter McCoy]

Although it's not directly a Steam Sale, you do get a game on Steam in it.

https://www.humblebundle.com/

The Humble Jumbo Bundle 3 is currently available. And if you pay $12 or more (about £7.53) you get Saints Row IV - which is currently £16.99 on Steam anyway.

So for less than the cost of Saints Row IV on Steam, you're getting Saints Row IV on Steam plus a selection of games too. Take them or leave them, but £7.53 is a bargain for this shitfaced-off-it's-tits open-world mayhem-a-thon.

[Peter McCoy]

30 hours to go for this seemingly unwarranted Steam Sale. However there's one title I'd like to highlight...

Alien: Isolation (http://store.steampowered.com/app/214490/)

Currently available at 50% off, that's £15.99 for the UK and $24.99 for the US

Also on the same page you can grab the Season Pass for half-price as well. This grants you 5 DLC's in total from now to March when the fifth will be released. Grabbing the Season Pass now will be a huge saving since the DLC's individually at full price would amount to $40 or £28. Right now they're $14.99 or £9.99. There are two DLC's out for the moment - "Corporate Lockdown" and "Trauma" - these are new areas designed for Survivor Mode where the chief goal is to complete a set number of objectives in as short a time as possible, for competing on the Leaderboards online. Once you've completed the single-player campaign, playing through it again is enjoyable, but since you know what to expect it does make things a bit easier and calmer - though I still find it tense as fuck! But these Survivor levels let you jump straight into some action in areas you're not familiar with, allowing for some variety if you want to play the game but have grown somewhat tired of the single-player story.

I'd absolutely love some form of co-op in this game. It'd be awesome if there was a two-player mode where only one player has a motion tracker and only one has a flamethrower, and there are situations that require you to split up. Voice-comms would be essential since each player can keep the other informed of the aliens whereabouts. it could even be designed so that areas are incredibly difficult to traverse/work in when the alien is present, so that when one player knows the bastard is nearby, they can inform their mate to go while the going's good.

Anyway, yeah! Alien: Isolation - half-price. Go on Droo and Charley - you both know you want to!

[Park Kraken]

Ended up buying Tomb Raider (2013), Horizon, and AC4 for myself and doing Christmas shopping for all of my friends (mostly Civ 5 and Civ BE for them plus some other odds and ends).

[Vince]

This isn't a sale, but it's probably the first game I've felt an honest desire to play straight off since The Banner Saga (and that didn't last long, though that's due to the fact that I don't have weekends really anymore).

Elegy for a Dead World (http://store.steampowered.com/app/252290/?snr=1_7_7_popularnew_150_3) is a game about writing fiction. In it we explore three worlds based off the works of poets Byron, Yeats, and Shelley, and write either based on prompts or free form about it. Yes, exploring three worlds based off of Byron, Yeats, and Shelley seems a bit pretentious, at least I think so, but the real draw is that you can share your writing on the Steam Workshop and read others' own interpretations of the same exact setting and scene.

I can only imagine some of the stories that are out there right now. And my first thought was how I'd write it with Ben as the explorer. It's 14.99 USD, so maybe we'll get lucky and a sale will come and drop its price a bit lower. 15 dollars isn't expensive, but I'm also pinching enough pennies that I'd have a hard time justifying it to myself, no matter how interesting it looks or how good some of the stories must be.

[Peter McCoy]

Not really a Steam Sale as such, but it is a sale that nets you Steam keys...

www.bundlestars.com (http://www.bundlestars.com) currently have a bundle for £3.99 which includes 10 games. Not sure if it's open to US purchasers as the prices are only showing in £ for me but it does advertise as you getting $150 worth of games so maybe check it out?

The games in it are:

Planetary Annihilation
Stalker: Call of Pripyat
Of Orcs and Men
It Came From Space And Ate Our Brains
Super Motherload
Merchants of Kaidan
The Original Strife - Veteran Edition
Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey
Survivalist
Spark Rising


Just added the games to my Steam cart and the total comes to £108.50 - this bundle from Bundlestars.com (http://Bundlestars.com/) is just £3.99, thats a saving of £104.51 which is 96% off!



Also on the site but not bundled are the other two Stalker games for £2.49 and £1.59 each.

EDIT: They now have System Shock 2 on sale for £1.19 for the next 3 days!