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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We picked up Journey and Star Traders Frontier. I've wanted to play Journey since it came out but I didn't have the proper console. Well, I forgot I put it on the wishlist, and that's a real good price so.

I've (sung? musically yelled at?) another person already.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Outer Wilds is on sale. Great game if you like space, puzzles or platforming!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My personal greatest game of all time. Do go on blind tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Absolutely, what i would give to play again with no knowledge

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I've heard great things about steam world heist 2 and just picked it up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elite Is a space flight economics simulator.

Fly around buy here sell there look at stuff for fun and get into battles

Great game but you will want a hotas set up if you really get into it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I keep trying to get into Elite but it never clicks for me. I was flying around earlier trying to dock into a station but everyone was refusing me so I closed the game. I’ll probably look up a new players guide before giving it another attempt later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Was it Elite Dangerous? Stations grant docking clearance if you're within range when you request it; I think it's about 7500 meters. Check out the in-game the tutorials. One of them teaches this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it was due to being “friends only.” Player fleet I guess? I just couldn’t figure out how to filter them out before I got there and kept coming across them.

That range one caught me out once but I figured that one out since it tells you to come closer. I’m going to take that tutorial suggestion though. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ah... Yes, it was most likely a fleet carrier, then. Those are owned by players, and not always open to the public.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

"Hands On Throttle And Stick;" i.e. flight sim gear

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

If you are the simmy type or like space, Elite Dangerous is insanely good, but has a learning curve up front. It's the only game I've put over 1,100 hours in and still haven't explored everything.

Subnautica is another game I can highly recommend.

If you wanna play games with friends (Elite is also MP), The Forest is a great game to bond over.

Black mesa is another banger.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Solasta Crown of the Magister for $8.99.

For me it's the best game ever to capture the D&D feeling. The custom Warlock subclass, Timekeeper, is ridiculously fun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I don’t see it mentioned elsewhere - but if we’re going down the CRPG route and enjoying it I’d recommend to others Divinity Original Sin 1&2.

I’d also recommend Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. But it’s age might scare some people away – so I typically don’t lead with that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Doom 2016 for 2$, Titanfall 2 for 3$ and battlefield games from BF3 through BF1 also go for 2$

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never played any BF games. Do they have good single player campaigns?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not since Bad Company 2 like 15 years ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BFBC2 was the best BF I've ever played. I wish I would have known that at the time.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The entire Creeper World series is on sale- Creeper World 1 and 2 are $2.49, Creeper World 3 is $4.94, and Creeper World 4 is $9.99. Personally, I don't like Creeper World 2 so I would suggest any of them but that one. CW2 is side on and I'm not a fan. CW1 and 3 are top down, and CW4 is properly 3D.

The first couple of Creeper World games used to be flash games you could play in browser, but after the age of Java games they ported them to Steam and kept making more and better games.

The basic concept is that it's a cross between a very simplified RTS and a tower defense game, with the added curveball that the enemy is just a liquid that won't stop showing up everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

CW2 was my favorite!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Undertale is at a new all time love at $0.99. It's not really my jam but it's the time to pick it up if you always wanted to play it but never did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The inability to resize the Undertale window without using a third-party program like Sizer continues to be INFURIATING to me.

Undertale is a good game, but it just makes me so goddamn angry every time I open it to not have control over the sizing on my own goddamn monitor that I haven't been able to finish it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I dont know if I can recommend them yet, but I picked up Enter the Gungeon, Heavy Rain, Undertale, Doom, and Pillars of Eternity.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No Man’s Sky is down to $23.99. I remember the launch was poor but they kept working on it and improving it. I picked it up a couple years ago on Xbox and have enjoyed it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

NMS was such a mixed bag for me. I spent over a hundred hours on it yet still walked away wondering what there was to do in the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is way more of an enjoyable experience now than it was on launch. I just still find it sort of flawed on a core level. The exploration is clearly supposed to be a primary focus of the game, but I just find it incredibly bland after a bit. After I finished with that, I don't really know what to do with the game aside from.. keep flying around trying to find something worth finding.

I put 40hrs into it. I don't regret that, but I also have zero interest in continuing to play it past that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I added Cyberpunk to the cart. We’ll see if I actually purchase it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I was thinking about this one too. Not sure if I'll buy it, but it's the only one I'm considering at the moment.

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