Our Picks For The Last Day Of Steam Sales

Every year (sometimes more than once) I look at these $5 and $10 games on Steam, knowing full well I won’t have time to play them, and I buy them anyway. Because a) they’re so damn cheap, and b) I know they’re good games that I should get around to. But as the Pile of Shame trickles over into the Pile of Never Did Get Around To That, do you think I learn my lesson? Nope.

It’s Encore Day in the Steam sale – your last chance to take advantage of some of these deals. We thought we’d put together a list of some games we know are fantastic deals for the price, and give you the opportunity to do the same in the comments. We’re all about to get a little more time-poor. Here are the games we’ve been playing and can guarantee their fun-factor:

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare – $6.24 USD
A multiplayer medieval melee with brutal crunch sounds and often hilarious gameplay.

The Walking Dead – $6.24 USD
Story and character driven take on the Walking Dead comics. Light on gameplay, heavy on the feels.

Torchlight 2 – $4.99 USD
Top-down click-em-up without a lot of the restrictions of Diablo 3, but almost as addictive.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion – $9.99 USD
4X space strategy played out in real-time. Massive space battles & economy management. Games can take many hours.

Saints Row: The Third – $4.99 USD
Quite a recent open-world game with a very silly take on everything, going for very cheap.

FTL – $4.99 USD
2D space combat and exploration game with permadeath, akin to managing the Enterprise during a battle.

Hotline Miami – $4.99 USD
A brutal combat game with some puzzle solving – lots of planning with an intense few seconds of action in each room.

Magicka – $4.99 USD
Great co-op game in which you combine elements to cast different spells, and further combine those with your friends’ spells.

Braid – $4.99 USD
Jon Blow’s masterpiece of classic game homage and puzzle solving. Brilliant level design.

Super Meat Boy – $7.49 USD
Platforming perfection. Control a boy without skin, who sticks to walls, around deadly spikes. You will die many times.

Natural Selection 2 – $6.24 USD
Very asymmetrical FPS/RTS with space marines vs aliens. One commander leading a team of soldiers in FPS mode.

The Last Remnant – $3.39 USD
Not the best JRPG you’ll play, but it’s a steal. Combines real-time combat with classic RPG tropes.

There are way, way too many to list here – but think of this less as a “how to spend your money” list, and more as a “how to spend your time” list. I did consider adding DIRT 3 to that list, given its quality and current price of $8.49, but it has a large share of problems on the PC.

What games would you recommend to your fellow Kotakuers?


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