What’s the best game deal you ever got?

For me it was the original Subnautica. Was a free give away before it got popular and I had no expectations when I played it. Really enjoyed the exploration and the pacing.

Second was Axiom Verge - I got it for free before it became popular but I don’t remember how. I bought it when it went to Steam because I wanted to support the creator.

Both are fun exploration sorts of games if you haven’t played them. Axiom Verge is a metroidvania. Kinda a weird game, but in a good way.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Axiom Verge

    Yeah, that’s decent. Still haven’t gotten through it, though.

    I think that the price of a game matters a lot less than the gameplay time, in terms of value. You can have enormous differences in the amount of time you play a game, much more than the price typically varies from game to game.

    looks at Steam

    My top-played games by hours of playtime are:

    1. Oxygen Not Included

    2. Fallout 4 (the game itself is decent-sized, plus there are expansions, but this is really due heavily to mods)

    3. Wargame: Red Dragon

    4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (also improved by mods)

    5. Sid Meier’s Civilization V

    6. Caves of Qud

    7. Fallout 76

    8. Rimworld (mods, though honestly the base game is pretty good on its own)

    9. X3: Reunion

    10. Mount & Blade: Warband (again, mods add a lot to this)

    So those are probably the best deals, as I’ve gotten the most time out of them.

    The bad deals are games that I get and then don’t like and so don’t play.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I played it for a while, but never got that into it. Ditto for Mindcraft and Satisfactory. They’re all fine, but…I dunno. Oxygen Not Included just has more stuff going on.