Steam Sale Spotlight

[Darth Marsden]

Today's Daily Deal is Mirror's Edge, the first-person Free-Running game. £3.25 or $5.

Today's Paradox Price-Cut is the Mount & Blade series. There's three games in the series:

Mount & Blade: £3.74 / $4.99
Mount & Blade - Warband: £4.99 / $7.49
Mount & Blade - With Fire and Sword: £2.29 / $1.74

...or the trilogy for £8.74 / $12.49.

[der_ketzer]

All you need is Warband. Really. WFaS is the most recent but Warband is still priced the highest. That should be an indicator for you.

[Vanished]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

Ah, thanks for mentioning that. Completely forgot it, since I (and, I estimate, 97% of people with Steam) already own it.

Out of curiosity, do you know if it's 'free-to-play for a couple days' or 'free forever, but you have to grab it during the next few days'?

I was one of the few that didn't have it I guess. I try to not get tempted with anything that has first person camera views as I get violently ill fairly fast, but it was free. As far as I can tell it's free for good, but there really isn't any info I've seen on it other than the "download for free" links at http://learningwithportals.com/

[der_ketzer]

we will see. I linked the site to a friend that did not have Portal yet. And she was happy.
So thanks for linking that here yesterday.

[caeska]

Indeed, I didn't have Portal either and I'm always happy to get games for free.

[Darth Marsden]

Wow. That's me and my '90% of the universe owns Portal' theory dead in the water. Thanks guys.

[Rather Dashing]

Also, it's not "free to play for a couple days". For one, Valve has stated that it's add to your account and keep. For another, the "free to play for a few days" games are automatically added to your Library, as opposed to the "Free for a couple days to keep forever" promos. For singleplayer games, free to play for X days promos just don't make sense.

[caeska]

Today's daily deal is a classic: The Whispered World
Really good adventure game with a compelling story. I love this game mainly because there is such a great array of dialogue in it. Pretty much any item-to-item and item-to-world object combination has a unique response, and most of those lines are really funny.
I also love the difficulty and overall feel of it. It's challenging and definitely worth the purchase in my opinion.

Right now it's off 75% for €5/$5 (same price is listed on Steamprices).
And it's £3,75 if anyone actually gives a damn about that...

And the Paradox thingie has Magicka for 75% off too. (€2,49/$2,49 or £1,99)

Whole Magicka Package: €6,24, $6,24 or £4,24

[Darth Marsden]

EDIT: Gah! Ninja'd! Curse you, caeska! Curse you!

Today's Daily Deal is The Whispered World. A brilliant adventure game, it's an absolute steal at £3.75 / $5. I urge all who don't already own it and are fans of the genre to snap it up immediately.

Today's Paradox Price-Cut is the Magicka series. Lot to get through here, so bear with me.

Magicka (Original Game): £1.99 / $2.49
Magicka - Vietnam: 87p / $1.44
DLC:
Final Frontier: 49p / 74c
Frozen Lake: 39p / 49c
Marshlands: 44p / 49c
Nippon: 14p / 24c
Party Robes: 39p / 49c
The Watchtower: 39p / 49c
Wizard's Survival Kit: 14p / 24c

Magicka Collection (all of the above): £4.24 / $6.24

There's also a new Magicka release that's not on offer, but kinda cool - the Magicka: Gamer Bundle, which is three new robes (completer with gear) inspired by games the development team liked. The Zombine one is weird, but my favourite is the Purple Tentacle one. You really need to go check it out, it's hilarious.

[der_ketzer]

I would so love to buy Magicka but I cannot play it on my PC.
Also the amount of DLC for the game really puzzles me. Also the purple tentacle costume is wonderful.

What I thought of TWW can be read in this forum.
I would still highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't have it.

[Chyron8472]

[Darth Marsden]

That's not on Steam!

Good offer though.

[Darth Marsden]

Today's Daily Deal is Yosumin, an odd Bejeweled-style puzzle game with a plot, of all things. £2.99 or $4.99.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

an odd Bejeweled-style

not exactely.

[Darth Marsden]

OK, what's it more like then?

[TomPravetz]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

...Valve can't count past 3...

I love this.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

OK, what's it more like then?

it is unlike anything I have ever played.

[Darth Marsden]

Today's Daily Deal is iBomber Defense, a tower defence game with strategy elements. £1.74 / $2.49

[caeska]

And the Midweek Madness is up already.

They have 2 package deals with 5 games each; the Indie Strategy Bundle and the Indie 2D Bundle

The Indie Strategy Bundle includes:

Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Revenge of the Titans
Sanctum
Sol Survivor

The Indie 2D Bundle includes:

BIT. TRIP RUNNER
Nightsky
NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
Swords and Soldiers HD
World of Goo

Normally those 2 packs are €53 and €47 respectively, but you can now get both of those for €9,99 each. Pretty good deal it seems, but I don't know anything about those games. It's indie games though so don't expect too much. Oh and Steamprices is messed up so I can't look up the different currencies.

[Darth Marsden]

As you may have guessed, both Bundles are $9.99. That's £6.99 for Youkayvians (say it out loud).

There's actually another Midweek Madness - Two Worlds II. Half price at £12.49 / $24.99.

Oddly enough, there's a new expansion for 2W2 (Pirates of the Flying Fortress) that costs as much as the game itself! It better be one hell of a DLC pack.

EDIT: Oh hey, this is the 100th post in the thread. Woo!