From now until July 9, there's thousands of titles discounted across the whole of the Steam store so you can fill up that backlog with some goodies.
Like every year, the Steam store struggles to cope with the demand and it's been up and down as people from all over the world rush to check out the deals. Valve has included a few extras this year. If you spend £30/$30 or regional equivalent you get £5/$5 off the price of it which is applied at the checkout.
Something of a novelty is included this year too as a brand new Steam feature with a special Points Shop. This is a permanent thing. As Valve said "The Points Shop is here to stay, now open all year round.". So at least now we know what the rumoured Steam Rewards system would be.
It works similarly to previous special sale event systems though, where you gather points which you can then spend on various fluff. This includes avatar frames, animated stickers, chat effects and more. Everything you buy from games to DLC and soundtracks gives you points. On top of that, you can also reward community content like reviews with badges which will then send some points to that user. Will be interesting to see how Valve plan to expand this Points Shop since it's sticking around.
Plenty of amazing deals going like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun at 85% off, Civilization VI with 75% off, Prison Architect has 75% off, Don't Starve Together gets 66% off, a personal favourite Dying Light also has 66% off and if you're after a little strategy Into the Breach has 50% off. There's even a brand new Cities: Skylines - City Startup Bundle created for the sale, which brings in the latest expansion for new players.
The Steam Summer Sale 2020 will run from June 25 until July 9. Head on over to Steam for all the deals.
As an additional note, SteamDB put out a call recently for help to get people to use their Token Dumper. Keeping in mind SteamDB is unofficial, they've been pretty helpful for numerous reasons over the years. On Twitter, they mentioned that Steam now requires more to access package info, so "SteamDB will no longer be able to get info for packages that are not in the store or we have no token for" so the Token Dumper was set up to help. Use at your own risk on that.
What will you be looking to pick up? Let us know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The store logged me out multiple times , lost items from my cart and failed to complete transactions.
I advise people to wait few more hours until things cool down.
EDIT
LOL - my transaction failed again and this time it referenced a game i bought 1 month ago.
sigh
Last edited by razing32 on 25 June 2020 at 7:00 pm UTC
It's not live. It's drunk
The store logged me out multiple times , lost items from my cart and failed to complete transactions.
I advise people to wait few more hours until things cool down.
EDIT
LOL - my transaction failed again and this time it referenced a game i bought 1 month ago.
sigh
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Was gonna buy the portal games for my son, and those $1.99 broke my steam store. I've read that you may be able to access the "pending transaction" via the purchase history screen and cancel it that way, but this did not work for me. It does not show up for me. Perhaps you have better luck.
Mohandevir Jun 25, 2020
No news about Metro:Exodus' Linux port, yet?
Last edited by Mohandevir on 25 June 2020 at 8:39 pm UTC
Dankrat169 Jun 25, 2020
The original COD is tempting, but even at 50% off is still way too much!
When you say original cod do you mean the 1998 original or modern warfare
gradyvuckovic Jun 26, 2020
My current cart:
Football Manager 2020
Islanders
Overload
Stardew Valley
Dying Light
Liam, is there a way to give you a referral credit if I buy any games?
AFAIK, there's no such thing for Steam. (Not specific for GoL, it didn't exist at all.)
I picked up several games:
SteamWorld Dig 2 (Linux)
Distance (Linux)
Cave Story (Linux)
20XX (ProtonDB Platinum)
Quake III Arena + Team Arena (ProtonDB Platinum + Gold)
All of them are pretty cheap (5 - 7.5 euros). I have too many games in the backlog to buy expensive games that I won't play until 1-2 years from now anyway :D
side note i could not see anyone covering it but Injustice the mortal kombat justice league turn over is free i believe it works under proton at least in single player
Liam, is there a way to give you a referral credit if I buy any games?It sure would be nice if Steam had a support this creator-like thing, but it doesn't. GOG do, Humble do, Fanatical do, Epic do..pretty much everyone apart from Steam has it. So sadly, no. If you wish to support us directly when buying games our partner links can always be found here.
My current cart:
Football Manager 2020
Islanders
Overload
Stardew Valley
Dying Light
Edit: spelling.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 26 June 2020 at 9:55 am UTC
VR galore!
Bought Fallout IV VR (already had bought Skyrim VR a few days earlier), Doom VFR, Alice VR (which has a native port to Linux with no VR), Everspace (for the VR also only present on the windows build), The Wizards (VR RPG), Apex Construct, Final Assault (VR RTS), Battlewake, Shadow Legend VR, Bugdet Cuts 2:Mission Insolvency and finally Tabletop Simulator, had to use via proton because the Linux version does not have VR.
Also bought X: Rebirth VR but it did not work, I created the first protondb report for it and refunded, also opened a bug report at the proton bugtracker.
I have been thinking about getting a VR set. Which VR are you using and what are you thoughts?
Is there any way to get the recommderer https://store.steampowered.com/recommender/ to not display windows titles? I have steamos/linux only in my preferences already :s
AFAIK no and I don't know when it will be implemented if ever. Noninteractive version on the front page version seems to be still showing just Linux games at least for me. I don't know if it's coincidence or does that widget actually implement the OS filter.
Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 29, 2020
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