Here it is once again. It's that time of the year. Valve have opened the floodgates for you to throw money at your screen during the Steam Summer Sale 2024.
This year they've put up a new Deep Discounts category, so you can have a browse through for some especially great deals. You'll also find free daily sticker drops.
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Here's some of Liam's hot picks under £10 for you:
Steam Deck Verified
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 90% off
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - 90% off
SCARLET NEXUS - 84% off
Prey - 80% off
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series - 80% off
Death's Door - 75% off
Risk of Rain 2 - 67% off
Stardew Valley - 40% off
Brotato - 30% off
Vampire Survivors - 25% off
Honorable mention to Deep Rock Galactic that's also under £10 at 67% off but only 
Steam Deck Playable. Still, it works well and it's one of the best co-op games ever made.
Bloons TD 6 will also get an honourable mention at 90% off (under £2!) that's Steam Deck Playable, and just so much fun, especially in co-op.
Some other general picks that have Native Linux support specifically:
The Talos Principle - 85% off
Desperados III - 75% off
Oxygen Not Included - 66% off
Scarlet Hollow - 25% off
RimWorld - 20% off
Rack and Slay - 15% off
Rogue Voltage - 15% off
Don't forget (while stocks last) Valve also put the discontinued Steam Deck LCD models on a 15% discount too.
See all the deals on the Steam store. The sale runs until July 11th.
Over to you in the comments, what are you picking up this sale? I know I shouldn't, I have thousands of games waiting for me but…how many thousands is too many? I don't need an answer to that, you all know I'm going to buy something. Just a little extra game, as a treat.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Linux_Rocks Jun 27
)The store is loading REALLY slowly right now, and I've never seen this before!
Blah blah blah... Because it's a sale Pengling is obligated to point out that a Bomberman game is in it... Yadda yadda yadda...
Anyway, I'll post another comment about any pickups once I manage to get my wishlist to load!
Quoting: PenglingOh god, is it that time again already? (She says, even though it's only her second-ever Steam Summer Sale.I wonder if that's a sign of more people flocking to the sale, or if they just cut down on the capacity. Throughout the recent few sales there were basically no issues whatsoever, but in the olden days Steam would just go down for hours. I'd stay away the first day - there'd be no point in even trying to access the store.
The store is loading REALLY slowly right now, and I've never seen this before!
Blah blah blah... Because it's a sale Pengling is obligated to point out that a Bomberman game is in it... Yadda yadda yadda...
Anyway, I'll post another comment about any pickups once I manage to get my wishlist to load!
This sale I'm pretty much joining the New Steam Sales Naysayers in that a lot of the stuff I'm interested in is actually more expensive than it has been in recent sales due to either a price increase, a lower discount, or both. The rest is either not on sale at all, or nowhere near a price point I'd pull the trigger at.
I'll probably end up getting some indies, but nothing crazy. I guess that's not entirely a bad thing, though <looks at backlog that'd take multiple lifetimes to get through>.
chickenb00 Jun 27
QuoteThis sale I'm pretty much joining the New Steam Sales Naysayers in that a lot of the stuff I'm interested in is actually more expensive than it has been in recent sales due to either a price increase, a lower discount, or both. The rest is either not on sale at all, or nowhere near a price point I'd pull the trigger at.
I suspect that publishers have decided not to drastically discount their titles to the degree that they used to, despite the desperately immense competition on the Steam store from all the titles competing for our dollars. Heavy discounts encourage players to wait for another heavy discount again. So why bother with that when you could decide 30% is your title's lifetime max discount?
Combine that with standard price creeps, e.gm Skyrim's slow base-price increase, and we have a recipe for higher prices and less interesting sales. Combine that with many of ours' bloated steam libraries and we probably aren't buying much at all.
Quoting: chickenb00Oh, yeah, the sales now are quite different. These days pretty much everything gets discounted every couple of months, but the sales aren't that deep. Back then you'd have deep dales a couple times a year, and flash sales that'd go even deeper. The result of years of that is that I still don't view 75% off as that great of a bargain. I can't be rewired, but newcomers likely don't have that issue - and there has been a lot of them - so I'm not sure it's a loss overall for Steam.QuoteThis sale I'm pretty much joining the New Steam Sales Naysayers in that a lot of the stuff I'm interested in is actually more expensive than it has been in recent sales due to either a price increase, a lower discount, or both. The rest is either not on sale at all, or nowhere near a price point I'd pull the trigger at.
I suspect that publishers have decided not to drastically discount their titles to the degree that they used to, despite the desperately immense competition on the Steam store from all the titles competing for our dollars. Heavy discounts encourage players to wait for another heavy discount again. So why bother with that when you could decide 30% is your title's lifetime max discount?
Combine that with standard price creeps, e.gm Skyrim's slow base-price increase, and we have a recipe for higher prices and less interesting sales. Combine that with many of ours' bloated steam libraries and we probably aren't buying much at all.
It probably does help the industry a little bit, but that is just the tip of the "current problems" iceberg. No/limited discount policy does help certain indies, but that's a very select group (Factorio and Rimworld, basically).
And if you're coming from Nintendo sales this is still insane deals.
StoneColdSpider Jun 27
Woodlandor Jun 27
Quoting: PenglingOh god, is it that time again already? (She says, even though it's only her second-ever Steam Summer Sale.
The store is loading REALLY slowly right now, and I've never seen this before!
Blah blah blah... Because it's a sale Pengling is obligated to point out that a Bomberman game is in it... Yadda yadda yadda...
Anyway, I'll post another comment about any pickups once I manage to get my wishlist to load!
Wait, when did you start liking Bomberman games?!
StoneColdSpider Jun 27
Quoting: WoodlandorWait, when did you start liking Bomberman games?!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
Well Pengling has a reputation to uphold......
Last edited by g000h on 28 June 2024 at 12:46 am UTC
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