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That's a pretty cute backdrop! But isn't it a bit late to call it "autumn" in late November?

Psychonauts 2 for 6 Euros is my pick of the bunch so far. That's 90% off.

Also, Breathedge is free on Fanatical for a limited time.


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Jedi: Survivor got low enough for me to finally get it. Also helps that they didn't get rid of the bundle (which they seemed to do often during sales) which makes it slightly cheaper on top of that.

Other than that, I'm probably good.

Picked up Palworld. Gonna have to back it up before the Nintendo lawyers take it down.

Do you think God of War is worth the 19.99 asking price?

Probably going to hold off until tomorrow before I get anything, the client's sluggish as hell right now.

But I'm thinking Arcanum, which is at a temptingly low price of less than CDN $2, and maybe Psychroma, which looks intriguing.

I see Northard, which I was interested in a while ago, is super cheap but I'm also seeing a lot of recent bad reviews, concentrating on bugs and the devs focusing on multiplayer and making paid tribes instead. Lots of people saying that's wrecking the balance. I'm interested in a single player experience, so it's not looking good.

That's a pretty cute backdrop! But isn't it a bit late to call it "autumn" in late November?

Winter doesn’t start for the US until late December.

But I'm thinking Arcanum, which is at a temptingly low price of less than CDN $2 [...]

Good choice!

That's a pretty cute backdrop! But isn't it a bit late to call it "autumn" in late November?

Winter doesn’t start for the US until late December.

Sad times, though to be fair, winter is slow here as well this year. :/

Métro Exodus is realy tempting.

Is ccase you mised it, Dark sector is currently free on steam


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Probably going to hold off until tomorrow before I get anything, the client's sluggish as hell right now.

But I'm thinking Arcanum, which is at a temptingly low price of less than CDN $2, and maybe Psychroma, which looks intriguing.

I see Northard, which I was interested in a while ago, is super cheap but I'm also seeing a lot of recent bad reviews, concentrating on bugs and the devs focusing on multiplayer and making paid tribes instead. Lots of people saying that's wrecking the balance. I'm interested in a single player experience, so it's not looking good.

I played Northgard two years ago (single player), it's really fun. The campaign is not very long, but the "conquest" game mode has a lot of replay value. There are a good number of clans in the base game already that would let you play conquests for a long time. I did end up buying 2 or 3 extra clans on discount, just to get more conquests out of them!

Don't what exactly might have happened these days, but the complaints of "devs make paid clans" and "balance" had been there back then too, didn't stop me from sinking many hours in the game.

That's a pretty cute backdrop! But isn't it a bit late to call it "autumn" in late November?

Spacing of steam sales is a bit weird this year there are two weeks between autumn and winter sales, then 2 month to spring sales, 3 more to summer sales and 6 to autumn sales.

@Liam Winter start in the UK before December ? I thought everyone in the northern hemisphere was starting winter the 21th December (where winter is applicable).

Do you think God of War is worth the 19.99 asking price?

For me it was 20h (to 40h max of people around me) of fun. Few quest and very linear but with a true and good-written story (even predictable and if you know a bit of mythology, with limited surprises except you are on the unusual Loki's side) and a beautiful and amazing artistic design and direction that is memorable.

I bought it 20€, and still found it a bit expensive compared to more "replayable" and longer games. I had the same feeling with Robocop: rogue city for similar price and Elden ring for far higher price.

In my opinion, that's not a Skyrim in which you have a lot of stuffs and exploration to do and for which you can easily relaunch a game one year latter. I don't think I will relaunch a game for God of war. The witcher3 has more well-written stories and far more many and different quests and deep-stories. God of war gameplay is well balanced and you has the feel of being a god for sure (but at the end a bit repetitive). No postman quest but quite linear quests (2 or 3 max in parallel, not more).

@Liam Winter start in the UK before December ? I thought everyone in the northern hemisphere was starting winter the 21th December (where winter is applicable).

Half of winter has already gone by then. Midwinter festivals (such as Christmas) are to celebrate passing the midpoint of winter, when days steadily start to become longer again.

Métro Exodus is realy tempting.

There's not many cases where I would recommend to switch from native to Proton, but this is one of them.

@Liam Winter start in the UK before December ? I thought everyone in the northern hemisphere was starting winter the 21th December (where winter is applicable).

Half of winter has already gone by then. Midwinter festivals (such as Christmas) are to celebrate passing the midpoint of winter, when days steadily start to become longer again.

AFAIK, there's "meteorological winter", starting with Decembre 1.st, and astrological (calendar(ical)?) winter, starting late in Decembre at winter solstice. First one makes more sense to me...

AFAIK, there's "meteorological winter", starting with Decembre 1.st, and astrological (calendar(ical)?) winter, starting late in Decembre at winter solstice. First one makes more sense to me...

There's also Norwegian winter, starting October 14th! Poor dears.
https://www.yr.no/artikkel/primstaven_-arets-forste-vinterdag-1.6815525

Man, I was just being a little cheeky and inadvertently created a discussion. Sorry about that.

Winter unfortunately has a lot of definitions, depending on context.

Astronomical winter is the period between the Winter Solstice and the March equinox, with the Winter Solstice being the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.

Then the meteorological definition varies wildly, for instance here in Sweden the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute defines winter as being started when you have five days in a row below 0°C, meaning some years certain parts of Sweden can effectively "skip" winter and go straight from autumn to spring.

Finally you have linguistic and colloquial definitions which of course are a lot more vague. For instance in Gothenburg we really just kinda decide when it is winter based on how we feel about the weather and how dark it is outside. For reference, today the sun rose at 8:25 and set at 15:34 giving ~7 hours of daylight.

But I'm thinking Arcanum, which is at a temptingly low price of less than CDN $2, and maybe Psychroma, which looks intriguing.

Arcanum is so amazing, but you kinda have to accept it's a bit older and has that typical Troika/Obsidian jank. Of note: if you decide to try a persuasion build, don't expect conversations to suddenly have a big **PERSUADE** disclaimed option. The persuasion options are regular conversation options which are always present, they just don't work unless you have the skill (and sometimes the stats) to make them work.