Steam Deals and Digital Sales

Breach&Clear; which means I've taken more money out of the Holiday sell than I've put into it and essentially gotten another free game paid for by the community.

Spark_sl said:

If anyone is interested, there's a turn-based RPG called Avernum: Escape From the Pit on sale for $2. Definitely a low budget game but I'm finding it to be quite enjoyable for the $$.

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It's a series. Think there's 8. Great ultima era crpgs.

Final tally from the XMas sale:

1. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut (gift)
2. Dying Light (gift)
3. Guild of Dungeoneering
4. The Beginner's Guide
5. Pillars of Eternity
6. Technobabylon
7. Odallus the Dark Call
8. Serpent in the Staglands
9. Victor Vran
10. Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
11. Shadowrun Hong Kong
12. Invisible Inc.

This probably still counts as the Steam XMas sale I've gotten the least out of.

I only bought Cities: Skyline and the expansion this sale.

i bought talos principle cuz it was like $5 after the 50% coupon from a humble bundle. usually i spend $20-50, I have almost $300 in steam credit (from idling cards) too. fuck this new sale format, i loved the old flash sales, glitches, votes, 18-24 hours to make a decision, and all that shit

I didn't buy any games on Steam this sale. Pretty sad times we live in.

Cities: Skylines + After Dark expansion
Endless Legend expansions
Don't Starve - Reign of Giants/Shipwrecked

spronk_sl said:

i bought talos principle cuz it was like $5 after the 50% coupon from a humble bundle. usually i spend $20-50, I have almost $300 in steam credit (from idling cards) too. fuck this new sale format, i loved the old flash sales, glitches, votes, 18-24 hours to make a decision, and all that shit

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I don't know what the fuck to do with these cards. I don't think I ever participated in any sales with collectibles.

install steam inventory manager for chrome
go to your inventory
click on select multiple items (sell?) and select 50 cards, sell em all. if you try to sell more than 50 items at a time in the marketplace you you have to give steam your SSN and shit

i run idlemaster to idle all my new bundle games, for indiegala and bundlestars it pretty much means i am paying 10-20c a game but i end up with a massive steam wallet

Intrinsic_sl said:

Idle Master - Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way

Steam inventory helper - Chrome Web Store

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I should really take advantage of this, considering I've got a good number of games with trading cards. Idle master says it just 'simulates' you being in game, so you don't even need to download and install the games then?

Yeah but it counts as "played time" so you will probably not be able to refund.

If you buy a game that you think you might refund, you can add it to the blacklist so that it will not get idled.

Postponed buying games last couple sales and did my splurging:

Wolfenstein New Order
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Broforce
Shadow Warrior
Helldivers
Talos Principle

Didn't expect to burn through Talos Principle to full completion but easily became one of the best games I've ever played, was not prepared for that incredibly tight blend of gameplay/story/OST. Can't recommend that game enough.
Picked up the DLC, Road to Ghenna, though won't get my hopes up for being as good as the main game.

Side Note: Their was an active ARG going on with the wintersale cards/comic as well that only got half solved but some interesting stuff came out of it. Part of it gave out a Red Herring steam badge and some clues talking about monitoring stations in the arctic so might have some Valve stuff coming up at CES or at least something brewing.