The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Modron]

So you don't get keys anymore?

Pretty sure they stopped doing key giveaways for free games 2 or more years ago because of resellers and their bots.

 

[Sceptic]

That's not entirely true. You can still get free keys, and you can still even give the keys away (I gave the Civ 3 key I got from the giveaway last month since I already had the game). You just need to have a Steam account to get the key and you can only get one key per account. I'm sure that's their steps to prevent resellers and bots, and I don't know how effective it is because I don't know if you can just keep making throaway Steam accounts to farm keys, but as an individual who wants one key for myself or for a friend if I already have the game I don't feel much of a difference from a free-for-all giveaway.

 

[Abu Antar]

What? I get keys like usual.

 

[Outlander]

With IGN's acquisition of Humble Bundle, I saw a reason to unlink my Steam account from Humble Bundle a couple of weeks back.

As if on cue, you must now link a Steam account to your Humble Bundle account in order to get the game.

So no free game for me, but people might want to keep an eye out what other "services" Humble Bundle will revoke in the future.

Well, it's pretty much done the way Sceptic explained it. If you want the game, I still haven't redeemed my key, so you can have it.
It seems that either I can't send pms or can't find the dedicated button(which is somewhat embarrassing) so just suggest some way of getting the key to you.

Click on his username and then on 'Start a Conversation'.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Thanks but no thanks, I'm good.

 

[Gerrard]

As if on cue, you must now link a Steam account to your Humble Bundle account in order to get the game.

Fake news. You had to have your Steam account linked to get free games since before the IGN thing.

 

[LESS T_T]

Next Interplay re-release is Titus' Prehistorik:

And the second game is coming next week:



Along with Subwar 2050:

 

[Country_Gravy]

Is Subwar 2050 the sequel to Roadwar 2000?

 

[4249]

Is there a sale incoming or something? At least I can't find the weeklong deals, which is usually a sign of that.

 

[Jinn]

Is there a sale incoming or something? At least I can't find the weeklong deals, which is usually a sign of that.

Probably a Thanksgiving sale or some shit.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Is there a sale incoming or something? At least I can't find the weeklong deals, which is usually a sign of that.

Probably a Thanksgiving sale or some shit.

IIRC a week-long Thanksgiving sale will hit this week.

 

[Zombra]

Is there a sale incoming or something? At least I can't find the weeklong deals, which is usually a sign of that.

Count on something for Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

 

[LESS T_T]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...een-black-friday-and-winter-sale-dates-leaked

Steam Halloween, Black Friday and Winter sale dates leaked

Start and end dates for the Steam Halloween, Black Friday and Winter sales have been leaked on Reddit, and we've independently corroborated them as correct.

The remaining Steam sales in 2017 are:

• Steam Halloween Sale: Thursday 26th October to Wednesday 1st November
• Steam Black Friday Sale: Wednesday 22nd November to Tuesday 28th
• Steam Winter Sale: Thursday 21st December to Thursday 4th January 2018

Remember, Steam no longer does flash sales so discounts last the duration. Also remember there will be rival sales at places like GOG during similar periods. Spend wisely.

Leaked per Russian tradition?

 

[LESS T_T]

Another day at Steam.


Cornflakestein, shoot your milk to those damn Nazi flakes!:

This Russian dev is sensible enough to support German language.



Welcome to Orochi Park, and hey you can romance Kelly from Mass Effect:

An interactive fiction adventure-strategy parody. Send agents on missions, build your base, research superweapons and buy units. Along the way, unlock occult mysteries. Plus romance Kelly from Mass Effect. You can play the demo for free. The full game releases 2019.

Key Features

• A parody of Mass Effect and The Secret World
  
• Deep adventure-strategy gameplay
  
• Detailed interactive fiction

A Parody of Mass Effect and The Secret World
Romance Kelly from Mass Effect and BioWare's Favorite Redhead (definitely not the same person). Solve conspiracy-laden occult mysteries. Resist the urge to buy Conan Exiles.

Deep Adventure-Strategy Gameplay
Every turn, send agents to gather weapons and forge alliances. Set strategic priorities in the doomsday bunker in five locations - the War Room, the Armoury, the Barracks, the Library and the Black Market.

Detailed interactive fiction
Welcome to Orochi Park features detailed art and a compelling story that's fully voice acted. Hundreds of strategic choices lead to 20 color-coded endings. All slightly different.

Way of Defector, escape North Korea. No, this is not a joke game:

Lives of real North Korean defectors

Do you see North Korea simply as an Axis of Evil or a country to make fun of? But the lives of real North Koreans are far from evil or comical.

Way of Defector is a board game through which you experience the process of a North Korean defector escaping to China and arriving in South Korea. You must overcome starvation and break through the surveillance of the Public Security Officers to find the broker who knows the way to get to South Korea and safely arrive at the destination.

Choose from various scenarios based on true stories to create your own defection story.

Game Features

• 
  Scenario based on a true storyExperience the real life of a defector through a scenario written based on an actual memoir of a North Korean defector.
• Your own story, not a predefined scenario
  Create your own escape story from North Korea through a changing scenario based on your own choices, instead of playing a game determined by a specified scenario.
  
• North Korean defectors with diverse stories and abilities
  North Korean defectors escaped from North Korea due to various reasons. They possess abilities accumulated over their lifetime and must go to South Korea using these abilities.
  
• Survival and growth of North Korean defectors
  Keep your character alive and escape by averting the surveillance of the Public Security Officers and hunger.

 

[Don Peste]

The Russians have been releasing a bunch of Wolf3D clones in the past few months. It seems they're using this Raycasting Game Maker engine to quickly put up a game and upload it to the Store. Just like others use RPG Maker.

The Raycasting Game Maker is a free easy to use game editor that creates simple raycasting games in the style of Wolf3D. The finished game needs only two files to run, an executable and a pak file with the game data. The game runs in Windowed- or Fullscreen Mode and supports 16 and 32 bit color.
I don't know who the makers of RGM are, I'm just adding it to ModDB as I made a game using it.

 

[Ezeekiel]

I used to browse the new games section every now and again, but after they opened the floodgates it got worse and worse. Looking right now, it's literally 99% shovelware/asset flips/clones/cellphone trash/babies first coding experience.

Where does this crap come from?

Does the shovelware industry eclipses the actual video game industry utterly?
Or maybe I should rephrase that question to: "Does the low-budget shovelware industry eclipse the high-budget(AAA) shovelware industry?"

Somewhere in China or Siberia or Africa or wherever must be half a million weirdos busy churning out this crap ad nauseum. The volume is staggering.

 

[LESS T_T]

Dead Space animu on Steam:





For a moment I thought EA is back on Steam. But there's also a bundle of animu and games. So that's that.

 

[Latelistener]

The second link is:

Error
Unable to load information about this item.

 

[LESS T_T]

The second link is:

Error
Unable to load information about this item.

Yeah, that's Dead Space: Aftermath. For some strange reasons Aftermath is only available in US while Downfall is available in most regions.

 

[Don Peste]

Nominated Fallout 1.

It has returned. There's a Steam Awards Nomination Committee 2017 badge on your Steam profile now.

 

[Outlander]

Mafia is back on Steam!



Although it's the new, soundtrack-less version. However, here's a fix for that: https://af.gog.com/forum/mafia/tutorial_how_to_restore_the_original_music?as=1649904300

 

[LESS T_T]

Super Seducer, "an FMV dating simulation with a huge twist. Equal parts entertainment and learning, this is the ultimate test of your real-world seduction skills."

Made by an actual "seduction training company."

SpyParty, a vaporware competitive espionage game where one player is a spy pretending to be an NPC and other is a sniper who has to find and kill the spy.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[AwesomeButton]

Super Seducer, "an FMV dating simulation with a huge twist. Equal parts entertainment and learning, this is the ultimate test of your real-world seduction skills."

Made by an actual "seduction training company."

SpyParty, a vaporware competitive espionage game where one player is a spy pretending to be an NPC and other is a sniper who has to find and kill the spy.

A huge... twist. If you know what I mean.

 

[Azalin]

Let the games begin,the Autumn Steam Sale has just started