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Are there games you love, games you think are under-appreciated, or games you think area great price?

What games from this sale would you most recommend?

(and I'm wanting your thoughts... not recommendations for myself. just please try and keep it to current Summer Sale games)
Just finished Wolfenstein The New Order (first time through). Fair bit of replayability.
Glad to say it was far less run n gun than I expected - though its an option as well (actually well balanced for different takes on things).
Really enjoyed it though the ending wasnt as good as it could be for my tastes.
Will be giving The Old Blood a go tomorrow given time as I bought the two pack.
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kai2: Are there games you love, games you think are under-appreciated, or games you think area great price?

What games from this sale would you most recommend?

(and I'm wanting your thoughts... not recommendations for myself. just please try and keep it to current Summer Sale games)
That’s hard to answer. My wish list of lost sales has expanded a fair bit over the sale, and there has been some good titles added. For example:
Sleeping Dogs - possibly the best GTA out there (The Saboteur being a close second).
After that, dying light is still one of the best here.
Hard West
The Messenger
Dex
Yoku's Island Express
Dead Cells
Pinstripe
FlatOut 2 - It's still my favorite arcade racer. I actually tried Bugbear's Wreckfest recently thanks to Game Pass, and it feels so different (not in a good way) it's hard to believe it was made by the same devs.
Into The Breach Small mechs, big tactics.
Oh, man... where to I even start?

Ghost of a Tale - becaus I always recommend it to anyone who will listen, because it's the greatest, most beautiful, smart, charming, unique golden little miracle of a game and a masterclass of worldbuilding.

Apotheon - fantastic graphics, unique mood, great gameplay. One of the best games I ever bought on GOG.

The Journey Down - one of the best, funniest point & click adventure games I played. Great voice acting, super likeable protagonist, nice graphics, good puzzles.

Pyre - very unique world, overall very original, great graphics and music

Chains of Satinav and Memoria - hands down the two best point & clicks I know. Superb story, mood, writing, puzzles. 12/10, games of the year, all years.

My Memory of Us - great puzzle game, simple gameplay, but a very well done, touching story, clever and well told, with some very poignant moments and further enhanced with narration by Patrick Stewart.

Thronebreaker - a game I initially ignored, turned out to be a great little CCG/RPG hybrid. Very, very good story, nice graphics, surprisingly good use of Gwent as a battle system. Must have for anyone who liked the Witcher games.

Jydge - very neat, fast, highly customisable action game. Smart mayhem instead of mindless mayhem.

Hand of Fate - a great unique idea, mixing collectable card game, board game, choose your own adventure style RPG and TPP action. All wrapped up with great, consistant atmosphere.

The Bard's Tale - one of the funniest comedy games I played, still highly playable and a great pardoy of RPG tropes. Plus, all the songs!

And that's barely the start of it...
I'll have to think more on my own question, but at the moment...

... stealth games...

The Styx series. Both games are great fun. They have a few rough edges but are solid fantasy stealth games... and quite often rather cheap (price). Yes, I think the GOG versions are missing co-op, but IMO that's not a necessity to enjoying this series.

Aragami
. While it took me some time to warm up to the game, magically traveling from shadow to shadow and doing the ninja-thing -- assassinating enemies -- becomes good fun. Now, this isn't Tenchu or Shinobido -- it's instead a game mainly about manipulating shadows and traveling between them without being seen -- but it works and -- even though the story is simple -- I quite enjoyed how the game wrapped up. Again, this game has been quite cheap recently.
Post edited June 18, 2021 by kai2
Just checked out the ' on sale button ' from the micro menu and 2 games literally instantly popped out.

Dragons Age : Origins and Sleeping Dogs

Both offer quite the decent graphics with a pretty decent story
I really liked Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure. It's a horror/comedy point and click. Maybe a bit on the easy side but still fun.
Grim Dawn is $22 for the Definitive Edition (all the gameplay bits; missing 2 cosmetic DLCs). It's by far the best entry in its genre (ARPG, as popularized by Diablo).
I think it's worthy to support Ys games if you are into action jrpg with a positive vibe towards rescuing the problems of those worlds you are in, pretty much straight forward heroism.
Not long ago i started playing them and beat Ys I and II chronicles+ (had bumper combat) then Ys origin, Ys oath in felghana(which does have some hard bosses) and now i am playing Ys the ark of Napishtim which will be the last Ys game i am playing on this old pc.
I really liked how action based they were and how the bosses worked, how i had to evade attacks and then attack.
The voice acting in Oath in Felghana is nice.
Also the games don't require too much time to beat, if you want to increase those completed games in your library, but i still found it worthy, even though it could get hard so you gotta git gud.
Post edited June 18, 2021 by Fonzer
Streets of Rogue is the best stealth/heist game that everyone seems to try to play like an Enter the Gungeon clone. (Even with the classes that are built for shooting/hitting your problems away, you're going to have a hard time if you don't assess the situation first and consider alternative options.)
It's also one of the most customizable procgen-'n'-permadeath games I've played. The permadeath itself isn't optional -- though there is a "mutator" you can enable that will give you a certain number of continues before game over -- but there are lots of other options and mutators and playable characters and customizable trait and reward loadouts and a custom character creator, all of which add up to make it pretty highly replayable.

There's also a demo (pretty much just a very old pre-release build, AFAICT) on itch.
Fates of Ort, Frostpunk GOTY, Pilgrims, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Liittle Misfortune, Suzerain.

Point and Click adventures: Anna's Quest, Chains of Satinav + Memoria, Silence.

Also, if you're into metroidvanias don't forget about Ori and the Blind Forest. I don't personally care for platforming/metroidvanias, but it's a beautiful game that was reduced to $4.99 and doesn't go on sale anymore.
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Swissy88: Also, if you're into metroidvanias don't forget about Ori and the Blind Forest. I don't personally care for platforming/metroidvanias, but it's a beautiful game that was reduced to $4.99 and doesn't go on sale anymore.
Another great time to curse Microsoft's name for denying us the sequel.