alright, i'm caffeinated and hydrated, so once again, it's time for a steam sale rec thread.
as ever, i focus primarily on lesser known and/or older titles as big name titles don't need the help and i like getting people to try new shit.
so, onwards!
as ever, i focus primarily on lesser known and/or older titles as big name titles don't need the help and i like getting people to try new shit.
so, onwards!
Treachery in Beatdown City ($12.99) - a semi-turn based beat 'em up/RPG, and easily one of my faves of 2020. a perfectly tuned, brilliant dissection, evolution and fusion of RPG and beat 'em up systems to make one killer title. fight somebody! https://store.steampowered.com/app/762180/Treachery_in_Beatdown_City/
i want so badly to sell you on Treachery in Beatdown City i'm gonna take a second tweet here to include the trailer featuring a killer track by mike eagle, 2mello, and inverse phase. seriously, TiBC is worth it.
Signs of the Sojourner ($16.99) - also already one of the best games of 2020. A narrative deck builder in a not too far off world, where you navigate conversations with cards. You take over your mother's store after her death, and life goes from there. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058690/Signs_of_the_Sojourner/
Hypnospace Outlaw ($14.99) - my top game of 2019. you're a moderator for an alternate universe geocities-esque 90s internet that can only be accessed in your sleep. surf and investigate a beautifully realized faux-cyberspace. funny, beautiful, bittersweet. https://store.steampowered.com/app/844590/Hypnospace_Outlaw/
Strange Telephone ($3.49) - this one's for the yume nikki fans. you are a girl who awakens in a world with nothing but a floating door before her. use a living telephone, Graham, that can 'dial' into other dimensions to find a way out as you explore. https://store.steampowered.com/app/705290/Strange_Telephone/
Pizza Express ($0.69, nice) - one of the best light sims out there at a dirt cheap price! Cook, Serve, Delicious meets Pizza Tycoon with a bopping soundtrack and a story mode of furries building their way to the top of the pizza empire! fast and addicting! https://store.steampowered.com/app/375250/Pizza_Express/
Yoku's Island Express ($3.99) - a pinball metroidvania featuring the cutest dung beetle you ever did see, who is the new postmaster of mokumana island. pinball your way around the island to deliver mail, solve puzzles, and even fight! https://store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Yokus_Island_Express/
The Shivah ($1.49) - another rec thread, which means another rec of The Shivah. a murder mystery featuring a down on his luck rabbi who has fallen into a suspicious, massive windfall he needs to get to the bottom of, while confronting his own past. https://store.steampowered.com/app/252370/The_Shivah/
Long Gone Days ($11.24) - a modern day military RPG, with a heavy focus on language and cultural barriers. people are the focus much more than the combat here - there are no random battles, and keeping morale up is crucial. still in development. https://store.steampowered.com/app/510540/Long_Gone_Days/
Ancient Enemy ($11.24) - the latest story driven solitaire RPG from the great minds at Grey Alien Games! play through a highly modified combat version of solitaire to win battles on a scarred world! Slay the Spire and Puzzle Quest fans, give it a look! https://store.steampowered.com/app/993790/Ancient_Enemy/
i also highly recommend their previous two solitaire games, Shadowhand and Regency Solitaire, which you can get for $3.74 and $2.49 on their own apart, or $13.10 together with Ancient Enemy! a steal, imo! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6129/Superb_Solitaire/
The Lion's Song ($3.99) - a beautiful adventure game set in 20th century austria. you play a different life in each episode, with all of them intertwining back together at the end. emotional, vulnerable, caring. https://store.steampowered.com/sub/106294/
Spark the Electric Jester ($5.59) - a retro style platformer that's not satisfied with just having one big influence, it brings in Sonic, Kirby, and Mega Man, smashing them all together into one hell of a package. has a killer soundtrack too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/601810/Spark_the_Electric_Jester/
The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa - ($7.49) - the combat of River City Ransom fuses with the idle wandering of Shenmue to bring you a tale of high school delinquent having a quiet existential crisis in their last year. chill beats to punch to. a personal fave. https://store.steampowered.com/app/846110/The_friends_of_Ringo_Ishikawa/
Arrest of a Stone Buddha - the latest from the creator of Ringo Ishikawa, now the material being fused with lonely, long moments of personal reflection is... John Woo movies. forewarning: it's not a 50/50 balance of quiet to bloodshed. slower moods here. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151120/Arrest_of_a_stone_Buddha/
i'll throw in the moody trailer for Arrest of a Stone Buddha to help you get a better feel for it, though again: there's gonna be less combat than you think. long moments to breathe and think about the world wrapped around frantically unloading on people.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] ($4.99) - an update of a 1987 game that never existed. an incredibly stylish prince of persia/out of this world inspired platformer in a moody, deadly, incredibly animated CGA colored sci-fi world. https://store.steampowered.com/app/963450/The_Eternal_Castle_REMASTERED/
The Mummy Demastered ($9.99) - hey, remember The Mummy (2017)? oh you only remember it for that trailer with like no sound? huh. yeah, me too. well, it had a tie-in game that's like a combination of Contra with a metroidvania and it actually fucking rules? https://store.steampowered.com/app/630310/The_Mummy_Demastered/
Sine Mora EX ($1.99) - a story driven SHMUP about time traveling furries fighting a war they cannot win, going through the motions of a tragedy they cannot stop. fantastic soundtrack by akira yamaoka (!). play with the Hungarian voice acting on, i insist. https://store.steampowered.com/app/606730/Sine_Mora_EX/
Californium ($2.79) - a strange, psychedelic homage to Philip K. Dick, placing you in the shoes of a writer who is not only having an existential crisis, but is also rapidly being warped back and forth through both space and time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/402060/Californium/
Heart&Slash ($3.89) - a 3D roguelite brawler with a distinctly Mega Man Legends influence, fight your way through always changing dungeons as the innocent robot Heart, unlocking new weapons, new abilities, and more as you keep trying to reach the end. https://store.steampowered.com/app/326840/HeartSlash/
Cthulhu Mythos RPG - The Sleeping Girl of the Miasma Sea ($2.99) - a loving tribute to the original survival horror game, Sweet Home. a group of teens must work their way through a haunted mansion and survive long enough to uncover its bloody secrets. https://store.steampowered.com/app/938240/Cthulhu_Mythos_RPG_The_Sleeping_Girl_of_the_Miasma_Sea/
Starship Titanic ($1.49) - hey, did you know douglas adams once wrote a text parser sci-fi comedy adventure game with a stunningly and thoroughly in-depth dialog system and monty python voice actors like john cleese
"do what now"
well now you do https://store.steampowered.com/app/467290/Starship_Titanic/
"do what now"
well now you do https://store.steampowered.com/app/467290/Starship_Titanic/
Dandara ($5.99) - a wonderful atmospheric metroidvania with an utterly unique form of movement, having you flip from surface to surface to get around. made by brazilian devs who pull heavily, fantastically from their history and art. https://store.steampowered.com/app/612390/Dandara_Trials_of_Fear_Edition/
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor ($2.49) - one of my favorite games, ever, period. in a world full of spacefaring adventurers, you are the one who cleans their trash and dreams of having more - while haunted by a screaming skull. beautiful, bittersweet. https://store.steampowered.com/app/436500/Diaries_of_a_Spaceport_Janitor/
killer7 ($9.99) - suda51's incredible and incredibly bizarre adventure/shooter/??? game. take on the consciousness of a collective of assassins fighting living, screaming bombs called 'Heaven Smile', w/a surreal story that explains less than Dark Souls. https://store.steampowered.com/app/868520/killer7/
okay, that's enough for now! i might come back later tonight to add more recs, but i'll definitely be adding more as the sale goes on till the end. hope you found something new and interesting for yourself!
if you feel like throwing me a coupla bones for the recs, i do have a sale of my own going on at itchio now for my pack of creepy local maine photography... https://spacetwinks.itch.io/a-place-without-bodies
or if you bizarrely feel like giving me money just cuz, i also have a ko-fi.
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