What to get in the summer sale?

[Detective Keaton]

I am relatively new to steam, and I want to build a good collection during the summer sale

I am not sure where to start, so I would like some suggestions of what to get

I like all types of games, so I am open to trying anything? Thanks in advance

[YouGotOwned]

Torchlight 2, for sure. Best. Game. Ever. Try out the Demo now! :)

[Simon Dufour]

Get things only if they're part of the daily deals. If they're not part of the daily, either wait for them to be or wait till the very last day. That's my suggestion.

[GRIMland]

I agree with BoomWav. Many of the games will have a base sale price of 33%, but daily deals and other specials will give you a better deal. Patience is key

[Valeriaan]

That depends on your personal taste, really. A good option might be to look in the Steam Store for games in a particular genre (for example "action" or "strategy") and then arranging them according to Metacritic score.

This isn't 100% watertight, though - there are not a few games on Steam which haven't been put into any category and as such don't show up on a search using selective criteria.

Another idea is to check people's profiles for games - there are some people (especially Steam moderators and admins) who have a couple hundred to a couple thousand games in their library and from there you can easily click through on the ones that seem interesting to you.

Here are a few suggestions to start off with. Bear in mind that this is heavily subjective (biased towards my own taste which doesn't necessarily correspond with your own) and by no means comprehensive. I mean, there's thousands of games on Steam, and many of them are worth checking out, I can't possibly include them all here.

In no particular order:

Action

- Call of Duty Series
- Battlefield Series
- Counterstrike Series
- Doom, Quake, etc.
- Deux Ex Series
- Mafia II
- Payday: the Heist (and Payday 2)
- Call of Juarez series
- Borderlands 1 & 2
- Saint's Row 2 & 3
- Grand Theft Auto Series
- Tom Clancy Series
- Hitman Series
- Arma & Arma II
- Sniper Elite
- Far Cry Series
- Crysis Series
- Just Cause 2
- Dead Island 1 & 2
- Dead Space 1 & 2
- Dishonored

Role playing game

- Baldur's gate (unfortunately only the first one is currently on Steam, I like the second one best of all)
- Elder Scrolls Series
- Witcher 1 & 2
- Fallout Series
- Mass Effect series
- Overlord Series
- Metro 2033 & Metro: Last Light
- Bioshock
- Sacred & Sacred 2
- Gothic Series
- Fable Series
- Mount & Blade (& Warband etc.)
- Game of Thrones
- Darksiders 1 & 2
- Torchlight 2

Real-time Strategy

- Company of Heroes 1 & 2
- Dawn of War 1 & 2
- Men at War Series
- Europa Universalis Series
- Crusader Kings 1 & 2
- Victoria 1 & 2
- Hearts of Iron 1 & 2
- Age of Empires 2 & 3
- Battlestations: pacific
- Silent Hunter Series
- Settlers Series
- Grand Ages: Rome
- Sengoku
- Stronghold Series (don't get the last one, though)
- Nexus: the Jupiter Incident

Turn-based Strategy

- Total War Series
- Civilization Series
- Heroes of Might and Magic Series (mix of Strategy & RPG elements)

Simulators

- Euro Truck Simulator
- DCS: A-10 Warthog (and the other Digital Combat Simulator which I can't remember the name for the life of me)
- Train Simulator 2013 (only get thiswhen heavily discounted!)

Indie

- Machinarium
- Dear Esther (look up the premise first, though, this isn't for everyone)
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
- The whispered world
- The Darkness
- Primordia
- Sang-froid: tales of werewolves
- Reus
- Dust: an Elysian Tail
- Eador: masters of the broken world
- 7 Grand Steps: Step 1
- Deponia and Chaos on Deponia
- Runaway
- Limbo
- Aquaria
- Night of the Rabbit
- The next big thing
- Bastion

- Etc.

This list is by no means complete at all, there's thousands of game out there. I'm sure I forgot to include some really obvious choices, and (again) it's heavily biased towards my own personal taste in games.

[Viking]

Anything Valve obviously, portal and games like that are pretty damn fun and will be on sale at a couple points for next to nothing

[schnitzeljaeger]

I'd start with the classics and work my way to the new games. That way you can save a lot of money because you'll be years behind :D

This doesn't apply for new multiplayer-based games obviously - they'll probably be dead then.

[A Gelatinous Cube-Z-]

BUY ALL THE GAMES!!

[S5S]

Remember Me, pl0x.

[bean]

Checklist:
To get good deals. Regardless of genre/game you want

1- Only buy daily deals or midweek/weekend madnesses, this is the best way to get games cheap.... during sales or normal days... Ive bought maybe 4-5 games outside of a daily deal or crazy sale... and they were games that I JUST HAD to have immediately, or came with great deals (example, bioshock infinite preorder, 3 games for the price of 1...and unique HATS!)

2- Sometimes the daily deal will sneak in cruddy games, dont always trust the daily deal.

3-Go for old PC hit-games first, find out what you are missing out on, plus, they're cheaper...

4- In my experience, if a game goes on "seasonal sale x or y" then within that sale, there will be a daily deal for it... THIS is the moment to buy AAA titles... not before... not after... otherwise you WILL pay alot more... it doesnt seem like it, but lets say its a 50 dollar game...
50% off 25 $
66% around 17 $
75% off... 12.50 $
Its happened to everyone who buys games on Steam or other dds... you bought it last night at 50% or less, and today its 75% off or more :/ and had you waited you coulda bought 2

*Again, my experience, but it seems like as a rule... if a AAA game has tons of released DLC, it sees tons of discounts/sales... If a game has yet to release all its DLC, there will be very few sales... unless its related to the release of new DLC...

** Dev/publisher bundles** can be really amazing-blow your mind great deals, but usually they suck... but every so often you find the good ones... good luck!

5 ***daily deal usual suspects*** There are certain games that are constantly getting daily deals, learn them... a seperate thread could be made to list them all, so i wont... but you have to see which games get deals often and which dont... for example... Just Cause 2 and Sts Row are very often found as daily deals... whereas I saw a 50% off witcher deal and skipped it thinking it would go on sale again... a year went by before it was back on sale

(btw Just Cause 2 is a VERY welll made PC game, 3 bucks gets you a great game and an AWESOME benchmark that Hardware reviewers love to use. great sandbox game and WHENEVER i update my rig the first game I go to check is Just Cause 2... its not as demanding as others (metro 2033-Batman AA) but it is MUCH MORE reliable... every game has bugs, but JC2 has few, and is reliable when used as a constant)

and then there is Valve... not many games but all are great in their own right... as far as online multiplayer they have some of the best/most populated games (TF2, l4d2, l4d, HL2 deathmatch, DOTA) I dont play these games at all, because Im more into singleplayer games, but Half Life is by far one of the best game series ever created... and I dont just say this becasue of the hype behind it, metacritic and IGN are the equivalent of store brand toilet paper in my home... I say it becasue its the truth! unless you dont like FPS at all, you are going to enjoy HL, if you haven't already

Sorry for the block of text, but i hope it helps

[racr]

farmsimulator

[Hølland601]

get just caus 2 it will probly be like 2$ and it is very much like gta 4

[Robobinobo]

/pray for cheap bioshock infinite

[schnitzeljaeger]

RaveAnthem님이 먼저 게시:

Yea, I heard some (many?) review sites are paid or skewed toward positive scores.

How/Where do you get real opinions on games?

I can recommend RockPaperShotgun and to a lesser degree Eurogamer. Also, TotalBiscuit on youtube is quite good.

edit: You should follow a few of those sites to see if they match your opinions on the games you already have.

[JatFant]

I will get Deadpool

[Smurky Turkey]

Anything that looks slightly interesting with 75% of.