I ended up buying stuff after complaining there was nothing I wanted because I always do that. More importantly though, before the sale I was gifted Jurassic World Evolution by a kind person from here; and during the sale I was gifted
Bloody Spell after I saw it mentioned in one of the reddit steam sale threads and expressed interest in it on a discord. Nobody had heard of it or played it but after some digging and watching streamers playing it, a friend bought a copy for himself and also for me, so those two games are currently at the top of my list of games to play.
Sorry Inmate, I genuinely meant to fire up Death's Gambit and give you an opinion on it but then I genuinely meant to play it when I bought it months ago too, so... maybe before the next sale? I did install it though, that is a start..
Now for the stuff I bought myself and therefore will never play:
I picked up a few bits of DLC for games I already had and the DLC for Kingdom Come Deliverance because of the monthly bundle.
868-Hack which matched its all time low and doesn't go on sale that often.
I finally bit the bullet on
Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded-, a rogue-like that has a lot of mechanics that sound interesting and is compared favorably in some ways to the Shiren games which are wonderful (and need to be on Steam) but which also has one quality I strongly dislike (all characters/monsters are girls... I like some monster variety) but ultimately I decided if I liked the mechanics I'd play it enough that the monsters would blend into the background. After a couple hundred hours running into a Balrog in Angband does lose the wow factor anyway. If it annoys the shit out of me it can be my stupid purchase of the
year month last few days.
Been meaning to play the Trails in the Sky series for ages so I picked up TiTS 3 and vowed to actually play the damn games. Same with Banner Saga 3.
I also picked up
TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival, a shmup that I do not already own elsewhere so it will actually get played soon enough that I'll know if I want to get the sequel in the next sale. I picked up a few cheap games that actually seemed to be well-received like Bean Battles, Mushroom Quest, Neo Neo, Feral Fury and that dog golf game because why the hell not.
Tee Time Golf was a whim purchase because people were comparing it to another casual golf game that I had a lot of dumb fun with so again why not.
Monolith I recently played and liked it a lot so it was a no-brainer,
Flood of Light and
Lethis - Path of Progress have been in my cart the last four or five sales and I keep not buying either because they seem like interesting but flawed games, I decided this time to just buy them and satisfy my curiosity.
Soda Girls,
Strike Vector EX,
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build and
Recursed were similar, tired of waiting for bundles and would buy them eventually anyway.
Psycho Starship Rampage just looked weird enough for me to want to try it.
Neoverse because nitro = bad influence,
Everspace because it seemed like the right price plus you can only be told "get it get it get it" so many times before spending the gabenbux is just easier than getting stupid Discord notifications,
Heat Signature because I've watched it for a while and it was in one of those "complete the bundle" packages that dropped it low enough for me to not care if it ended up being in the next Monthly or something,
GRIDD: Retroenhanced because I'm pretty sure it will let me relive that time in my early twenties when I stayed up watching a Miami Vice Marathon for way too long while on a trip to another plane, it changed me man. Either that or because I am a sucker for that a game that looks like someone wanted to make it in the 80s but the technology wasn't there just yet and still they never gave up and finally here it is. It looks neat.
Might have bought something else, that is all I can think of. Oh... Gris, Along the Edge and Ghost of a Tale from Nuuvem. Gris is another game I wanted to fakey but decided to wait on a bundle then caved anyway and bought it and will now play it sometime after it gets bundled.
At the end of the day? If I didn't often suffer from insomnia I probably wouldn't have bought anything.
https://youtu.be/CGtf9QfITQw
And yes I have work I should be doing but don't want to do so I decided to make a toaster-length post about my Steam purchases instead.
ers.
