What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale?

Covid.

Grabbed the mass effect series for under a fiver. Played for a few hours and realized I was not enjoying it at all.

In total, the only 2 games I've gotten that I know we're part of the sail were Sonic Origins (with DLC) and Sonic Mania (with DLC). Would be playing them more if I wasn't having to message Steam back and forth trying to get an issue with my deck fixed, though.

Exit the Gungeon (It's meh) Okami Axiom Verge Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (That didn't work for me, refunded) Fight Knight (Might refund, it's not fun) New Super Lucky's Tale (2 in 1, remaster and original. Cool)

I misread that as enter the gungeon and got confused. But yeah exit the gungeon is a mobile game so it's mid to low tier.
I don't know whether I have the original or remaster, but I personally believe New Super Lucky's Tale is a pretty fun game.

Nothing. Everything its too expensive in argentina now

I bought Reka and Baldurs Gate 3, haven't played BG3 yet but Reka is fun! It's buggy so I'm holding off on playing more until it's a bit more stable but I'm excited. Been playing a bit of my backlog though before jumping into BG3.

Finally got Tunic. I'm pretty happy 6 h in!

Same. That and Pizza Tower.

Actually nothing this time. I got back into Elite Dangerous hard and play it pretty much every minute of my gaming time currently.

Outpost Infinity, Executive Assault and something that was cheap and on my wishlist for a long time, totalling BRL 89 (~15 dollars)

Tactical Breach Wizards. It's a nice little puzzle game with some dry humor that ive actually chuckled too a few times. Its a lot of fun so far.

Firewatch
Alice Madness Returns
Alan Awake
It Takes Two
Kingdom Two Crowns

Nothing. It was a difficult choice, but it was a necessary sacrifice in favor of the games, collecting dust in my library :*-)

Wanted to play It Takes Two with my gf when it launched. Hoping to convince her now that she's my wife

Played it with my wife. We both agreed the gameplay is great but the story is awful. We disagreed that they should stay together in the end.
Oh It Takes Two is a good one! Played it with my partner a while back and had a great time!
It Takes Two is an amazing couples game that my girlfriend refuses to play again because of one scene lol
- That damned elephant?
This is my favorite game ever!!! Enjoy the experience.

I recently learned about "From the depths" because of Martincintopants Video about it. Yesterday evening I saw, that it was 50% off and bought it immediately.

Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk. Never played either one, but I'm starting with Stardew

Really really wanted to like Stardew, but oh my god, so much walking around! Could've really done with an ebike
- You can get a horse and there are lot's of QoL mods for the game
I wish I could play Cyberpunk for the first time again. Enjoy! Did you see the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners? Would highly recommend.

Spiritfarer: Farewell edition, Celeste and Stardew valley.

Highly recommend using cream installer or some other dlc grabber, I think it runs for like $500 if you buy all the dlc.

Noita!

Also the Dead Cells DLCs.

Noita is easily the best game released in few years, great buy!

I personally grabbed quite few beers

The talos principle 1 & 2. Playing through 1 now, and it's excellent. Some of the puzzles are complex, but most can be solved in 5-10 minutes and give a nice "ah-ha!" moment. It reminds me of portal 2, but with a heavier and more ambiguous story about the nature of life and consciousness. Highly recommended.

Also been playing some Dome keeper and Peglin. Both also excellent in their own ways.

Both Talos Principle games are a treat. Really love the philosophy and story mixed in between the puzzles. Enjoy!

Divinity 2: Original Sin, because I'm 30hrs into BG3 and it's really good

D:OS2 is one of the very few games that made me cry with the emotions I had for my characters. I hope you like it, great game.
The beginning of D:OS2 felt like a cheat code to get more BG3 after I'd already finished BG3, but as time went on, I found that everything from RPG systems to pacing of combat/non-combat is leagues better in BG3, to say nothing of the production value that's obviously better in BG3. Still a good game, but the improvement between each of their RPGs is immense.
- I have to say I very much prefer the combat system in OS as it feels much more natural and less restrictive than the DnD combat in BG3. Of course the latter has far more content, but I’m looking forward to Larian’s next game where they can finally go wild again and do things they want exactly the way they want.
I envy you. I’ve got 1400 hours in Bg3. I love the game but i wish i could forget it to play it fresh again.

I got

Nightmares I and II
Firewatch
Never Alone

Ara History Untold (a risky bet), Dustgrave, Errannorth Renaissance, and... back to playing Warframe!

Some friends and I gift each other some games each year, and I got Cyberpunk. I'll wait for the new GPU releases before I play it though, since I want to check it out with path tracing.

Also, some Rogue-likes. The latest Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, and AK-xolotl.

Which rogue-likes?
- The ones I mentioned directly afterward, Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, AK-xolotl.
Cyberpunk with full path tracing is still one of the prettiest games out there. And I also think - in its post 2.0 state - that it's just a very good game too. I recommend the Ultra+ mod to squeeze out even more performance and visual fidelity from the engine.

I don’t use steam too much, but I did get Minishoot Adventures, and it’s excellent.

It’s like if Zelda was a bullet hell. The base difficulty isn’t too hard, but it’s challenging enough. And you get to explore and do dungeons. It’s really fun.

Thanks for the recommendation! I hadn't heard of it before but bought it on sale today. Looks pretty good and I appreciate they have options for people who suck at bullet hell games 😆
- You’re welcome!
  
  When you die in this game there’s no real penalty other than going back to the last checkpoint. So even if you leveled up or something you keep that, you just might go back a few screens. It’s great!

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
Fear Effect Sedna
Grim Dawn
Keep Taking and Nobody Explodes
RIDE 5
REKA
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Old World
Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand
Crime Boss: Rockay City
Moonstone Island
Inkulinati
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
Venba

And I gifted Freedom Planet 2 to a friend.

The Winter Sale isn't over until January 2nd, so I might buy some more games before it ends. Problem is, I own most of the games on the Steam front page, so finding new and interesting games is getting difficult.

Fear Effect Sedna

Pain.
- I have absolutely no idea what it's about, but it's only $2 (90% off) and I'm a sucker for steep deals, so I couldn't pass it up.
Problem is, I own most of the games on the Steam front page, so finding new and interesting games is getting difficult.

This. I feel totally underwhelmed by the sale this year because everything on the front page I already either own or have no interest in. I know the discovery queue exists, but it primarily tries to feed me the same jank I already know exists.

Dread Delusion and Lunacid. Also thinking of finally picking up Factorio

I always read someone talking about picking up Factorio like they are they are casually announcing they are starting experimenting with narcotics. Have fun! Make a plan to quit before it breaks up your family.
- I tried the demo and had an "uh oh I really like this" moment
Lunacid! I forgot how excited I was for that to come out. Swooping in to snag it now, thanks

Everspace for 99 Cents. :)

An excellent choice, and the sequel is also great, although the gameplay is very different.
Game was hard for me to get into but once it clicked, it was awesome
Same, not tried it yet
- It's great.

Firewatch

I picked that up too and the first 5 minutes I was not prepared for.
- I played it yesterday for the first time and i was having a mental crisis with those initial choices

I ended up getting Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, Sonic Adventure 2, Prey, Daemon X Machina, and Dragon Age 2. I have no regrets in my eclectic sale impulses hahaha

Dragon Age 2 is a bit ooof. Excellent combat, but the story and especially the scenery... you revisit the same parts of town and the same dungeon over and over and over.
- DA2 has a solid story and very well written companions. I can understand it is too different from the first game for the fans of DA:O. Full disclosure; I didn't know there was a prior game and DA2 was my entry to the franchise and I love it to pieces.After playing DA:O, it made Hawke's story even more meaningful to me, since Hawke was one of many refugees who just did everything in their power to keep their family alive and well. We played through seven years of that struggle. It's a pretty special game to me.
  
  Veilguard marked a new low in every game aspect of a DA game, so I now consider DA2 a masterpiece, considering it was developed in just 2 years. After the empty world of DA:I, I've come to realize, I'll take reused assets with well written stories and characters any day.
  
  DA:I companions were well written mostly, but there were so many of them and I guess I have a bandwidth of how many companions I'll care about in a game and that's not many (cue Iron Bull betrayal because I forgot to complete his companion quests)
- da 2's gameplay is not the best for sure, i think even inquistion might have been a bit more fun to play, but in terms of the story, look i may have just been really high, but i have never cried actual tears like that twice, like the end and then the dlc, idk but i really felt connected to my hawke more than any other character except well, my city elf from origins, origins is def the best of the three hands down, but da:kirkwall had an excellent story that i understand why people didn't like twist there, but it just felt so right for the story i played, i loved it

I like boomer shooters and immersive sims, so I picked up Selaco and Fallen Aces. Both are good so far. Selaco has some maze-like levels that can be a bit annoying, but the gunplay is very fun and the level of polish and detail is very high. Fallen Aces is awesome for the amount of ways it gives you to deal with the goons.

Picayune Dreams! A "vampire survivors" -like as if you are schizophrenic and on acid simultaneously. A great $3

Great game

I took Age4 Sultans Ascend DLC and Cossacks 3 in previous sale before winter because I ended up with a bit more money. Somehow I didn't spent much money as usual in October, cook food on my own instead of buying cooked food.

I don't really have any other wishlist now. Instead I really want to make my own rts game but I have not been able to be productive nor playing Cossacks 3. But I did spent a bit more time with Age4.

A bunch of EA games they‘re practically giving away considering the 90% discounts (Mass Effect etc.), and a bunch of indie puzzle games (Cats Organized Neatly etc.) as well as some steeply discounted Devolver Digital games (Hotline Miami 2 etc.).

I think I paid the price of one full price game (70 bucks nowadays) for like 20+ titles, but also yet again lost the battle of the ratio of games purchased vs games played this year… Damn you, Gaben!

Now I‘ll just wait for Monster Hunter Wilds which is easily my most anticipated game at the moment and probably the first triple-A game I‘ll be getting on launch since Elden Ring.

Now I‘ll just wait for Monster Hunter Wilds which is easily my most anticipated game at the moment and probably the first triple-A game I‘ll be getting on launch since Elden Ring.

Same here.

FYI, Monster Hunter Wilds is available on Green Man Gaming and Fanatical for -18%, taking its price down to a normal triple A price of 57€.
- Even cheaper if you have max discount at Humble.

Skyrim VR! Just got a headset and it's neat!

Newest creaper world

Did they release a fifth installment?
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/2257010/Creeper_World_IXE/
  
  I've watched a couple gameplay videos by the dev and it looks good.

Bustafellows (95% sale). I have a huge backlog of [email protected] to play, and Bustafellows is not on it. But it was also like $2 so… worst comes to worst, I play the game some day, hate it, and my purchase serves to signal "hey, English-speaking ladies who do not live in Japan also like otome games, localizing them is a good business choice". Which means more otome for me! I have heard of so many Japan-only games that sound so cool but also I cannot play them because I won't understand a damn thing the characters say, and they are usually super story-based.

The Magic Circle. I forget what recommendation list I saw it on to be honest, but it still seems to hold up as something I would like and think is cool.

I like [email protected] games, so I was going to grab Parkitect, saw it in a bundle with more tycoon games, grabbed the bundle to also collect Project Hospital and Game Dev Tycoon. (I already had Parkasaurus.)

I also like automation games. I think its community might be on a dead instance… maybe I'll make a new one. Finally grabbed myself Factorio (will never be on sale) along with Satisfactory (finally out of Early Access. I will never buy an EA game, I will always wait for it to exit EA).

Finally, Sun Haven. Stardew Valley fan, from what I have seen of SH it seems like something I'd like, and price dropped.

Aside from Factorio, everything I grabbed was on sale. Aside from Satisfactory, all the sales were 50% or more.

Might get more. We will see.

I've been playing Parkitect over the last months, it's pretty fun! Usually I don't stick with Tycoon games for long, but I did >10 campaign levels there.

Only bummer is that the tooling around blueprints is pretty underdeveloped (can't sort/tag them, very inflexible), and it gets tiring to recreate all the basic decorations around food courts etc.

I still haven't worked my way through the deals I got during last year's sales, and despite that I bought another dozen games on GOG this black week. So I'm trying to stay away from the Steam winter sale this year lest my backlog becomes such a behemoth it gives me uncontrollable anxiety.

I got 30XX and it's been a blast so far. Probably gonna keep me busy for a while.

Good choice! Been a fan of that one since the Next Fest demo. It's changed a lot since then.

Assassins Creed Odyssey and Fields of Mistrial.

Wasn't ajlot i wanted that i didnt already have.

Finally playing Battlefield 1 and Battlefront 1, cause $3 is a good price to wait for. Only for the single player. I don't care about multi-player. Streamed from my PC to Steam Deck is great.

I haven't bought anything. We've still got another week to go though, so I might pick up something. I'm a patient gamer so I'm still waiting for Cyberpunk and expansion to come down in price. Otherwise there isn't a whole lot that interests me right now.

I'm mostly waiting on updates for a few games I already own: Balatro is getting a big update in the new year, Enshrouded, Against the Storm, and Timberborn. I should get back in to BG3 too. I bought it on release and put 20 hours in and then just... stopped playing.

I will vouch that even without the Phantom Liberty expansion Cyberpunk 2077 is fantastic. Phantom Liberty is awesome though, the story is intriguing and the new area is really well done. Everytime I visit Dogtown in that game I'm always like "damn this place is a fucking trash warzone," the devs really nailed the vibes.

Anyways absolutely amazing game, and it's half off it probably won't go below half off for another year I'm guessing. Like you, I got into it after some major updates so I didn't experience all the crap at release - to me the game is a masterpiece.
lockdown protocol and astroneer is pretty solid

Wayfinder, Gothic and Blades of Time so far.

a few games i pirated earlier in the year, heh, and Pathologic 2, Lunacid (as of a few seconds ago), Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (to check out the openrct2 mod), dwarf fortress, & Odallus the Dark Call.

Neva and Plucky Squire. Oh and Islets.

I don't remember if it was on sale, but I got 10 Dead Doves on a whim and I'm not dissapointed so far.

BG3

I wish I could play through it again with fresh eyes. I've played through it 3 times. Enjoy.

Thaumaturge. Very atmospheric I think. Also, I think the setting is quite fresh, and I think that should be rewarded.

I got Life is Strange: Double Exposure. It was meh. Not super bad but had enough bugs to push it in that direction.

After that I played The Excavation of Hob's Barrow which was phenomenal.

I didn't pick up any of the deep discount items but I did pick up a few items on my wishlist. I picked up Mouthwashing, WitchSpring R, Little Kitty Big City, the Nonory game collection and Okami HD. I already have the last two but I wanted them in the Steam library so I can play them on my deck.

I got Gelatine after forgetting about it being in my wishlist for half a year

Caravan Sand Witch

Worshippers of Cthulhu