How about Recettear: An Item's Shop Tale, I have played the demo, the price points and shoppers seemed quite transparent to me, the dungeon crawling bits were OK. Is there some twist in the game's mechanics later on so it's not getting too repetitive?

Have you gotten crushed by the Adjustable Rate Mortgage yet?

Not really, but I didn't find it to be a problem. In fact it's not recommended to dungeon crawl until later in the game, in the beginning you seem to make more money just by buying and selling items.

Like pen_sq said, the mortgage price goes up like crazy really quickly, people start making requests for items, market prices go up and down, everything together ends up making it a fairly tense game all throughout.

I remember it was last year. Rumors of Valve just picking the games THEY wanted to be in Encore instead of the actual best sellers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIBu47_2ohg ---- TB's final day hidden deals

Any list of "hidden gems" in the Steam sale? I know many games are really cheap like McPixel, but I haven't seen a comprehensive list.

Wow, that sucks, but the reason I complained is that they don't even need to do this. If every game was featured with the deep discounts once per sale then the encore would mean something, but when a few games show up several times then it's obvious that they'll sell more than the others. That alone already counts as manipulation for me.

As for hidden deals, the first thing I do in these sales is check what low-profile games are ultra-cheap. Doing that I already got in this deal Bionic Commando: Rearmed, DLC Quest, Nightsky (which he mentioned), Nimbus, Jamestown, The Last Remnant, the Time Gentleman and Ben There games (which he also mentioned) and Skydrift. Did you find any hidden gems?

Alright, I'll try and make the list. I'm not sure what the cut-off point will be or if I'll skip some rubbish ones, but I'll try to make something more or less comprehensive.

Me? Not really. I jumped on Just Cause. Only real cheapies aside from that for me were Puzzle Quest (cant find it anywhere but Steam and that includes er.... illegal sites) & Under the Ocean (quite curious about this game. so cheap even for an alpha). Ridge Bound Racer is pretty good for the price. But aside from that, not really (i have most of the games i want) some small dlc aside

http://steamdb.info/sales/

I was hoping to get Quake4 during the sale, but it never went onsale for $5.

My best purchase this sale was Fallout New Vegas Ultimate for $5, so im very happy.

Thanks for that

IMHO thats a pretty good price for X3TC

You can assume that if you see a game on the list, others on the franchise are around the same price, also if you're wondering why I didn't add X game, it's because this list already took long enough. Here goes:

Thief Gold - $2,37
Thief 2 - $2,37
Thief 3 - $3,05
World of Goo - $2,49
Railroad Tycoon 2 Platinum - $2,49
Counter-Strike - $2,49
Super Hexagon - $2,49
Psychonauts - $2,49
Commandos 2 - $0,99
Hitman 2 - $3,49
Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword - $2,49
Civilization 4: Warlords - $1,24
Dungeon Siege - $2,37
Dungeon Siege - $2,37
Machinarium - $2,49
Serious Sam Classic: First Encounter - $2,99
Serious Sam Classic: Second Encounter - $2,99
Binding of Isaac - $2,49
Time Gentleman, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! - $0,49
Defcon - $2,49
Darwinia - $2,49
Shatter - $1,99
Disciples 2 - $1,62
Cave Story+ - $2,49
Puzzle Quest 2 - $2,49
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack - $1,99
Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery - $2,95
Doom 2 - $2,99
Syberia - $2,49
Syberia 2 - $2,49
To The Moon - $2,99
Divine Divinity - $2,03
Lone Survivor - $3,39
Overlord - $1,24
PixelJunk Eden - $2,49
Rochard - $2,49
Jamestown - $3,39
VVVVV - $2,49
Stealth Bastard Deluxe - $3,39
Fly'N - $2,49
Intrusion 2 - $2,99
Robin Hood - $2,49
Capsized - $2,49
Anomaly: Warzone Earth - $2,49
Nimbus - $2,49
Dungeons of Dredmor - $1,24
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbotton - $2,49
Nightsky - $0,99
Quantum Conundrum - $3,05
Soul Reaver 2 - $2,37
The Void - $2,50
Everyday Shooter - $2,99
McPixel - $0,99
Multiwinia - $2,49
Who's That Flying - $2,03
Just Cause - $1,39
Geometry Wars - $2,99
Dear Esther - $2,49
Half-Minute Hero - $2,49
Still Life - $2,49
Drakensang - $2,49
Eschalon: Book 1 - $1,49
And Yet It Moves - $2,49
Rock of Ages - $1,99
They Bleed Pixels - $2,49
Unmechanical - $2,49
Hard Reset - $3,74
Skydrift - $2,49
A Valley Without Wind 2 - $3,74
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals - $1,24
Kane and Lynch 1 - $2,37
The Last Remnant - $3,39
Two Worlds - $1,99
Hydrophobia - $0,99
Pid - $2,49
Eufloria - $3,74
Analogue: A Hate Story - $3,39
Velvet Assassin - $1,24
Aquanox 2 - $1,24
No Time to Explain - $2,49
DLC Quest - $1,01
Dead Pixels - $1,49
Cthulhu Saves the World/Breath of Death 7 - $0,98
Kung-Fu Strike - $2,49
Auditorium - $1,74

FWIW anyone looking for the Strike Suit Zero soundtrack (like i have), probably should get it now for $2.49. Its still been $10 normally for a longtime (and until recently available only via their site - cant find link on there now). Or get it part of the mega bundle (it consists of one steamgift though)

Well, very disappointing sales altogether. I might pick up Kotor 1&2, I have played them a few years ago, pirated back then :( (yes, I was a dirty pirate and only GOG and bundles are to blame for my conversion :P). But I'm not sure they'll work on windows 7.

The only game I was going to buy from the sale was Kingdoms of Amalur, and it didn't get a discount at all. :-(