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[umiman]

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is free on humble bundle store right now. It's a third-person real-time-with-pause tactical shooter.

oh man, I've always wanted to play that but never wanted to buy it.

[AzyWng]

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is free on humble bundle store right now. It's a third-person real-time-with-pause tactical shooter.

oh man, I've always wanted to play that but never wanted to buy it.

I’m pretty sure there’s a long list of ppl who hate that game. Something about how the gameplay is like discount Mass Effect.

All the same, a game’s a game.

[IronyOwl]

I found it kind of tragic; apparently it was a Bioshock clone before public outrage (and I think some independent development hell) turned it into a weird squad-thingy. You could sort of feel the first person aspects still poking through, and I think it would have been a better game if it'd just gone with what it was instead of twisting itself around trying to be a squad-based shooter Like Real XCOM.

[Radsoc]

Xenonauts is 75% off on Steam. Amazing game.

[Azated]

I nabbed the older fallout games and Neo Scavenger recently. Played FO:Tactics for a few hours, then had a 15 day long run on Neo Scavenger. I wound up getting all six shots of a revolver to the face before I could drop my sled.

[Orb]

Spoiler: Xenonauts (click to show/hide)

[Yolan]

Had another go with Neo Scavenger recently. Really nice game. Unfortunately the save system is f---ed. After losing a few games I had to give up.

[notquitethere]

Yeah I lost a promising Neo Scavenger save too. I like the game overall but haven't got too far. In a weird way the inventory system (trying to haul waterbottles around in an old crisp packet, say) makes the desperate scavenging more immersive in that it forces you to go through the same thought processes about survival as you would in the real situation.

[LoSboccacc]

Believe me, unless you either like stock(crappy) ships, or download a bunch of viable ships off the Steam Workshop(getting them in-game is a little more complex), then you'll be spending a lot of time in the designer. My Steam playtime for FtD is 165 hours, around 5 of that is campaign play.

same. almost one thousand hours, never went beyond the second faction in the campaign.

[da_nang]

Finnish games are now on a Steam sale in time for Finland's 100th independence day. Cities Skylines base game is 75% off.

[scriver]

I also saw the two first Max Payne's in there. They're pretty good.

And Trine 1 and 2 is 85% off, something like 2.5 € for me. I liked those, it's pretty much The Lost Vikings except modern graphics (and to be fair, not the same difficulty). I've heard bad things about the third, but I'm contemplating picking it up. Maybe.

[BigD145]

Distant Worlds has hit GOG for about $20 US.

[Ametsala]

GOG got a bunch of other strategy games as well which are currently on sale:
Polaris Sector - Gold Edition is 50 % off at 21.19 euros for me
Pandora: First Contact - Gold Edition is 69 % off at 9.39 euros
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is 50 % off at 10 euros (never heard of this one until today)
And the already mentioned Distant Worlds: Universe is 67 % off at 18.19 euros, which is cheaper than it's ever been in Steam.

[umiman]

Hmm... I've played all of those.

Distant Worlds is bloody amazing, though it feels dated obviously. I think it's still better than Stellaris though. That being said, it also has the issue where you kinda run out of shit to do in the late game. Feels less gamey than Stellaris though, if you catch my meaning. Feels more like a living breathing galaxy and you feel more like a galactic Emperor rather than a galactic micromanager.

I still maintain Polaris Sector is fantastic for small scale gameplay. The combat and customization is fun and the lore text is frigging funny. It's one of those games that describes humans like how aliens would describe humans. That being said, it's fairly limited in scope. Also a lot of people don't like it.

Pandora First Contact sounds like it's amazing. It sounds like a sequel to Alpha Centauri. I can tell you it's basically the same as Beyond Earth. Soulless, boring, no fun. That being said, I only played the release version so no clue if it's good now. It's only $8 so... maybe try it? It's not worse than Beyond Earth I can tell you that. It'll probably be alright if you go in not expecting it to be Alpha Centauri.

Star Hammer is alright. Pretty fun campaign too. It's got a Homeworld-esque combat system though but it's not particularly deep or engaging in my opinion. It's basically a crappier version of Nexus: Jupiter Incident, which I adore.

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Incidentally, World in Conflict is free right now on Uplay.

World in Conflict's campaign is superb. Easily one of the best RTS campaigns ever made. I highly recommend it.

This game broke my Tunguska virginity. Before this game I was unaware of the awesome girth of the Tunguska. Post-WiC, I now bow to the superiority of the mighty barrels and penetrating missiles of the air sweeper. Also I really should impress how good the campaign is. It's not like a traditional RTS with base building, more of a squad command thing... combined with Wargame's combined arms warfare. Again, I highly, highly recommend it. Despite Uplay.

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Edit edit:

Also this is reply #15000!

I hereby declare this a party!!!!

[Sirus]

I'm not sure that's worth dealing with uPlay, unless it's been dramatically improved since the last few times I played a game using it.