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[Jopax]

Thing about CoH2 is that I think the shitty progression got shoved in after release (prolly after Sega got their hands on Relic, since a similar system is present in DoW3). If you ingore the horrible P2W shit (and let's be clear, some of the commanders are outright better than others) the core gameplay isn't too different from the original game, and as such is pretty fun for the most part.

[Dostoevsky]

Also, if you're just doing AI skirmishes the Steam Workshop has mods that will a) give you the full set of commander skills (maybe in slightly different combinations), and b) provide you with skins if you really want some.

[nenjin]

I dunno, I had a hard time getting in to the CoH2 campaign. Something just felt a little....off about how stuff was scripted, what you were doing. In the CoH campaign the scripting and the way things came across, how your focus shifted around from single unit gameplay to full on gameplay felt well executed and it felt cinematic and right. The gameplay challenge of CoH felt interesting, where like one single corner needed to be approached "just right". You could hold out and turtle and milk a scenario just for funsies.

CoH2's campaign felt a lot less like that. Or maybe I'm just a little more jaded now. But I recall many missions feeling easy and kind of trivial compared to CoH, where they weren't scripted as tightly or as interestingly. I remember some defense missions of CoH were pants-shittingly believably hard. I didn't get that impression so much from CoH2. At least, it's a game I put 20 hours or so in to and then didn't play again, versus the 100+ hours I've put in to CoH outside of map building and testing.

[Zale]

Oxenfree is currently available for free on GoG.

[Teneb]

Also: Kingdom: Classic on Steam is free, as is Layers of Fear on Humble.

[Mech#4]

Apparently Maniac Mansion is available for purchase on Steam. If you enjoy old adventure games this one is fondly remembered by many. I only played the copy that came in Day of the Tentacle and never finished it since it has fail states and character death unlike later LucasArts adventure games. However, the game features NPCs who react to your actions and multiple endings based on which 3 characters you pick at the beginning so there's some good variety in the puzzles.

[nenjin]

Also: Kingdom: Classic on Steam is free, as is Layers of Fear on Humble.

Note: Free for 24 hours.

[Radsoc]

Radsoc's Steam Sale Picks:

Xenonauts
http://steamcommunity.com/app/223830

Evil Genius
http://steamcommunity.com/app/3720

Master of Orion 2
http://steamcommunity.com/app/410980 (cheap, but no sale though)

Revolution Under Siege Gold
http://steamcommunity.com/app/374380

[Jopax]

Humble Bundle is doing some sort of monthly sub thing (ala Audible) which gives free shit every month. This month you can get Civ6 plus any DLC up to this point for only 12 bucks.

Edit:

Forgot the damn link: https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly?refc=jc35jh

[Paul]

They've been doing the Humble Monthly thing for a while. Been seeing those referral links everywhere for at least 6 months, lol.

[Frumple]

Though... casual anti-advertisement reminder, they're not actually giving out free shit if you're paying a 12 buck subscription for it

[Paul]

Though... casual anti-advertisement reminder, they're not actually giving out free shit if you're paying a 12 buck subscription for it

No no, see, that's a "donation." And then they kindly give you games for free in return. It's totally not a sale.

[Arx]

It sort of is free stuff, since they tell you one game that you pay $12 for and then you get a bunch of random other things

Not really free, though. Just a sale.

[Radsoc]

Should be fair with the refs, to avoid this turning into an endless series of people posting their link

I subscribed for a year back in october. Don't regret it a single bit. Yes, you usually get games that are cheap on sale, and sometimes you get doubles and stuff you won't play (you can use it as gifts). But, for me gaming is a little bit of a hobby, so I have explored lots of new titles which I never would've tested otherwise. Like Orwell and The Long Dark. It also makes me avoid buying games I know I won't play directly as there is a chance it will be in the bundle (like Civ). However, I also see what they do. Their deals are most often a win-win. Most likely they get a bigger customer base by handing out the core game, that can buy their subsequent expansions/DLC (would've waited for gold edition otherwise).

[Paul]

Last I heard you can actually use your OWN referral link to buy it and it still gives you credit, haha. Unless they fixed it.