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[Sarfrin]

Both narrative games as far as I can tell, but The Spectrum Retreat seems to be more puzzly in a manner kind of like Portal, Antimatter etc

I’m playing it at the moment. I’d say it’s a solid 7/10 first person puzzler with a bit of narrative to hang the puzzles off.

[chopper]

The Station

Thanks for the reminder on this; I’d been looking at it before but didn’t wishlist it and forgot all about it.

Well, I’ve completed it and…

The Station is apparently quite short (2 hours or so) and not very involved,

…yeah, pretty much. Fairly basic find the codes and open the doors, but redeemed in large part by the last third. 115 minutes to play through.

[BillButNotBen]

The Division is free on Uplay this week. TBH, I kinda assumed it was a F2P game anyway, so…
https://register.ubisoft.com/the-division/en-US

(There’s also apparently a giveaway for FarCry 3, but it seems to involve the same region blocking avoidance shennanigans that made the Valiant Hearts giveaway such a hassle, so I won’t bother linking that.)

There’s also a DLC (Commander Lilith) for Borderlands 2 on the epic store for free, if you’re into that kind of thing and/or grabbed Borderlands 2 when it was free there before.

[Similar]

The Division is free on Uplay this week. TBH, I kinda assumed it was a F2P game anyway, so…

nuh, that and Divison 2 are pay, both for the base game and DLCs.

Kind of funny they’re giving away 1. Maybe they’re trying to get people to play that after they completely screwed up Division 2 (I don’t know how they managed, but it’s even worse than what Bungie has done and is doing with Destiny 2).

[Maknol]

(There’s also apparently a giveaway for FarCry 3, but it seems to involve the same region blocking avoidance shennanigans that made the Valiant Hearts giveaway such a hassle, so I won’t bother linking that.)

I got it without any hassle (and more importantly, without using VPNs) by logging into my account on the regular site, then going to https://store.ubi.com/cn and forcing the browser to display the mobile version of the site (Ctrl+Shift+I on Chrome/Edge or Ctrl+Shift+M on Firefox, then click the mobile/tablet icon if needed).

[BillButNotBen]

Yeah, it seemed to work for me too. The last one was a bit of a hassle that didn’t work for a bunch of people though, so I kinda regretted posting it. This one seemed (seems?) much easier.

Most importantly, I learned the Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut which will be really handy almost every day at work and I probably should have already known.

[Mac4]

I got it without any hassle (and more importantly, without using VPNs) by logging into my account on the regular site, then going to https://store.ubi.com/cn and forcing the browser to display the mobile version of the site (Ctrl+Shift+I on Chrome/Edge or Ctrl+Shift+M on Firefox, then click the mobile/tablet icon if needed).

Hey, that actually worked for me! Thanks!

[ToomuchFluffy]

MAXIMUM Action is off 50 % for 6,24 €.

And ADR1FT is still (or perhaps again) off 75 %.

Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity, kind of a sidescroller Soulslike or something along those lines: For 1,49 €.

[Kajo]

Into the Breach is free on Epic

[BillButNotBen]

Not games, but a load of Black Panther comics are currently free on Comixology.

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[BooleanBob]

Strife: Veteran Edition is 75% off for the announcement of the Switch port.

It’s a bit of a renaissance for the retro shooter at the moment, with details of a Sin remaster, a Rise of the Triad remaster, new alpha footage of the System Shock remake, and an Ion Fury expansion pack all emerging in recent days. Nightdive are also working on a Shadow Man remaster for those of you who like janky, atmospheric, (oc)cult action adventures.

[BillButNotBen]

I’m not 100% sure I see the point in some of these remasters. I’d be interested in Sin - but updating it from 1998 graphics to 2000 graphics seems like a weird half step.

That said, I’m currently enjoying Quake in higher resolution, so maybe I’m talking rubbish.

[BooleanBob]

I agree, but if nothing else, widescreen support and modern OS compatibility are nice-to-haves.

[Maknol]

Control: Ultimate Edition is on sale for a surprisingly low price on the Epic Store (especially if you have a past discount voucher saved up there).

I can’t see other than my regional pricing, but I think it’s around USD 15.00.

Control - Control

[Kiril]

Control: Ultimate Edition

Control is wonderful if you like Remedy games, its weird pulpy sci fi, the weirder X Files and Fringe episodes, brilliant presentation, solid combat and for me one of the best aesthetics in the last few years. It has a lot of internal monologuing and story that you have to find in collectables and talking to characters, and its at times verbose but you meet Ahti which makes it worthwhile.

it was quite hard in places on launch but the latest patch has added an assist mode, which lets you choose how much damage you take and deal or if you want to one hit things as well as adding in more checkpoints, so you can get through the stupidly hard boss fight in the side mission and get on with playing the game.

If you have a fancy RTX nvidia card then you have DLSS and Ray Tracing which makes it look stunning as can be seen in the Screenshot thread.

[Sarfrin]

£27.99 in the UK. 20 char

[Lukasz]

It’s a bit of a renaissance for the retro shooter at the moment, with details of a Sin remaster

OH good. That means new half life is coming to steal the spotlight from sin once again.

[BillButNotBen]

Talking of retro remakes, the (bland looking) Sands of Time remake seems to have triggered a bunch of sales on Prince of Persia games.
All 4 are on sale on steam, and also other places like Fanatical or Gamebillet etc…

Before buying the older trilogy, I’d recommend checking pcgamingwiki to make sure they still work ok on modern systems,

The 2008 ‘Prince of Persia’ is also on sale for $1.99 on steam or even less on Gamebillet (Uplay v,)
I’ve rarely seen it drop below $3/$4 so I might grab that. (Pretty sure it’s an all time low)

[Mac4]

Before buying the older trilogy, I’d recommend checking pcgamingwiki to make sure they still work ok on modern systems

I own all of them, and am not aware they pose any issues on modern systems. Disclaimer: I haven’t finished any of them, so can’t be absolutely sure. Do check around some more. (I’m not much of a platformer let alone a puzzler anymore, so get stuck on the platforming puzzling sections. What I’ve seen of them, they’re nice games as such. They’re on sale quite regularly, though no doubt this time the revamp will be the occasion.)

The two original titles ('89-'93) I and I think hosts of others infamously could never get to work again on modern post-DOS machines, alas. But that was before the later Ubisoft series that people today may be more familiar with.

[Maknol]

Great news for all you BigFishGames fans there in the back!

(it’s a re-run of the same offer they made a while ago, methinks)

Big Fish Games