Huge Daedalic Sale (Ends tomorrow)

[ZedClampet]

As you may know, Daedalic has had some financial troubles of late, culminating with the announcement that they were not developing games anymore and concentrating on their publishing business. Not sure if that has anything to do with this “fire” sale or not, but there are some very good deals to be had.

Some notable deals:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/daedalic?tab=9
This is the main sale page

https://store.steampowered.com/app/807120/Iratus_Lord_of_the_Dead/
85% off, $4.99. Looks like it was inspired by Darkest Dungeon. 85% positive user reviews

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579380/Shadow_Tactics_Aikos_Choice/
75% off, $4.99. RTT-Strategy. 93% positive user reviews

https://store.steampowered.com/app/418240/Shadow_Tactics_Blades_of_the_Shogun/
90% off, $3.99. RTT-Strategy. 96% positive user reviews

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1485690/Potion_Tycoon/
60% off, $7.99. Tycoon-Management. Only 73% positive, but I like it. Seems like many of the problems people had have been fixed in the last two updates.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227530/Partisans_1941/
85% off, $4.49. RTT-Strategy. 83% Positive user reviews

https://store.steampowered.com/app/331870/AER_Memories_of_Old/
90% off, $1.49. Relaxing-Exploration. 87% User reviews

https://store.steampowered.com/app/234270/Ken_Folletts_The_Pillars_of_the_Earth/
90% off, $1.99. Visual Novel. 92% positive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291010/Warpips/
80% off, $3.99. RTS-Tower Defense. 88% positive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/314790/Silence/
90% off, $1.99. Point&Click, 82% positive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/382140/SKYHILL/
90% off, $0.99. Action-Roguelike, 77% positive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/829590/CryoFall/
80% off, $3.99. Survival-Crafting-Coop, 79% positive (I had a lot of fun playing this)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/351920/Crazy_Machines_3/
90% off, $0.99. Puzzle-Physics, 94% positive (I’m just starting, but fun so far)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/292910/Deponia_The_Complete_Journey/
90% off, $2.99. Point&Click, All Deponia games seem to be 90% off

https://store.steampowered.com/app/351870/Cultures__8th_Wonder_of_the_World/
89% off, $0.87. City Builder-RTS, 82% positive. Other games in this series have similar discounts

https://store.steampowered.com/app/339190/Dead_Synchronicity_Tomorrow_Comes_Today/
90% off, $0.99. Point&Click, 82% positive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385100/Insurmountable/
82% off, $4.49. Strategy (mountain climbing), 79% positive (seems a unique game)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/602960/Barotrauma/
50% off, $17.99. Submarine horror co-op, 93% positive

 

[Brian Boru]

@PointnClicker01 Heads up if you're still above ground

Low-spec PC?
Note that almost all of these games will play well on a potato.

If you scroll to the bottom of that long page, you reach the 'All Games' section. Those I've played, which are on sale:

Recommend:
Crazy Machines 3—Love these crazy puzzles, and also The Incredible Machine series… all Rube Goldberg stuff.
Deponia: The Complete Journey—First 3 games, if you like one, you'll like 'em all.
Deponia—Funny, goofy, cliche-ridden, good if in the humor for silly… but get previous item, 'Complete'.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth—Great story & art, very slow VN which I dropped after a few hours.
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav—Great art & sound, solid otherwise.
The Dark Eye: Memoria—Play Satinav first, this is similar and sequel.
The Night of the Rabbit—Nothing special, but funny and good puzzles.

Don't recommend:
1954 Alcatraz—Not bad, but too many 'little' things I didn't like… say 5/10.
A New Beginning - Final Cut—Puzzles are mostly rubbish, dropped quickly.
Anna's Quest—Nice, but frustrating, I dropped it fairly quickly
Candle—Rogue platformer, some puzzles, don't like busy art.
Deponia Doomsday—Worst of the Deponia games, stick with first 3.
Gomo—Good kid's game, too simple and short for me.
LEAVES - The Journey—not bad, but not my cuppa, too much whimsy & grind.
LEAVES - The Return—Reuses some 'The Journey' stuff, shorter.
Silence—Not bad, but short & easy.

 

[ZedClampet]

@PointnClicker01 Heads up if you're still above ground

Low-spec PC?
Note that almost all of these games will play well on a potato.

If you scroll to the bottom of that long page, you reach the 'All Games' section. Those I've played, which are on sale:

Recommend:
Crazy Machines 3—Love these crazy puzzles, and also The Incredible Machine series… all Rube Goldberg stuff.
Deponia: The Complete Journey—First 3 games, if you like one, you'll like 'em all.
Deponia—Funny, goofy, cliche-ridden, good if in the humor for silly… but get previous item, 'Complete'.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth—Great story & art, very slow VN which I dropped after a few hours.
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav—Great art & sound, solid otherwise.
The Dark Eye: Memoria—Play Satinav first, this is similar and sequel.
The Night of the Rabbit—Nothing special, but funny and good puzzles.

Don't recommend:
1954 Alcatraz—Not bad, but too many 'little' things I didn't like… say 5/10.
A New Beginning - Final Cut—Puzzles are mostly rubbish, dropped quickly.
Anna's Quest—Nice, but frustrating, I dropped it fairly quickly
Candle—Rogue platformer, some puzzles, don't like busy art.
Deponia Doomsday—Worst of the Deponia games, stick with first 3.
Gomo—Good kid's game, too simple and short for me.
LEAVES - The Journey—not bad, but not my cuppa, too much whimsy & grind.
LEAVES - The Return—Reuses some 'The Journey' stuff, shorter.
Silence—Not bad, but short & easy.

I played the first Deponia and enjoyed it. I never got around to the second one because I got distracted by a Wadget Eye game and just never made it back.

 

[Zloth]

I was starting to think I never played any of those games - but I did play Blackguards

Save 90% on Blackguards on Steam

What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and...

store.steampowered.com

It was a pure tactical RPG. By 'pure' I mean that, once one battle ends, you get told a little story and go to the next battle. I'm not sure it should even be called an RPG.

Anyway, it started out fun but got tiresome. Back-to-back battles couldn't really keep me hooked, plus I was getting really tired of all the poison being thrown at my characters.

 

[PointnClicker01]

@Brian Boru Thanks for your mentioning I‘m still around, but quite busy atm as I‘m in Egypt since Silvester. So unfortunately no time for any gaming, but I’m still checking the forum from time to time to keep me updated

I‘m looking forward to try Crazy machines and Ken Follett when I‘m back, as they are the only ones on your recommendations list I haven‘t tried so far.
I really liked Night of the Rabbit, not because of the riddles or story, but because of the cards game that you can play with almost every character in the game
I got many of the games you mentioned in a bundle once… also the ones that you dont recommend. From those I have only played Gomo so far. Really liked the character design, but it got a bit boring towards the end. I‘m not sure anymore, if I ever finished it.

 

[Brian Boru]

I‘m in Egypt since Silvester

Nothing wrong about missing a month of mid-European winter! No gaming time tho—now that IS wrong. Please get your priorities straight