Did you know "they are billions"? Kinda similar, you build a base then defend against hordes of creatures, there was heroes in the campaign but don't know if it exist in skirmish, probably yes. You also level up your heroes and can use skills. Graphics looks nice too. Worth checking in my opinion, one of the good rts games out there.
Another game of the same genre is 'Here Comes the Swarm'. It has a rogue like expedition mode where you play a series of maps back to back with various modifiers. You also pick a deity and customise it with different cards to create a build which you can use in games. Quite fun; I loved They are Billions and love those kind of RTS games in general.
Half my wishlist are games at 80-90% off but when I click the storepage I see that those are only the basegames, the game with all DLC still amounts for at least 40 euro. Even hitman sells a demo of their game but if you were to buy the complete game it's over 50 euro. More and more companies are abusing the wishlist. I wish Steam would let us wishlist bundles or complete editions of games that would be way better.
I started to unwishlist all the games with insane numbers of DLCs. Most of paradox titles are dead to me. There used to be a unwritten agreement they would put dlcs for 75% discounts but now they don't I will not be paying £300 to play their games.
This pissed me off so much. Saw Hitman 3 in the VR section for a godly low price, looked into it and…it’s the first chapter of the game. Whole thing is still expensive.
It's a Paradox game, so it's kind of par for the course. There are a couple of titles on the market that are similarly priced, and I can kind of understand how they end up like this through years of updates and DLCs.
For example, I've been playing all the Total War Warhammer games, and when you are buying the games and the DLCs as they come out, it doesn't feel too bad. However, if you want to have the complete version of the Immortal Empires map of TW:Warhammer III, with all the factions and lords and heroes and everything, buying the whole trilogy and all the DLCs from scratch would set you back a solid $250. And that's during a sale. I don't even know how high that number goes if you try to get them all at full price.
I don’t get the business strategy? Common sense would be to give a significant discount on DLCs after they are X years old to get new blood into the game. Or make a super duper high discount on the bundle. Or merge DLCs into the basegame. Obviously there needs to be a balance so that players don’t just wait instead of buying new DLCs.
Edit: I checked the store page and it seems like every DLC no matter how old is still like $40 CAD. You could realistically, after several years, set the price to $20 before a sale.
That is what used to happen. They used to give older DLC at at least 75% discount and DLCs weren't to expansive to start with so you really could get additional DLC for like £3-4 but now they price them crazy expansive and the quality is so varied between them that you need tone of research before you buy anything.
I have this issue with Dead Cells. I'm just waiting until the FULL game is available for the price I usually buy games at. I usually buy around $3 to $9.
They have the "Medley of Pain" bundle that includes the game and DLC for $34, then 32, then 29, then 28....stopped tracking it and now I see it is at $21.
Still too much for me.
But I have it in my wishlist and always looking.
and I can wait years (unless I die).
I love SuperGiantGames because of Bastion. Bought Transistor as a pre-order to show support (I do NOT do pre-orders). Hades released on epic and then on steam and I resisted. No matter how much I wanted it, I didn't purchase it until it went to $8 a month before the Hades 2 reveal.
Rogue Legacy 2 is the same thing. Loved Rogue Legacy 1. It kickstarted my fascination with Roguelites. Had a chance to get it for $6 on the epic store with the epic coupon but thought that I could get it cheaper later...then the epic coupon never came back. And then the game just NEVER went on sale for less than 50%. $12.50 was too much for me lol. Finally bought it this summer when it dropped to $10 for the first time.
This. They lure you in with that super low price but often times you'll end up paying more for all the DLCs and added content. I honestly prefered it back when you payed ONCE and that was it, you got your game.
Not only is the next sale around the corner, the game could also be cheaper. I'm waiting for November to see if the discount of Clair Obscur drops down to -30% (I checked price history on SteamDB and last November it went from -10% to -20%)
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth was only 4 bucks this month. I shant forgo what some people are saying is apparently better than Time stranger only for 4 bucks.
I checked the last three years of my spending on Steam and it came to over $3,000. I have no idea how and I need to go back and check everything again because it doesn't seem right, but that's my initial figures.
I remember during the recent winter sale, I was saying I'd lock my card, but then I saw The Witcher 3 with a 90% discount and my CVV automatically came in. I bought a whole library of junk and left it gathering dust for a year without installing or touching it.
In the last month or so, I’ve bought: All 12 Tomb Raider games, GTA 3/VC/SA/4/5, Cyberpunk 2077 with Phantom Liberty, The Last of Us 1 & 2, MSFS 2024 Aviator Edition, Forza Horizon 6 Premium Edition, and Detroit Become Human. Safe to say it wasn’t cheap
I managed to get Pax Autocratica when the devs accidentally made it 80% off as opposed to 20% off (it has now been fixed and it's now 20% off). While it's somewhat grindy and it lacks the ability to customize the appearance of my troops, it's still fun to play.
Because they are in a bundle with a different game i want to play, that makes it less expensive than the game i want to play because i have another item in that bundle already in my library.
This is mostly a strawman. 99% of people doing this do intend to play them, they just end up not doing it for whatever reason. Usually because they go back to their comfort game or there are too many options and not enough time. Especially the case with a big backlog.
This exactly. As a family man there’s too little time to play and when I do I feel like I don’t have the energy to learn new games, so back to the good old comfort games it is!
I bought a bunch of games months ago from greenmangaming I haven’t finished with a few others on sale. Helps beat the temptation when you have a backlog you aren’t gonna finish this year and a replay list. lol
Honestly, I have yet to see anything I want. Probably a good thing since I am trying to save money. I have never been so relieved to be so disappointed in a Steam Sale! This has been a very good year for games so I have plenty to keep me busy until the Winter Sale.
I had 5 games (3 of them free to keep) in my library back in May 2025, around the same time I finally upgraded from a potato laptop to a decent gaming desktop after saving up for a few months from my salary. Up until then, I couldn't really afford games, so I used to sail the seas for pretty much everything.
Now I have close to 90 games in my Steam library, and it's only growing with every sale.
And all of that has cost me less than $250 iirc, thanks to deep discounts and regional pricing. Steam's great user experience is also a big reason I feel comfortable spending on games.
So yeah, I don't really feel like I overspent or wasted money. I'm just spending on something I love without blowing a hole in my wallet lol
It's actually really easy to not spend money on Steam sales, you just have to not have any! I'll pretend every other consequence of that doesn't suck ass (and tbh I'd kill to actually be able to buy games regularly again)
Self control is easy when you realize how much money you waste on games you aren't going to play. I only buy a game if I'm literally going to play it tomorrow or the next day.
It'll always be on sale again, for the same price likely, maybe even lower. There is no rush, stop buying things just to spend money
Got 4 games i want on sale that i want. My problem is i got $18 left to get through till friday and sale ends on thursday. Its always the last week or first week stuff goes on sale which corresponds with rent so i never get the games i want to get
I've had the orange box for most of my life on my Xbox 360 and just this sale I bought Half Life 2 for the first time on Steam. My friends made fun of me lol
This has been me for a bit, but found a few things I've wanted at all time lows, and then read about a couple other games for super cheap that sound interesting
Yeah the Paradox stuff is wild. I got interested in Crusader Kings 3 a few years back and started looking at what it would actually cost to play the "full" game and just noped out. Like $200+ for all the expansions? Hard pass. I get that they support games for years but at some point it becomes insulting.
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u/Imperium_Somnia 14d ago edited 13d ago
I was not planning to buy anything but I saw a gameplay of an rts, due to boredom I watched and yeah. Lucky me got %50 discount.