Once again, Steam is doing another sale – this time, in honor of Lunar New Year.
Along with featuring loads of cute pig art, Steam is giving out coins when you purchase items, which can be used to get backgrounds, emojis, and badges. They also are doing a special promotion where if you spend $30, you get $5 off of your purchase. We have picked out a bunch of games for you to purchase!
You Must Build a Boat – 66% off at $1.69
You Must Build A Boat is basically the same thing, but it’s better in just about every way. Gold is now used only for upgrades, for example, so there’s not even a little bit of internal struggle about whether you should upgrade or just try running a dungeon again. Choices about how to spend gold and other resources are now simply more interesting; the boat builds itself as new crew members are unlocked via quests, so all resources are spent on upgrades in different combinations depending on type of upgrade.
Purchase You Must Build a Boat.
Dreamstones – 60% off at $4.79
Dreamstones crams RPG elements into the traditional block-breaker to give players more than just a wall to tear down. Facing off against some tough enemies, you’ll be well-equipped with the ability to attach weapons and skills to your paddle on your quest to restore a broken city!
Boo! Greedy Kid – 60% off at $1.99
Play as a greedy kid preying on the coins of others in order to attain your ultimate goal: soda. You can scare these residents with either your own voice or, if you’re shy, stick to the controller. If you’re successful, you’ll get a few coins for your efforts, but you’ll also gain the attention of the local law enforcement. Drum up enough attention and you’ll have to start getting clever by using nearby hiding spots to sneak to your next target.
Journal – 80% off at $1.99
At the end of 2012, UK developer Richard Perrin released Kairo, a first-person puzzler with gorgeously minimalistic 3D environments to explore. The game rarely involved any dialog — for the most part you were feeling the solutions out. Sixteen months later, Perrin’s next release couldn’t be any more different. Journal is a side-scrolling, story-driven tale that plays with the concept of someone looking back on their life, and wondering how it could have been.
Read our full interview with the developer.
Card Dungeon – 50% off at $2.99
Card Dungeon is a unique combination of a turn-based roguelike and a collectible card game. The game features thousands of unique cards to collect, and allows you to choose which ones you’d like to keep and which should be discarded. Customizing your available cards allows you to tailor your experience to your playstyle, making each run a unique experience. Find a card that you love and cannot live without? Too bad. Cards deteriorate over time, meaning that eventually you will need to find replacements for your favorites.
Cosmic Top Secret – 30% off at $8.39
It’s this connection to childhood innocence and staggering discovery about one’s parents that makes Cosmic Top Secret a powerful experience. It asks us how well we truly know our parents and who they are as people, rather than just our guiding figures. Do we even know these people at all despite living with them for years? Despite such a close relationship as parent and child? It captures the complex feelings we have about our parents as their own beings, and all while telling an intriguing story of spies and secrets (and paper play!).
Super Star Path – 10% off at $4.49
I don’t know why they even give me a shoot button in shmups, because I never want my gun to stop firing. Ever. I need to blast me some enemy shuttles, and I can’t do that unless I’m firing constantly. Still, every once in a while, a neat shmup comes along that asks me to relax my trigger finger in some neat ways. Super Star Path puts you in a top-down alley choked with enemies practically begging to get shot down, but you’ve got to carefully decide what you’re going to blow away. Pick the right enemy and your path will open up for you. Choose wrong and you’ll find yourself staring down an invincible wall of unbeatable ships, waiting for the screen to crush you to death.
Drive!Drive!Drive! – 50% off at $4.99
Drive!Drive!Drive!’s fast-paced arcade racing spread across multiple roadways, challenging you to switch between them to take control and leave the reckless AI driving the others. These mechanics turns the gameplay into a juggling act, balancing your time and focus between several cars, choosing the best times to jump between vehicles so all of your drivers take first place.
Wunderdoktor – 25% off at $7.49
Curing these diseases is done through mechanics reminiscent of Papers, Please and similar games; using specific rules and carefully matching symptom with method while being careful to follow procedure. Fast and frantic, you’ll be deciding which pills to prescribe, popping pimples, slicing with scalpels, as more and more procedures and symptoms are introduced and your available time for each patient decreases. With each patient and illness cured, you’ll learn more about them, the world, and even encounter special mini-missions that reveal more about Wunderdoktor‘s fantastical characters.
Spitkiss – 15% off at $2.54
While it sounds gross on paper, guiding these spitballs to their targets, and feeling the bonds the characters form with one another, makes Spitkiss a heartwarming experience (and neat puzzle game).
Thunder Kid – 40% off at $4.79
Thunder Kid can be a stressful shooter as it has you tangling against multiple enemies and machines that can layer a room with bombs and blasts. Also, you can really only take a handful of hits, so you’d better not be a clumsy hero if you expect to keep the people from robot rule.
Din’s Legacy – 10% off at $13.49
So, this is another action-RPG with a ton of things to do and thousands of enemies to kill. Instead of a story, Din’s Legacy features a procedurally-generated world that changes independent of your actions. Its denizens battle each other, strive for supremacy, and even the smallest critter can advance in the ranks and become a veritable threat.
Seek Etyliv – 10% off at $5.19
The roguelike is often touted for the sprawling complexity of games like Nethack and Caves of Qud, but minimalism often breeds some of the most interesting entries in the subgenre, such as Hoplite or Michael Brough’s Imbroglio and 868-Hack. The new roguelike Seek Etyliv fits right in that category, with even tighter and more minimalistic style compared to others yet also possessing engaging elegant design in its simplicity.
Football Game – 60% off at $0.79
Football Game quickly weaves a bleak, unsettling atmosphere with its colors and visions of a dark world, as well as its choice of unsettling music. Tommy’s life may seem quite normal at first, but this game works quickly to make the player feel unsafe here long before things start to go awry. Football Game is an experience best gone into blind, but if you have interest in twisted, Lynch-ian narratives and have an hour free, you probably won’t regret it.
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