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Epic Games Store Holiday Sale on December 17, bringing you the gift of great discounts and 15 Days of FREE Games! - 27 Dec game: Night in the Woods
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Quite surprised they didn't opt to get Among Us to be the free game today. Maybe they just assumed it was cheap enough that people would just pay but that seems primed for a release and giveaway at the same time kind of deal
Game is still selling well, Epic probably doesnt want to spend so much money.
JWE is OK, not the best game in the genre (just passable) but the use of lince is a plus. Stranded Deep... I dont like it. It just feels like a worse Rust / Ark / better survival games. Hell Raft has a better setting.
i *love* steam but epic sales have been better for the past year or so. steam stopped doing lightning deals and now they just want you to play around with your steam profile which i just don't care about.
Epic sales are better because Epic just lights their money on fire to make people use them. When you are selling everything at a personal loss its hard to beat.
fair point but steam sales used to be a fuckin event, now it's just like 🤷♂️
very rare that I actually buy a game directly from steam anymore
Yeah, I got into PC gaming because of how great Steam sales used to be. But now it has been so long that I can't even remember the last Steam sale that impressed me.
I'm sure years from now once Fortnite's popularity eventually starts to wane, Epic will stop doing the free game giveaways and $10 coupons, but until then I'm going to enjoy it.
Ah, I assumed the conversion from USD to CDN would mirror, but for us it's $14 off anything over $20.99. And Hades is $27.99, so a minimal discount would mess up the deal for us.
Is Hades really US$25? Huh.
To me, Steam sales are more about discovery than getting a ton of money off the big name games and I'm fine with that. Epic's selection is too small for that so they make up for it with the deeper discounts. But that thrill of finding a hidden gem at a steal of a price just isn't there in the same quantity.
Everyone needs Tetris Effect in their life though. Either Epic or Game Pass. It's my game of the forever.
August I think. Either way, it's an amazing game and the new DLC is supposed to be really good.
Remnant was a fun co op game. The shooting mechanics felt good and the bosses were all interesting with their our mechanics. I'd say if you have someone to play with;its a solid choice.
Got Fuser, Bugsnax, Tetris Effect and Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 1+2™
And Observer: System Redux. Not part of the sale, but the coupon works on it just as well, making for -45%.
Fuser is still not exactly cheap, nearly the total of the other four, but whatcha gonna do.
And Observer: System Redux. Not part of the sale, but the coupon works on it just as well, making for -45%.
Fuser is still not exactly cheap, nearly the total of the other four, but whatcha gonna do.
Oh man, that would be a total bust for me.
Got no interest in any of those games aside from Portia and I already own it on Steama. Eh, its free though. Can't really complain.
I heard some great impressions about The Pathless. I am also interested in it but i am not sure about the price. I wish it was at least 15-20% off + voucher, would be a nice deal.
If the list is real then outside of Night in The Woods and Inside, the rest i either already got in earlier free giveaways, already have on Steam or dont have much interest in (ah heck ill end up adding them anyway in case of the mythical backlog free rainy day).
Feel a bit safer about some of the games i might get before the sale ends (Death Stranding or Disco Elysium).
Feel a bit safer about some of the games i might get before the sale ends (Death Stranding or Disco Elysium).
I was the same when I first saw this list. I then googled the games and saw that a good amount of them are survival/build games like Subnautica, and earlier this month I was thinking about playing Subnautica again after getting a itch for that type of game.
I never played Alien, and Darkest Dungeon, I will probably never get around to trying them still, but this is the case made for something like Game Pass, but here we get to play them at any time, without a sub. They will be there for when I'm in the mood to give it a try. I wasn't in the mood for city builders after getting Skyline, but seeing the trailer of Jurassic World: Evolution I'm looking forward to the last day.
Looking at last year's daily givaway, they too were somewhat small games. This one is pretty good in comparison.
31/12/2019 Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
30/12/2019 Hello Neighbor
29/12/2019 The Talos Principle
28/12/2019 Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
27/12/2019 Hyper Light Drifter (2nd chance)
26/12/2019 Faster Than Light
25/12/2019 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
24/12/2019 Celeste (2nd chance to claim)
23/12/2019 Ape Out
22/12/2019 Little Inferno
21/12/2019 Superhot
20/12/2019 TowerFall Ascension
19/12/2019 Into The Breach
Own it on Steam and runs mostly at 60fps, it's a night and day difference (GTX 1060 6gb).
Thanks! I've got a 980ti 6gb so I should be good on that front. Also just realized there was also a demo on Epic so I'll give that a go before I commit.
I bought Tony hawk which runs surprisingly well on my 960ti. My four year old is in love with it despite barely knowing what she is doing. I own launchbox so I integrated epic into it so I can quickly launch my games using moonlight on my tv.
The list seems pretty legit because all of the games on it that are already in the EPIC store arent on sale currently.
It's limitless. You just keep getting them until the promotion is over.
That's really nuts, makes so many borderline games that are like 30 dollars into instant impulse purchases.
Reminds me of the joys of olden day Steam sales. Just bought Desperados and Star Wars Squadrons, might also grab Ghostrunner. They're all pretty much "eh why not" prices with the coupons.
Returns is pretty meh, but Dragonfall and Hong Kong are excellent. Harebrained Schemes got progressively better at making games with each entry, but I think Dragonfall comes together the best, and would be my standout of the bunch.
I'm a tad stunned that Epic Game Store still hasn't updated their client to allow people to "gift" games to other. Like there isn't anything I want, but I wanted to give my friend Disco Elysium.
I adore the Shadowrun games. Dragonfall and Hong Kong are some of my favorites. Never touched Returns.
I adore the Shadowrun games. Dragonfall and Hong Kong are some of my favorites. Never touched Returns.
What the? I missing like half of these. I must've really not have been paying much attention last year lol.
The AUD $22 requirement for getting a renewed coupon is really stopping me from buying anything. The more expensive games I either already have (2077) or I access through Ubisoft Plus/Game Pass, so I don't really want to buy a cheap game then have to spend $22 just to get $15 off for my next game. Ah well, I barely use the Epic launcher anyway so no big deal.
I don't think you are quite getting how the sale works.
you buy anything, including the free game you get a coupon.
the coupon works for a discount off games, but only if they are above a certain price. So in your case it seems to be $15 off games over $22.
You buy a game the coupon works on you get another.
you buy a game the coupon doesn't work on you still have the coupon.
The whole cupon system is to get around developers having a problem with a lower sticker price on their games during EGS sales it seem. This way EGS is simply giving people $10 or $15 to spend towards the game they want over a certain price (not counting pre-orders).
As much as I'd rather not give Epic my money, there are some seriously great deals on here.
Being Canadian I'm looking at:
$18.99 for Death Stranding or Star Wars Squadrons.
$16.99 for Maneater
$12.99 For Disco Elysium
$9.99 for Mortal Shell
$29.99 for Mount and Blade II
Crazy good deals. I really don't have the money to blow on everything I want (nor the time to play it). Very tempted to get a few games though.
Being Canadian I'm looking at:
$18.99 for Death Stranding or Star Wars Squadrons.
$16.99 for Maneater
$12.99 For Disco Elysium
$9.99 for Mortal Shell
$29.99 for Mount and Blade II
Crazy good deals. I really don't have the money to blow on everything I want (nor the time to play it). Very tempted to get a few games though.
I could see them offering the basic version of the game to drive DLC sales. I probably wouldn't bet on it though.
Yeah, at this price I'll probably just get it.
Here's another question, if I buy Cyberpunk 2077 on Epic, does it just connect to GOG? Or do I have to have Epic installed/running to play it?