Yeah, compared to Monster Train or Slay the Spire that seemed to have pretty intuitive mechanics, there was like 6 different concepts dumped on you right out of the gate that are not easy to understand and there does not seem to be much in the way of tutorial.

I wonder how they set up their Discovery Queue logic 'cause they're misdiagnosing me, big time. I don't do multiplayer but it's chock full of those. I'm not much on horror but those are sprinkled throughout. It's gotta be much more "push these games on people" than "pull from what the customer likes".

I just completed Chimera Squad. A great use of $9.99. It took me a bit to get used to the game play tweaks, but I really enjoyed it. I was quite stoppable by the end!

Good deal at Fanatical for Pillars of Eternity-Definitive Edition. Contains the base game, content from the Champion and Royal Edition plus The White Marsh part 1 and 2, Campaign Almanac DLC, plus a lot of other goodies for $7.

Good for 24 hours only.

I am playing Gears Tactics now. It is really good and f it only had the customization of X-Com 2 would be as near perfect as it gets for my type of game.

Amazon Games are not off to a great start. Their free to play Shooter Crucible has been taken back to a closed beta after hardly anyone was playing it when it left beta. Hopefully their MMO New World will do a little better. You can still get the game before it goes back into closed beta on Jul 1 at noon EST

Amazon's Crucible is being un-released and going back into closed beta | PC Gamer

The fact I didn't even know Amazon Games was a thing is probably not a good sign for them.

heh nope not at all. I think New World has some promise from the early beta I was in, but they need to do a better job of squashing bugs/lag/optimization.

What he said.

Even if I'm not interested, I'm fairly far up the gaming news curve I think so for me to have no conscious awareness ... I can't think that's a great sign for them unless their market is entirely like kids 10 and under or woke-gamers-only or something.

Looks like they are adding OOTP 21 today.

Hue. a puzzle/adventure game where you change the world by changing the background color of the world is the free game at Epic this week. Apparently Conan Exiles was also going to be free at some point, but they have changed their mind and will offer it for sale in their store at some point

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is one of the games available on this month's Humble Choice. Of course I had just cancelled it a few days ago, because there wasn't many games I was interested in (grrr!), There's a Battlestar Galactica, Earthlock, and Railway Empire amongst the other games available for you to choose from.

UbiSoft having a digital conference in place of the summer usual conventions and if you tune in on Sunday, you will get a free copy of Watch Dogs 2

How To Score A Free Copy Of Watch Dogs 2 From Ubisoft This Weekend | HotHardware

Has anyone played Occupy White Walls?

Occupy White Walls on Steam

Sounds offbeat but maybe up my alley.

Just a reminder this starts at 3pm EST today. Not exactly sure what else you need to do here other than be logged into your ubisoft account

Edit: Be logged into your Uplay account I think

Finally fired this up a couple of weeks ago. It’s great! Having a blast.

Well surprise there was technical problems so they are just giving the game to everybody who has a UPlay account

That's great to hear! They released a nice bug fix patch a few days ago and the 2nd DLC is coming out soon.

I wonder if this has anything to do with executives leaving because of sexual harassment complaints.

Picked up Unheard among a bunch of games a couple of weeks ago during the big sale and am really enjoying it. It's a detective game where you only listen to conversations to identify the people involved and answer certain questions about each scenario. You're given a schematic of each setting (office, police station, art gallery, etc.) and you are able to follow each person, listen to each conversation, phone call, etc., during a specific sequence (so far, between 5-10 minutes). You can rewind/fast-forward through the scene as many times as you want to position yourself in certain room or follow certain people to hear conversations.

Pretty cool take on the classic point-and-click detective game.

Well I don't know about that, but I know several YouTubers/Twitter folk were upset because they said absolutely nothing about sexual harassment during the whole event, and are worried they might not ever say anything about it again.

Yeah that does sound like a different take. Be curious how you feel about the game when you finish it.

Check this article out for how to claim your free copy of Watch Dogs 2


You Can Still Get Watch Dogs 2 For Free From Ubisoft, Here's How | HotHardware

Thanks!

Othercide comes out in about 12 days. It's kind of an X-Com roguelike. I love the art style and music.

Save 15% on Othercide on Steam

Warhammer 40000 Rites of War free to claim through the weekend at Gog.com

Ditto. Look forward to trying it with the new mode.

Not sure how good a deal this is as I don't play Assassin's Creed, but Fanatic has a Pick Your Own AC bundle. Looks like 10 different games where you can pick which three you want for $10 or 5 for $15

I just grabbed AC Odyssey for $15 on Xbox Marketplace. Not a bad deal.

Cool, hope someone takes advantage then.

Yes, thanks. I had it at one time but I can't find it. I'm in this stage where I'm going back over old games and trying a fresh run through because I typically never finish them. :D

After 6 hours, I really, really, really like Golftopia and it's very developed for an Early Release. It's a solo game by the same folks that made space Pirates and Zombies which I loved. Consider this an official recommendation!

Well not the Stellaris DLC Bundle I've been waiting for from Humble Bundle, but you can get the base Stellaris game and several others right now in the Paradox Bundle. You can get Europa Universalis IV and Age of Wonders 3 for a $1, Stellaris mnd the Victoria Collection for $7.50, Battletech and Tyranny for $12, and Imperator Rome for $17:

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/b...utm_content=en

Civ 6 free to play on Steam through the weekend.

I think I already own all of those, but just seeing that many quality games for that price gets me oddly excited all over again.

Tropico 5 and 12 DLC's for $9 at Fanatical

Obsidian's Grounded has entered early access and is selling for $30 on Steam

It should be part of Xbox Game Pass as well.

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Cohn has an early look at the game:

Cohh Plays Grounded Early Access - Episode 1 - YouTube

Fanatical has a combo pack of Torchlight 1 and 2 for $3 for next 24 hours.

Borderlands 3 is free to play through the weekend on Steam.

oh boy...and I haven't even started the first 2 that I have

Humble Store has F1 2018 for free for a limited time.

I'm intrigued by Grand Tactician: The Civil War. It's soon to make the jump to Early Access, so it probably has a long way to go and I would expect problems with AI and balance, but the battle system looks great.

Thanks, this looks great. I only ever play turn based games but I like the concept of giving Corp level commands and watching it play out. Add in my current Civil War obsession and this looks like a day 1 buy for me.

I am looking forward to this as Civil War is also my favorite war game type. Certainly a first day purchase, but I am cautious as well....looks a little too good to be true:)

I know you prefer turn based games, but if you do like controlling higher level commands and watch things, Scourge of War series is one of my favorite. This is the bundle but you can buy individual battles that are cheaper.

https://www.matrixgames.com/game/sco...ary-collection

Anyone play Plebby Quest yet? I think the best way to describe it is Crusader Kings light. Picked it up and played through the tutorial, and I think it has some potential for a "not-quite-as grand" strategy game.

I'm curious to see how it works out. I really liked the idea of Ultimate General and then some aspects of it ended up being badly implemented in the campaign. I've seen lots of promising games, and aside from Ageod's entry which requires a ton of knowledge and experimentation with settings to get the balance right, and still has issues then, they all seem to fall flat when they go beyond the individual scenario/battle level.

Torchlight 3 has entered early access on Steam for $30.

The battles in UGCW are great, but the campaign is nonsense with the scaling and the lack of impact of devastating losses.