The madness of Steam's wallet-emptying Holiday Sale is now upon us! Let's check out the games you should be interested in.
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50% OFF The LucasArts Catalogue. Tightly doesn't include The Force Unleashed II. You'd think they actually didn't want the game to sell.
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73% OFF The Telltale Holiday Pack. Includes Sam & Max Seasons 2 and 3, Puzzle Agent and Poker Night. Not sure what makes them holiday games (barring Ice Station Santa and the fact that there's a lot of snow in Puzzle Agent), but it's a good deal nonetheless!
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33% OFF DeathSpank and 25% OFF DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue. These games are already great for the price (they're huge and lots of fun), now they're on sale despite only being out recently (TOV only came out three weeks ago!). THAT is how you get people to buy your new game, LucasArts.
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90% OFF The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom. That's 39-49 pence for a great puzzle game. What's this got to do with us? It's a storybook puzzler similar to LucasArts' Lucidity, and reportedly (by us, though I can't find it now) the teams of both games maintained a close relationship throughout development.
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50% OFF Time Gentlemen, Please + Ben There, Dan That. Two genuinely funny comedic adventures purposefully done in the style of LucasArts adventures, with a Use Partner gameplay mechanic lovingly ripped off from Sam & Max Hit The Road. Buy. The first game's free if you want to try it first though. The second game has Nazi robot dinosaurs.
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50% OFF Mata Hari. An adventure made with assistance from the Fate of Atlantis Dream Team of Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein. Flawed, but good for this price.
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50% OFF Jolly Rover. Another great comedy adventure that's obviously strongly influenced by (and with plenty of references to) LucasArts, specifically Monkey Island. If you're pining for the days of quality funny adventures from LucasArts (if not, why are you reading this site?), Jolly Rover and Time Gentlemen Please are essential purchases.
BONUS SALE: While it's not part of the Steam sale, seeing as Autumn Moon or their publisher have an irrational fear of hot water vapour, A Vampyre Story is £7.49/$9.99 at Games For Windows.
Source: Steam
Huz
Deathspank is 50% off, today only, so UNLUCKY, anyone who bought it at a mere 33% off!
The Tingler
Jayel
It ain't steam, but A Vampyre Story for $9.99 at gfw.com
You could always stick that in the newspost. Everything considered, AVS is more relevant than, for example, Jolly Rover.
Jayel
It ain't steam, but A Vampyre Story for $9.99 at gfw.com
TGP! + BTDT are huge barrels of fun too, and in classic LucasArts point&click style to boot. There are even 3 (or 4) paths to choose from like in Fate of Atlantis.
Kroms
It's kind of weird they don't have both Deathspank games in a package. What's that all about, then?
Anyways, I'm not buying anything this year. A lot of it is very tempting (very, very tempting), made worse by half my wishlist being in packs. But I'll refrain. Still have a backlog to clear-out.
At the very least though get PB Winterbottom. It's less than half a dollarpound! As it's a puzzle game you can play that alongside the backlog.
Anyways, I'm not buying anything this year. A lot of it is very tempting (very, very tempting), made worse by half my wishlist being in packs. But I'll refrain. Still have a backlog to clear-out.