What kind of games should I look for on the Steam sale?

yotano211 · Jun 13, 2015

Now that the Steam summer sale is around. What kind of game(s) should I buy or look for. Please name them below, thank you all.

AsRock · Jun 13, 2015

Well it's depends on what you like how how well that laptop\PC will run your games, but normally game's lack laptop support although it don't always mean the game wont run.

You could check the new Steam refund policy and see if you can take advantage of that.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/steam-change-policy-on-refunds.213119/#post-3291254

R-T-B · Jun 13, 2015

AsRock said:
Well it's depends on what you like how how well that laptop\PC will run your games, but normally game's lack laptop support although it don't always mean the game wont run.

You could check the new Steam refund policy and see if you can take advantage of that.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/steam-change-policy-on-refunds.213119/#post-3291254

That's a high end desktop replacement Clevo. It has 780ms in SLI. It probably outperforms my Haswell-E R9 290X desktop.

FordGT90Concept · Jun 13, 2015

All I bought so far is Tesla Effect and Hotline Miami 2 Deluxe Edition upgrade. I generally only buy below $10 so that narrows it down a lot for me.

I'm eyeing Salt right now but sitting on the fence on buying it.

Some games that are on sale now I know are good:
-The Witcher series
-Hitman series
-Portal 2
-Kingdoms of Amlur: Reckoning
-Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
-Valkryia Chronicles

RCoon · Jun 13, 2015

yotano211 said:
Now that the Steam summer sale is around. What kind of game(s) should I buy or look for. Please name them below, thank you all.

Literally just wrote an article on that. Some of my personal choices:
http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/21740/next-week-in-gaming-june-week-three/

Go To Sleep · Jun 15, 2015

Well I recently bought Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. It's absolutely awesome. If you enjoyed the previous Borderlands titles, you'd like that. I love it, literally :rockout:

MrGenius · Jun 15, 2015

Dead Space Pack(1 & 2) for under $8. Must haves in my book(esp. for that price). I've also got my eye on DiRT Rally. Wishing MotoGP 15 was out today(and on sale). Hoping RIDE makes the list before it's over.

Easy Rhino · Jun 15, 2015

RCoon said:
Literally just wrote an article on that. Some of my personal choices:
http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/21740/next-week-in-gaming-june-week-three/

Off topic but why in that nextpowerup blog post are the pictures at the end of the blurb? When I scroll it makes it look like the picture belongs to the title right below it!

horik · Jun 15, 2015

I got Metro 2033 Redux bundle, great games.

RCoon · Jun 15, 2015

Easy Rhino said:
Off topic but why in that nextpowerup blog post are the pictures at the end of the blurb? When I scroll it makes it look like the picture belongs to the title right below it!

Hmm, not sure, guess it was just a choice of top or bottom and I made a 50/50 choice

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What kind of games should I look for on the Steam sale?

yotano211

AsRock

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R-T-B

FordGT90Concept

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RCoon

Go To Sleep

MrGenius

Easy Rhino

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horik

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