Crosspost from Discord:

For those of you that hate your hardrive/s and wish it/them to suffer, Ark is currently free on Steam.

Steam Page.

Like, Jesus, with the free maps, it's almost 330 gigabyes!

Heard good things aside from the 'DLC despite being in EA' scandal, but never played it.

Made by the legendary Westwood Studios, Nox is an often forgotten Diabo clone.

A really, really, really good Diablo clone that didn't sell a thousenth of what it deserved due to bad PR at launch. One of those sad, near text book cases of the good word of mouth having done the rounds only when the physical copies where all off the shelves already.

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Don't know much about this one, but I've heard it described as one of those games you either love and play two hundred hours easy... or recoil in disgust hissing like a cat five minutes in.

So, yeah. Anyway, can't argue with free, and the offer lasts this weekend out.

Link.

On phone due to minor PC upgrade, will be brief.

In celebration of its twentieth anniversary (!), the game and expansion will be free for abouth twenty four hours.

This was a PC melter back in the day, the Crysis of it's time. One of the first games REQUIRING a graphics-card, even.

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Don't usually like to talk about the humble bundle ones since I feel they've got a few more hoops to jump through then any Steam giveaway, but this one cough my eye. Never finished the original since it was such an infamous resource-hog, but I do remember my jaw frequently dropping at the graphics.

I mean, just look at this:

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For Assassins Creed: Can't-be-arsed-to-check- the-actual-name,-but-the-latest-Greek-themed-one. The first DLC.

Don't even need the base game. Just log into Uplay, click the link, and redeem.

Big on Ubisoft, considering how near universally the praise has been for AC: CBATCANBLGTO has been. Offer valid until the first.

Never heard about this one, some sort of multiplayer assassins game? 8 players, where each person has a target they need to find among the NPCs, I think?

Going to be honest, not really my cup of Joe. Art looks pretty cool, though.

*Edit: Youtube link, embed not working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=LIs5FAsXJdE

Offer valid until Monday, so be sure to check it out if it does seems your type of thing.

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Don't know much about this game, but it's by the same gang that made Myst and Riven: The Sequel To Myst.

...That's... quite the pedigree, as far as a certain brand of adventure games is concerned. No idea if Abduction actually lives up to those standards... buy hey, free is a pretty decent price-point to find that out at yourself, ja?

Offer valid for 48 hours.

Wasn't really interested when this was new, but I've heard it's one of those games that's received so much post-launch polish it's near unrecognizable.

For a limited time only, so nab it while it lasts.

Until May 5th, "Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection" and "Journey" are free to download from the Sony store.

It's part of the stay at home stuff due to COVID-19.

Wasn't going to mention it, but I've currently got the cold form hell. Been sneezing, dripping and coughing my head off for... four, five days now?

Anyway, don't have a clue what this game is like, or about, and just don't have the energy to research it right now.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/544610/Battlestar_Galactica_Deadlock/

Not a big BG fan, but heard good things about this game.

Link.

Offer lasts until tomorrow the 24, 10:00 Pacific time, so nab it while you can.

Never played it myself, but it looks like a highly decent space-trucker/privateer sim in the same vein as Elite or Freelancer. If either of those names made you perk your ears, then definitely give it a look-see.

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The original, to celebrate 10 years. NOT the Redux.

Still, a pretty dang great shooter in its own right. Well worth a click to claim to your library, even if you're not currently in the mood.

Offer is valid until the 25th.

I still loathe Epic Store, but felt like making an exception since this is such a MLP rooted game.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/thems-fightin-herds-trots-out-as-todays-epic-christmas-freebie

Might be worth a look, if TFH being a fighting game has made you hesitate. Offer valid for a bit under 24 hours something, so act fast if you're planning too!

Never heard of this one, not even sure why it's free currently, but apparently it hit #20 on Rock, Paper, Shotguns best puzzle-games ever list.

Looks and sounds pretty, if literally nothing else.

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AKA, the XCOM spin-off with the fifties, black goo blob monsters, and tons of cigarette smoking.

Oh, and some aliens and shooting, too.

Jokes aside, I've got a soft spot for this game. It's no great all-time classic, but not borked trash-tier stuff either. Decent shooting, decent characters, decent twists, decent enemies, decent guns, decent powers...

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Some sort of anniversary giveaway, lasting about 24-ish hours more. Vanilla game only, none of the expansions.

Tried to get into Paradox's 'eat your life, OMG' style historical sandboxes a few times, Hearts of Iron mainly, but the slow pace and how there's usually no end-state beyond 'survive until X' has made me bounce off them so far.

(Can really recommend Stellaris, though. One of the more open ended 4X games out there, with a lot of options on just how you shape your empire.)

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To raise awareness about the fire in Notre Dame, Ubisoft is giving away copies of AC: Unity.

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Played the first game in the series like... a billion years ago when it was new? Yeah, seems legit a time-frame.

Never really clicked for me, personally, at least back then. Think it was the interface, unit pathing, or some petty annoyance like that i just didn't feel like dealing with at the time.

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