Steam Summer Sale 2019 Thread

[Gusington]

Ultimate General Civil War is awesome...no brainer there.

Due diligence goes out the window during the Steam sale!!

But I will have you know I filled my cart like a pothead at a grocery, then shut the computer off and went to bed last night. I know when I go back tonight I will remove some items.

Don't tell anyone, though.

Ride the snake of Steam sale madness!!

[GroggyGrognard]

Ride the snake of Steam sale madness!!

And when your spouse ends up finding out you spent too much money on the sale, you ride the lightning!

[Gusington]

I have that taken care of...family is away on vacation this week while I stayed back to work...on my Steam wish list 😎

[Steelgrave]

But I will have you know I filled my cart like a pothead at a grocery, then shut the computer off and went to bed last night. I know when I go back tonight I will remove some items.

I did the exact same thing, only.....only I haven't been able to remove any items yet! Willpower....wavering. Credit card is calling my name. Softly at first, then louder.....

[Sir Slash]

This would be so much easier if you guys didn't make all these games sound so good. Just saying.  #:-)

[Rayfer]

This would be so much easier if you guys didn't make all these games sound so good. Just saying.  #:-)

Agreed...will someone please post that FoG: Empires, Steel Divisions 2 and others are awful.

[Jarhead0331]

I'm only down $55 so far...

Dominions 5 - 40% off

Battletech Flashpoint DLC - 25% off

Katana Zero - 25% off

Seeking Dawn (VR) - 80% off

[devoncop]

Ultimate General Civil War is awesome...no brainer there.

Damn you man..........

First purchase of the sale.........

[Rayfer]

I'm hopeless. Had to grab Sovereignty: Crown of Kings.  :-\

[bobarossa]

So Evil Bank Manager is on sale for $7.19.  Looks like an interesting concept and has 78% positive reviews.  Anyone try it?  They also have a bundle with Generals & Rulers plus Third Front for $11.57.

[Jarhead0331]

So Evil Bank Manager is on sale for $7.19.  Looks like an interesting concept and has 78% positive reviews.  Anyone try it?  They also have a bundle with Generals & Rulers plus Third Front for $11.57.

Shut your whore mouth!

[Tuna]

I'm only down $55 so far...

Dominions 5 - 40% off

Battletech Flashpoint DLC - 25% off

Katana Zero - 25% off

Seeking Dawn (VR) - 80% off

Just finished my first game of Dom 5 last night. Really enjoyed it, pumped to fire up a new one!

[bobarossa]

So Evil Bank Manager is on sale for $7.19.  Looks like an interesting concept and has 78% positive reviews.  Anyone try it?  They also have a bundle with Generals & Rulers plus Third Front for $11.57.

Shut your whore mouth!

You realize the purpose of "saving for retirement" is to give you money to splurge on toys.

[JasonPratt]

Okay, Panzer Strategy and its ilk...

I can't recall if the Pacific game is out of EA yet, but I'm waiting until then. (It's called Strategic Mind: the Pacific.)

I like Panzer Strategy. It is very much the equivalent of Fantasy Wars / Elven Legacy compared to Fantasy General, except that the user interface is a little bit wonky, and the game feels slightly unfinished in its presentation (like there are a few missing sound or animation assets which feel like they're supposed to be there). The English dubbing is usually painful (and doesn't always match the text, so it's kind of important to both read and hear things). Hitler's slightly southern American accent is hilarious. But at least there's something going on at that level of presentation!

For a Panzer General successor, you could do a lot worse, and none of the other successors use 3D Unreal4 engine gfx and maps. Also, the maps aren't the same as the equivalent missions in the original PG. Mission design is pretty good.

Optimization is not the best, so it runs clunkier than it should. I can't effectively play it on my Surface Pro 3 with Win 8.1. So I haven't played it as much as I otherwise would have.

The worst I can say about it, is that it falls between two stools for me. I usually want to play punchier things on my home computer when I have the opportunity, and I can't play it on the Surface. And after all, as slutty as I am for PG games, this is another variation of PG. So I haven't played it as much as I want to. I'm still in Case White, if I recall correctly. But note that the game starts in Spain helping out Franco so that you can build and give core units experience across a few missions first! (The tutorial opening up the first spanish map is scripted, and if I recall testing correctly it gives no experience to your units, so it can be skipped after the first time except for plot color.)

Supply is a lot more important than usual in games of this sort (more detailed even than Order of Battle for comparison), and can affect your choices among targets and where to focus effort as you're going forward.

You should check out some YT LPs of the first mission or two, to get a basic idea of how the game distinguishes itself.

It's definitely worth the $15 (half off $30) currently on sale -- if you like this kind of game. It's just a little too unpolished to convert someone to liking this kind of game, in my opinion.

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile: remember the developer who published two versions of a more detailed PG-ish game for Operation Barbarossa through Matrix/Slitherine? One hook being that the maps would always be 1km hex scale?

Well, for their second or technically third game, they stopped using Matrix and published the Africa front (through 1942) as the super-generic sounding Army General, on Steam. It's on sale now for $5 and I just picked it up. 

Note that this looks more like a traditional PG game, not the Unreal Engine 4 bling of the Panzer Strategy / Strategic Mind games.


While I'm on the topic of Barbarossa games from Matrix, Panzer Doctrine is also on sale for about $7.50. And I just picked that up, too. This uses a relatively unique point-to-point continuous-time system for managing divisions across operational maps for the Barbarossa campaign. I liked the demo, so I'm glad I thought to check on whether it was on sale right now!