I know nothing about it but One Way Heroics has 96% steam reviews and is -50% off, would match your criteria

For few more hours Recettear is -75%. It is really fun store sim/dungeon crawler/jrpg hybrid where your dad ran off and gave up your house as collateral for a loan, now you have to run a store to pay off the debt. Buy low, sell high, go explore a dungeon with your hired adventurer to find more stuff.

Originally a japanese indie game that got excellent english translation that took a lot of liberties.

Capitalism, Ho!

Any thoughts on Five Nights At Freddy's 2 for $1.89 on Indiegala Monday bundle? I haven't played the first one, but they both look interesting.

Basic time management game with a fairly interesting story. You like diner dash? Go for it.

but is it moe

Ty for the suggesitons

Hmmm just saw this article about H1Z1 Early Access. Sounds like they are releasing a bug-filled alpha that will be riddled with microtransactions. Sign me up and take my money!

Does anyone have examples of games that worked out well after Early Access? I'm sure there are some but the whole thing just smells like a huge scam playing on peoples' constant anticipation and desire to be "part of the process."

Prison architect is still in early access and is excellent

Kerbal Space Program is a good example, I bought it 2-3 years ago for like $9 and they keep putting a ton of work in to it and raising the price as they go. Minecraft did the same thing, I bought that in alpha for like $4 and he kept raising the price as it matured. I'm not as big a fan of the pricing model of things like Rimworld and Prison Architect that start out at a high full price ($30-35 in both cases?), though maybe they're both mature enough to be worth that. Also interesting how 3/4 of those aren't on Steam (with PA just getting added recently). I can't think of a good early access game that came through Greenlight or Steam, except maybe Crypt of the Necrodancer which just seems to get worse with each update.

I caught PA on sale for $6 and can say it's worth full price.

Yes generally alpha builds have bugs in them. If you want to support the game for $20 you get early access which include tickets for events such as battle royale. Battle royale is a tournament style last man standing event, where the top finishing players get cosmetic rewards, tickets to more events, crates containing cosmetic itesms, and keys to open those crates. You can buy tickets to events, I'm pretty sure that's all you can buy. If that's considered 'riddled with microtransactions', then color me surprised. They are $.99 for a ticket btw.

If you don't want to buy early access you don't have to. The game will be F2P in a few months, and it's coming out for Playstation 4 down the line as well.

IDK. I love the genre, and the company is reputable. I'll stop riding its dick for now until the game comes out, but if anyone is going to get early access, add me on Steam - Killerwalski

Here's your list of successful early access games (subjective opinion but w/e):

• FTL - Probably a shining example for you if you've played it
• Minecraft - hard to say that didn't work out well when I see kids wearing their clothes and dressing up like creepers
• Rust - one of the best games I've ever played.
• Kerbel Space Program
• Wasteland 2
• Warframe
• Terraria I believe offered early access
• Starbound definitely was early access
• Divinity: Original Sin
• Don't Starve
• Seven Days to Die
• Project Zomboid

The list goes on I'm sure. Something to note is that many of those titles were indie companies with small budgets. We're talking about Sony Online Entertainment... Creators of Planetside 2, Everquest, and DC Universe. Successful titles by anyone's standards.

Man didn't you learn a thing from when you were hyping up War Z before its release? I hope this game is good because people seem to be excited about it but just wait until you've played it before you start preaching.

War Z was actually pretty damn fun for a couple weeks until more people were cheating than not. I blame the terrible developers. It's hard to compare SOE with a fat drunk Russian and his studio of incompetent puppets, would you disagree?

GET HYPED KABONGGGGGG

Super Meat Boy is awesome. I played through the Light World and liked the game so much I decided to try for the full 106% completion. I'm at 94% now and it's starting to get very hard. I just spent like 4 hours playing through The Guy warp zone. It doesn't even look very hard, but god it was a bitch. It's this one if you need a reminder:

Kowalski, seriously mature up, industry is ****ed up and 2014 was horrible because of behaviour like yours. Don't buy EA, period. Don't you see how ironic your hype is?

damn, nice going, I gave up at 76%

I do see the irony. I know that lots of smaller studio devs find it acceptable now to peddle their early access titles that are complete ass and never even make it out of alpha stage. I know that, I honestly do. But I'm willing to make an exception for this one. This is my favorite genre for all time, and I'd have to call anyone who thinks Sony is putting their game out for EA cash grabby at all completely wrong.

EDIT:
Please note the list of titles I posted a few posts up. The one game that stands out for me on that list is Rust. I'm not sure if you've played it but I've probably logged 300 hours on it and it is still in my top 3 games of all time. It's still in alpha, btw.

One game that just occurred to me that offered early access that turned out pretty damn good by a smaller studio in New Zealand called Grinding Gear Games... Called Path of Exile - You may be familiar with that one. I played closed beta, and it's came quite a long way. Another title that I gladly supported and sunk 400 hours into. I love the genre and the developers had a great direction from the game, and showed dedication to updating and improving their product.

Sometimes early access is just that - early access, and not a scam. I'm willing to make an ass of myself if I'm wrong, so we'll just have to see how H1Z1 is in 6+ months and revisit how foolish I am being.

As a poker player I don't like lotteries.

I think the difference is that most of the games that came out of early access successfully were already fairly complete (I forget that Prison Architect or Kerb Space Program are early acces because everyone raves about them). I guess I'm curious why people want to pony up for something that is clearly broken and, if not developed further, will never be complete. Then again I've made my anti-Kickstarter views known but even I'll admit that there have been quite a few success stories from there. Guess I'll just keep being a fish who waits for completed games; not that I don't have enough to play as it is.

On a side note Don't Starve is great. I was concerned because I'm not a huge crafting fan, but this game does it right: let me find component and you tell me what I can make from them without having to build things brick by brick.

Meh, people pre-order games too and I think that's ******ed too. But in the end, if they want to play a broken game it's their money.

Picked up Five Night At Freddy's 2. Rest of the stuff seems like crap, but it's free at least

1Quest : FE2VB--JDW93-3ZID0
Mission Control: NanoMech : F9HYG--6BTLQ-ZTV3W
Quest for Infamy : FE25J--5ACAH-3FPIP
Rift's Cave : F9P6J--LCEER-5BVM7

Replace the -- with -

After I pre-ordered Diablo III like 6 months in advance, just to wait in line and pick it up at midnight to be told, "Oh by the way servers won't be up until 3am!".... I will never pre-order a game ever again.

(All taken by someone btw)

This is why we all suffer, this is why 2014 was so horrible in gaming, it's not just about their money.