Ok, last set of Steam codes from me.

You're very welcome to all those who responded and said thanks! Again, happy that some regs were able to snap up more than a few so far!




Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

Kudos again! I shamelessly triple dipped to nab that BEE SIMULATOR.

that's quite a lot of keys you gave us!
thx a lot, I grabbed house flipper, metro and valkirya 4.
Swapping letters was the right move, this thread has been looted by bots historically.

Happy new year to you and also to that little group of regs that animated this thread for years!

I ended up grabbing Planet Coaster from the first set, and Voidigo and Bullets Per Minute from the last set. Thank you!

Yes, indeed! I have to say that I thought it was pretty awesome that codes were still available after a few hours. That's perfect!

I took Nimbatus. That one has been on my wishlist for a long time and I never pulled the trigger. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

You put in so much effort to make sure those codes went to a 'good home'. Thank you again, makes this forum and thread still feel alive.

And I bought Slay the Spire finally instead even though I was sure I wouldn't like it because I'm not into card games and guess what? I dig it, lol.

The thing is - I wouldn't buy all these games to 'try' if there wasn't a refund option - but if I keep buying games like that and refunding those that I don't like I could get a warning. I would never get Slay the Spire and wouldn't keep it.

lol, I tried grabbing Narita Boy (had it on my wishlist since its launch), but couldn't figure out the puzzle Pretty sure I tried every possible transformation of <3,0> and <4,7> from first and last sequence, still invalid key

also, in the reviews thread I called The Surge 2 "the best non-FromSoft soulslike" and I stand by it, strong recommendation for anyone who likes souls games. Just make sure that you use directional parry from the start, this mechanic is what made the game so good for me.

Sorry if it was confusing - swap the entire set of 5 numbers at start and the end. Will PM code to you in hopes it still works.

I don't think Steam cares. I just checked my email and I've refunded 38 steam games since automated refunds became a thing.

That's helpful, thanks. I was googling and saw some worrying reports. I bought 5 games and refunded 3 so far, but I rarely buy games since I have so many.

edit: fwiw, I read that there are two warnings before refunds are revoked, so you can do whatever you want until first warning I guess.

I can confirm receiving a warning a while back for Steam refunds. It came within a refund confirmation email with an ordinary email subject (e.g. "Your purchase has been refunded" or something like that). I just happened to open and read it, otherwise I would never have known.

Maybe they do a better job nowadays in communicating warnings, but that was my experience a couple of years ago or so.

I just took a quick look through all my refunds and one did have a message saying: "You’ve requested a significant number of refunds recently. If you’re unsure about a product, make sure to check out the customer reviews before purchasing."

It was on my 3rd refund in a 15 day period. I've refunded 5 times since then. I've also had two separate occasions where I've refunded 6 games in one day and never received any warning. I don't know if it makes a difference but I always just refund to my Steam wallet.

Grabbed Werewolf: Heart of the Forest. TYVM.

Are there any games in the style of Detroit: Become Human on GAme Pass?

I don't think there is anything similar on Game Pass. Similar games would be the Life Is Strange games, basically any game by Telltale, the other games by Quantic Dream; Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls.

Is life is strange really a game though?

Oh yeah I've heard of Heavy Rain. Might need to check it out.

If you have Amazon Prime, this month's free games are:

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (activates on Origin)
World War Z: Aftermath (activates on Epic)
Total War: Warhammer (activates on Epic)

Amazon downloads:
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
Abandon Ship
Paper Beast - Folded Edition
In Other Waters
Two Point Hospital

https://gaming.amazon.com/home

I was convinced to pick up Factorio a while back, but just couldn't get on board with it. It felt like I was constantly fighting the controls/UI and there aren't enough hours in the day to be irritated at video games. I abandoned it after two sessions.

Enter: Dyson Sphere Program


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...phere_Program/

I was turned on to this one after sinking a ton of hours into Satisfactory, which I also highly recommend. We're not going to talk about how many hours I've played DSP in the past week and a half, but it's excessive. Definitely takes major inspiration from Factorio, but for some reason it just clicked where Factorio didn't.

The music is chill. The visuals are fantastic. The game is still in Early Access but very fleshed out. You are dumped on a planet with nothing but trees and rocks and are tasked with harnessing the energy of your star by constructing a Dyson Sphere. Go.

This takes the "One more turn..." mantra from the Civilization franchise and dials it up to eleven. Sleep is for the weak. Star clusters are random but seeded, so there is replayability for people who are into that sort of thing, but I'll be happy to give it the 100ish hours a blind first completion will take and then revisit it after official release for a faster round two with the benefit of experience.

Looks cool.

Almost like some sort of Kerbal Space Program themed version of Factorio.

Might keep my eye on its release.

I want ahead and grabbed Dyson Sphere Program based on your write up. I love Factorio and this looks great!

Played Dyson Sphere about a year ago and liked it a lot, but see there have been some major updates since then so might be time to play it again.

I find it very strange to like DSP and not get into Factorio though

Like I mentioned, with Factorio it felt like I was fighting the interface. It might be due to having been ruined by Satisfactory being my first entrance into the factory-building genre. Being full 3D, Satisfactory obviously has a big leg up on belt logistics and Factorio's 2D limitations drove me nuts. I think what finally made me say, "**** this" was having trouble with splitters and finding a 60 minute YouTube tutorial on bending Factorio belts to your will. The equivalent Satisfactory video would've been 6 minutes long with 4 of those being intro/outro.

I'll admit I could've just been being a baby and gave up too soon.