Steam Summer Sale - Recommendation List

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**General Annoyance**

Thought this would be a good idea for a thread due to the massive amount of games on sale right now on Steam, and the chances of most people not having the time or money for every good one.

Simply put in a recommendation for something on sale that you reckon shouldn't be missed!

My recommendation is Insurgency. If you ever wanted realistic combat like in Arma, but keeping the fast pace, intensity and game modes of Counter Strike and Battlefield, as well as cooperative PvE game modes, you need to play this. A game that I would have recommended at full price as being an absolute steal, now for £1.04 (or $1.32).

**War Kitten**

I'd like to recommend Prison Architect. The game's on sale currently for $7.49, and it looks like it'll be quite a blast to play!

**H.B.M.C.**

Wolfenstein: The New Order if you don't have it already.

Either of the more recent Tomb Raider games.

X-Com (haven't played the newer sequel).

Just picked up all of Hitman.

Telltale's Walking Dead games are also amazing.

**Irishpeacockz**

Shadow of Mordor is only 3 euro and with the new one coming out soon I think its a steal !

**H.B.M.C.**

Oh, yeah, get Shadow of Mordor. That game is so much fun, and the kill animations never get old.

**nels1031**

I picked up Expedition: Viking

Pretty fun and challenging so far, but still early in game. Kind of reminds me of Fallout 1+2 in some respects.

**Ratius**

Alien Isolation.
Morrowind.
Black Mesa.

25 quid for 3 super games.

**Warpig1815**

I was going to make a separate thread, but this is a perfect opportunity:

Any recommendations of BFG: Armada or Warhammer: Total War? Usually they're pricey, but with the sale they're far more affordable.

**Ratius**

Really liked BFG. Could not get into TW myself (at all) but virtually everyone else I've talked to raves about it.
I'd snap them up.

**War Kitten**

I would highly recommend getting Total War: Warhammer if you could get it. The DLC makes it better, but the base game itself is terribly fun.

**Henry**

Total War: warhammer's best contribution to the Total War series is that it doesn't take itself super seriously. It knows that all you want to get out of the game is watching huge armies with rediculous monstrous creatures smash into each other. It does this very well.

**eddieazrael**

Twilight Struggle - A superb boardgame that'll set you back £50 at least when made out of trees that's just £5 electronically!

**boundless08**

I'm going for the Witcher 3 GOTY. It's half price and well worth double what the full price is

**Gitzbitah**

Anybody had experience with Battle Brothers? I enjoy Darkest Dungeon, so I'm hoping for a similar experience but one that is graphically less... graphic. My boys are too young for unseeable horrors, or gouts of blood and gore. The little pixel chess guys losing their heads would probably just make them laugh.

edit- To clarify- they'd be watching the game, not playing it. They're still loving Disney Infinity.

**Avatar 720**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Wolfenstein: The New Order if you don't have it already.

Just be careful if you have an AMD graphics card; W:TNO doesn't appear to play nicely with them, if it plays at all.

**boundless08**

Avatar 720 wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
Wolfenstein: The New Order if you don't have it already.

Just be careful if you have an AMD graphics card; W:TNO doesn't appear to play nicely with them, if it plays at all.

I've no issues on my 270X but I played it over a year ago so maybe new driver issues? Friend of mine said it was a problem with the 400 series and up. I will second that it is a great game! That and new DOOM are the best FPS's released in years

**Formosa**

Don't bother with bfg, total war warhammer is very good, xcom is a steal

**Ratius**

Fallout 3 and GTA San Andreas going for 3 quid.
Cant really say no if you've never played them.

Is 40k Sanctus Reach worth getting? Its discounted but still 20 quid which seems a little steep.

**curran12**

Something smaller, but Armello is a good time.

Basically Redwall meets Game of Thrones on a digital boardgame that plays like an actual boardgame with elements that no physical one could make happen.

Plus it's good to support a pretty amazing art team for their trailers:

Spoiler:

**amazingturtles**

i keep meaning to try Armello! thanks for the reminder.

**General Annoyance**

Me too; I'm adding that to the list!

**War Kitten**

I've been playing a lot of Depth and Shellshock Live lately, I haven't checked to see if they're on sale yet, but both games are a great amount of fun to play.

**Pacific**

Has anyone played the Deathwatch game (the PC iOS port I believe?)

It's only a couple of quid now but that's a couple of quid wasted if the game is unplayable.

TW: Warhammer is a steal, definitely going to make sure I pick it up before the sale ends.

**ZergSmasher**

Is Galactic Civilizations 3 a good game? I'm considering picking up the big bundle with it and all of its add-ons for $30 (regularly $80+). I don't want to do that if it's no good, though.