Steam Holiday sale

[blueskirt]

In case any of you haven't noticed, Steam are having their holiday sale once again this year. All games are sold at 5% - 80% off, and discount for some games changes everydays. And it seems like everyone listened when Valve said they made 3000% more money last year selling Portal at 75% off because games are much cheaper this year than they were last year (like Stalker being sold for 2 dollars.) If you haven't done so yet, now is your chance to grab a copy of Machinarium and Time Gentlemen Please, which I'm sure you've heard about, the latter being without a doubt one of this year's AGS award winner.

Here's your chance to also grab:

Aquaria: A mix of Zelda and shoot 'em up. It features a huge open world explore, it has gorgeous backgrounds and music, the story is great, and it has at least 20 hours of gameplay (a lot compared to most indie titles). The game a bit too easy, I'd love to see an harder version with more frequent dogfights, but otherwise, it's a wonderful game. If you tried the demo before buying the game, savegames from the demo are compatible with the full game, so you won't have to replay the first chapter.

Braid: A puzzle platformer with time travel mechanics. The graphics, music and atmosphere are amazing, no puzzle repeat itself, each world introduce a new time travel mechanic and the story is very deep. And if you're allergic to platforming, let me assure you that it's impossible to die and the game is 20% platforming and 80% puzzle solving, so, you have no excuse to not play it.

Blueberry Garden: An exploration platformer where you must explore the world and eat fruits that grant you temporary ability in order to find objects and build a tower. The game requires you to play it at least twice and has about 2 hours of gameplay. Yeah, sucky description, but saying too much about this game would quite frankly spoil and ruin the whole experience, let me just say that if you like art games, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice by not playing it, because like Passage, this game is art gaming at its best. One last thing, make sure you have a good PC before trying this game since the game world is constantly changing, and it can sometimes be heavy on the CPU.

World of Goo: We've discussed this game before, the goal is to guide a handful of goo balls in a pipe by building towers, bridges and other structures to cross any obstacles and traps set in between the goo balls and the end level pipe. A game where the gameplay, musics, story, atmosphere and graphics all synergize to create one crazy, original and artful experience. Play the demo: If you don't like it, don't buy it, but if you like it, the rest of the game maintains that level of joy and excitement you got during the last level and the cutscene that followed, and ramps it up.

Osmos: Become the biggest blob in the universe! Absorb small blob to get bigger, and avoid being absorbed by bigger blobs. Sounds simple, but propelling yourself requires you to leave a fraction of your size behind you, and later levels throw blobs with gravity fields, sentient blobs, or levels so tightly filled with bigger blobs that quickly turn this zen and casual experience into a frantic and difficult experience, or a very slow experience where every single of your move must be planned before hand. The last levels can be nigh impossible but overall the game is fun.

Crayon Physics Deluxe: A puzzle game in the same vein of Incredible Machine, except instead of machines, you must draw shapes, ropes, cogs and anchors to help a red circle to collect stars. The game is weird in the sense that it reward creativity instead of intelligence. Most puzzles are easy, you can very well find a trick that can solve every puzzles effordlessly, but that will just turn the game into a boring row of easy puzzles. If you want to have lot of fun with this game, you have to be creative with your solutions.

If you need some more convincing, youtube is full of videos for all of these games and most of them have playable demo. Just don't watch videos of Blueberry Garden, except maybe the official trailer.

Anyone else knows any games worth buying while they're ultra cheap?

[Chicky]

Braid is awesome!

[Layabout]

All games except Modern Warfare 2. Asshat Activision.

[TheJBurger]

The entire Prince of Persia pack (all 4 games, from Sands of Time to generically titled "Prince of Persia") are available for only about $22.