Saturday Morning Gaming: The Steam Christmas Sale is Upon Us!

First things first: Dave the Diver is on sale for 20% off. Get it. You’ll be delighted. It’s a charming, funny, relaxing game. Well, the restaurant sim part is a little bit stressful. Some of the shark attacks are too. But, mostly, it’s relaxing on top of being charming and funny. (Read my review here.)

Pinball FX3 has all of its tables on sale for 70% off. Pinball FX (the currently supported table platform) has almost all of its tables on sale for 66% off. (Read my review here.)

The game that I have put the most hours into this year (and last year, and the year before that) is a boardgame called Gremlins, Inc. It’s on sale for 75% off. (How have I not reviewed this? Seriously, it’s the game that I have played more than any other.)

Return of the Obra Dinn is on sale for 33% off. Play an insurance adjuster figuring out what happened to this ghost ship, who died on it, in what order, and what the heck happened. An absolutely *AMAZING* gaming experience unlike anything else I’ve ever played. (Read the review here.)

Gloomhaven is a computer game version of a board game that tries to capture the joys of dungeon crawling computer games. In real life, it’ll take you 20 minutes to set up any given dungeon. In here, it’ll take less than 20 seconds. It’s on sale for 50% off. (Read the review here.)

Heck, watch my Youtube tutorial on how to play:

Glass Masquerade is a digital jigsaw puzzle where you put stained glass visuals together. Absolutely relaxing and a great game to play when you’re unwinding at the end of a long day. Get it for 65% off. (I never reviewed it but, seriously, if the idea of jigsaw puzzles on computer monitor is appealing to you, you need to get this game.)

Hades is probably the best Rogue-lite that I’ve played in the last five years. Escape Hell. Then escape it again. Escape it for 50% off. (Read the review here.)

Invisible, Inc. is Klei’s take on the XCom games. Instead of giving you percentage chance to hit (that *NEVER* are accurate), it gives you either 0% or 100%. Oh, and you’re sneaking rather than shooting. If you like tactical sneakers, you *NEED* to get this game. And it’s 75% off! (And I haven’t reviewed this? How have I not reviewed this? It’s a treat of a game!)

Opus Magnum is a game about alchemy where you put together molecules using your alchemist skills. It mostly involves writing a computer program telling your alchemy box how to manipulate its arms around the various atoms you place in there. It’s on sale for 50% off. Warning: It will make you feel dumb. (Read the review here.)

Pentiment is a game set in the late Medieval era where you start out as a young artist working at a monastery and a murder happens. Then time passes and you are an old artist. Then more time passes. It’s a story game that is about how time passes, I guess, set at a monastery. A sad, moving, narrative that will stick in your craw at the same time that you’ll be delighted by the little touches like the ink drying on the script as it is written before you. It’s on sale for 33% off. (Read the review here.)

And last but not least: Ye Olde Cribbage Club. The game has some irritating flaws (the game has you cut for high card rather than low card) and some baffling design choices (your opponents are in an old age home and one suffers from Alzheimer’s) but if you want to play cribbage on your computer, this game will let you play cribbage. It’s on sale for 40% off. (Read the review here.)

So… what have I overlooked? What are *YOU* playing?

(Featured image is a screenshot of the Steam Christmas Sale Splash. Taken by the author.)