I purchased a bunch of dlc for Train Sim World (tsw). I only buy dlc for tsw when its on sale, save a small fortune that way.

Bonus savings if you can get one of the bundles on sale for double discount. I got £150 of dlc for about £55. Yeah dlc is super expensive for tsw but it doesn't go out of date and nor is it needed for a multiplayer mode so why rush?

Been after the expansion pack for Germany and the Preston Route for ages.

Train Sim World 5: West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle Route Add-On
Train Sim World 5: Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel - Würzburg Route Add-On
Train Sim World 5: DB BR 101 Loco Add-On
Train Sim World 5: Maintalbahn: Aschaffenburg - Miltenberg Route Add-On
Train Sim World 5: Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr: Duisburg - Bochum Route Add-On
Train Sim World 5: Ruhr-Sieg Nord: Hagen - Finnentrop Route Add-On
Train Sim World 5: DB BR 363 Loco Add-On

I've seen so many games that are super cheap. But right now i play mainly deadlock, which was free. Or some demos from steam next fest, which are so good that i played like 3 hours and am happy with.

The GOG summer sale is ongoing as well

https://www.gog.com/promo/2025_summer_sale

Lot of people saying it's Meh but ones that I've been tempted by are:

ATL 53% off for Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate edition

• this passes the $60 AUD threshold which I've been holding out for

Crash Bandicoot Nsane trilogy for 90% off

Stanley parable ultimate edition at lowest price since 2023

• deals for this game have been tepid since December 2023, but this matches the ATL

I have it on my wishlist! But have to cut the spending somewhere haha.
I'd also like to get Cyber Knights, A Hat In Time, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, Skin Deep and Soulash 2 - but it's just too much money with so little time for gaming now (especially with keyboard + mouse for the latter two).

I really enjoyed Azaran, Gravity Storm and Always With You in the NextFest.

I think it's still a bit too new for that.

Not saying it isn't, but if somebody tells me it should be less than half of what I'm seeing it for I might as well ask if I'm missing something, no?

No worries, just wanted to check if I'm missing something.

I get the gist of this game. Build some rockets with lifelike physics, right? Do you think it’d be fun on steam deck?

Split Fiction is worth the MSRP. Ideally it’s great if you can get it on a discount, but this is one of the few games I’d pay full price for. My spouse and I loved it.

All these have been on my wishlist for ever. Finally made the purchases today.

• Stardew Valley
• Disco Elysium
• Kerbal Space Program

Edit to add
Disco Elysium has been refunded. Thanks everyone for the advice.

Disco isnso good. But even the devs said they would rather have it that people pirate the game bacause they got fucked over and don't make money of the game anymore.

honestly the only ones I picked up this year are the Crash Bandicoot Trilogy and Jurassic World Evolution 2. that's it.

I don't think it's a matter of the sale is meh but most of the stuff with deep discounts is always on sale with previous sales and thus I already picked that stuff up. You'll constantly see the same games over and over with each sale and when you participate in each sale that number of games to get great deals on becomes less and less.

omikron nomad soul is two american dollars

I have no idea how vehicle construction would work with a joystick, but other than that should be basically the same. Flying/landing might even be better on controller. It also has a native Linux client that isn't just a shitty port.

but it doesn't go out of date

That's not necessarily true. There has been DLC for Train Simulator (now classic) that got delisted and at some point no longer worked due to updates to the game and not to the DLC making it incompatible. Then at some point a new version got added as DLC which you had to buy again to get a working train. (8448 Big Boy and 6446 Challenger come to mind)

I'm in the same boat, but that does mean we both already have plenty of games to play.

Btw Jurassic World Evolution 2 is really great.

that's the one that david bowie did the soundtrack for right?

Didn't go too overboard since I have a lot of other unplayed games and money is tight. But I picked these up:

• Sapo 3D (3D Platformer)
• ATLYSS (Action RPG)
• Lunacid (Dungeon Crawler)
• Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D Platformer)
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (3D Platformer)
• Anodyne (Action Adventure)