What did you buy? How much did you spend? [Winter/Holiday Sale 2023 Edition]

same as the last few sales. i don't buy anything on steam anymore since they announced they were axing windows 7. nothing 0$

Strangers of Paradise Final Fantasy Origins
Star Ocean The Last Hope
Chrono Cross
Dragon Quest XI
Nier Replicant

All from GreenManGaming. Guess all my christmas coins went for Square Enix pockets

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - $9.99
Lost Forest - $1.19 - Refunded (not properly functional on the Deck)
Darkest Dungeon® II - $22.49
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood - $2.99
Rainswept - $3.35
Cube Escape: Paradox - Chapter 2 - $1.67
Tails of Iron - $4.99
Title_Pending - $3.99
The Plague Doctor of Wippra - $4.39
Battlefield V - $4.00
Saints Row The Third Remastered + Bloodsucker Pack + Unlockable Pack - $3.60
Alt-Frequencies - $1.99

And then I bought the remaining Hike series games I had not already played:

Cozy Village - $0.79 - played
Fall Valley - $0.83 - played
Cozy Hike - $0.79 - played
Magical Hike - $0.55 - played
Woodland Isle - $0.55 - played
Sunland Hike - $0.55 - played
Cozy Trip - $0.55 - played
Woodland Town - $0.38 - played
Cozy Desert - $0.55 - played

I currently have 17 cents remaining in my Steam Wallet, so that's probably a wrap on this one. Although, I did just sell a couple guitar pedals IRL, so I leave the door cracked just in case.

Time to start playing through the Autumn, Halloween, and Winter Sale gamez.

Persona 3 Reload
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Coral Island

my cart started at just over $80.
I trimmed a few things(like all the higurashi chapters that weren't at least 50% off, a freshly released VN and 1 other thing) and spent just over $40.

Visual Novel Haul! ... the other genres didn't have good enough sales for me. Mostly went for single installment games, or ones where its only the last I need to pick up(Higurashi being the only exception)
Games I bought:
Higurashi chapters 2-4(all 50% off, which is the best discount they will get... outside of bundles which its been a couple years)
Vampires Melody 2 - I enjoyed the first one enough that I thought I underpaid... so the 40% discount was more than enough here
Marco & The Galaxy Dragon - no specific reason on this one,
Fox Hime - for some reason this doesn't get sales... at all(past 3 years its been the same $2... so I picked it up instead of waiting)
How to date a magical girl - no specific reason on this one.
Starlight of Aeons - another no specific reason on pickup.
Adabana Odd Tales... I would have been better off waiting for June to buy this(would get a discount of 40-50% instead of 30%), it seems to get the best sales on anniversary's of its launch... but I wanted to play it well before then so I picked it up

I was going to pick up ONE and Atri as well, but I wanted to reduce the spending during the sale.

Planning to buy the following:

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting - 1.99
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience: Living City Expansion - 5.99
Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition - 5.99
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order - 5.99
Pumpkin Jack - 7.49
Destroy All Humans! Bundle - 8.98
Forgive me Father - 11.99
Life is Strange Remastered Collection - 19.99
Assault Spy Elite Spy Edition (Game + Soundtrack) - 4.54
Hollow Knight - 7.39
Quake - 3.29
Blood: Fresh Supply - 4.09
GreedFall - Gold Edition - 9.99
Bounty of One - 4.87
Octogeddon - 3.44
Severed Steel - 5.24
Brotato - 3.74
ABZU - 4.99

Total: 119.99€ for games and also spent 20€ for trading cards

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition and Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.
Was hoping for some DLC to be better discounted but no such luck.
Got a big backlog to play as it is anyway
I also bought The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria on the Epic Games Store as 4 of my friends bought it this week and it seemed like a lot of fun, even in its early stages of development.

Planning Mass Effect Legendary on the last day for $5.99 just in case I can win it or somehow get it cheaper.

Assetto Corsa Competizione DLC Pack (80% discount compared to the 7 DLC normal prices)
Need For Speed Heat (95% off)

Total €24.64. More than I intended but I see myself playing ACC real soon. I had to pay €7 extra as my wallet wasn't enough. I planned to only spend wallet and nothing else, but since it might be the last buy in a long time, I thought it was worth it.

I should have bought Glass Masquerade 3, but... 2025.

Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection
Fate/Samurai Remnant
Loddlenaut
92.72 usd
I cut several games off

Decided to splurge a little this sale(more than I intended honestly)
From Steam only 4 and all of them gifts. Mass Effect: Legendary x2 and Against the Storm x2
Then from Fanatical and GMG I got for myself Persona 5 Royal, IXION, Detroit Become Human, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Let's School and Tactics Ogre Reborn. Plus a friend gifted me Outer Wilds. So I'm pretty well situated till probably the summer sale :P
Discounts/vouchers/steam wallet excluded it all came at about 125€

lost in vivo - $6.35
lunacid - $11.86
blasphemous 2 & dredge bundle - $39.33
Subtotal $80.96
Discount -$26.67 (-32%)
Tax $3.25
Total $57.54

was also thinking about buying alan wake 2 which after discounts and stuff would come to around $28 but money is tight and i already spent $60 on steam. maybe i'll cave and do it, maybe i'll wait until it hits steam.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not much tbh, just the foils I needed for my TF2 badge.

Got God of War and Dorfromantik. Already got a random Final Fantasy a week ago so that's probably all for me until March.

I only bought Paint It Back at 50% off or $3.99, not a lot of funds this year.

bought nothing, as usual

nothing. 0$

Was planning to get a bunch of games before.
But fortunately or unfortunately, I won a lot this month.
Buying more games makes no sense to me right now.

$152.76 AUD. Since I sold a fair amount of Counter Strike skins I went a bit crazy compared to my normal spending.
Days Gone - $18.73
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Galactic Edition - $19.99
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered - $56.97
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales - $44.97
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 1 & 2 Double Pack - $12.10

Still have plenty of other CS skins to sell though, but this should tie me over till June sale I hope ... probably April but will cross that bridge when I get to it.

Nothing. Just thinking about my backlog is killing me...
€: Wait, that's actually not true.
I bought the Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting DLC for 1.99€ with Steam Funds I got from selling Trading Cards.

I was only sending gifts that year.

I finally bought myself a new gaming laptop, so I spent more money than I should, since I have very little money left for the rest of the month xD
I bought RE Village Gold Edition (which was a steal), and after I got a €20 Steam Gift Card, I used it to purchase the Dead Space remake. I had to pay up €4 or something.

spent 0 so far but considering buying (if i'll have money):

Factorio
Rust
Raft
Kenshi
Outpath
Himno - The silent Melody
Sea of Stars
Signalis
The Planet Crafter
Kingdoms Reborn
V Rising
Lunacid
Lethal Company
Thronefall
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

Actraiser Renaissance
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered Edition
Battlezone 98 Redux Odyssey Edition
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
Dead Space
Far Cry 6 Standard Edition
I am Setsuna
It Returned To The Desert
Mountains of Madness
Mystik Belle NieR:Automata™ Game of the YoRHa Edition
Onimusha: Warlords / 鬼武者
POSTAL Brain Damaged
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Skul : Mythology Pack
Stranded Deep
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Turbo Overkill

I just bought the Mass Effect Legendry Edition.