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

0€ as every year

The first two purchase sprees are done.

I'm still considering several indies, DLC and especially city builders. Anno 1800, Against the Storm and/or Pioneers of Pagonia? Decisions, decisions.🤔

Only DLCs.

Only 1 game:
Aragami: Shadow Edition

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Darksiders Genesis
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

I bought these, but so far, I've only downloaded Sekiro. However, I'm struggling with it; it's much harder than Elden Ring and Dark Souls.

I had no idea there was a new Vampire Survivors DLC, but thanks to someone in this thread, I learned that it was the case. I have bought all the previous DLCs (and the OST) so it only makes sense (to me) that I get the new one too. It's a great game (which is surprising because I usually don't like bullet hell games).

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting
Into the Dark

There's a complete your bundle type of thing for the DLC, so it cost me about 60 cents less than the actual price (omg!)
Hmm Into the Dark looks like the type of games that would be included in a bundle (it's never been yet), but I feel like dungeon-crawling (and it has controller support) and at 75% off ( I wouldn't have bought this at full price), it feels like an okay price.

For now, I've spent a bit less than 10$ CAD. I might get some other (cheap) titles next week, that will depend on what the next HB Choice looks like. (I'm not interested in the leaked headliners so here's hoping for some wishlisted games)

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Baldur's Gate 3 and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.

Guess who's already clocked 60 hours into which game since...

For now only Omnibus, so 0.74 €

So far, I have bought:

• KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue
• Lethal Company

These two cost me $15.22 USD

I'm also planning on buying:

• KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind (DLC)

This one will cost me $13.74 USD.

Quake Live
GRID Legends - it will be delisted from sale soon
SWAT 3
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
Arcanum
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
HELLGATE: London
Worms Crazy Golf
Act of War: High Treason
WRC Generations - it will be delisted from sale soon
The Hong Kong Massacre
Act of War: Direct Action
Warrior Kings
Worms Pinball
Need for Speed
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Ancestors Legacy Saladin's Conquest

I bought a mixture of games during the sale, some known and others not as well known.

Myth of Rules (Mystery Horror style text game where you click on a graph to explore and interact with an area and solve a mystery, it tends to be kind of abstract because most of the time I have no idea what's going on. You can create your own custom mysteries with it apparently.)

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (I've played through this already, it was a good story overall.....but I generally trust Wadjet Eye games to be pretty good)

The Case of the Golden Idol: The Lemurian Vampire (Played this as well. It was really good, I feel like it's hard to go wrong with more Golden Idol content, can't wait for the sequel)

Fallen Hero: Rebirth / Fallen Hero: Retribution (Two of Choice of Games more highly rated text adventure game series where you play a supervillain. I've been craving something story focused where you can play a villain so I wanted to give this a go.)

Then a few days later I ended up buying.....

No Man's Sky (I was debating about getting a bigger open world style game and it was initially between Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy. Then No Man's Sky swooped in at the end and I was convinced to get it instead. I think I'm always kind of leery about getting Elden Ring because of the difficulty and I was sort of feeling like I wanted a more sandbox-y experience anyway.)

So far the only one I kind of regret is "Myth of Rules" but it might just be I didn't give it a chance. It was around €2 so I probably won't get a refund or anything though. It seemed novel to me from the store page but I'm not sure if it's really for me.

I'm done for the Steam Sale now for sure though.

Baldur's gate 3
Hades
Super monkey ball: Banana Blitz HD
Where the water tastes like wine

Death Must Die
Cat Quest II
Divinity: Original Sin - The Source Saga
Cupid Nonogram

I went pretty crazy, I guess my first Winter Sale with a job was dangerous...

Via Fanatical:
BYO Winter Bundle w/ Windward, Slap City, KungFu Kickball, Heartwood Heroes, Hammerwatch, Golf It!, Golf Club Nostalgia, Godstrike, Card City Nights 2, Death Squared, OTTTD, & One More Line - $4.74

Plus I got some stuff right before (Including Jingle Jam) and some Escape Sim DLCs for my sisters as well... Seriously feel kind of embarrassed, but it's not THAT bad... right?
Also would have saved a few more $ if I had just bought more stuff through Humble with the Choice discount, but I think Hat in Time was the only one I actually could have gotten cheaper?

Updated with a couple new things.

So I just update my list:

• Persona 3 Reload
• The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
• Coral Island
• Octopath Traveler 2.

It's something 170$ for all.

Oh, I spent a lot, and I refuse to count exactly how much. I'm really, really immature and I need my New Year gifts. Some stuff was purchased directly on Steam, some - via a nice local key store.

• The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
• Jagged Alliance 3
• Enslaved
• The Invincible
• Marvel's Midnight Suns Season Pass
• The Sinking City
• Frank and Drake
• Night Cascades
• Unpacking
• Demonheart + Demonheart: Hunters

Got as gifts:

• Spirit of the North
• To Hell With The Ugly
• Verne: The Shape of Fantasy
• Last Memories
• REalM Walk of Soul
  (I do so adore my tiny indie stuff)

Bought as gifts:

• Death Stranding
• Roki
• Undercat

Since everything on Steam is now significantly more expensive than it used to be a couple of months ago I limited myself to selling some cards and buying a couple of the cheapest things in my wishlist:

• Crossing Souls - $1.59 USD
• Summer Memories - $0.50 USD
• Summer Memories+ - Expansion DLC - $0.58 USD
• Narita Boy - $1.12 USD

Total: $3.79 USD (wallet funds only, didn't touch my credit card)

...I also bought the following items from the Indiegala store cos they still have good prices:

• American Arcadia
• Dead Cells
• Dead Cells: DLC Bundle (The Bad Seed + Fatal Falls + The Queen and the Sea)
• Final Vendetta
• Star Renegades
• Sable
• Generation Zero® - US Weapons Pack
• Generation Zero® - Alpine Unrest
• Call of the Sea
• Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt: The Seaside Empire
• Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
• Hell Warders
• Bad North: Jotunn Edition
• Kingdom Two Crowns
• (stuff bought for making giveaways or before the 23th are not included in this list).

Total: around $2 (?) at the current exchange rate (only the first two items in the list were bought using actual money, everything else was purchased with gala credit gotten from either their cashback promotion or grinding feudalife).

I'm considering buying a couple more games from IG before their sale ends, but my credit there is currently at zero so I'd have to use my CC again and I'm kinda hesitant on spending money because I promised myself I wouldn't do so during december and I already broke that promise.

Edit: sold more cards and bought Narita Boy at the last moment.

Not that much, just a few games and DLC.

Games:

• 13:ORIGIN - Chapter One
• Blade Kitten
• Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
• Choice of Life: Middle Ages
• Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
• Darkestville Castle
• F1 Manager 2023
• FIGHT KNIGHT
• Fragments Of A Mind
• Gravel
• Half-Life: Alyx - Final Hours
• Home is Where One Starts...
• It Takes Two
• Laika 2.0 - Sekret Pravda
• Lunar Axe
• nail'd
• Obscuritas
• Orwell's Animal Farm
• SPACE TOW TRUCK - ISAAC NEWTON's Favorite Puzzle Game
• Stellar Mess: The Princess Conundrum (Chapter 1)
• The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy
• The Last Case of Benedict Fox
• The Rewinder
• The Shattering
• The Silent Swan
• The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
• Turbo Overkill
• Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
• Undercover Missions: Operation Kursk K-141
• Uninvited Guest
• White Shadows
• Worlds
• WW2: Bunker Simulator

DLC:

• All-Star Fruit Racing - Yogscast Exclusive DLC
• Blade Kitten: Episode 2
• F1 Manager 2023: Deluxe Upgrade Pack
• Fragments Of A Mind Soundtrack
• Glass Masquerade 3: Honeylines - Wings & Tunes
• Gravel Armored Operation
• Gravel Colorado River
• Gravel Ice and Fire
• Gravel King of Buggies
• Gravel Porsche Rallye Pack
• Lunar Axe Soundtrack
• Niko Through The Dream - Soundtrack
• Polygoneer: Original Soundtrack
• Styx: Shards of Darkness - The Akenash Set
• The Pit: Infinity - Healer
• The Pit: Infinity - Juggernaut
• The Rewinder-Root of Evil
• The Silent Swan: Memories of Times Past
• The Silent Swan Official Soundtrack
• WW2: Bunker Simulator - Hunting Wild
• X3: Albion Prelude Soundtrack
• X Rebirth: Home of Light Soundtrack
• X Rebirth Soundtrack Vol. 2
• X Rebirth: The Teladi Outpost Soundtrack

Marvel midnight suns
Two point hospital
Aragami 2
Roguebook
Twin mirror
Otxo

All for the lowly price of $12

Also bought shadows of change dlc for total warhammer

I ended up buying a few cheap bundles to bump up my +1 count, and Steam points, some of which had cards that almost paid for themselves. All paid with Steam credit, so not really costing anything.

NukGames Pack https://store.steampowered.com/sub/96994/
Ground Control Collection https://store.steampowered.com/sub/71906/
Elven Legacy Collection https://store.steampowered.com/sub/32211/
The Orange Box https://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/
Theatre of War Collection https://store.steampowered.com/sub/14301/
Lords of the Realm Complete https://store.steampowered.com/sub/86209/

If anyone knows of any similarly cheap +1 or card bundles, let me know.

Here are games I bought/added during Winter Sale on Epic and Steam: https://imgur.com/a/2Rtg4Az

Witcher 3 on GOG

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Oxygen Not Included Bundle on steam
DOS 2 on steam.

I'm still thinking about buying or not Divinity Original Sin 2 or maybe Hades on Steam.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Remnant II
Kayak VR: Mirage
BRINK Traveler

Last two were VR experiences to show to friends and whatnot.