Giveaway White Whale(s)

Hi-Fi Rush, P4 Golden, Slay the Spire, Hollow Knight are definetly all insta-join, but no luck so far :D

warhammer40000 games, fallout new vegas/4, control, different shooters like battlefild

First ones to come to mind are Dredge and Dave the Diver.

Hent..

Nevermind actually

Major JRPGs: Final Fantasy, Legend of Heroes, Trails, Ys, etc. My favorite genre, but I haven't won a single one I've entered.

Rain.World

Lucius.
won Lucius 2 but so far the first one has elude me, and the giveaways are showing less and less

Big ones, like baldur's gate 3 l guess.

Nioh 2 is the one I'm still hoping to find and catch

Stardew Valley ans Hollow knight. They were ln humble and i can't believe i didn't get them then.

my white whales are mostly the unbundled AAA/quality indies that I have wishlisted.

low(for most part) odds of winning, so not getting them is expected.

Streets of Rogue
Nobody Want to Die – lately
Blasphemus 2
Eastward
Quantic Dream games
Red Dead Redemption – I'll probably end up buying it at some point because I've really enjoyed RDR2

And a couple of games that are rarely given away.

For the longest time, it was Detroit: Become Human, until I finally broke down and bought it.
Now? It's hard to say. Maybe Stray and Balatro. I've entered each of them exactly 44 times.

Don't think there are any bundled games that I'd consider white whales. If there's something I really want, I'll usually buy it or trade for it. Counting on SG to get a specific game isn't the best strategy.

I enter giveaways mostly for fun and the for the chance to win/play something that I wouldn't have otherwise. I've discovered some cool games this way.

At this point of times it's the Sherlock Holmes games,
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishment & Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter. Also another one is Call of Cthulhu

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/amZbJ/script-counting-the-number-of-ga-you-entered-for-each-game-2024-edition

For anyone who struggles to keep track. Use 0.5.1

Id say mine are The Invincible, Between Horizons and Sunset Overdrive and lastly A Space for the Unbound

I will likely end up buying A Space for the Unbound at some point, the rest....if I win, great!!!! Excellent devs, excellent games!! If not, I have enough to keep me entertained for years! No worries.

Stray
Cyberpunk 2077

My white whale used to be Ryse: Son of Rome with 278 entries, until I catched it.
Since that I don't really have such game as I was lucky to win interesting games or I just bought them.

Honestly? Bad Rats. I won Bad Rats Show and had a genuinely good time with it, so I've been trying to win the first one... with no luck yet. I swear, there used to be way more BR GAs back in the day... we used to be a proper site!

ATM, and without doing the Greasemonkey thing that I'm so terrible at working out, I'd probably say Glass Masquerade, Truberbrook, the handful of Artifex Mundi games I don't have, and the 'shitty' little games that icaio was so good at giving away for us.

I'm sure there are a couple of others I'm more rabid about entering for, but that's all I can think of off-hand.

SUPERHOT

Elex - I have the sequel but I refuse to play it until I play the first one..

Mostly indie/story rich games. Having a look through my recently entered pages, because the script doesn't seem to work anymore:

Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
ANNO: Mutationem
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
GYLT
Heavy Rain
The Long Reach

fallout new vegas

Expedition 33
God of War
Wolfenstein 2.
Slay the Princess
My entries are generally pretty consistent, but I have a somewhat wide scope and below-par win rate, so I consider most of my games albatrosses.

The thing is, it takes about 1000 entries to win a game. So if you only enter or wishlisted games, you will probably win a game every other year, or every three years, depending on your wishlist (mine only has non-bundled games so far). It takes a lot of dedication to continuously visit a site and win nothing for more than a year.

a huge problem on steamgifts right now is everybody has SOOO many points from the spamming of 50 point trash giveaways
so people just dump points into everything including stuff they dont want to play
less points for everybody means more won giveaways people actually want