It's that time again. Time for me to get nosy.
So I was just wondering what the top 3 NON-AAA games you just can't seem to win here are. Remember, NON-AAA.

Even though I might have accidentally put one due tot he fact I don't know if one is.

Mine are, in order-
1- ARK - Survival Evolved
2- Guacamelee Thank you JaffaCaffa - new listing is Trulon: The Shadow Engine
3- Stardew Valley

And for putting up with me this time, I have a small GA for y'all.

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1.We Happy Few
2.Rimworld
3.This War of Mine

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How are people tracking entries?

For the longest time for me it was Garys Mod, ended up just buying it! I'd say Poker Night at the Inventory was another until I won it! Contradiction never seemed to get any GA's so I bought that too.

Not indie but I've entered a lot of megatag blanc giveaways, I'd guess thats my current most entered but not won. I've won more than my fair share of amazing things to compensate.

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go to GA's entered then type in the name and look at the lil number

View attached image.
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  1. Broken Sword Trilogy
  2. Ori and the Blind Forest.
  3. Hue
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I guess my first three wishlisted games:

  1. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
  2. Enter the Gungeon
  3. Darkest Dungeon
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For me, the answer is not so simple.

Yes, there are some games I try for, over and over, but most of those are AAA titles. Up until recently, I didn't even try for bundled games. I figured I could afford to buy them, myself, at a later date. The problem with that idea is that games in bundles are usually kept by the people who buy those bundles. I have an entire list of bundled games I have been unable to buy because they are either kept by the purchaser or dumped on SteamGifts (where I am unable to win them).

Here are a few of the games in which I have a high entry count:

  • Stardew Valley 179 (finally won this)
  • Wolf Simulator 122 (finally won this one, too)
  • Kingdom: New Lands 111
  • The Last Door: Season 2 - CE (gave up and bought it)
  • Slime Rancher 87 == The Descendant 87
  • Space Hulk Ascension 81 (just won it two hours ago)

More often than not, however, the reason I "cannot" win a particular game is because it is rarely (if ever) given away. This may be because people want to keep the copy they buy, or it may be because people have never heard of the game. For whatever, reason, you will almost never see a giveaway for these low-cost, high-quality games. Here is my list of games people should be giving away (but are not):

1,000 Heads Among the Trees (bundled, but only given away 157 times)
ACE Academy
Along the Edge
The Amber Throne
Armello
Arslan: The Warriors of Legend
Clandestine
Dead Secret
Diluvion
Distance
EARTHLOCK: Festival of Magic
Elder Sign: Omens
Everspace
Exanima
Furi
Gaokao.Love.100Days
The Gate of Firmament
Ghost of a Tale
GRIP
Her Majesty's Spiffing
Kenshi
Kings and Heroes
Knee Deep (bundled, but only given away 145 times)
Last Horizon (bundled 5 times, but only given away 153 times)
Mystik Belle
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
Night in the Woods
Overfall
Polygod
Pyre
Quern - Undying Thoughts
Shardlight
Silence
The Song of Seven: Overture
STEINS;GATE
Stories: The Path of Destinies
Tales of Cosmos
TASTEE: Lethal Tactics (bundled, but only given away 96 times)
Thea: The Awakening
Trillion: God of Destruction
Valley
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Windscape
Zenith

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I have a spare Kingdom: New Lands key you can have. Steam invite sent. :)

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Enjoy your new game. )

8 years ago
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I will! Also, have a blue heart for being nice enough to return the favor like that. :)

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how can i see my entry count? is there a button somewhere?

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Go to your giveaways entered page, then click on the Search box and type in the name for which you wish to search (e.g. Stardew Valley). If you scroll to the bottom of the last page, you should see the count (e.g. Displaying 1 to 5 of 5 results).

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oh nice ty

8 years ago
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  1. Doorkickers
  2. ABZU (Does this one count?)
  3. Bonsai
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Black Mesa
Layers Of Fear
Grav

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Well, statistically, there's many, obviously. But a game that I really want to win (but haven't yet) would be: Joe Dever's Lone Wolf. That's really the main one that comes to mind, at the moment.

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Well, this has turned into a fascinating exercise. And one that turned out surprising. A feel good topic this time.

I'd like to thank all of those that gave to others in this.

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1 - Lisa
2 - The Cave
3 - The Banner Saga

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For me, the top 3 are
1: Stardew Valley (bought it in the end^^)
2: Valkyria Chronicles
3: Ori and the blind Forest

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Probably...

  1. Plantera (lol)
  2. Evoland 2
  3. Epic Battle Fantasy 4
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Sent you a friend request

8 years ago
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Accepted! Thank you!

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1 - Black Mesa
2 - ABZU
3 - Overgrowth

Top 3 that I haven't seen given much:
Subnautica
Bulb Boy
Sumoman

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I haven't entered many giveaways, so these are the games I really want, and/or I would like to see more giveaways for in the future.

  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Hyper Light Drifter
  3. INSIDE
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Of the ones I have been after lately:
The Witness (not sure if AAA) but I have been after that since before it was released!
Black Mesa (Friend is raving about it and was super excited to have got in the monthly)
Rebel Galaxy (After losing even in an almost every one wins giveaway, I assume this one is never meant to be)
Evoland II (Liked the first, have it on GOG, putting this in case Witness is AAA, never was good at differentiating these things!)

Honourable Mention
Endless Space (I am still mildly miffed that it is $1.49 here and that my account used to be in US funds, and was downverted in the conversion, so technically it is like I am paying $2 for it!... Mind you it is still worth $2...... and I think I will still buy it in the end as Green light will be gone before I end up saving up enough for it)

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Says in the old AOL voice You have a friend invite.

Wow, something that I can give back now.

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Thank you for Endless Space, that was a surprise!

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No problem. Happy to be able to give for a change.

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Unbox
Table Top Racing: World Tour
INSIDE
Swordbreaker The Game - All in-game scenes HD wallpapers + game OST DLC

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Black Mesa
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Rust

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1) F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
2) BloodRayne
3) BloodRayne 2

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Sent you a friend invite. Gotcha something.

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  1. The Banner Saga 1 and 2
  2. Dead Space
  3. Deponia Doomsday (then I can finally start playing the series!)
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Armello
OneShot
VA-11 Hall-A Cyberpunk Bartender Action

I wasn't sure what was AAA and what wasn't these days but I think these three are safe

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hollow knight
duck game
unbox

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1- Victor Vran
2- Rust
3- operation flashpoint RR/ operation flashpoint DR

pd: All the game in my wishlist. I'd never won anything from my WL, i've to buy it all jaja

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ARK
Rust
Inside

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It's really hard to tell what's an AAA game these days since some indie games look like AAAs and some AAAs look like total sht.

But from the 'smaller' titles I'd say:

  • Negligee
  • Firewatch (is that still an indie title?)
  • Undertale
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So i was reading all the responses and realized that there is huge gap between what people consider 'not winning' .

Some people added games from recent cheap bundles or/and heavily discounted games which are given away in huge numbers , which IMHO was the whole point of this thread. Others while not including AAA titles ( again it's hard to say what AAA even stands for these days ) includes games which had so few giveaways for them i dont even think they qualify at all and winning one is practically impossible.

Some even include titles i have seen 0 giveaways for . No wonder they cant win it:D

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Actually, the point of this topic was genuine curiosity as to see what people are looking for.

Seeing people give to others was an unexpected surprise.

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