After fanatical pushing yet another 'add 2 mystery games for 1,99!' offer on me, it got me wondering...

Have you EVER gotten a great game, that hasn't been bundled a lot over the past x months, from one of those mystery key bundle offers before?
Be it fanatical or one of those other vendors.

Have you ever gotten a game you actually wanted? Be it AAA or that one awesome indie gem?

What is the best game you ever got out of one those offers?

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Have you ever gotten an AAA game from a mystery key bundle?

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potato chips

The best thing I got from Mystery Key Bundle was a lesson to never ever buy them again.

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+1

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+2

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+1

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+N

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❤️

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Exactly this

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+111

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+∞

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Probably Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, I didn't get any other game that would be worth mentioning...

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I got HITMAN 2 - Gold Edition from a Fanatical Mystery Madness Bundle in 2019. It was in the second 10-key bundle I bought, so I spent ~£13. I was especially lucky since HITMAN 2 was the only AAA game I was interested in from the list here.

Ironically this re-confirmed to me that it's not worth buying mystery bundles, and I haven't since.

2 years ago
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Wow. Lucky draw indeed. Is it just me or did the first mystery buys get people cooler games than you get on average with these?
Or maybe we were just both lucky.

2 years ago
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I don't know what they are like now - I try not to pay attention for fear of feeding my FOMO.

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Heh that's what they're counting on, isn't it? I am the same. When I buy something at Fanatical, they make the offer, I say no thanks and that's that.

2 years ago
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i got just cause 2 - just made it a giveaway

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I got Fallout: New vegas and Metro redux bundle.

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My very first attempt at these, I got Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 Complete Edition.
So obviously I tried again the next day... and got a couple of games they usually put in dollar bundles that had already been given for free... and that was it for me.

But hey I got a wishlisted game on my first go so I'll count my blessings and never get another Mystery key again ;)

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Lego marvel superheroes 2?! THat's really awesome, and lucky!

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Right? And with all the DLC too!
So ofc I sunk some more in useless mystery junk but at least I had that one awesome reward ;)

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I got Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Digital Deluxe Edition from Fanatical's Mystery Vault Bundle in September.

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Once got a Rockstar key for GTA V in one mystery key kind of thing. No idea anymore what site but it was pretty cool. Never played it as I keep forgetting that I have it because it needs a separate launcher xD

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Bought it once.. got nothing remotely interesting and never bought any again
If people would follow suit we could get rid of this plague that Fanatical has sworn upon us.

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I think I haven't bought a single mystery key from Fanatical, so had to vote potato :)

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Hitman 2 a year before it was in Humble monthly. Bought few more bundles after that but they were crap so I stopped.

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Nothing since I don't buy such stuff, I rather spend money on something I know I will enjoy! ^^

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Well, I got a Tomb Rider GOTY from a mystery key, which I consider an AAAAA+ game. Pity I got it so late you find it even inside the bags of chips...

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Only ever grabbed different mystery bundles when I've had a chance to get a free one and the content of those free ones have just reinforced what a bad idea they are to buy. Sure not everything I've got has been bad, but it's mostly been things I already had or did not have any real interest in personally. Fanatical has not given out freebies of this kind, to my knowledge, but a few other stores do occasional mystery bundles as well, like GMG.

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Never got anything serious from Fanatical, always literally wasted money. Not gonna buy ever agin. (i tried X "mystery" bundles)
to make it "worth it" i must buy another and get like 5 AAA latest rlses only :D

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I got Call of Duty®: Black Ops III out of a GMG mystery bundle 4 years ago, and it was truly the best thing — because I didn't want it at all and neither did anyone I knew. But since it was such an expensive game, I didn't want it to go to waste so I ended up searching for something to do with it, and that's how I found steamgifts! :)

And it was my first giveaway.

As luck would have it though it had an undisclosed region lock so I had to delete it and remake the GA, lol. Hard lesson learned aside, I'm glad I got something too 'nice' to trash and not interesting to me at all or I'd probably have never stumbled onto this site.

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I love your little story :).

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My best finds would be Borderlands Handsome Collection (4 times), Abandon Ship, Outward, Kingdome Come Deliverance, Metro Exodus (twice), Bioshock Infinite, Blasphemous, The Falconeer, Pro Cycling Manager 2019...
But I definitely bought an unreasonable number of them and still wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

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Nice finds, and I totally agree.

When it was 'new' I fell for it to much, and ended up with stuff I didn't want, and wishing I saved my cash.

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I got COD 4 Steam key from an older mystery key from Fanatical... I doubt there will be another day in the future to get something like that ever again.

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I wouldn't know, they were all forgettable games

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Mystery bundle

Dying Light?
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
Mortal Kombat X

I've gotten a few other games as well.
I was shaken up in an accident about a year ago, and my memory is faulty.┐(´Θ)┌ (。-Θ-。)ooO(What? Did I have a bad memory to begin with?) However, although I like these games, I can't play them with joy because I don't own a good computer for earthlings.... 🎁ヽ(Θヽ≡ Select... Create GA.... ≡ノ´Θ)ノ🎁
(A common sight.Please do not tell me that I should not purchase such things and create prizes.)
If not for an unfortunate event this time last year, I probably would have bought a new computer.

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Never bough a mystery bundle, but did on some occasions get some as a bonus to my purchase during some Fanatical promotions. Never anything worth mentioning, of course.

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The 'AAA' bundle from one of the Fanatical mystery bundles... it came with Back 4 Blood, Deathloop and Monster Hunter Rise.

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happy cakeday!

2 years ago
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Thanks!

oof a decade, makes me feel old.

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well, i saw what a friend got for a really nice 1€ key bundle for 10 keys ... it really wasn't worth it and so i never bought this sort of bundle, mix n match or full bundles were the type of bundle i bought. the only time i will buy a bundle if the games i want are more then 70% of the bundle or if the package is around 80% cheaper then usual

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Mafia 3,i guess. My pc cant handle this game without fps drops and lagging here and there and a game itself is meh but hey, its AAA game

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