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Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Initial scrolling of the Steam Summer Sale seems pretty lackluster, but digging through the comments sections in other threads, a few gems have stood out, and it doesn't appear we have a thread dedicated to this yet, so post what you think are the best deals here!

Not mandatory ofc, but it'd be helpful if...

  • One game per top level post, so comments stemming from it are focused on on just it.

  • Hyperlink the game title to its Store Page

  • Include both the normal and sale price / %off

  • Include a short blurb about the game - if it's one you've played before, what did you like about it? If you're diving in blind, what grabbed your attention?

Good hunt'n!

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[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 47 points 11 months ago

Celeste $1.99 (90% off, new all-time low)

Hard but fair precision platformer by an expert of platformer design. Excellent controls, deep platforming mechanics, and a cathartic story about internal and external struggles.

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Also 🏳️‍⚧️

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Is the character trans? I have flinished the whole game and I can't recall that.

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago

https://maddymakesgames.com/articles/is_maddy_trans/index.html

Is Madeline Canonically Trans?

Well, yeah, of course she is.

This feels painfully obvious to a lot of (mostly trans) people, and likewise it feels painfully obvious to me too, in retrospect. It has also become painfully obvious to me that I, myself, am trans. But these are things that I was not aware of during the development of Celeste, where I was writing Madeline and speaking from her perspective. Creating Celeste with my friends helped me reach the point where I could realize this truth about myself. During Celeste’s development, I did not know that Madeline or myself were trans. During the Farewell DLC’s development, I began to form a hunch. Post-development, I now know that we both are.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

So she is essentially retroactively trams.

Not that I mind, but it is what it is.

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Read further, while the author didn't realize what she was doing it is a trans narrative through and through, and the free dlc ending did contain the flag because by then she did know.

When Madeline looks in the mirror and sees her other self; when she attempts to abandon her reflection, who then drags her down the mountain; when the two reconcile and merge to become stronger and more complete… that was all unknowingly written from a trans perspective.

[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, Maddy is trans. This is both from word of god and a hint in the background of a piece of art in-game.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I've been wanting to play this for a while and that price made it an instant buy. Really glad I did. Some of the strawberries are hard and unfair tho, haha.

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