Find a video game you’ll love for a bargain price!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! What’s that? Christmas is over? Well that’s fine, because I’m talking about the Steam winter sale — one of the biggest video game events of the year! Here, you can grab a bargain on some of the biggest video game launches and spend the rest of your holiday well-entertained. If you’ve received some cash from your relatives and are wondering what to spend it on, here’s a list of the 10 best games available through the winter sale. There’s a game for each one of your fancies.
1. The Sims 4
Notorious for using expansion packs and downloadable content (DLCs) to lock away exciting aspects of the game, EA has done it once again with The Sims 4, a life simulation game that allows you to create and control people in the game. The sandbox nature of the game guarantees hours of fun and endless possibilities, but he best time to get The Sims 4 is undoubtedly on sale, because it actually becomes affordable — the base game is 88% off for a cheap 40.80 HKD, and most of the expansion packs are 50% off, making customizing your game not such a pain on the wallet.
Hitman is admittedly not a game for all ages. Play as an assassin and use stealth to sneak through buildings to kill high-profile targets for the rich, famous and politically elite. Hitman Absolution is the fifth instalment of the game series, going on sale at 29.85HKD, a whopping 75% off, or get all 5 titles for 56.70 HKD, 84% off.
Back to our family friendly guarantee, Overcooked is a personal favourite for kitchen shenanigans, frustration and chaos, and the second instalment is even better than the first! Play online with friends, in person with shared/split screen co-op, or single player as you each take on the role of chef and aim to please a horde of hungry customers in this hilarious spin on cooking games. You’ll need all the teamwork you can get! With a 50% discount and coming in at 84.50 HKD, it’s a steal you do not want to miss!
4. Dead Cells
Dead Cells is a fascinating spin on a 2D action-platformer, with amazing, unique graphics and exciting gameplay. But this is not a game for the rage-quitter: there aren’t any checkpoints in the game. You die, learn, and repeat. The winner of many Game of the Year and Best Indie titles, you can rest assured you’re getting into one good game and at 40% off, 108 HKD seems like a fair price.
5. Outlast
A horror game classic, Outlast is some scary stuff and definitely not for the fainthearted or younger audiences. . Playing as a reporter, you don’t have the skills to fend off hulking brutes and enemies, so sneak, stealth, and RUN your way through the map! But if you’re into a good jumpscare, tense ambient music and a decent plotline, Outlast is the horror game for you and at 13.35 HKD, 85% off, you really can’t go any lower than this.
This is just a taste of what the Steam winter sale has to offer — in fact, there are thousands more games all with huge discounts just waiting for you to discover them! Plus, if you buy a game and decide you hate it, as long as you haven’t played more than two hours of it Steam is happy to provide you a refund, so proceed risk-free! Hurry on now, the sale ends January 5th!
Written by:
Justine Schlossmacher
Currently juggling university work and a love for writing, Justine is a Singaporean creator who can usually be found curled up in bed with a cold cup of teh alia and her collection of pixel farming RPGs.
