So the sale is over, and this is what I ended up getting:
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Age of Empires II
35 hours playtime
33 of 294 achievements
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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
33 hours playtime
5 of 70 achievements
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Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
2 hours playtime
5 of 75 achievements
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Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943
0 minutes playtime
0 of 43 achievements
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Worshippers
0 minutes playtime
no achievements
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Battlestations: Pacific
0 minutes playtime
no achievements
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The Tenth Line
0 minutes playtime
0 of 21 achievements
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Her Majesty's SPIFFING
0 minutes playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Europa Universalis IV
176 hours playtime
33 of 295 achievements
Two age of Empires 2 DLCs, 1 Age of Mythology DLC & Halo Wars came from the Microsoft RTS collection. I would likely have skipped at least the Age of Mythology DLC, had I’ve been given the option, as it’s reviews indicate that it is pretty terrible, but it was cheaper to buy the thing with it.
Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 with all the DLC was actually cheaper than just buying the base game itself. The name of the game makes it sound quite bad, but I’ve played two of the company’s previous games (Achtung Panzer: Operation Star & Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943), and both were really good. This looks like more of the same, but set in north Africa, rather than Russia. I have high hopes for this one.
Worshippers was cheap, and looks quite good. I’ve heard nothing about it before though, so it will be interesting to see how it really is.
Battlestations: Pacific is another cheap game (less than 1€), which looked really fun in a video I watched on youtube. My only concern is getting it to run, as it uses GFWL.
The Tenth Line: There’s something really charming about how this game looks, that combined with a low price made it hard to resist.
Her Majesty’s SPIFFING: This one has been on my radar for a while now, and I finally ended up getting it. The developers of this game seemed really nice when I had a quick chat with them a few years back.
And finally, more EU4 DLCs, because you can never have too many of those!
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Hylics
0 minutes playtime
no achievements
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
0 minutes playtime
0 of 72 achievements
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Outcast - Second Contact
0 minutes playtime
0 of 41 achievements
I got three games as gifts.
Hylics: The art looks really interesting in this one. No idea if the game is any good, but the reviews do indicate that there’s something more to the game than just interesting art.
Shadow of War: I did like Shadow of Mordor, but I only semi-recently added Shadow of War to my wishlist, after they removed the lootboxes, and re-balanced the game.
Outcast - Second Contact: The first Outcast was very good, back in the days, but the controls make it feel a bit dated. So I do have high hopes for this one. There’s not a whole lot they would have to do to make Outcast into something that’s acceptable in this day & age.
really charming about how this game looks, that combined with a low price made it hard to resist.
Just like snake pass you grabbed, and never played? :judging:
One does not simply mark EU4 as beaten!
But seriously, which dlcs did you get? I think I’m still missing Dharma and the Spanish one. Have you tried them?
Her Majesty’s SPIFFING is very short, but fun nonetheless.
AoM chinese dlc is terrible. It was so full of bugs when I tried that one couldn’t even finish them 2nd or 3rd map in the campaign. I still haven’t played it ever since, so it should be fixed by now. I’m interested to hear your opnion on Halo Wars when you finish it. I’ve put and removed this game from my cart a dozen times.
I got Cradle of Civilization & Mandate of Heaven + content packs. Still missing Dharma & Golden Century, but otherwise I have all non-cosmetic DLCs
Yeah, How Long to Beat says that Her Majesty’s SPIFFING is 2h long, but I don’t mind short games, as long as they’re good.
I’ve started the Halo Wars campaign, and thus far I can say that it’s okay. High production value, good cutscenes, but the camera is far too zoomed in.
And Halo Wars has been beaten. And I stand by what I said previously, it’s okay. There are better RTSs out there, but this one is not bad at least. But is it worth getting at 50% off? I don’t think so, unless you’re feeling really RTS starved.
Thanks for review! I guess, I’ll wait for a deeper discount.