It’s the weekend, or at the least after work-hours for many on a Friday, so would possibly as nicely choose up one thing to demolish your free time. Square Enix are operating a quite good sale on Steam for the weekend, chopping 50% off the worth on most of their greater games, and slapping deeper reductions on quite a lot of extra obscure stuff, together with their previous Eidos catalogue. Check out the sale page here, and peruse beneath for a pair oddball suggestions (and a few boringly regular stuff) from me.
Final Fantasy XV – £17.49/€24.99/$24.99
Everything that might be mentioned about this one most likely already has, however I’m nonetheless recommending it. If you’ve not had an opportunity to take a fantasy road-trip with these 4 fantastic lads, now’s the time. The PC model is all patched up and successfully full, minus a single piece of prologue DLC coming that shouldn’t be performed earlier than beating the game anyway, because it stars the arch-villain. It’s additionally a grand showcase for beefy PCs, though even mid-spec machines will get a far smoother, better-looking game than PS4 people did.
The Thief Collection – £4.67/€6.57/$6.57
Well, the total assortment may be good to have for completion’s sake, but when I’m being completely trustworthy, you’ll be able to reduce out the awkward Thief reboot and simply go for the unique trilogy. Thief Gold, Thief 2 and Thief: Deadly Shadows will set you again 69 pennies (good) for the primary two and 76 pennies (UK-wise) for the third. Pocket change, then. Why would you desire a 20-year-old stealth game, I hear you ask? Here’s a bunch of HD remaster projects, fan-made expansions and enormous, beautiful levels to sweeten the deal.
Startopia – £0.69/€0.83/$0.97 
Sure, Two Point Hospital could also be out now and tapping straight into the Theme Hospital vibe, however Mucky Foot’s area station administration game is the most effective evolution of the idea, or so I reckon. Full of appeal and fascinating programs, together with a terraformable farming deck, it’s nicely price taking part in to at the present time. Unless you’ve obtained a really massive monitor, the fonts could also be a little bit arduous to learn at larger resolutions, although. You may additionally need this semi-unofficial patch by one of many unique builders, fixing some previous bugs and including fancier (if buggy) shadows.
The Turing Test – £2.99/€3.99/$3.99
A hefty 80% discounted. Loads of people missed this one, most likely as a result of it appears to be like so just like Portal. Which it’s, however that doesn’t cease it from being a superb first-person puzzler. John’s very positive review of the game was solely barely marred by grumbles about it feeling a little bit padded – just a few too many puzzles and a few dialogue that would have been trimmed, however in any other case a superb brain-teaser.
Oddly, this sale appears to overlook out on some games that appear like givens. Final Fantasy XII isn’t right here, regardless of XIII (the complete trilogy, even), XIV and XV seeing steep reductions. Still, obtained some fantastic picks in there, together with the fruits of Square’s indie incubator program The Collective, and a few previous PC gems. Share your private picks, and take a look at the sale web page here. And don’t neglect about Kat’s deals of the week here, both.
