#2017 steam sale for free#

Paradox has followed a policy of selling an attractively priced base game followed by a steady stream of upgrades that are necessary to keep the game current and viewed by some as overly expensive. Their games are discounted on the Steam Summer Sale but buyers should beware. Their Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings franchises are classics in the field. Paradox Games is one of the most well-known developers of turn-based, historical strategy games. It’s priced at $29.99 after a 25% discount. If you enjoy tactical stealth games, give Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun a look. It features exceptionally well-designed stealth gameplay combined with a compelling story, five characters played alone and in combination, and beautiful graphics. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth game set in Japan in 1615 during the Edo Era. This article has focused on developers that produce a number of high-quality strategy games but I’d like to draw attention to an individual game I’ve enjoyed playing. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Credit: Daedalic Entertainment/YouTube The Ultimate edition is an especially attractive deal at $5.58 with a 69% discount. Stardock has also delved into the 4x fantasy genre with Fallen Enchantress. Jupiter's Forge is not included in the Gold bundle.

#2017 steam sale for free#

Stardock is also offering a special deal where you get the base game for free if you buy their newest expansion pack, Jupiter's Forge at it's regular price of $14.99. Offworld Trading Company Gold is discounted 54% and priced at $16.10. It’s an economic RTS game set on Mars in which you build facilities and try to dominate competing corporations for control of the Martian market. Offworld Trading Company takes the space-themed strategy game in a new direction for Stardock. There’s no bundle for this one with the base game discounted 50% and priced at $19.99. Instead of conquering space, you’re trying to prevent the human race from being annihilated by a race of sentient machines. The Gold bundle is priced at $39.69 with a 53% discount.Īshes of the Singularity: Escalation is another RTS game that turns the 4x formula on its head. Stardock added RTS gameplay to the 4x deep space formula with their Sins of a Solar Empire series.

The DoW I games are also discounted 75% and priced at $3.24 each.

The three DoW II games ( DoW II, DoW II Chaos Rising, DoW II Retribution) are each discounted 75% and can be purchased together in the Master Collection for $13.74. The recently released DoW III is priced at $44.99 with a 25% discount. If you prefer to play real-time strategy (RTS) games in the Warhammer universe, Relic Entertainment’s large catalog of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (DoW) games are on sale. TW:W2 is designed to meld with TW:W to form a much larger game. This is a great opportunity to get into or catch up with TW:W before TW:W2 releases this September. The base game is discounted 66% and priced at $20.39 while the paid DLC packs are discounted 33% with prices ranging from $2 to $12.72. TW:W was praised as the best Total War game in years and the game has received a steady stream of free and paid new content since release. The combination of the Total War franchise’s approach to large-scale tactical combat and the fantasy setting and varied unit types of the Warhammer universe was an immediate success when Total War: Warhammer ( TW:W) released last spring.