RPS recommends: frugality. Also, orcs apparently
Brendan:A whole ten English pounds. Boy, oh boy. After some perverse price tag sniffing I found you can buyDome Keeper, the"small, but perfectly formed tower defence game"for £7.50 and still have pennies left over to gamble against a sinister being with a pump-action shotgun inBuckshot Roulette.
Ed:Fantastic, ten squid that I can add to the Steam credit I earned from selling hundreds ofCS:GOcrates individually over the course of two grueling hours. That’ll go onTrepang 2, the game where you’re a guy with a gun and you mulch heads with bullets a laF.E.A.R.. It’s very Edders, in the sense that what you mostly do is violent and senseless. What a summer we’ll have.
James:I got you, Edwin.Slightly less thana tenner will get you Portal-ish time bending puzzlerThe Entropy Centre, atmospheric (but non-violent) kaiju wranglerTitan Chaser, andMiddle Earth: Shadow of War. Which unlike the first two, I haven’t played, but it’s 95% off, and for 95% off I’d buy an old, water-damaged, improperly fastened Pringles can. Full of bees.
Nic:Perpetually orc-pilled as I am, I’d have to grabMiddle Earth: Shadow Of Warfor a cool95% off, or less that 20% of the budget. It’s worth for the orc-characterising Nemesis System alone.Shadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun - Aiko’s Choice, a great standalone expansion for the obscenely good tactics series. That’s four quid left, so I reckon I’ll take a punt onLamentum, a 2D pixel survival horror that’s been sitting on my wishlist for ages now.
Ollie:Fellas, look, this is ridiculous. You know how much you can buy with £10? You’d be set for life! No more games needed, ever! Here’s what I’d do, I’d buyThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt(£2.49) andMiddle-Earth: Shadow Of War(£1.74). That’s me already with more to play than I can fit into my day. But let’s casually triple that playtime withFTL(£1.74) andSid Meier’s Pirates!(£1.49, an absolutesteal). Ah, throw someXCOM 2(£1.74) in there while we’re at it. Now where are we at? Hmm, £9.20. Tell you what, I’ll addPortal 2(£0.85) for some good old co-op times. I’m over by 5p, but as luck would have it, I have a few quid in my Steam Wallet. In fact, with that being the case, hell, let’s buyCivilization VI(£2.49) too. Just one more turn!
Jeremy:I think I’d buyChasing StaticandGuard Duty, two games made by British indie dev Headware Games. I very much liked the Steam Next Fest demo ofHollowbody, Headware Games’ upcoming Silent Hill-inspired horror game, and feel compelled to check out their prior works now. That leaves me with some more money to burn, so I might as well grabVampire Survivors(which I actually do not own) for a pithy £2.99 while I’m at it. Oh yeah, and do I see the incredibly obscure 1994 anthropomorphic animal adventure gameInherit the Earth: Quest for the Orbavailable for only £0.95? I’ll take that too, thanks!
Kiera:There is a truly fantastic spread in this year’s summer sale. If we’re talking value for money, you can get three games in one with theMass Effect Legendary Editionfor just £4.99. You’re paying less than a fiver to become an intergalactic love-machine, blue-tinted hero (or a psychopath with an iron-clad hatred for reporters depending on your preferences). If you’re a glutton for a good RPG and want to spend a measly £2.49 in return for hundreds of hours of quality playtime, stickThe Witcher 3: Wild Huntin your basket too. Heck, that leaves enough change left over to get the other two Witcher games as well. It will possibly take you months to complete all of these games, but the dulcet tones of Doug Cockle will surely carry you through.
Graham:Hi, this is definitely Graham typing. I wrote about some of my pickshere, “including nunventureIndikaand ballwhackerTopSpin 2k25, while train ‘em upSweet Transitis 50% down, Pacific Drive is 40% off, and Surmount is 33% discounted. Cor.” Horace gave me infinite money because I run things though. Cor.
Nic:It has been brought to my attention - by my own eyes, no less - that three of us have independently recommended the orc game. I was tempted to demand some different picks, but Ollie and James appeared out of nowhere while I was doing a sidequest with new metal face bits and spouted some dialogue uncannily cognisant of my previous ask to “just pick what you want!” So, orcs it is! But the orcs someone recommends to you are never as precious as the orcs you choose yourself, so what about you reader? Horace loves you, so he’s gifting you an imaginary tenner equivalent in your local currency. Let us know what you’re spending it on!
