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Posted June 06, 2014
Rogue Legacy, Thunderscape, Steamworld Dig, and more indies & classics for as little as $1.79!

June Jamboree</a>With yesterday's launch of The Witcher: Wild Hunt exclusive pre-orders we've got quite a lot of new people discovering GOG.com. Hello! Welcome to your DRM-Free one-step online boutique full of gaming goodness! This here, is the June Jamboree sale, one of our weekly promos, always starting on Friday, at 10:00AM GMT and lasting throughout the whole weekend, up to Tuesday at 3:59 in the morning. With all the new faces around, we thought it would be a nice thing to mix our weekend offer a bit, so it features some neat titles both from our unsurpassed classic catalog as well as our extensive indie offer. Let's take a quick look at some of the games, shall we?

Steamworld Dig is one of the newer titles in the offer. It's a platform mining adventure with strong Metroidvanian influences. Take the role of Rusty, a lone mining steambot, as he arrives at an old mining town in great need. Dig your way through the old earth, gaining riches while uncovering the ancient threat that lurks below. Yours for only $4.99, this weekend!

Thunderscape is one of the golden classics from the good old days. It presents you with many time-proven RPG ideas that work together so well, that it's astounding that anyone would want to modify them. You get a party of six brave champions, a large gameworld to explore, lots of items to collect, stats to build, and enemies to slay. With everything that made dungeon crawlers so successful in the 1990 and some very distinctive steampunk-ish feel, this game is highly recommended to all cRPG fans looking for a challenge. Now, only $1.79!

Finally, Rogue Legacy, an indie smash-hit of 2013, known for its insane replayability leading to severe cases of the "just-one-more-playthrough" syndrome. You will get to choose among the children to pick the character whose traits and flaws suit you the most, and continue their parent's quest retaining the stat bonuses and equipment they managed to secure. A difficult, challenging, but extremely rewarding and fun! Only $4.99 until Tuesday!

That's only a small part of our June Jamboree weekend offer. There's 16 more exciting titles, new and old, waiting to be discovered in the promo page. They will tempt you with their ridiculously low prices only until Tuesday, June 10, at 3:59AM GMT, so don't miss out!
Posted June 06, 2014
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tburger: Bummer :-(
On the bright side: no excuses not to buy Conquest: FW on this weekend promo :-P
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cyboff: Just FYI - release date of Z was changed to 5th of July on the Steam page...
Perhaps the delayed it long enough to add GOG Galaxy support for simultaneous release on Steam and GOG... ;o)
Posted June 06, 2014
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skeletonbow: Anyone know if Darkstone is any good? I like the timeframe and it looks decent but I'm wondering about the gameplay and storyline. Thinking I might want to give it a whirl if it's worth the time.
I played it in the past and found it quite entertaining. I liked the atmosphere and the quests.
I wasn't very experienced in RPGs, however (but it was after Diablo1).
By memory, it could be a 7.5/10 maybe.

I remember these problems, however, on my non-GOG version:
- savegames were tied to the computer! (but there was a program to fix that)
- on new computers the text was completely unreadable (like gibberish).
- there was an aging character system, but you could find youth potions later (or even use some semi-legit trick :P)
- some monsters were hard near the end, but you could use a powerful spell (bomb?) to kill them unseen (maybe overpowered and patched later)

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gamefood: Any "Thunderscape"-experienced players in here? I flirt with that one
I saw a 80% LP on Youtube and the game seemed quite frustrating in a bad way. (horrible map, mazes everywhere, slow combat, monster respawn, bad ui, bad effects, brown&gray graphic, etc..)
Lol, I'm still tempted to get it, however, expecially seeing the price..
Post edited June 06, 2014 by phaolo
Posted June 06, 2014
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cyboff: Just FYI - release date of Z was changed to 5th of July on the Steam page...
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tburger: Yes, I noticed that - but thx anyway
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tfishell: Hmmm, well that provides extra hope for us! The main thing I'd like to have happen is GOG get the game a few days before Steam, b/c otherwise everyone will just buy it on Steam.
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tburger: GOG should reconsider their policy about revealing if the game will be released here. I think there is a good chunk of users who would wait & buy game here (even later&at higher price) if they knew game WILL be released on gog.com. On the other hand - if they don't know that - they will just head for Steam.

EDIT: I've just dropped an email on KISS Ltd. with question about publishing Z on gog.com - hope they will provide me with some clear answer.
Do let us know what the answer will be. Really would like that game.
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Matruchus
Posted June 06, 2014
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tburger: GOG should reconsider their policy about revealing if the game will be released here. I think there is a good chunk of users who would wait & buy game here (even later&at higher price) if they knew game WILL be released here. On the other hand - if they don't know that - they will just head for Steam.
Well, I am one of them :D It happened several times to me that GOG released a game I bought on Steam, just because I did not know about it is coming here - and game itself well deserved to be in my shelf :D

On the other hand, I don't exactly understand why devs/publishers of such remakes like Z are not heading to GOG at first - I have a feeling that this game will be buried deep without a notice in all that crap recently released on Steam, while here it will be praised to heaven :D
Posted June 06, 2014
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cyboff: snip
Simply because on Steam they are going to sell 10x more copies than on GOG. Money talks.
Posted June 06, 2014
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cyboff: snip
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tburger: Simply because on Steam they are going to sell 10x more copies than on GOG. Money talks.
Exactly. Steam controlls the market.
Posted June 06, 2014
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cyboff: snip
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tburger: Simply because on Steam they are going to sell 10x more copies than on GOG. Money talks.
For new/indie games, definitely... but it is really like this for all those old games re-released recently on Steam too?
Posted June 06, 2014
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tburger: Simply because on Steam they are going to sell 10x more copies than on GOG. Money talks.
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cyboff: For new/indie games, definitely... but it is really like this for all those old games re-released recently on Steam too?
For most of them yes, since gog does not have them yet, unfornately. Thats the problem at the moment - Steam releasing games long wishlisted on gog.
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Matruchus
Posted June 06, 2014
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IAmSinistar: No recommendations for Fist Puncher? It's almost like you people don't want to support games created with a 30-day trial copy of Visual Basic and MS-Paint.
I only played it for a bit to test it out. I didn't stop because it was bad, just have to use a virtual machine to run it and most of the time I can't be bothered. I also have issues with actually playing these games. :) But for the hour I played, it was a fun beat'em up. If you can deal with the ugly graphics and like the genre, I would say its worth it at this price.
Posted June 06, 2014
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tburger: Simply because on Steam they are going to sell 10x more copies than on GOG. Money talks.
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cyboff: For new/indie games, definitely... but it is really like this for all those old games re-released recently on Steam too?
I'm afraid it is true for all games. Maybe it's not 10:1 but it doesn't matter. I cannot think of a game that will be less successful on Steam than here. It is just a matter of customers number.
Post edited June 06, 2014 by tburger
Posted June 06, 2014
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IAmSinistar: No recommendations for Fist Puncher? It's almost like you people don't want to support games created with a 30-day trial copy of Visual Basic and MS-Paint.
Any game that has a level where I get to break up a Fuhrer's birthday party and beat the crap out of neo-fascists and klansmen is a good game by me :)
Posted June 06, 2014
Hey, can you tell me something about these please:
- Conquest: Frontier Wars -> average or worthy?
- Scratches Director's Cut -> good or great?
- Swapper -> seems nice, but I fear it's overrated
- Steamworld Dig -> is it like Spelunky? Better \ worse?
- Depths of Peril -> is it better than Darkstone?
Posted June 06, 2014
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tfishell: (unrelated to promo, admittedly)

Dang, I was hoping GOG would get "Z" a day early. And with it not even being under "coming soon" (with the game coming to Steam I don't think there's any reason to hide it), I'm rather pessimistic. Really too bad because if GOG had been able to get it early I think it would have sold like hotcakes. (though maybe a W3 preorder would sell even better)

But after my Humongous disappointment a few months back I've learned-ish how to deal with it. (Work can be good because it takes your mind off things)
Here, have some good news! :)
Post edited June 06, 2014 by fronzelneekburm
Posted June 06, 2014
I guess it's finally time I got the Postal games. :)
Posted June 06, 2014
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tfishell: (unrelated to promo, admittedly)

Dang, I was hoping GOG would get "Z" a day early. And with it not even being under "coming soon" (with the game coming to Steam I don't think there's any reason to hide it), I'm rather pessimistic. Really too bad because if GOG had been able to get it early I think it would have sold like hotcakes. (though maybe a W3 preorder would sell even better)

But after my Humongous disappointment a few months back I've learned-ish how to deal with it. (Work can be good because it takes your mind off things)
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fronzelneekburm: Here, have some good news! :)
Vow thanks for that. Z coming to gog VoW.
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