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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!
I've played Rogue Legacy's demo and it's pretty fun, but I'm wondering if it gets boring/monotonous after a while. So to everybody who own it and has played it, does it stay fun or does it eventually wear out its welcome?
My wallet's almost safe this week, with all those silly platformers in there. Conquest: Frontier Wars and Depths of Peril are the only interesting games in this promo, and I already have DoP. So my total comes to $1.80.

Except now there's a Celtic Kings promo that I most likely will not resist... :/
Post edited June 09, 2014 by Vercinger
I'm thinking about this new promo too. Can anyone recommend Celtic Kings or Tzar? I've only played Sci-fi RTS games like KK'n'D and Command & Conquer and I'm yet to be positevely surprised by a medieval RTS. I like to build, research and gather resources almost as much as I like battles. So, do you think Celtic Kings or Tzar are for me?
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bel_e_muir: I'm thinking about this new promo too. Can anyone recommend Celtic Kings or Tzar? I've only played Sci-fi RTS games like KK'n'D and Command & Conquer and I'm yet to be positevely surprised by a medieval RTS. I like to build, research and gather resources almost as much as I like battles. So, do you think Celtic Kings or Tzar are for me?
Probably better to ask that here.
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bel_e_muir: I'm thinking about this new promo too. Can anyone recommend Celtic Kings or Tzar? I've only played Sci-fi RTS games like KK'n'D and Command & Conquer and I'm yet to be positevely surprised by a medieval RTS. I like to build, research and gather resources almost as much as I like battles. So, do you think Celtic Kings or Tzar are for me?
While I haven't played those particular games, I can share my memories of the second Celtic Kings game, The Punic Wars. Basically, what I liked about it was the supply system. Soldiers need food, and you can only get it from some settlements. So you have to keep your soldiers around food most of the time, and can only advance as far as your supplies can keep up, while also having to defend your rear areas from being recaptured. This adds a cool strategic element that breaks up the RTS monotony of build, send to attack, build some more, send again, etc.

In fact, you can't build new buildings at all. You instead compete for the various settlements already on the map, deciding who they send their food and taxes to. So instead of building a well defended base and sending troops from it like a normal RTS, you maintain a series of spread out vassals and move your troops around trying to defend them while still making progress, and also trying to keep your soldiers alive since they can gain experience. It's especially useful to interrupt an enemy's supply line, then wait for them to starve and move in for an easy victory.
Post edited June 10, 2014 by Vercinger
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Ophelium: Probably better to ask that here.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't see the new thread at the time I posted it.

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Vercinger: While I haven't played those particular games, I can share my memories of the second Celtic Kings game, The Punic Wars. Basically, what I liked about it was the supply system. Soldiers need food, and you can only get it from some settlements. So you have to keep your soldiers around food most of the time, and can only advance as far as your supplies can keep up, while also having to defend your rear areas from being recaptured. This adds a cool strategic element that breaks up the RTS monotony of build, send to attack, build some more, send again, etc..
That sounds interesting. I remember having to feed my soldiers in Knights and Merchants and that was pretty fun - making sure there was enough food and also when the time for feeding came, making sure soldiers weren't too far from a storehouse. Thanks for your opinion! :)