Waving Goodbye to the Steam Summer Sale

The last two weeks have been jam packed with monster clicking and wallet crunching as the Steam Summer sale forced us to make critical decisions about games.  I am rather proud of myself this year--I don't feel like I made too many impulsive decisions and I picked up some games that I had been sitting on my wishlist for quite awhile.  I always seem to pick at least one that isn't quite what I wanted it to be.

This pretty much sums up the Steam Summer Sale.

This year I felt like I saw a lot of the same deals I generally see at various times--the XCOM franchise is on sale a lot and could be scooped up during the sale for a song.  So what were the best deals?  My current obsession with everything Witcher related points to being able to buy the first two games for under $10.  They pale in comparison to the third, but they are great games nonetheless.  Many of the newer big titles only saw their prices dipped a small amount so hoping to grab a triple A for cheap didn't happen.

The two games I grabbed that I will be trying out once my Witcher mania fades are Pillars of Eternity and The Talos Principle.  I've been interested in them both but didn't want to pay full price.

Some exciting non-sale related news for fans of Tales From the Borderlands--episode three in the series comes out tomorrow.  I've learned not to stress the releases of Telltale Games, they come out when they come out.  Maybe I'll take a short break from monster slaying and return to the adventures of Rhys and Fiona.