6 games to buy in Steam’s Autumn Sale

The Steam Fall Sale has gone live and runs through November 28 at 1:00 PM EST. The Steam sale is always a good chance to stay up to date on games; with the sheer amount of new titles released every year, it’s impossible to play them all. Luckily, the Steam Fall Sale offers big discounts on some spectacular titles that will demand your attention. If you have some money to spend before the holidays, you could do worse than indulge in one of these choices.

Hades, one of the best games of 2020, is available for $12.49, 50% off its original price. But an even better deal is the Supergiant Games Bundle for $35.63, or 73% off the total price of four games and five soundtracks. You get Hades, Bastion, Transistor, And Pyre – featuring each of their soundtracks – and a 10th anniversary soundtrack featuring music from all the games. The Bastion soundtrack, which has won multiple awards, is worth the price of the entire bundle in my opinion; the music in Supergiant’s first game is absolutely spot on.

The developer expects a release Hades 2 in early access in 2024, and what better way to prepare than revisiting Supergiant’s back catalog? —Nicole Timmerman

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El Paso, Elsewhere was released in September by developer Strange Scaffold, but you can get it now for $15.99, 20% off the original price of $19.99. If you’re a fan of Max Payne and PlayStation 1 visuals – or just original third-person shooters – it’s worth a look El Paso, Elsewhere out. Playing as James Savage, you can slow down time to blast away a number of different monsters. Not only is it a solid shooter, but El Paso, Elsewhere also has a great story. —NC

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Cocoon is a game that really surprised me; it felt like it came out of nowhere and suddenly found itself at the top of my games of the year list. Released at the end of September by Geometric Interactive, Cocoon is a puzzle game about worlds within worlds within worlds, most of which consist of spheres that you can lug around. In addition to holding worlds, the orbs each have their own special powers, meaning they each play a different role in uncovering Cocoon‘s secrets.

Despite the recent release, Cocoon is available for $19.99, or 20% off the original price of $24.99. —NC

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When Empty space was originally released in 2008 and received high praise for being a truly scary sci-fi shooter. The 2023 remake of the game, originally released in January, lives up to that legacy. Isaac Clarke’s terrifying journey through the USG Ishimura looks better than ever, even under a thick layer of dirt and blood, and the story’s detour into new territory works well in humanizing Isaac. The Empty space remake is one of the best survival horror titles available in a golden age for the genre, and at a full 50% discount (making it $29.99) it’s worth the shivers for the thrill of taking it apart of hordes of scary Necromorphs. —Cass Marshall

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Two-player co-op games are surprisingly rare, considering most of us have at least one friend. A way out And It takes two are exceptions to the rule that are built entirely around two-person cooperative play. The stories are very different, but the core mechanics are similar and based on playing with a friend.

In A way outplayers take on the role of two convicts who work together to escape prison and get revenge It takes two is the story of a couple on the verge of divorce who find themselves trapped in the bodies of dolls. Both stories force players to work together to platform, solve puzzles, and overcome the odds. A way out is 85% off, down to just under $5, and It takes two is 75% off, making it $11.99. -CM