Great game and well worth the measly £3.99 (around $5) I bought it last weekend with Red Orchestra. It’s great to see original indie games for such low prices. Another one I’d recommend called ‘And Yet it Moves, which has recently been halved in price is similar to Blueberry. My daughter loves Bluberry and I think it’s marvelous. I'm sure Bluberry was on offer last weekend. I paid a few pounds for it. (£3.99 I think)
To Buzz,
Steam is a games manager - well more than a manager as it also gives you something similar to Gamespy or Gameshadow. Which means you can update all the games you buy via steam as soon as the updates become available. You can join a multitude of game groups for example our own Giveawayoftheday group, or a game specific group such as Left 4Dead or Half Life 2 (which are two of the games we play in our group so far, but are hoping to expand to Unreal Tournament, Red Orchestra and others) As you make friends with other gamers, you can follow their progress, see what they are playing and join whatever online games they are playing as well as take a look at what other games they are buying. On top of all this you have access to a load of different dedicated servers for most of the games that are sold via Steam; and, best of all , there's game deals every weekend, where you can get upwards of 75% of specific games. Most of the games I've bought since joining the Steam community (well over 60 games since January 09) have been deals; for example I got the excellent Red Orchestra for only £2.99 last weekend. Several weeks ago I bought Left 4 Dead for 40% off and my first deal which cost around £5 got me five excellent arcade games (Trials 2, Eets, Multiwinia, Graviton 2 and IFluid). Several weeks ago one developer put virtually all of their catalogue up for grabs with deals between 75% to 50% off (eg Painkiller, Iron Warriors, Culpa Innata, Beyond good and Evil, Exoddus From Earth, Ghost Master, Sacred Gold and lots of others) Last week you could get the full set of Penumbra games for a few pounds.
Regards
Whiterabbit.
p.s.
You can download the Steam client for free from:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
You can also add your non Steam games to the games section. There are some free games available. If you have an NVidia or ATI graphics card you can get Half Life 2 Deathmatch and Half Life 2 Lost Coast, which install to the Steam client.
p.s.
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