There are some decent deals going on right now, not so much for AAA titles really, they don’t seem to be going on sale much in my opinion in the past year or so.

Indie games on the other hand have been having some really great discounts.

Here is the /r/gamedeals steam summer sale thread

https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1dpxrdr/steam_summer_sale_2023_day_1/

The thread you are really interested in is the Hidden Gems thread tho…

https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDealsMeta/comments/1dpxyff/steam_summer_2024_hidden_gems/

Even more so than steam… I think some of the recent Fanatical bundles have been really great for indie games, I bought almost everything from these bundles

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-revival-bundle

I also picked up a bunch from this one too

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-handheld-heroes-bundle

I really like the digital board games from direwolf like Instanbul, Everdell, Wings Of Glory. Concordia is also a brilliant digital board game and perhaps one of the best board games ever invented by humanity… (not kidding).

How about y’all? Have you picked up any good indie games for your steam deck lately?

Kinda spent a lot, but with a lot of these indie games, like the big metroidivania games and such I just don’t think they are ever going to come down below $3, they aren’t worth that little lol anyways… but just look at the isthereanydeal stats for some of the indie games in the fanatical bundles they straight up destroy steam’s “summer sale” in my opinion at least at a cursory glance.

For example, look at “Trinity Fusion” in the “handheld heroes bundle”, Steam advertises it on “sale” for $12, but if you buy 5 games or so on fanatical’s bundle it is $3…

…just saying, might be a good time to flesh out your steam deck’s indie, local co-op, party and retro style catalog!