Hey everyone,

We’re coming up on a year anniversary (I think) of this community and I thought I’d do some giveaways to celebrate that.

It’s semi-annoying that not all game stores have digital gift cards you can purchase so there are a few options here.

  1. Amazon digital gift card: for those of you who buy physical games
  2. Physical Steam gift card: the slowest option, as it requires me to leave my house and buy a stamp and mail something (the horror).
  3. Gifted game directly in Steam / GOG.com

For the gifted games / gift cards it’ll be capped at $30 – after all, we’re talking about old games here right? If you want a few games that total up to $30, that’s cool too.

I’m going to pick two members at random from those who reply here as the winners.

Just comment with what option you prefer, and ideally tell us about what game you’d like to get (I’d prefer to limit the low-effort comments if we can. I like the discussions people have here so please do try to comment more than just “#1” ).

I’ll sticky this post and will leave it open for 2 weeks (end of April is the deadline)

Thanks for keeping this community a cool place with good discussions!


UPDATE 4/30/24:

This contest is officially over!

The 2 randomly chosen winnders are:

@Klanky@sopuli.xyz

@Dymonika@beehaw.org

Congrats!

I will be messaging you both individually to get your email addresses or steam/gog usernames so I can gift you your games!

Thanks again to everyone again for keeping this place going!

  • kn0wmad1c@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    I don’t want to enter as I have a big enough backlog as it is, but I wanted to say congrats on reaching a year!!

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      7 months ago

      Thanks!

      It’s more like thanks to everyone who has been posting and commenting in the last year and keeping the tone/mood of this place chill, inviting and friendly, which is all I wanted.

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    7 months ago

    I don’t want any games just dropping in to say that this it’s nice your doing this for the community cheers.

  • Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    That’s really cool! I’m knee deep in BG3, but if I were to get something, it’d be ff9 on steam, haven’t played it in probably 20 years. See how it hits now as an adult.

  • GeekFTW@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    (Direct steam gift is more than fine)

    Project Zomboid. Big zombie fan, but somehow never ended up with the game. However (given I’m old af) I still remember the day the dev announced his laptop or whatever with all the code for the game on it had been lost or stolen, back in its real early dev days. Amazing the game was ever able to come out, let alone I’ve never heard anyone say a bad thing about it.

    And ty for the giveaway! <3

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    7 months ago

    I’d really like to try Subnautica. I love survival games and my gf has been trying to get me to try it but I have never really gotten around it. Steam gift would be great. Thank you!

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        7 months ago

        It really helps to have good spawns for technology. If you don’t have decent ones on a first run through it can feel like you’re stuck in a rut pretty fast.

        Once you know what you’re looking for, though, it makes life a lot easier.

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    7 months ago

    Thanks for doing this! I’d go with either Stray or Immortals Fenyx Rising for Steam. I’ve been hoping to try both of those out for a while now.

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    6 months ago

    Foretales, I always enjoyed card games and the aesthetic really attracted me, actually it’s in my wishlist since the game was released and I managed to not get spoiled (or just a little bit).

    I choose the direct gift in gog.

    (2 day before the giveaway’s end, I guess I’m also a patient scroller)

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    7 months ago

    This is very nice of you to do, thanks. I might use it on Dream Quest (2014), which is little-known as the predecessor to Slay the Spire, so probably #3, but any way would probably do.

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    7 months ago

    Probably would have to be RimWorld, people who love that game seem to really love it. Nearly pulled the trigger a couple of times.

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      7 months ago

      I live rimworld, my wife is a massive sims fan and I bought rim world for her and she was hooked.

      I was hooked for weeks but my brain gets hooked on things for a few weeks then it moves on to the next thing like a adhd riddled child

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    7 months ago

    Can I donate $60 bucks to double amount of winners? I don’t have have much time to game, but I thought this was such a kind way to help out the community that Id like to help out as well.

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      7 months ago

      That would be really awesome of you!

      After I’ve picked two winners, we can have you pick two more and you can send them the codes directly as well.

      We can make it the giveaway part 2.

      When we get to announcing winners I’ll message you!