Digital distribution platforms feature regular special offers to lure in new customers. These exceptional deals can be used to your advantage as a means to quickly assemble a vast collection of great PC games at very low cost. But that requires regularly checking in on each and every digital download service for their latest deals, which can be a tiresome affair.
That’s where this weekly Discount Drone feature comes in. Within I take a weekly look at everything that is on offer and extract the best deals for your perusal. These are formatted by genre and accompanied by short and accurate descriptions, so that you can decide whether a game might be worth having. This includes special offers on: Direct2Drive, GamersGate, Get Games, Good Old Games, Green Man Gaming, Impulse and Steam.
The strange competitive tower defense game Sol Survivor really stands out this week with its free weekend and accompanying half off deal over at Steam. Other fun strategy games are also up for grabs however, with Green Man Gaming offering an incredible deal on the great indie RTS Darwinia. And worth mentioning for its immense replay value is Galactic Civilizations 2: Dread Lords over on Impulse, which may not include any expansion packs but can certainly provide hundreds of hours of hardcore turn-based 4X space strategy gameplay.
Read on for more exciting deals and subscribe to GameDrone for weekly coverage of the best digital download offers!
Deals of the Week
- Darwinia on Green Man Gaming – Save 72% Deal – 1,97 EUR
A retro-themed indie real-time strategy game where you have to save the Darwinians from extinction as a computer virus has infiltrated their world. It only features singleplayer, but is actually quite fun to play. - Galactic Civilizations 2: Dread Lords on Impulse – Save 55% Weekend Deal – 6,43 EUR
Galactic Civilizations 2 is an extensive 4X space strategy game. It includes regular custom games, but is notable for also including a story-driven campaign mode. Its depth and wide variety in races, ships and technologies make it a great purchase for fans of 4X space strategy games. - Sol Survivor on Steam – Free Weekend and Save 50% Weekend Deal – 4,49 EUR
A futuristic tower defense game that focuses on co-operative and competitive multiplayer matches. These matches not only involve building towers to fend off waves of enemies, but also spawn waves of enemies to overwhelm the other team’s defenses and fire off manually controlled superpowers during play. This intricate balance of separate mechanics that are all powered by the same point-source makes for a very unique tower defense game.
Action
- Dark Sector on Green Man Gaming – Save 34% Deal – 8,49 EUR
A decent third-person action game with a cover system and mediocre plot.
Adventure
- Broken Sword Twin Pack on GamersGate – Save 40% Weekend Deal – 5,39 EUR
This package includes the excellent adventure Broken Sword 2: The Smokin Mirror and its slightly inferior sequel Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon. - Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse on Telltale Games – Save 43% Launch Deal – 14,54 EUR
The third season of Telltale’s popular adventure game series has finally concluded and it’s the best season yet! This package includes all five episodes of the third season for some hilarious point-and-click adventure gameplay. It’s been reduced in price to celebrate the launch of the final episode.
First Person Shooter
- Killing Floor on Steam – Save 50% Weekend Deal – 8,99 EUR
Killing Floor is an online co-op survival horror shooter for 6 players. Zombies attack players in waves, but can be held back by welding doors shut, abusing slow-motion ZEDtime, utilizing one of the dozens of weapons and tools in the purchaseable arsenal and slotting perks to empower your character. Numerous character packs are also up for sale this weekend. - Painkiller: Black Edition on Green Man Gaming – Save 31% Weekend Deal – 4,75 EUR
Go all-guns-blazing in this excellent fast-paced first person shooter with a grim mythical setting that puts you in the role of a demonic ass kicking mercenary. Crazy weapons, crazy enemies, crazy powers and a crazily fast pace make for one heck of a ride. And multiplayer offers solid competitive arena-based hardcore FPS play that’s unfortunately quite empty nowadays due to the free excellence that is Quake Live. Also included is the Battle Out of Hell expansion pack, which was the last decent Painkiller game.
Role-playing Game
- Dungeon Defenders on GamersGate / Impulse – Save 10% Pre-order Deal – 7,19 EUR
Choose a class, create a character and team up with three friends to defend your dungeon from waves of monsters! Add in a wide variety of towers, pets, loot, monsters, achievements, game modes and a storydriven campaign and you have Dungeon Defenders’ unique take on the tower defense genre. These digital pre-orders come with an exclusive familiar depending on the digital distribution service (Direct2Drive, GamersGate, Impulse or Steam).
Real-time Strategy
- Demigod on Impulse – Save 70% Weekend Deal – 4,30 EUR
Demigod offers a more strategic and attractive take on the popular DotA subgenre of strategy games. This means selecting a hero and then taking the fight to the other team while trying to destroy their main structure to win the game. Demigod mixes things up by offering two different hero types – the regular DotA heroes and generals who command small forces of units – mob upgrades and generally a wider breath of options. It’s unfortunately nowhere near as popular as its competition despite quite enjoyable gameplay. - Earth 2150 Trilogy on Impulse – Save 50% Weekend Deal - 3,58 EUR
These real-time strategy games offer a future conflict between three very different human forces that rely heavily on mechanised ground forces. Earth 2150 is a dated strategy game with a slightly cumbersome interface and poor 3D graphics, but the gameplay is still quite solid and the story is surprisingly engaging. Both expansion packs are also included. - Gratuitous Space Battles: The Nomads on Positech Games – Save 50% Discount Deal – 2,18 EUR
The latest DLC pack for Positech Games’ excellent hands-off space strategy game. It requires the original game and introduces the new race of the Nomads to the extensive collection of playable races. The deal over on the Positech website is very interesting in that there are both a regular and discount version on offer. - Knights & Merchants on Impulse – Save 50% Weekend Deal – 3,58 EUR
A medieval city-building strategy game similar to the more recent entries in the Settlers series. It’s an older title with a very outdated presentation. - Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion Bundle on Impulse – Save 25% Weekend Deal – 10,74 EUR
This bundle contains the Entrenchment and Diplomacy expansion packs for the excellent 4X space strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire. The former introduces a wealth of new defensive options such as enormous starbases and handy mine layers, whereas the latter fleshes out the more peaceful paths of progress that had been largely overlooked in the original. The original game is required!
Turn-based Strategy
- Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game on GamersGate – Save 60% Weekend Deal – 7,99 EUR
A World War 2-era grand strategy game that follows in the footsteps of the celebrated Hearts of Iron series. Take control of any nation in the 1936-1964 time frame and rewrite history. - Hearts of Iron II Complete on GamersGate – Save 60% Weekend Deal – 9,99 EUR
Hearts of Iron 2 is arguably the best game in this excellent series of World War 2-era grand strategy games. Take command of any nation and change the course of history as you battle through both World War 2 and World War 3. This complete package also includes both expansion packs. - World War 2: Time of Wrath on GamersGate – Save 75% Deal – 6,74 EUR
A decent turn-based grand strategy game set in World War 2.
Simulator
- Air Aces: Pacific on Impulse – Save 50% Deal – 24,99 EUR
An arcade flight simulator set in the Pacific arena of World War 2 with variable reality-mode settings for different flight experiences.
Platform and Puzzle Games
- Blade Kitten on GamersGate – Save 33% Weekend Deal – 7,99 EUR
Blade Kitten is a side-scrolling platform game with quirky 3D graphics. Its excellent and varied platforming gameplay is supported by a mediocre, but somehow still engaging, story about the bounty hunter Kit Ballard who sees her ship blown up and gets into even more trouble from that point on. - Gish on GamersGate – Save 60% Weekend Deal – 3,99 EUR
A curious platform game that follows all the genre conventions but spices things up with the implementation of realistic physics that affect the platforming and puzzling action. The protagonist is a gelatinous blob of tar called Gish, who can become slippery to fit through tight spaces, rigid to gain extra weight and use his form in other unique ways. - World of Goo on Green Man Gaming – Save 82% Deal – 3,57 EUR
Take charge of an armada of goo and use it to form all sorts of weird contraptions to solve puzzles. It’s charming, humorous and challenging.
Other Games and Bundles
- Commandos Complete on Get Games – Save 50% Deal - 7,49 EUR
This package includes all Commandos games, from the excellent and ridiculously difficult squad-based strategy games of Behind Enemy Lines & Commandos 2, to the sub-par shooter Strike Force. An awesome bundle at a great price – definitely worth a look. - Poker Night at the Inventory on Steam – Save 10% Pre-order Deal – 3,59 EUR
Take Team Fortress 2′s Heavy, Max from Sam & Max, Homestar Runner’s Strong Bad and Tychus from Penny Arcade and you get Poker Night at the Inventory! It’ll be a game about playing poker, but not quite in the way you’re used to. - THQ Ultimate Bundle on Impulse – Save 68% Deal – 93,64 EUR
This is a bundle of some of THQ’s best PC games. It includes the entire Company of Heroes series of World War 2-era real-time strategy games, along with Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War and Supreme Commander and their respective expansion packs. Proper first person shooters are also included in the form of the entire Red Faction franchise and both Full Spectrum Warrior games. The excellent Action RPG Titan Quest and its Immortal Throne expansion are also included, along with the superb free-roaming singleplayer FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The racing game Juiced 2 and zoo simulator World of Zoo round out the package. - Uplink on Green Man Gaming – Save 72% Deal – 1,97 EUR
In this game you assume the role of a freelance hacker. Take on jobs and upgrade your tools with the earnings as you progress through the game’s plot.
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