Also Nuclear Dawn. It's a great game that more people should play.

@gike987: Thank you good sir!

I got Dungeons of Dredmor. All of you should buy it, its an awesome game

Should I get any of the Red Faction games - or should I just not bother?

Bought Rock of Ages. I've been meaning to try that since the quick look.

@Brake said:

Bought Rock of Ages. I've been meaning to try that since the quick look.

I also bought that. I'm totally on board with it, especially for the price I bought it at, but I wish it gave a little bit more info in the tutorials. It's hard in such a fast-paced game, but it would've been nice to get an idea of how to position the various defenses. But then, for me, so far a lot of the game seems to come down to "oh god, hit the door 3 times as soon as humanly possible", because you need to come up with a hell of a good defense to significantly weaken the enemy boulder.

Picked up Bulletstorm, Jameston dlc, and Beat Hazard. Quickly learned Dream Theater + Beat Hazard is essentially taking acid

I have 50% of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity. 50% of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition. 50% of any Valve game and two coal. Will trade for TF2 items

I just bought about 20 to 30 bucks worth of games so far including the humble indie bundle, and my hard drive is messed up right now. I need to buy a good gaming PC, hurray for future jobs.

Nothing for me today. Interestingly today's treasure pile had three different defence tower games on it. Once this sale is done I wish I don't have to play another TD ever again.

All of the Total War games on sale? I'm seriously considering Medieval 2 and Shogun 2.

Does anyone think that Skyrim will got on sale again during the last day of the Holiday sale? Preferably 33% or more off. I didn't have enough cash to by it on the 25th.

Anyone got banned for coal farming yet?

Disclaimer: This is not mine, I just found it on /v/.

I've seen another screenshot on /v with a different date than that one, so I know they are doing it to at least banning a few people (or everything is just photoshopped).

@WhyBeAre: Well I've seen people with 100 coals and more, assuming they were not shopped. Some people are taking it too far.

It is pay day, and Civ 5 is on sale. Crap. It's too late, BoG, you're done for!

@valrog:The people getting banned are people who bought hundreds of Humble indie bundles for £0.01 to get coal. This is the reason they had to make it so you need to pay at least $1 to get steam keys. If they used paypal to pay one cent for bundels the Humble bundle guys actually loses money due to paypals processing fees, so they are basically taking money from charities to cheat at a contest. They deserve to get banned.

Anyway, SpaceChem is on sale today. Get it if you like good challenging puzzle, especially if you like programming (or are interested in learning it) as you need to a similar thought process to solve the puzzles in that game. One of my favourite games this year. Be warned though the solutions can get very complicated.

Worth picking up Deus Ex: The Missing Link?

While the Steam sale is always great, the biggest downside is, I have bought so much stuff that the sale is kind of useless to me now :(

@Buckwatters said:

While the Steam sale is always great, the biggest downside is, I have bought so much stuff that the sale is kind of useless to me now :(

Same for me. I've only bought 3 games this sale. A couple years back I bought over 40 and last year I bought a bunch as well. I literally have everything I want that is on Steam now. The only game I want still is Burnout Paradise but it hasn't been a daily deal.

I owned around 240 games on steam before this sale and I'm sure I have bought over 20 this year. There are always some cheap indie game that came out during the year that don't already own.

Just picked up Deus Ex HR. 
 
Stop sucking money down my pockets Newell, I fucking beg of you.

I finally got Old world Blues for a few dollars. I think that is about the only NV dlc I am interested in, but I think I have one other.

@AhmadMetallic: You grew to like that at some speed. (DP already).

Universe Sandbox is pretty great. It's not a game, it's a space gravity simulator, but it's fun to put down a bunch of objects and see what happens or go into a simulation of our solar system and delete the sun just to watch all the planets and moons fly in different directions. I also spent some time creating a binary star system with some planets.

So far picked up, LFD2, Universe Sandbox, Metro 2033, Witcher 2, and might grab Deus Ex. I love steam sales

@Hitchenson said:

@AhmadMetallic: You grew to like that at some speed. (DP already).

It's fucking amazing. Sinking 5-10 hours into Deus Ex 1 earlier this year was toooooooootally worth it.

Is the sale still going on tomorrow? Or is it a recap sale?

My last day purchases:

• Dead Island.
• Alien vs. Predator Classic 2000
• Delve deeper + DLC
• Aaaaa!!! for the Awesome
• Serious Sam Double D
• Serious Sam: The random encounter
• Serious Sam 3
• Shatter
• Faerie Solitaire
• Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
• Capsized
• Critical Mass
• Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death
• Super Laser Racer
• Inside a Star Filled Sky
• Bullet Candy

The rest of my purchases:

• GRID
• Rochard
• Deus Ex: HR Missing link
• Fallout New Vegas DLC (gun runners and couriers stash)
• Universe Sandbox
• Medieval 2: Total War
• Shogun 2 all DLC
• Xotic
• Mafia
• Dead Space
• Revenge of the titans
• Lara Croft Guardian of Light
• Space Pirates and Zombies
• Solar 2
• Cities in Motion
• Greed Corp
• Worms Complete Pack
• Anomaly: Warzone Earth
• Rock of Ages
• Hard Reset
• Prototype
• Renegade Ops
• E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy
• Cave Story+
• Defence Grid DLC: You Monster!
• Avadon
• Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
• Dungeons of Dredmore with DLC
• Double Fine Pack
• Cargo! Quest for gravity
• Metro 2033
• Edge

Total amount: $255

Pretty good sale this year

I wound up buying 5 games. Three I was looking for (Civ 5 GOTY, Magicka Collection, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale) and two more I snatched up because they were on sale (Skyrim and Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters). While it's more than I had planned I am very please with my purchases.

Thanks to fellow duder @emergency, I was able to get Dead Island during the sale!

so in total, I got:

• Dead Island
• HOARD
• Orcs Must Die
• Puzzle Agent 1+2
• Defense Grid Awakening "You Monster" DLC
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
• Rainbow Six 3 Gold
• Rainbow Six Vegas
• Hard Reset
• Psychonauts
• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
• Renegade Ops (+ Coldstrike DLC)
• Rock of Ages
• Space Pirates and Zombies

I think that's a pretty sweet list! I'm glad I already had most of the other games that were on sale already 'cause I wouldn't have been able to afford all of them :D

Final purchase review:

1. The Binding of Isaac
2. Deus Ex: The Missing Link (plus Explosive Mission Pack)
3. Magicka: The Stars are Left
4. Bastion
5. L.A. Noire: Complete Edition
6. Portal 2

Probably spent around 30 bucks. Funny thing is I could have made all of my purchases on the last day of sales. Well, except for Isaac.

I just wish I didn't miss the Dead Space daily deals.

• Runaway: A road Adventure
• Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
• Runaway: A Twist of Fate
• The Next Big Thing
• Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods.
• EYE: Divine Cybermancy
• Xotic
• Puzzle Agent 1
• Puzzle Agent 2
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Tactical Enhancement Pack
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution: The Missing Link
• Eversion

Total: $28.95

• Disciples II Gold and Rise of the Elves
• Fallout 3 GOTY
• Old World Blues
• Company of Heroes
• Star Wars Battlefront II
• Star Wars Empire at War Gold 

Bought a bunch of big name games and indie titles I had missed out on (and one I had already played but didn't own on Steam):

• Anomaly Warzone Earth
• Bastion
• Bioshock
• Bulletstorm
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Metro 2033
• Renegade Ops
• Rock of Ages
• Total War: Shogun 2

Between these games and Batman: Arkham City (which I still haven't started yet) I'm not gonna be short on entertainment for a very long time...

I keep a list of what I buy during each Steam mega sale, and this looks to be the final tally at the end of this one:

2011 Steam Christmas Sale

Who knows what the future may hold!

	1. Costume Quest $3.74
	2. Rage $14.99
	3. Nuclear Dawn $4.99
	4. Alice: Madness Returns $7.49
	5. Beat Hazard Complete $3.24
	6. Star Wars: Republic Commando $2.49
	7. L.A. Noire $12.49
	8. Deus Ex: Human Revolution $16.99 plus all DLC for $6.77
	9. Bastion $5.09

Wow, prices on steam is Australia in the sale were about triple, sometimes quadruple those prices in most cases. Rage was 44.99 on a daily deal. That is so fucked.

I'm pretty sure it was just Hard Reset and Defcon, though I did win King Arthur from the drawing.

My purchases during this Steam sale...

Bastion

Grand Theft Auto 3

Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Bioshock 2

Rochard w/ Soundtrack

Dungeon Defenders

Dead Space 2

Serious Sam 3 BFE

Killing Floor Bundle x2 (Gifted)

Bad Company 2 (Gifted)

Grand total of $69.24

Success!

I didn't buy much this sale. I picked up Sonic Generations (before the daily deal :/), DR2:OTR, BulletStorm and E.Y.E. That is about $50. Kinda more then I was expecting. I don't usually buy PC games for much money. Only one I bought day one was Portal 2 (and I got a gift-able version during this sale lol).