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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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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    1 year 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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      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!

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    1 year 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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      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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      1 year ago

      Or perhaps commenting asap so that you have to wait the longest after commenting.

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    1 year ago

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

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    This is fun! Been thinking of trying out Persona 4 or 5 as I’ve heard great things about the series in general, but never ended up taking the plunge. I’m sure there are other games from my wishlist I’d also like, but I’m not at my computer right now.

    I’d probably do option #3, if I were to win. Best of luck, everyone!

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    1 year ago

    If I’m picked, I’d like Bug Fables, GOG version 😄 - This bad boy’s been sitting on my wishlist forever and looks like a truly lovely game.

    I would ask for X4, but it only gets under 30 dollars when on sale, and only the base game. It has 4 expansions now, so I’ll probably buy the complete edition later this year. Besides, I still have to give Rebel Galaxy and other space games a first try. please don’t ask about the rest of my backlog

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    1 year ago

    Option 1. I am a console gamer and have been itching to play Pokemon Legends Arceus. Price hasn’t come down much… but that seems to be how Nintendo rolls.

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    11 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.

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    Aye, I’ve always seen these things and never have a chance… Maybe that changes today

    Edit - didn’t realize I should mention a game. I’ve been eyeing fallout 4 for modding and it’s hecking cheap atm

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    I’d be super happy with any digital option that is usable in Steam. Less work for you seems like the most appropriate option here.