The gaming platform GOG is currently offering a number of titles at great discounts. We”ve picked out a few titles that are particularly good value for money.
Not only Steam and Epic always have exciting discount promotions to deliver: At GOG, there are some interesting titles available at bargain prices right now. Here we present five games that are at least 50 percent off – at least that was the plan. Micha and Steffi obviously had other ideas.
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After this short detour, we now present our recommendations from the editorial team. Have fun!
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Shadow Warrior 2
(Genre: First-person shooter – Developer: Flying Wild Hog – Release: 13. October 2016 – Price: 4 Euro for the standard version (85 percent discount), 8 Euro for the deluxe version (80 percent discount)
~ (Michael) : Ouh, GOG actually knocks out one of the best shooters of the last years for a ridiculous price. Sure, Shadow Warrior 2 is no longer the youngest genre representative with a release in 2016, but it”s definitely still worth a look today. Especially for a measly five to eight euros! Shadow Warrior 2 doesn”t dwell on a particularly epic or profound story, it just gets down to business right from the start. Fans of Doom should feel right at home here: Shadow Warrior 2 is fast, brutal and damn entertaining.
You don”t need any previous knowledge to fight cyber ninjas or the spawn of hell – except maybe which button to press in a shooter to make the gun go boom. But don”t get me wrong: Shadow Warrior 2 is far from being a walk in the park (especially on the higher difficulty levels). But if the worst comes to the worst, you can simply drag up to three other players into the battle with you. If you and your friends are in the mood for an orgy of shooting together, the GOG discount is perhaps the best opportunity to do so.
In addition, Shadow Warrior 2 offers a lot of replay value thanks to its large variety of enemies, the different play styles and all kinds of optional side missions. For example, you can try your hand at 70 different weapons (of which, by the way, there are no shortage of melee bludgeons and cutting tools) or tickle the very last hidden boss out of his hiding place. At the current ridiculous price for the standard or deluxe version on GOG, shooter fans should definitely take a look at one of the best genre representatives of 2016.
Chicken Police
(Genre: Point&Click-Adventure – Developer: The Wild Gentlemen – Release: Nov 5, 2020 – Price: 10 Euro, reduced by 50 percent )
~ (Thomas): Have you ever put a cock in a leather jacket? I certainly hope not, the poor animal. Why don”t you play Chicken Police instead? You can even slip into the role of a talking rooster in a leather jacket. At first glance, it sounds more like Zoomania, but it”s as far away from the charming Disney film as you can get.
The main character, Sonny Featherland, used to be a famous policeman in the animal-populated town of Clawville. In the meantime, however, the washed-up bird is addicted to alcohol, melancholic and suspended from duty. Not even his former partner Marty MacChicken wants to know anything about him. However, the two have to get together when an attractive cat needs the Chicken Police”s help.
I know, I know. The whole thing reads so incredibly trashy that it almost hurts your eyes. But Chicken Police is an outstanding indie game! The graphics are admittedly unusual, but also have an aesthetic all their own. The story is full of film-noir clichés and is just as plastered with sometimes more, sometimes less hilarious animal jokes. Nevertheless, the core of the story is really exciting. And if you know the English language, you can look forward to excellent speakers. Sure, you can”t expect an action-fest from a point&click adventure, but for just 10 euros Chicken Police is more than worth a look. Do yourself a favour and at least watch the trailer above!
Dead Cells
(Genre: Roguelite – Developer: Motion Twin – Release: 6 August 2018 – Price: 15 Euro, reduced by 40 percent*)
~ (Kevin): I remember the first time my brother showed me Dead Cells. We were sitting at my parents” house one Christmas night with our Nintendo Switches in our hands, but I was tired of Mario Kart because I always lose there anyway (my brother has godlike karting skills). So he held out his Switch to me: “Do you know this already? Of course I knew Dead Cells, you sausage poodle, I deal with games for a living. But roguelites have never been my genre, they frustrate me too much. And I can”t handle frustration, see Mario Kart.
Well, what can I say: my brother never got his Switch back that night. The next day I bought Dead Cells myself and played it for over 200 hours – according to my Switch profile – and really got stuck into it for a while.
Frustration from constantly starting from scratch? Nah, I”m getting better and better! I”m learning the weapons. I”m learning to read the enemy types and their attacks (Those dung priests shooting through floors and walls!). I”m learning that there are hidden items that I can find by paying better attention to the environment. I learn which of three weapon collections is best to take with me to start, how to use traps, that the electric whip also whips up and down, and so on. Dead Cells has the depth that good roguelites need: The better I get to know it, the better I get at using the tools it gives me (randomly). And the better I can come up with tactics and work my way up the difficulty levels.
But most importantly, I mastered Dead Cells better than my brother from the start! Take that, you Mario Kart cheater who never got past the first few levels in Dead Cells!
By the way, the Dead Cells: Road to the Sea bundle includes the four DLCs released so far (one of which was free, though) for a discounted 23.29 in addition to the main game. They provide new locations, enemies and bosses, where I have to pay attention to new things and devise new tactics. And more Dead Cells is just great.
By the way: Road to the Sea is currently on sale for 9 cents less on Steam. Buy it where you like.
Cat Quest
(Genre: Role Playing Game – Developer: The Gentlebros – Release: August 08, 2017 – Price: 3 Euro, reduced by 75 percent)
~ (Dani): You never go wrong with cats! Say my three cats, who definitely outnumber me with this opinion and convince me in case of doubt by wild chases over my legs at half past four in the morning. Or through lots of purring and superior fluffiness. Whether the sword-wielding feline hero in Cat Quest can also purr, I still haven”t found out, but he certainly looks fluffy.
In search of his cat-napped sister, I fight and conjure my way through a lovingly designed open world in real time and search everywhere for the nasty chief villain. Apart from the main story, there are a lot of smaller side quests in which I help the miautastic people of the game world and at the same time gain experience and better equipment. With spells like lightning meow or flame purr, I heat up enemies of all kinds and restore my hero with the healing paw. And if I don”t feel like being a mage, I put my fighter in chain armour for more protection and life points.
Cat Quest is not only worth playing because of the simple and easy-to-learn combat mechanics, but above all because of the detailed, cute game world Felingard and the cats seeking help. It”s just fun to explore a bit, dive down and save the world with its many cat allusions. Apart from that, Cat Quest is a real bargain for just 3.29 euros! If you”re not sure whether the adventure is for you, there”s also a demo available on Steam.
Black Book
(Genre: Role-playing game – Developer: Morteshka – Release: August 10, 2021 – Price: 15 Euro, reduced by 40 percent*)
~ (Flo): As a child, my mother once forced me into a theatre group – I think she blackmailed me with a new GameBoy. The first and only play I was ever on stage for was Vasilisa, a Russian fairy tale about a lost young woman. Actually, I was supposed to play the lead role, but when the director got a better idea of my acting skills, she suggested that maybe I could play a tree instead. So I did.
And what does this have to do with Black Book? In the role-playing game, you also control a young Russian woman named Vasilisa, who, however, becomes a witch with the help of a magic book and travels through the country to support the suffering people against dark forces and to save her fiancé from hell. Along the way, she encounters characters from old Slavic folk tales (I can”t remember a living tree).
The turn-based battles play out via an easy-to-learn but rather clever card system that represents your spells and actions. Depending on what you put in your deck, Black Book plays noticeably differently, though the basic loop repeats itself relatively quickly – you”ll have to endure that. In return, you can expect a really exciting story with a setting that has received far too little attention and with which you can spend a good 30 hours. In our review of Black Book, we were also very taken with the genre variety.
Were there perhaps one or two games among our recommendations that you will take a closer look at? And what do you think of Micha and Steffi”s unheard-of reading weakness? Write us in the comments!
