Does anyone else feel like chasing a wild boar? Maybe it's a good time right now, because on Steam all games from the German developer studio Piranha Bytes are reduced. So you sometimes get up to 80 percent discount on some of the best German role-playing games.
The studio is primarily known for its Gothic games, of course, and it also enjoyed success with Risen and Elex. For the rest, are the games not just reduced to steam. Gamesplanet also has many Piranha Bytes titles on offer, although not always on the same terms.
How, for example Gothic 2 is playing today, the author Sascha Penzhorn recently learned to his dismay:
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This damn Gothic 2 drives Sascha crazy
What games are on offer?
The sale on Steam affects all the main games ever developed by Piranhay Bytes were. In addition, various DLCs are reduced and various bundles with which you can save quite a bit of money. You can see how cheap all this is in our comparison table with the most important offers:
You can find out more about Piranha Bytes, the development philosophy of the German studio and the way the Gothic games are designed in the large Plus video report:
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Exclusive documentary about Piranha Bytes – the studio that never wants to grow up
Which role play from Piranha Bytes should I get?
Even if the titles are now reduced, you don't have to dig up your savings for every one of them. Because even if many of them are classics, fans always like to debate, which game is the best.
Gothic plays in the front league, of course, while the successors of Risen were generally able to win less long-standing fans. If you want a professional assessmentWhich of the Piranha Bytes games is the best, then we suggest our own ranking. In it we sorted all seven games clearly according to strengths and weaknesses and crowned a clear highlight:
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Gothic, Risen or Elex? – The best games from Piranha Bytes
By the way: The Piranha Bytes sale also includes Arcania on Steam, which was no longer developed by Piranha Bytes. Therefore, this official, then suddenly unofficial Gothic successor does not even appear in our ranking. But to be honest, this controversial role-playing game would hardly be able to get a place before a Piranha Bytes game.
