It’s not just Steam and Epic that have exciting discount campaigns to offer: GOG currently has some interesting titles available at bargain prices. Here we present five games that are on offer at least 50 percent off – at least that was the plan. Micha and Steffi obviously had other ideas.
If you want to go directly to the discount campaign, simply follow the link below. Of course, don’t forget to come back afterwards!
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After this short detour, however, here are our recommendations from the editors. Have fun!
Shadow Warrior 2
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Shadow Warrior 2 – Test video for the brutally entertaining shooter masterpiece
Genre: Ego-Shooter | Developer: Flying Wild Hog | Release: 13. October 2016 | Preis: 4 dollars for the standard version (85 percent discount), 8 dollars for the deluxe version (80 percent discount)
Valentin Aschenbrenner: Ooh, GOG is actually knocking out one of the best shooters of recent years at a ridiculous price. Clear, Shadow Warrior 2 released in 2016, is no longer the youngest representative of the genre, but is definitely still worth a look today. Especially for a mere five to eight dollars! Shadow Warrior 2 doesn’t dwell on a particularly epic or deep story, it just gets down to business from the get-go. Doom fans should feel at home here: Shadow Warrior 2 is fast, brutal and damn entertaining.
You don’t need to have any previous knowledge for the bloody fight against cyber ninjas or spawns of hell – except maybe which button you have to press in a shooter to get the gun Bang
power. But don’t get me wrong: Shadow Warrior 2 (especially on the higher levels of difficulty) is far from a bed of roses. If the worst comes to the worst, you can simply drag up to three other players into the battle. If you and your friends are in the mood for a ballergy together, the GOG discount might be the best opportunity to do so.
In addition, Shadow Warrior 2 offers a lot of replay value thanks to its large variety of opponents, the different play styles and all kinds of optional side missions. For example, you can try your hand at 70 different weapons (of which there are plenty of melee clubs and cutting tools, by the way) or tickle the very last hidden boss out of hiding. With 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
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Genre: Point&Click-Adventure | Developer: The Wild Gentlemen | Release: 5. November 2020 | Preis: 10 dollars, reduced by 50 percent
Alexander Bernhardt: Have you ever put a rooster in a leather jacket? At least I hope not, the poor animal. Play Chicken Police instead! You even slip into the role of a talking rooster in a leather jacket. At first it sounds more like Zootropolis, but it’s as far away from the lovely Disney film as it gets.
Main character Sonny Featherland was once a famous policeman in the animal-inhabited city of Clawville. In the meantime, however, the worn-out bird is addicted to alcohol, melancholic and suspended from work. Not even his former partner Marty MacChicken wants anything to do with him anymore. However, the two have to pull to gether when an attractive cat needs the help of the Chicken Police.
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! Admittedly, the graphics are unusual, but they 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 incendiary animal jokes. Nonetheless, the core of the story is really exciting. And those who speak English can look forward to excellent speakers. Sure, you can’t expect an action-fest from a point and click adventure, but for just 10 dollars, Chicken Police is worth more than just a look. Do yourself a favor and at least watch the trailer above!
Dead Cells
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Dead Cells – Trailer shows release date for the roguelike Metroidvania
Genre: Roguelite | Developer: Motion Twin | Release: 6. August 2018 | Preis: 15 dollars, reduced by 40 percent*
Michael Graf: I remember my brother showing me Dead Cells for the first time. We were sitting at my parents house with our Nintendo Switches in hand one Christmas Eve, but I got tired of Mario Kart because I always lose at it anyway (my brother has godlike karting skills). Then he held his switch out to me: Do you already know that? N aturally knew
Well, what can I say, my brother didn’t get his Switch back that night. The next day I bought Dead Cells myself and then – according to my switch profile – played for over 200 hours, really biting into it for a while.
Frustration from constantly starting from scratch? No, I’m getting better and better! I get to know the weapons. I’m learning to read enemy types and their attacks (those floor-and-wall-shooting bastard priests!). I learn that there are hidden items that I can find by paying more attention to the surroundings. I learn which of three weapon collections is best to take with me when I start, how to use traps, how the electro whip also whips up and down, and so on. Dead Cells has the depth that good roguelites need: the more I get to know it, the more comfortable I am with the tools it gives me (randomly). And the better I can think of tactics and work my way up the difficulty levels.
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!
Our tester Jonas was also enthusiastic about the Dead Cells test, only a few weaknesses dampened his mood. You can read the article here:
Dead Cells im Test
Controlled chaos
Incidentally, the bundle Dead Cells: Road to the Sea contains the four previously released DLCs (one of which was free), in addition to the main game, for a discounted price of 23.29. They provide new locations, opponents and bosses, where I have to consider new things and think up new tactics. And more dead cells is just great.
By the way: Road to the Sea is currently also available on Steam for 9 cents less. Buy it where you want.
*Micha’s game is only 40 percent off because he’s too stupid to read Alex’s note that we only want to include games with more than 50 percent off.
Cat Quest
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Genre: Roleplay | Developer: The Gentlebros | Release: 08. August 2017 | Preis: 3 dollars, reduced by 75 percent
Gloria H. Manderfeld: You can never go wrong with cats! Say my three cats, who are definitely in the majority with this opinion and, in case of doubt, convince me of my legs with wild chases at half past four in the morning. Or through a lot of purring and outstanding fluffiness. I still haven’t found out whether the sword-wielding feline hero in Cat Quest can also purr, but he definitely looks fluffy.
In search of his catnapped sister, I fight and conjure my way through a lovingly designed open world in real time and look everywhere for the nasty villain. Apart from the main story, there are a lot of smaller side quests in which I help the meow-tastic people of the game world and at the same time bag experience and better equipment. With spells like flash meow or flame purr, I heat up all kinds of opponents and pep up my hero with the healing paw. And when I don’t feel like being a mage, I put my fighter in chain armor for more protection and life points.
Cat Quest is not only worthwhile because of the simple and easy-to-learn combat mechanics, but above all because of the detailed, cute game world Felingard and the cats looking for help. It’s just fun to explore a bit, dive in and save the world with its many cat references. Apart from that, Cat Quest is a real bargain for just 3.29 dollars! If you’re not sure if the adventure is for you, there’s also a demo on Steam.
Black Book
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Black Book: Action RPG gameplay trailer features magic and combat
Genre: Roleplay | Developer: Morteshka | Release: 10. August 2021 | Preis: 15 dollars, reduced by 40 percent*
Steffi Schlottag: When I was a kid, my mother forced me into a theater group – I think she blackmailed me with a new GameBoy. The first and only play I ever performed was Vasilisa, a Russian fairy tale about a lost young woman. I was supposed to be the lead, but when the director got a better idea of my acting skills, she suggested that maybe I could play a tree instead. I have then too.
And what does that 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. She meets characters from old Slavic folk tales (I can’t remember a living tree).
The turn-based combat is played through an easy-to-learn but fairly sophisticated card system that represents your spells and actions. Depending on what you pack into your deck, Black Book plays noticeably differently, but the basic loop repeats itself relatively quickly – you have to endure that. But you can expect a really exciting story with a setting that has received far too little attention, with which you can spend a good 30 hours. In our test of Black Book, we were also very impressed by the variety of genres.
*Steffi founds the “Club of editors who urgently need to learn to read numbers correctly” with Micha. Black Book is only 40 instead of 50 percent cheaper. In my feeble defense, if I could handle numbers, I would certainly have become a physicist instead of a scribbler.
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 incredible lack of reading skills? Tell us in the comments!
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