Black Friday and Cyber Monday — two days when everybody indulges in their most impulsive purchasing habits, held tightly in check throughout the year. And why wouldn’t they?
Brick-and-mortar and online stores are dropping the most attractive discounts and sales during that time of the year and if you’re a cautious buyer who pays attention to prices you can find real gems. This also applies to video games, which often get impressive price drops, as a prelude for the winter sale season.
This is especially true, if you visit G2A.COM during its Black Week sale, rich in offers from keys to games, DLCs, and other digital treats of all kinds, even cheaper than usual.
If you’re looking for a good place to start your journey, we’ve got a few suggestions.
Heavy is the crown
The first two suggestions fall under the strategy genre, for those who like the top-down perspective and meddling in the affairs of nations and factions.
One option is the extraordinary medieval dynasty simulator, Crusader Kings III. The premise is simple: you’re a head of a real or fictional noble house in medieval Europe, and it’s your job to make sure you and your family (if you’re a giving person like that) become more influential, powerful, and potentially eligible for several thrones.
You’re just one leader for several reasons. First of all: a playthrough can take several in-game centuries. But you might just as easily get assassinated or deposed, in which case a new person takes control of the house, and you get a new character to play.
Crusader Kings III is quite a complex and an incredibly flexible game that tries to stay fairly authentic to how the medieval political, cultural, and religious shifts would play out. However, given the kinds of things you can do there, it’s better as an anecdote generator than a history teacher.
Another game giving you nearly absolute power, and one that will make you sorely feel its weight, is Frostpunk. The game by 11-bit Studios is a mix of a city-building strategy and survival.
The game is set in an alternate history version of the late 19th century Earth, experiencing an ice age caused by excessive volcanic eruptions. You are the leader of a community of survivors gathered around a coal-powered heat generator capable of keeping a settlement from freezing… as long as it’s fueled, in working condition, and people are mentally and physically fit enough to work for the mutual, or even just their own, survival.
There are several scenarios, each presenting a different challenge and set of encounters, but in all cases, you will need to guide the settlement’s development, keep the population as healthy as you can… and make many difficult choices both in strategic gameplay and through narrative events’ troublesome moral and ethical dilemmas. It’s an incredible game, which recently received an outstanding sequel shifting the perspective and scope in other interesting ways.
Keeping it together
Perhaps the lonely top view doesn’t appeal to you, and you’d like something with a down-to-earth perspective. Worry not!
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an excellent option for fans of the western genre, Rockstar storytelling, and immersive open worlds. It’s a prequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption 1 and follows a rather dramatic final years of a gang of outlaws led by Dutch van der Linde. As his right-hand man, Arthur Morgan, you’re getting the front row seats and an audience participation chance to the final heists, struggle for survival, and eventual dissolution that has paved the way to the inciting incident of RDR1, which has recently arrived on PC after many years.
Another open-world option, but a lot more family-friendly and more oriented towards imagination and exploration, is Minecraft. This powerhouse of a game is a fantastic way to spend gaming time with friends and family, working together to make something creative, functional or, better yet: both! Although Minecraft is very much not high-definition, as the world is made of cubes, there are so many different blocks (including mechanical ones!) that captures a lot of the joy of playing with Lego bricks. Its Bedrock edition even allows for multi-platform multiplayer!
Finally, if Minecraft’s endless expanse doesn’t appeal to you, but the co-operative multiplayer does, consider Deep Rock Galactic. It’s a game about a team of four space dwarves (although you can easily play solo) going on mining expeditions deep within an alien asteroid. Deep Rock Galactic has a good sense of humor, featuring procedurally generated maps with delightfully destructible environments and fun to squash aliens, there are enough mission types to keep things interesting, and each class has a valuable niche to fill. A perfect co-op game? Possibly! There’s even a spin-off inspired by Vampire Survivors!
The tip of a gaming iceberg
That’s just five titles you should consider during this year’s Black Week sale on G2A.COM, but there will be many more on offer. If you want to snipe amazing deals on awesome game keys (and more), check both the website and the mobile app between November 25th and December 1st!
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