Forget about Steam for a minute. Right now, you need to pay attention to Stardock’s competing online store, Impulse.
Impulse has been, to be brutally honest, not particularly effective competition against Steam. The prices are either at parity or higher, the selection smaller. The one thing the service did have going for it was that most everything being sold there was 100% DRM-free: following purchase, you would only ever have to log on to Impulse to download updates.
Yeah, that’s a big selling point, but it’s always about price, isn’t it? Steam’s weekend sales have been, let’s say, aggressive—just last week they were offering every single X-Com game for five dollars. So it’s great to see Impulse baring teeth here at last. This weekend marks its first weekend sale, and one of the gems available is indie charmer Gish—normally $20, now just $4. And it’s not even the only good deal.

There’s also Kudos 2, the ambitious casual life sim that might have been too expensive at $20. But now that it’s $6, there’s almost no reason to see if it really is as addictive as everyone says.
Also available is Astral Masters (a TCG in the vein of Magic: The Gathering, but with no real money transactions for booster packs) and Tangle Bee (a casual puzzle thing the internet refuses to discuss). Both are $4. Choose your poison—I think I’m going to skip the cappuccino today and get Kudos 2 instead.
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