Birthday giveaway question (no giveaway here!)

I was gonna link you to the community wishlist as a starting point, but looks like someone already beat me to it.
As much as I wanna say "go big or go home", I ACTUALLY recommend doing a handful of mid-priced games. Keep in mind, price =/= quality. You can get a lot of value by stretching $50 over 5-6 games. They'll be equally appreciated and overall you'll be able to give games to more people. Also, the winter sale is coming up. Brand new games likely won't be very highly discounted, but older games of equal quality will. #FoodForThought

P.S. A game I recommend every chance I get is Toki Tori 2+. It's a pretty solid game that flew under the radar for a lot of people. I have other suggestions if you'd like them, but didn't want to bombard you. :D

I would recommend going with multiple games as well. There are many cheaper games around $10 that are on many people's wishlist. Something like Stardew Valley or Kynseed would make a lot of people, including me, very happy. I'd love to see what games you enjoy playing as well, as I can find some new titles to try out :)

I didn't vote yet. But I think it just depends on how much you want to spend? I say wait to see a deal. If something amazing comes along then get it. Maybe a bunch of nice titles all within your budget will pop up on as deals too. You got plenty of time until Christmas to decide :).

i guess a few mid tier games would make most people happy

Ah, Nice to see you again Bobisbadat:).
I recommend a train with multiple openly wishlisted games with reasonable price and quality. You can try to find them on https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/wishlist .

Hi Bobisbadat,
I would suggest you to make a little train that runs for at least 1 week with a couple of well rated indie gems like "Don't Stave / Don't Starve Together", "Cuphead", "The Forest", "One Shot" etc.
I assume you want to buy the games in Steam-Store so I would recommend to select previously unbundled games, just like the ones I mentioned. During the "Winter Sale" you can get them cheaper, too. :)
Here is a list of high rated indie games.

Are you familiar with the browser extension "Enhanced Steam"? Just give it a try, if you don't know it yet. It enhances the information given on the respective game pages. With it you can quickly figure out historical lowest prices and how often the game was bundled before.

Games like Tomb Raider an NieR:Automata are pretty cool ^^ A lot of peeps would enjoy those titles, me included :D

If I have to choose between those 3 options then I would take the couple of mid tier games. There are many great which are not too expensive and if you giveaway several of them the chance is higher that the winner appreciates his win and plays it.

With 50 bucks during sales you could do some very nice giveaways. A suggestion for one of these games could be Ori and the Blind Forest, I rarely see giveaways for it. Game looks really nice, I managed to play once and the gameplay was very good. I hear it has a great story as well.

I see you're quite new, welcome to the site! and have a <3

I think that I'd opt for some games I've loved (so for me personally that'd be The Secret of Monkey Island, Dead Space, Skyrim) and some games that I've not seen often given away or Bundled (like The Witcher 3 GOTY, Sunset Overdrive). Ultimately, I'd want to give away things that made me happy to give and the recipient receive, so possibly not just lots of little things, although I'd probably want as many people as possible able to enter, so maybe level 0 or 1 giveaways.

You know, I was gonna say keep your money and do something for yourself, but that sounds a bit selfish, even if it is FOR YOU to enjoy YOUR BIRTHDAY.

Lovely sentiment that you'd like to give on a day where it's ok to be selfish (this is getting weird because christmas not selfish, birthday selfish, ok I've gotta stop).

Personally, I love the idea of gifting something that you really enjoyed playing or feel very strong about. Spice it up with some reasons as to WHY you picked what you did to entice people a bit more. Just the act of giving in kindness itself is great!

A great choice at the moment is the fanatical kingslayer bundle for $5. Many good games in there. I'd buy it but I only really want Age of Decadence from it.

any anime game will be appreciated in steamgifts community or not? ;)

I'd say a couple good mid-tier games. Probably the most balanced way to do it would be a mixture between the community wishlist and some games that you personally enjoyed. Thanks for wanting to share, if you have any questions just ask :)

Here are some ideas that you may be able to pick up a few of on sale.

Stuff I'd like to play;
Resident Evil 7
Two Point Hospital
Dead Cells
Frostpunk
Sonic Mania

Stuff I've already played;
Axiom Verge
Subnautica
Stardew Valley

You do have an unfortunate date for your birthday. If you give anything it'll be nice.

I take quality over quantity any day.
So as far as I'm concerned, one great game would be more valuable than many average ones.

yeah, sharing your special day with other special day can be bit humm demotivating at times!
do not worry and just enjoy your way :)
as for the [b] - the best way is ''I'll just pick something that I want to play or have played and love'' - especially if it is small gem, bit less known :)

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Happy early birthday! This community is pretty awesome, most of the time. I'm sure with whatever you decide, they'll be happy with. :)

I'll throw this in as well: It's pretty unique that your birthday lands on Christmas, if you wanted to you could volunteer down at your local shelter/ or organizations similar to KARM. They could always use help this time of year. I've done this in the past when my depressive moods have gotten the better of me. It helps knowing you're doing good and helping those in your community!

Stay safe and Happy early birthday again!

Picking something that interests you or more particularly something that you have played and loved is a great way of doing it. The community wishlist is definitely another way of doing it too.
As for one large gift, a few medium or several small gifts... Perhaps you should weight it against how much you enjoyed the game. Giving many games may appeal to a larger amount of people, but if its something no one really enjoys it may be wasted. The best value would probably be picking up several medium gifts that have great value. For example, your 3rd most played game is Pathfinder Adventures, which is in a bundle for $8 so you could get a few copies of that and some other games and probably make several people quite happy with it and the other games. Another strategy would be to wait for Christmas sales. You could also try using the SteamDB Calculator and check out the value/hour of games you, or anyone, played. You can certainly wow a person with a large gift, you also risk it only being a +1 for someone's library or they ultimately don't like it for whatever reason even if they were initially excited by it.

Also, in case I forget, happy birthday and happy holidays.

Something I will jump over to on a whim and study: The steamgifts community wishlist on the top-left can be sometimes helpful on a tenuous pulse for what might be of interest. As misleading as it can be, wishlist can mean many different things to many different people, unfortunately. So not the best piece of advice, but it can help I guess.

It depends on genre. I'll mention a few more appropriate ones I played recently though, or am working through now: A twin-stick I have played some recently that I like has been The Walking Vegetables. I've played a few good VNs lately, which I happen to end up with a lot lately, due to the nature of a couple of themes I am involved with from a curation aspect. For something not-too-lewd... I found Hob was a fairly decent game. I liked Recettear, so Moonlighter was good up until the little glitch, and kind of reminded me of it. I plan to replay the first dungeon again and see if the same problem happens soon when I have a little less of a queue to go through.

For P&C I also played through TSIOQUE, and enjoyed it and wrote a review yesterday or day before.... Pretty cute game, but short... There are a lot of nice open world games, but they tend to be higher in price compared to others. Smaller and simpler game I thought was pretty good for an EA game was Deiland - wrote a review on that one too. I liked the Final Fantasy games back in the SNES and PS1 days especially (FF 6 - 10 the most). I can't speak for the ports - only played parts of 9 so far. It's fairly well done though. Heard bad things about a few others that were brought over. I played parts of 7 also... and it could've been a bit better.

Do as you wish!

Yakuza 0 es only 20 bucks but I'd rather play it again (If I already hadn't) than any other 50 bucks AAA