What did you buy? How much did you spend? [Winter/Holiday Sale 2021 Edition]

Days gone for like 17euro.
DLC for Mörkredd and Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach for less than 3euros for both.
Got gifted The Henry Stickmin collection and Iron Harvest from a friend of mine.

So around 20euros this time.

well I had no real reason to get anything but some things popped up.

Humble ~$9 got an email from Humble about buying December choice for the first time for an end of year deal for $2. And then I picked up Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 for about $6.77 (after tax). The latter was ever so slightly cheaper than steam due to the aforementioned Humble Choice. I have no intention of continuing the sub though so I'll cancel once I'm sure I'm done for January.

Steam ~$10 picked up Jump Force Deluxe today. I see a lot of bad news for it and I'm aware of the online servers shutting down. But I figured I'd give it a shot anyway. If I really hate it, I'll refund within 2 hours. This and the above Naruto was funded off some "Bought Milk" settlement ($18.90) I got today anyway.

Amazon ~$10. Two weeks ago there was a very short period where Mass Effect Legendary edition was $9.99 picked it up on a whim. Now it's included in EA Play on gamepass. I'll consider this a so-so loss since one day the EA Play deal may get removed and I'm not playing ME any time soon anyway.

But like I'm still heavy on Gamepass stuff atm, a friend got me Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, and I won a holiday giveaway here so none of these purchased games are really getting time soon.

Valheim
Disco Elysium
Trover Saves the Universe
Islanders
Road 96

I bought a decent amount (all from Steam), though some are games I already own on Xbox (trying to move my game library over to PC).
It might be a while before I touch some of these, but at least they are in my library if/when I want to play them.

Myself Total: $94.15
Gift Total: $11.03
Overall Total: $105.18 (breakdown below)

Gifts (Prices include tax):
Portal $2.59 CAD
Portal + Portal 2 - The Final Hours $3.26 CAD
Portal + Portal 2 $5.18 CAD
Gift Total: $11.03 CAD

For Myself:
Neon Abyss (Deluxe Edition) $22.09 CAD
Salt & Sanctuary $5.64 CAD
Steamworld Dig $2.59 CAD
Steamworld Dig 2 $7.72 CAD
Undermine $12.87 CAD
Total with tax: $50.91 CAD

The Orange Box $5.14 CAD
Portal 2 (from Portal bundle) $1.94 CAD

Dungeon Souls $3.27 CAD
Gloom $1.23 CAD
Pinstripe $1.91 CAD
Torchlight $3.83 CAD
Zombie Party $2.59 CAD
Total with tax: $12.83 CAD

Eldritch $1.80 CAD
Overture $0.70 CAD
Spelunky $3.83 CAD
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut $5.64 CAD
The Walking Vegetables $1.23 CAD
Torchlight II $7.45 CAD
Total with tax: $23.33 CAD

Darkest Dungeon
The Shrouded Isle
Reventure
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Dungeons of Dredmor Complete
Fallout 76

Came to like £20, can't decide if it was an underwhelming sale or just already bought everything I want. Spent more trying to get my whitelist down below 50 but some jammy bastard went and won twice so even that was a bust.

Woe unto thee Winter Sale.

Steam:
Inquisition - Andromeda Bundle: $10.52
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Bundle: $11.19
Sub total: $21.71

Humble:
Jump Force: $7.03
SimCity Complete: $6.57
Sub total: $13.60

Total: $35.31 (6 games)

I spent too much. But I got to complete my Half-Life collection. got the Doom Classic Complete, and the Baldurs Gate Complete Saga. I think I spent too much due to how troubled (not really bad, just kinda stormy) was my end of year and beginning of this year. Poor decisions made me spend more than I wanted. Not that I ended refunding anything, tho I think I should have.

Now this year I'm going to focus on playing games and reducing my backlog, instead of making it bigger.

Just Yakuza 6 🛌

technically 0, but I bought "a way out" for my friend and I to play on Christmas, I just bought it earlier in case it wouldn't go on sale, since lately the Steam sales aren't even that good.

Epic Games:
Assassins Creed Odyssey Gold Edition ~15,29€

Humble Bundle:
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - 3.95€

Steam:
Use Your Words - 3,24€
Cookie Clicker - 2,39€

Total: 24,87€

You just reminded me that I completely forgot about the sale and even missed getting my free stickers :'D

So nothing bought.

The forgotten city and firewatch

I bought Project Zomboid for myself and really enjoyed it. Sub 10euros for that.
And then around 10euros on Steamgifts giveaways.

I only buy games on Steam and this sale I got:

Heart Fragment: Book One - R$ 6,20
Cardinal Cross - R$ 6,22
Absolute Alchemical Potion - R$ 5,87
The Big Con - R$ 14,49
Lotus Reverie: First Nexus - R$ 9,60
Argonauts Agency: Golden Fleece - R$ 1,23
Lost Lands: Redemption - R$ 8,69
Railway Islands - Puzzle - R$ 3,36

I thought about buying Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst and Unravel Two as well, but decided not to. I'm not into being forced to use Origin.

On Epic with coupon discounts: Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™, Fuga: Melodies of Steel, Disciples: Liberation, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, BIOMUTANT, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2 & Immortals: Fenyx Rising

On Steam with winter sale personal: Pit People + Castle Crashers bundle, Xanadu Next, Ys Seven, The Banner Saga 3, Cozy Grove, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition, Gunfire Reborn, Remnant: From the Ashes – Swamps of Corsus & Subject 2923 DLCs,
Fate/EXTELLA LINK, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Black Skylands, ELDEN RING & Monster Hunter Rise

For friends: Remnant: From the Ashes – Subject 2923 DLC, Griftlands, No Man's Sky, Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord, Mundaun, Hades & Battle Chasers: Nightwar

Didn't really count, and too lazy to count, how much I spent in total. I'd probably regret it if I did xD

This Steam winter sale I only got games I wanted to play right now.

Noita - It's been a long time since I played a game that made me feel like a kid again. Noita's mysterious nature has got me hooked and I'm loving every minute of it.
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw - I really enjoyed Rebel Galaxy, and despite the mixed reviews I'm really looking forward to this one.
Betrayal Collection - Bought mainly for Betrayal at Krondor after I got bitten by the nostalgia bug by checking out the excellent demo for Call of Saregnar.
Tachyon: The Fringe - It's got BRUCE CAMPBELL...in SPACE! It has to be good right?
Dead Space 2 - Because I want to play the series. This year. And it was like -90% off.

660$
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own; Tricolour Lovestory; Marlow Briggs; Muse Dash; State of Mind; JUMP FORCE; ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN; Metal Wolf Chaos XD Launch; Panzer Paladin; Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon; Lucius Demake; Metal Gear Rising; A Hat in Time; Escape Simulator; Fate/EXTELLA; Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions; Tales of Arise; DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT; Yakuza: Like a Dragon; Severed Steel; MONSTER HUNTER RISE; Freedom Fighters; Persona 4 Arena Ultimax; The Shrouded Isle etc.. .-.

I crunched some numbers.

So this year the 25-$50 and 100-$200 brackets are the overperformers while above $200 underperformed, in comparison to previous years.

The (very simplified and very likely too high calculated) average spending in this sale was $28.45. Which would be just 2 cents more than during the last Summe Sale. Quite a surprise, I expected Winter to be significantly better performing than a Summer Sale.