Look, I should probably be finishing some of my backlog, but with discounts this deep across every major platform, what’s a few more download queues between friends? I've dipped into today's sales and walked away with a mix of modern bangers, cult classics, and a few unexpected favourites that all punched well above their asking price. Whether you're Team DualSense, docked on the Switch, or glued to a clicky mechanical keyboard, there’s gold in these discounts.
This Day in Gaming 🎂
In retro news, I'm marking the 21st birthday of Sid Meier's Pirates!, an arrr-rated remake of an '87 classic I smashed repeatedly on PC. Think: a 2.5D, top-down Sea of Thieves, and you're not far off the mizzenmast as fencing, naval battles, sniffing out treasure, and harnessing winds/avoiding reefs are your bread and butter gameplay. The long-term hook (so to speak) lay in its trading and RPG-lite elements, plus the addiction of building a multi-ship armada and a bad-arse rep. Top game. Would replay.
Aussie birthdays for notable games.
- Sid Meier's Pirates! (PC) 2004. Get
- King's Quest (PS3/4.X360/O) 2015. Get
- N++ (PS4) 2015. Get
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Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch
On Switch, Skyrim is dirt cheap and still weirdly impressive. Fun fact: there's a hidden Easter egg where you can find a Notched Pickaxe in reference to Minecraft creator Markus Persson. Meanwhile, The Witcher 3 Comp. Ed. still holds its own as one of the greatest fantasy RPGs ever made. Its Switch port shouldn’t run as well as it does, but somehow it does.
- Sonic Frontiers (-53%) - A$47
- Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (-14%) - A$69
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (-34%) - A$46.30
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (-67%) - A$26.30
- The Witcher 3 Comp. Ed. (-75%) - A$19.98
Expiring Recent Deals
- FC 26 NS2 (-19%) - A$89
- NBA 2K25 (-74%) - A$23
- Sonic Colours: Ult. (-35%) - A$39
- Little Nightmares II (-90%) - A$3.90
- Pikmin 4 (-15%) - A$68
Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card.
Exciting Bargains for Xbox
Over on Series X, Mass Effect Leg. Ed. is so discounted you’d be daft to pass it up. Shepard’s saga is still the high watermark for branching narrative RPGs. Also, Alan Wake 2 may be Remedy’s best work to date. The sheer Lynchian weirdness of the live-action interludes still lives rent-free in my brain.
