Steam Sale Recommendations?

[Ezrihel]

Dishonored, Don't Starve (Reign of Giants and/or Don't Starve Together <which is multiplayer and awesome>), Subnautica, ARK, Banished, The Forest

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I'm a big survival-sandbox game fan as you can see. All the games I just listed are survival with the exception of Dishonored (Stealth) and Banished which is a medieval city builder/resource manager- it's super relaxing to play though.

Subnautica is (not on sale currently but I still super recommend it)a pretty awesome underwater survival with plenty of "FUCK THE OCEAN OH GOD" in it, a neat world and a ton of freedom. It's relaxing and somewhat stressful at times as well, but like a good stress. It's intense but paced well I think. It never feels too easy and I never get tired of the setting.

The Forest is super macabre honestly. Your plane gets shot down and you crash land on an island with tribes of cannibals. The enemy AI is incredibly smart with different types of enemies, lots of area to explore and neat building system. All I can say about it is "Now you'll know why they fear the night."

Don't Starve is a Victorian-Gothic styled survival sandbox. It's incredibly charming and I just can't get enough of the art style and lore of the game. Reign of Giants is the larger of the two DLC- but I'd have to recommend the multiplayer version "Don't Starve Together", as it comes with RoG rolled into it AND you get an extra (free) copy of it to gift to a friend for like $15. Klei is just awesome.

Ark is just: DINOSAURS AND ALIENS. LAZER SHARKS AND LAZER CANNONS ON TREXES YOU FUCKS. The devs are pretty active, but I wouldn't recommend this if you have lower end equipment. It's not optimized so it's hard on your system, along with being a massive game.