Steam’s sale is deep enough this week that two games with completely different appeal are both sitting under six dollars. The standout is AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative at $5.99, 85% off its $39.99 price, with Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at $1.99 right behind it. Every price below was read off the store’s own page this morning, along with the date the discount ends.
Epic’s free window closes tomorrow, November 12. Flotsam and Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms are free until 11 a.m. ET on the 12th, and Knightica takes the slot right after. We covered that rotation on November 5.
Free right now
Chants of Sennaar (mobile version): Free on the Epic Games Store mobile app until November 12, worth $7.99. You need the Epic Games Store app on an iPhone, iPad or Android to claim it. The giveaway warns it may not be available in every region. Claim it here.
Free itch.io Games Bundle: 116 DRM-free games worth $384, free until November 22. It is a bundle of smaller itch.io titles rather than one big game, so it suits a weekend of trying something unfamiliar instead of a single evening. Claim the bundle.
Best deals today
AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative: ~~$39.99~~ $5.99 at Steam (-85%): The sequel to the cult detective game sends agents Mizuki and Ryuki and their AI partners Aiba and Tama after the Half Body serial killings, and it lands an 85 on Metacritic. Steam players rate it 86% positive across 1,888 reviews. Ends November 24.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: ~~$19.99~~ $1.99 at Steam (-90%): Monokuma’s bear pits Hope’s Peak’s students against each other and promises freedom to anyone who can murder a classmate and get away with it. Metacritic 80. Steam players rate it 95% positive across 18,025 reviews. A dollar buys the whole first murder mystery. Ends November 24.
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games: ~~$29.99~~ $5.99 at Steam (-80%): The bundle pairs the escape-the-room visual novels 999 and Virtue’s Last Reward with Zero Time Dilemma, and it carries the highest critic score on this list. Metacritic 87. Steam reviews sit at 94% positive across 4,050. Ends November 24.
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam: ~~$24.99~~ $2.49 at Steam (-90%): Tripwire’s squad RTS moved the series into the automatic rifle and man-portable grenade launcher era. Metacritic 81. Steam reviews sit at 89% positive across 26,880. Ends November 25.
Sniper Elite 5: ~~$49.99~~ $4.99 at Steam (-90%): Karl Fairburne works with the French Resistance on the Brittany coast in 1944, in a series built on sniping, tactical third-person combat and the enhanced kill cam. Metacritic 77. Steam reviews sit at 84% positive across 11,389. Ends November 17.
Children of Morta: ~~$21.99~~ $3.29 at Steam (-85%): The Bergson family fights the Corruption through procedurally generated dungeons, caves and lands, and you play every member of it. The action RPG carries an 82 on Metacritic. Ends November 14.
Killer Frequency: ~~$24.99~~ $4.99 at Steam (-80%): A 1987 horror comedy where you are a radio DJ taking calls while a killer hunts the people who call in. Metacritic 82. Steam reviews sit at 92% positive across 3,833. Ends November 14.
Plague Inc: Evolved: ~~$14.99~~ $2.99 at Steam (-80%): Evolve a pathogen against everything humanity can do to stop it, from vaccines to quarantine. Metacritic 80. Steam reviews sit at 93% positive across 27,345. Ends November 18.
Trepang2: ~~$34.99~~ $8.74 at Steam (-75%): An escaped soldier with no memory of his past and supernatural abilities, where you can slow time to dodge bullets and cloak yourself. Metacritic 79. Steam reviews sit at 94% positive across 12,503. Ends November 23.
FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves: ~~$19.99~~ $4.99 at Steam (-75%): SNK’s fighting franchise returns 26 years after Garou: Mark of the Wolves, with an all-new REV System that gives you offensive options from the moment the bell rings. Metacritic 80. Ends November 21.
Two things stand out. The visual novels are the sharpest value here: a dollar buys Danganronpa’s first murder mystery, and six dollars buys three escape-the-room games. Both carry critic scores in the 80s. The sale also goes deep everywhere except where a new release sits on the shelf. Mortal Shell II is at 25% off with a $49.99 sticker price, while Sniper Elite 5 carries the identical $49.99 sticker price and is 90% off today. A cut only helps if it beats the next one, and this one does not.
Skip it
Mortal Shell II: ~~$49.99~~ $37.49 at Steam (-25%): Cold Symmetry’s action RPG sequel has an 82 on Metacritic, so the game is not the problem. The sale is. A quarter off is a thin cut in a week when the same store is running Sniper Elite 5, the same $49.99 list price, at $4.99. Wait for a deeper cut or spend the money on something else today. This one ends November 16.
Related: Deal Radar: FF7 Rebirth $7.49, Metro Exodus & More (Nov 8)
Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report
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