summer is coming fanatical (opens in new tab) Entering the third week of Deal Fever. As always, if you want to make this summer a memorable one (that is, spend most of it indoors playing video games), you’ll want to head over there and check out what’s on offer.
But if that seems like too many decisions to make early in the day, we’re here to help. Picked up.
Top Pick: Soul Hackers 2—20% off
£39.99/$47.99 | | fanatical link (opens in new tab)
Soul Hackers 2 is the latest in a proud line of “non-Persona Shin Megami Tensei games” and follows the story of a war between demon summoner dueling factions. It’s a sequel that took 25 years to make. The original Soul Hackers debuted in 1997 with a mysterious monolith called the Sega Saturn. I don’t think you can rush perfection.
Combat is more important than Persona games. Lead a party of lovable cyberpunk demon Wranglers through various dungeons and engaging in his traditional yet challenging turn-based JRPG combat. Persona His series dating Social Even his sim staples Social His Link and Best Friend are replaced by a series of dungeons called “Soul His Matrix”. In this dungeon, you can dive into the minds of your allies and fight demons. These are both literal and figurative. If he got into SMT when he finally got Persona 4 in 2020, Soul Hackers 2 has you covered until Joker and the Phantom Thieves finally land on our shores this October. torment. (opens in new tab).
Subnautica — 40% off
£14.99/$17.99 | | fanatical link (opens in new tab)
I have never played a survival game. I struggle enough to survive in real life. But something about Subnautica means I spent nearly 70 of his hours on this shit. Perhaps it’s the subversive and (ironically) dry wit of anti-corporate humor, the well-paced mystery that constantly unfolds at the heart of the game’s plot. I like Whatever it is, Subnautica is the only survival game I’ve ever loved, and I think it could be for a while.
Shenmue 3—78% off
£5.49/$6.59 | | fanatical link (opens in new tab)
Jiu-jitsu idiot Ryo Hazuki’s adventures continue in Shenmue 3. A beloved and mysterious hero continues his search for his father’s killer in the mountains of Guilin, China. Shenmue 3 is a weird, purposeful, languid experience that took the criticism people leveled at the games before it and responded, “Actually, they’re all good.” We love it so much that it won’t change the minds of people who don’t like Shenmue, but the world is a better place for its existence.
Kerbal Space Program—77% off
£6.89/$9.19 | | fanatical link (opens in new tab)
We chose to go to the Moon because it is clearly not suitable for survival here on Earth. Kerbal Space Program is his first NASA sim on the market that painstakingly models the physics and mechanics of spaceflight and allows you to build the amazingly explosive death trap of your dreams.
£3.32/$5.69 | | fanatical link (opens in new tab)
you are no longer on defense. XCOM 2 takes Firaxis’ first his XCOM’s defensive gameplay and turns it upside down. Now you’re controlling a revolutionary guerilla cadre to fight to overthrow an autocratic alien regime whose conquest of Earth has actually been a huge success.
Elite Dangerous—79% off
£4.19/$6.29 | | fanatical link (opens in new tab)
The best space transport sim on the market. Elite Dangerous isn’t perfect: its procedurally-generated missions can get old, and its final expansion was controversial to say the least, but anything else I’ve played has made the universe Nothing quite quite captures the vastness and sublimeness of . That’s what I’m really looking forward to.
