Digital video game storefront Good Old Games, aka GOG, is internet hosting a large gross sales occasion devoted to open-world video games. Or, properly, principally open-world video games. It actually is determined by the way you outline what’s and isn’t an open-world recreation.
This week, GOG launched a giant ol’ gross sales occasion that includes some remarkably steep reductions on quite a lot of video games that it classifies as open world. The sales event runs until October 25 and features nearly 400 PC games, together with some large hits like The Outer Worlds, Saints Row: The Third, Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Canines, and Far Cry 2. All of those video games are solely obtainable on PC and, like all different video games on GOG, don’t characteristic any DRM. Which is nice! It is a good sale. And if all you care about is seeing an inventory of among the greatest and largest offers I noticed from the sale, scroll previous the following paragraph and verify that checklist out. Take pleasure in it! Joyful procuring.
Okay, the true sickos are nonetheless right here. Good. Scrolling by way of GOG’s checklist of open-world video games made me ponder what’s an open-world recreation. How do you outline it? Is Slime Rancher an open-world recreation, or only a recreation that options a big map you may freely discover? Do open-world video games want facet quests? Actions to finish? I believe so, however maybe my definition is just too strict? Or perhaps attempting to categorize each piece of media into numerous genres and subgenres is foolish, and I ought to cease occupied with this a lot? Most likely that one.
- Lethal Premontion: Director’s Lower – $1.25 ($25)
- Dropsy – $1 ($10)
- The Outer Worlds – $8 ($30)
- Greedfall – $3 ($35)
- Slime Rancher – $5 ($20)
- Laborious West – $2 ($20)
- Center-Earth: Shadow of Mordor – $4 ($20)
- Center-Earth: Shadow of Warfare Definitive Version – $6 ($60)
- Insurgent Galaxy – $2 ($20)
- Insurgent Galaxy Outlaw – $5 ($30)
- Saints Row 2 – $1.5 ($10)
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered – $3 ($30)
- Saints Row IV: Re-Elected – 3 ($20)
- Saints Row: Gat out of Hell – $4 ($15)
- Dungeon Siege Assortment (1,2,3) – $5 ($20)
- The Testomony of Sherlock Holmes – $2 ($20)
- LEGO DC Tremendous-Villains Deluxe Version – $9 ($55)
- Sleeping Canines: Definitive Version – $3 ($20)
- American Fugitive – $4 ($20)
- Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) – $5 ($30)
- Brutal Legend – $3 ($15)
- No Man’s Sky – $24 ($60)
- Far Cry – $3 ($10)
- Far Cry 2 – $3 ($10)
- Two Worlds Epic Version – $5 ($15)
