Steam sales come and go so quickly and often that I sometimes only catch wind of them when they've mostly run their course. Not to mention that everything is vying for precious space on the front page these days, so it's easy for smaller events to get buried if they're not heavily advertised. But maybe today we can help with that to some small degree: from now until November 20th there's a Turn-Based Carnival event taking place, featuring all the usual deals, demos and new releases that we've come to expect from a big Steam sale.
I particularly appreciate that this sale is casting a wide net and grouping a bunch of different genres together, linking turn-based categories in a way that feels adjacent to our mission here at Thinky Games. I love seeing a big section for digital boardgames alongside categories like roguelikes, turn-based RPGs and deckbuilders.
Acram Digital is the publisher presenting the event, one of the big names in the increasing popular space of digitally-adapted tabletop games. They've previously published Steam versions of notable games like Concordia, Stone Age and Steam: Rails to Riches, and it looks like they're currently showing off an upcoming deckbuilder/tactics title called Inkborn.
In no particular order and with no hope of being comprehensive, here's a little list of discounted games that I noticed while browsing the event page, either stuff I've played and enjoyed or noteworthy titles that are on my to-be-played list:
- Concordia Digital
- Shogun Showdown
- Tokaido
- Monster Train
- Istanbul
- Dungeon Inn
- Terra Mystica
- Stone Age
- Wingspan
- Castles of Burgundy
- Race for the Galaxy
- Cobalt Core
- Planetiles
(These are just some heavy-hitters that I spotted while skimming, but there are plenty of interesting lesser-known games featured on the sale page and I encourage you to browse and see what catches your eye.)
I hope the quick recommendations are useful! You can peruse the Turn-Based Carnival on Steam for deals from now until November 20th. It's the perfect event to revive some evergreen community debates such as "what's actually the technical difference between the strategy and tactics genres?"
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