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Steam "sales" are worse than prime Jos A. Bank.
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:02 PM Author: charismatic field regret Oh wow, a Halloween "sale" with everything at the exact same discounts that it was at the fall "sale" a few weeks ago, and every other sale in the two years prior.This will be followed by a black friday "sale" also with the same discounts, and a winter "sale" that will also be exactly the same except for perhaps a few games marked down an additional token 5%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49386420) |
Date: October 29th, 2025 10:05 PM Author: Cracking harsh hell There are some good deals
But just get vampire survivor for $5 and get it over with it’s all you need |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:48 PM Author: charismatic field regret Are you fucking serious man? The entire "survivor" genre is the most braindead game design ever conceived and these "games" are made for retarded millenials and zoomers. You should be embarrassed to be playing them. You move around and the game shoots (and often even aims) for you. Absolutely ridiculous. I bought one called Rogue Genesia because I liked the art style and I seriously can't believe people waste their time on this shit. It's like on the level of a cookie clicker game or something.
I don't dislike rogue-lite/like/whateverthefuck games, but they at least need to have some solid bones underneath (like 20XX being pure Mega Man). |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:55 AM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387016) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:51 AM Author: Cracking harsh hell No (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387459) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:40 PM Author: Fragrant self-centered scourge upon the earth it doesn't aim for you you fucking idiot
BALL X PIT is insanely addicting. |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 4:26 PM Author: sapphire useless state masturbator brutal slam dunk trvth nvke here in doodikoffs face (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388516) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:53 PM Author: well-lubricated senate karate megabonk is kind of reddit but one of the best iterations of the survivors genre (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389319) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 9:07 AM Author: Cracking harsh hell i really like "Yet Another Zombie Survivors" that Game kicks ass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389857) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:51 AM Author: Boyish range son of senegal It's a phone game It's a *good* phone game but it's still just a phone game Halls of Torment is better for something similar |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:09 PM Author: sapphire useless state masturbator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49386450) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: exhilarant buff sex offender national This plus it’s just another reason to add another game to your backlog that you will never play. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49386456) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:55 AM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387017) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:20 AM Author: godawful nursing home community account (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387390) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 4:08 AM Author: beady-eyed shaky address Jos A Bank has some top quality menswear, ngl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387038) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:00 AM Author: ocher vibrant temple gay wizard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387486) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:52 AM Author: Boyish range son of senegal I'm not buying anything this go around but the sales seem pretty good. It's all pretty standard fare at this point I was waiting for Dwarf Fortress (UI edition) to go on sale but I doubt it will |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 12:52 PM Author: charismatic field regret It goes on sale for 20% off on a regular basis but nothing ever below. Truly the "buy 1 suit, get 2 free" of video games. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387937) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:07 AM Author: Bistre medicated pistol philosopher-king Jos a Banks buy 1 get 3 free suit deals were 180. I did two of those for my wedding and for like $1500 got three suits for myself plus a free one for everyone in the wedding party. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387503) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:09 AM Author: Cracking harsh hell There was a time early in my law career where i owned like 9 jos a bank shirts and like 2 brooks brothers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387506) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Bistre medicated pistol philosopher-king impressive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388078) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:35 PM Author: appetizing magenta elastic band And now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388107) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 9:08 AM Author: Cracking harsh hell all of the Jos A Bank shirts wore out
Mostly brooks brothers now |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:48 PM Author: swashbuckling property immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389420) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:55 PM Author: sapphire useless state masturbator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389427) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house Should I get Dead Cells for $12, I own it on switch & have it somewhere but I never played it. Maybe its better on pc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49387981) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:10 PM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house If I have 2 copies in my backlog it will feel like beating 2 games if I ever complete it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388014) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 1:18 AM Author: charismatic field regret I doubt the PC version will be any better other than maybe if you wanted to mod the game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389552) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate Is Steam to blame for the state of gaming? PC gaming used to be intellectual and the games blew away the shit on Consoles. Halo is retarded and Scummy compared to half life 2 and CS. RTSs are intellectual af. You’d have to be retarded to play western made PS2 games when PC existed. No one said this back then. And now, you can get 5000k games for $2.99 and never play them. Something has been lost. Imo the plebs have moved onto PC and they’re treating it like they would a console. The console warriors all migrated to PC and they treat it exactly like they did 32X/PS1/360, badmouthing other platforms constantly. I have never caught so much shit for playing Consoles as I have in the last few years. PC gamers used to be above it all. Now they’re just proles like OYT and doodikoff with no sense of Curation. Literally the opposite of Curation, buying everything in sight and totally overlooking the best games. The fact the PC cases look retarded and have weird lights on them is all the proof you need that I’m right. Accept it.
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:16 PM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house No it was greedy devs making every game cross platform so they can sell more copies that dumbed pc gaming down. They had to make the gameplay and graphics low class and poor enough for Lowest common denominator console retard brown people. And then every game started to be made with the same engine unreal engine or unity and all games became the same game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388043) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:25 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate I don’t know where it started but PlayStation/Xbox/PC all using x86 architecture makes ports easy af. Like it’s really hard to justify not porting when the hardware is The Same. Whereas for Squaresoft in 1990, porting FF to Sega CD would’ve been a big Engineering undertaking that rivaled producing a new game entirely. Konami released different castlevanias on TG16/SNES/Genesis in part for this reason. Then you had N64 which used cartridges and had No Games.
In the PS2/Xbox/shitcube gen there were tons of ports and the hardware was different but by that point at least Nerds didn’t need to code in assembly.
But now, and it’s not just “omg AAA Budgets, The state of gaming,” but the simple cost:benefit of like 1000 Engineering hours to port something when a million sales generates like $7,000,000k at $9.99/ea minus the distributor’s cut, so ports have like a 99.999% profit margin basically. How do you explain to Shareholders that a game being on Xbox “devalues the brand” lol. |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388086) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 6:30 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388900) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 6:34 PM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house Games don't even feel engineered at all anymore they're just put together using premade assets etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388915) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:42 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389306) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:52 PM Author: sapphire useless state masturbator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389316) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:52 PM Author: sapphire useless state masturbator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389317) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Fragrant self-centered scourge upon the earth there are still PC exclusives but obviously idiots like you don't touch them and they don't get covered in the State of Gaming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388118) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:52 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate Like what? Starfield mods? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388323) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 2:58 PM Author: Fragrant self-centered scourge upon the earth R.E.P.O.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3241660/REPO/
Christ, you truly know nothing about Gaming nor the State thereof. |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 3:58 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate B.A.L.D. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388456) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: Lascivious step-uncle's house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388465) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 6:45 PM Author: Fragrant self-centered scourge upon the earth 🖕😎🖕 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388939) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 10:07 PM Author: Boyish range son of senegal this is supposedly pretty fun Lethal Company i never really got the hype for and it's pretty similar there's a haunted museum heist game called "dark nights" or something in this genre that looks fun |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:18 PM Author: startling haunted graveyard This is one of my favorite games, by the creator of the Danganronpa series:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2903950/Master_Detective_Archives_RAIN_CODE_Plus/
I'm holding off on buying in the hope of a Switch 2 upgrade. |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 1:25 AM Author: charismatic field regret I was kind of interested in this based on the pedigree, but i couldn't get past the character designs. always find it tough to get into story-based games where most of the cast looks younger than teenagers.
if you want a game that you can sink TONS of hours into based on a seemingly intriguing premise only for it to amount to very little in the end, you could try Hundred Line Last Defense Academy.
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Date: October 30th, 2025 1:36 PM Author: appetizing magenta elastic band You can get good deals on older games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49388110) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 1:28 AM Author: charismatic field regret It's the somewhat older games that are the problem. Resident Evil 4 Remake has been marked down to $19.99 for *checks notes* 11 consecutive sales now.
https://steamdb.info/app/2050650/
Mega Man Zero collection has been marked to the same "sale" price like 19 times in the past two years (and probably more times for a lot longer than that):
https://steamdb.info/app/2050650/ |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 12:31 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate Why does the discount being The Same matter to you? How many people at capcom do you think are shrewdly monitoring pricing on game boy ports? Capcom is focused on Engineering and making AAA games that nobody talks about on YouTube. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49390321) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 1:42 PM Author: charismatic field regret It's not really a "sale" if it's the Same Price over and over for years. It's just the Default Price and the rest of the time the game has been marked up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49390623) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 2:35 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate Yeah it’s retarded, I buy everything physical that I can, especially switch games bc I can re-gift them to Bastard Nephew nbd or whatever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49390858) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 9:42 AM Author: cyan wonderful jap lodge If you shelled out $5K or whatever for a 5090 system then why care about $5-$10 price difference for games?
Agree though that the Steam sales aren’t as good as they used to be. |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 1:52 PM Author: charismatic field regret The amount is immaterial to me financially but it's more "the principle" of it since I came up on Cheapassgamer.com getting "deals." I don't care what I spend on hardware, but game sales are part of "the hobby" for me. Same reason I'll waste my time trading extra Humble Bundle keys that are worth less than a dollar. It's clearly wasteful from a cost-benefit perspective, but I still like performatively going through the motions of the same routines I had in college and being involved in the game trading "scene." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49390659) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 1:57 PM Author: cyan wonderful jap lodge What is the best stuff you’ve played the past few months?
You’ve come out on other threads hard against some of my favorites this year (E33 and KCD2) but I’m not a backlog guy and always am looking to try new stuff now that I’m wrapping up Silksong.
A lot of the new stuff (Wotai, Outer Worlds 2) looks like slop to me. |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 2:30 PM Author: charismatic field regret I didn't say E33 was bad other than the story. I thought the combat was a lot of fun until it devolved into doing the Same Move over and over.
In the last few months I had a lot of time in Gloomhaven/Frosthaven. These are games that if you just want to steamroll them on the default or lower difficulty aren't necessarily anything special, but at higher difficulty levels might be the best "tactics" type games out there. Frosthaven is the newer/harder/currently incomplete game, and the amount of strategy required to be good at it is absolutely insane. There is a big learning curve and the games are slow-paced, not flashy, and will piss off most players.
Before that I think I was playing some Slop on gamepass, and different rougelike and deckbuilding games. And also Library of Ruina.
This is probably the best game coming out soon:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/BIRDCAGE/
Based on the demo, it will be listed with the GOAT shooters.
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Date: October 31st, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate Fantasian is a triumph. Geriatric Uematsu and Sakaguchi at the top of their game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49390863) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 3:31 PM Author: charismatic field regret I wanted to try it but I wasn't sold on it from the demo. That opening dungeon segment in the factory did it no favors. bad narratively and bad artistically. combat camera angles are uncinematic and low energy. in theory i like the idea of 3D areas made to look like pre-rendered 2D backgrounds, but in terms of what i saw from the first dungeon and town they needed more detail. still, i could see fantasian shaking out to be a good game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49391097) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 3:26 PM Author: cyan wonderful jap lodge Frosthaven looks cool. I should check that out.
Should I bother with Hades 2? |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 3:43 PM Author: charismatic field regret Gloomhaven might be easier to start with on account of the classes having less complicated mechanics and Frosthaven being a work in progress that doesn't always display information in the best way and sometimes requires researching the physical game to understand things. Frosthaven has the cooler and more varied scenario design though.
I thought Hades 2 was pretty good. I prefer the first game by far in terms of the gods/abilities, but like that the second has two distinct routes. Better than the vast majority of roguelikes, but there are dozens of games almost as good. The rest of the industry caught up in the time since Hades 1 came out. |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 4:23 PM Author: cyan wonderful jap lodge Any chance you played a PC game called the Alters? I thought it was a hidden gem this year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49391237) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 4:36 PM Author: charismatic field regret First half of the game seemed great but it all fell apart. They had a good story premise that they didn't do much with and the planet presented no mysteries that were actually solved. Any plot threads that seem intriguing at the start end up getting resolved in the least interesting ways possible.
The game is too easy (even on the harder difficulty) to where the ample time you are given to do everything is in conflict with the desperate situation portrayed by the plot. You have a raging faggot clone and it's hand-waved away as basically everyone having some gay in them depending on the circumstances. The third area was a big disappointment after the verticality of the second area, and the areas needed to be probably 2x-3x the size to preserve some illusion of "open world" exploration.
There was a concept of a good game that I don't think they fully executed on, but I did enjoy it some. |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 9:44 AM Author: crimson candlestick maker I'm only a PC gamer b/c I can pirate all the games I want to play (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49389941) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 11:58 AM Author: Aromatic shrine roommate Only western games should be pirated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791473&forum_id=2#49390240) |
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Date: October 31st, 2025 10:05 PM Author: startling haunted graveyard Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they've never played
https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/pile-of-shame |