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Bonus Gamez: More Please

by on Nov. 05, 2009, under Arts

Gamez is dedicated to those gaming deals that occasionally show up. Today, Steam has a deal on Mass Effect and Direct2Drive has a couple deals too. To aid you in the quest to filter the junk from the good stuff, games listed below have a 75% or above Metacritic rating and less than $20 per game. No opinions are ever made on the games listed.

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Mass Effect
Source: Metacritic.com box shot

Ranked

Mass Effect (PC, 2008) – 86%, Rank #175
$9.99
Genre: Action, Role-Playing Game
ESRB: M (Mature)

Defense Grid: The Awakening (PC, 2008) – 87%, Rank #129
$9.95
Genre: Strategy, Role-Playing Game
ESRB: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Trine (PC, 2009) – 84%, Rank #267
$19.95
Genre: Action, Adventure, Platform
ESRB: RP (Rating Pending)

Unranked

Aztaka (PC, 2009)
$14.95
Genre: 2D, Side-Scrolling, Action RPG
ESRB: NR (Not Rated)

If you were to buy all 3 ranked games today, it would cost roughly $39.89 or roughly $13.30 each and your brain would turn to mush.

Percentages and ranks come from Metacritic.com game scores. It isn’t a perfect system, but it is better than nothing.


  • Thomas Hruska

    I’ve never heard of Aztaka but the gameplay video I saw of it on Direct2Drive makes it look like a pretty interesting 2D platformer.  But then I’m a sucker for 2D platformers.  Unranked, so I have no idea how good it actually is.