a virus named tom is a fun little puzzler game with a 1950s sci-fi vibe that's neat, amusing but has a pretty crazy improper difficulty curve, basically your goal is to connect your virus from one end to the other without it running into enemies or other stuff, it's those pipe puzzles in stuff like BioShock writ large (although i personally first remember them popping up in Star Trek TNG on the NES as you had to REROUTE POWER TO THE SHIELDS OR WARP DRIVE, this was also in the GB versions that were terrible but oddly the GameBoy version added some nasty ship combat to the affair*, i'm sure they were in earlier stuff even that i had played but that's where i first remember them getting in the way of a game i thought i wanted to play) - trading cards, so you can make twenty cents or so!
QUBE and the directors cut which adds STORY and a soundtrack...it has a very Portal ascetic and like Portal it is actually fairly clever in starting simple and then expanding from that concept until it can't go farther rather than continuously adding new things, essentially you have two powers, to move objects in/out or up/down or so on, one with your right hand and one with your left (mouse buttons) and most of the puzzles are based around you manipulating objects to get higher up, the simplest example being raising up some blocks to be stairs, it also adds things like blue blocks make you bounce off or so on, so sometimes you need to raise a block, bounce off of it then lower another block so it doesn't bounce you back down...i think if you were to take the QUBE key it may actually give you both versions, as i never bought the directors cut but have it and the original version is not available on the store anymore
Guns of Icarus Online - PvP airship combat, with 70 active players a day, even though it's been in nine bundles and there's no reason this shouldn't have gone F2P...but they're somehow still working on this, and adding PvE, and it has trading cards, also it has an insane amount of achievements: 877, i've never launched it...i think you man stations on each airship
Garry's Mod - okay, there's only one key for this, but someone who wants to experience the best but also the worst thing ever for multiplayer should take it...experience PROP HUNT in its HL2 map full of objects glory and discover why putting file cabinets in plain sight is better than hiding, find out what TTT is all about and why it's great for casual racism from twelve year olds who are slowly being driven crazy by the paranoia, experience the thrill of MURDER, hit up some hardcore role play servers and get yourself banned because you are printing too much counterfeit money and messing up the servers economy, or get banned because you're not supposed to "remember where things are when you die" a rule that everyone will surely follow, or role play being in prison because why wouldn't you want to be abused by people on the internet, accidentally click on a game mode and find that its just a series of maps designed to make you hate yourself yet you still want to get across them to the exit, enter one of the actual building servers and have a guy drop his ship into the map that instantly tanks the framerate of everyone and may crash the server, discover the amazing that is EXTREME FOOTBALL THROWDOWN with the best song ever made for any video game ever that loops endlessly:
yes the possibilities are truly endless in Garry's Mod, almost all of it shoddily thrown together using base Source assets, terrible scripting and extensively questionable design choices and yet always strangely compelling and better designed than something a hundred man team spent three years on
thirty flights of loving - comes with gravity bone, features the best smash cut in a video game, but gravity bone is superior despite being free, but this is a free key anyway so why not get both
anomaly 2 - the anomaly series is tower defense, only you are the invaders, this was unique when the first game came out, really, you had defense grid and you had anomaly and it was sweet and you used phones to send text messages, not play games or watch videos, let alone play tower defenses
euro truck simulator 2 - there's a reason when you type "quick look" into youtube one of the top suggestions is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rnJ11DNM8k (should you just watch this vinny, drew and alexis classic and not take the key? maybe, probably, even if you've watched it before yes that too) but maybe if you're feeling daring, EXPERIENCE IT FOR YOURSELF with four years of updates that addressed almost everything wonky and made this a steam best seller for many years
killing floor - arguably this game is really brilliant when rolling with a true crew, especially if it's you, two friends, and some random Yuropean dude who annihilates everything and doesn't communicate with you ever (note: this is 80% of every KF game i've played) but shouldn't really be confused with L4D despite some similarities on the surface...this is a game where embracing the bullshit is seemingly necessary as you stupidly buy things which backfire every single time and lead to everyone on fire as some giant monster beats you to death, and i mean, EVERYONEEEEEEEE...even that Yuropean dude who is still wasting the monsters with dual pistols, he's on fire too, because someone, we'll not say who, thought molotovs would definitely be a good idea inside this hallway...still has players too
saints row 2 - i'm noting this just in case anyone has wanted this but heard about the port years ago, it's totally fine now, computers just brute force through it now days and it has a ton of graphic options especially compared to most console ports back then...i do not know if the steam version is fixed like GOG's because i haven't installed it since but if it's not you will need a fix or Gentleman of the Row or else it will run at like 30x speed...that may just be CD Projekt fixing the shoddy work they did ten years ago
