Monster Steam Summer Sale is Live thru June 22nd!
Posted on: June 11th, 2015 by ObeyRight on time–it’s the Steam Summer Sale! Say goodbye to your money!
- What is a Steam Summer Sale? What’s the big deal?
- What’s new about this Monster Sale?
1. What is a Steam Summer Sale? What’s the big deal?
Steam is known for doing at least two giant sales a year (summer, and late December) where many titles are 50% off or more. Almost every popular title that is at least six months old participates, and you can commonly find short-duration flash sales for even better deals. Check the store page often to see what deals are still available, as they will rotate every 12 or 24 hours.
On top of that, Steam gamifies the sale by creating interactive events, such as sale-themed badges to craft (by collecting limited-edition cards during this time) and other wacky functions.
2. What’s new about this Monster Sale?
For the Monster Summer Sale, there is a browser game to play in, damaging enemies and trying to stay alive. The browser game records the number of clicks, the bosses defeated, and more to unlock additional flash sales the next day. (These unlocked flash sales always start at 9 am PST/12 noon EST and will run for 48 hours.)
This is a clicker game in the vein of Cookie Clicker or the free-to-play AdVenture Capitalist–all you do is click buttons, which have short cooldown timers before you can click them again, and you can unlock more buttons, reduce the cooldown times on the buttons, and have buttons auto-click themselves. Your Steam level and your Steam 2015 Summer Sale Badge level will grant you special abilities so that you can do more uhh, “damage” to the bosses. (Clicker games can also hog the performance of your computer’s hardware, so I wouldn’t advise playing on a battery-fed device.)
There are multiple waves or screens of enemies; use the buttons on the above-right to change them. If the sounds and/or music are annoying, toggle them on/off with the buttons on the bottom left.
As always, you are encouraged to play your new games, which will provide you with Steam Trading Cards. Completing and turning in sets of cards increases your Steam Rank as well as your Summer Sale Badge rank (if done during the sale, which runs thru June 22nd). Of course, you can turn unused items into gems, buy more cards with gems, buy and sell cards in the Steam Market, and so on. See this post for more information; note that there are no Steam Auctions at this time.
Let’s just hope these games aren’t hiding a bitcoin manufacturing system… I’m kidding. I hope. But the point is, Steam users can unlock additional sales, which are hinted on the sale’s splash page.
[N] Obey