18 great deals in the Steam Golden Week Sale, and most of them are only RPGs

Steam’s latest mega sale celebrates Japan’s Golden Week, with many of Japan’s major publishers participating.

I somehow missed this until today because the individual sale pages are hidden behind mysterious banners, but there are plenty of great deals through May 8th. Square Enix (Opens in a new tab)And NIS America (Opens in a new tab)And Bandai Namco (Opens in a new tab)And Tecmo cow (Opens in a new tab)And Spike Chunsoft (Opens in a new tab)And sega (Opens in a new tab)And capcom (Opens in a new tab) I have a ton of games to sell, and I pulled out 18 that my co-workers and I featured on.

• Bravely Default 2 – 50% off at $29.99 (Opens in a new tab): one of The best JRPG games To come out in the last few years, the only perfect score that I have personally allocated in the past five years – check out Bravely Default 2 review for more details.
• Persona 5 Royal – 35% off at $38.99 (Opens in a new tab): better version of the The best JRPG you can play today.
• Dragon Quest 11s – 35% off at $25.99 (Opens in a new tab): One of the few games that can actually rival the aforementioned lineup in the battle for the greatest JRPG. Classic polished to a mirror shine.
• scarlet nexus – 75% off at $14.99 (Opens in a new tab)Great combat, bleak but beautiful world, poor side content – the perfect $15 game.
• Yakuza Group – 75% off at $35.00 (Opens in a new tab): Get stomping on the sidewalk, throwing bikes and pile driving Seven Yakuza games average $5 per game, get ready to play anything else for about 1,000 hours.
• Atelier Trilogies – 51% off at $58.48: I don’t know exactly why, but these action RPGs never sell out, so get half off at Mysterious trilogy (Opens in a new tab)And Arland trilogy (Opens in a new tab)or The Dusk Trilogy (Opens in a new tab) It is a rare and powerful bargain. Choose your favorite bundle and get three (long) games for the price of one new game.
• Zero Escape: Unusual Games – 70% off at $8.99 (Opens in a new tab)One or two punches of nine hours, nine people, nine doors, and the reward of the last virtue hide one of the best puzzle games in one of the best visual novels.
• Danganronpa 1 + 2 – 64% off at $14.38 (Opens in a new tab): Another unforgettable wombo-combo visual novel, this time with competitive killing.
• Near Replicant – 60% off at $23.99 (Opens in a new tab): A big discount on the updated version of the open-world RPG that started it all, sort of, if you haven’t read Deep Nier Lore, and I can’t recommend it to you without a doctor’s endorsement. (Nere: Automata is 50% discount (Opens in a new tab) also.)
• Chrono Trigger – 50% off at $7.49 (Opens in a new tab): as close as possible to the required reading like JRPGs.

• Final Fantasy Big Bundle – 50% off: Square has 14 of these items on sale and they average 50% off. I deliberately threw a live bomb on the floor of the debate hall, and asked the GR team to choose their favorites in a very calm and reasonable way. We collectively basically recommended all of them, but especially 10 (Opens in a new tab)12 (Opens in a new tab)15 (Opens in a new tab)and 7 remake (Opens in a new tab).
• Disgaea 5 Complete – 75% off at $9.99 (Opens in a new tab): Spend over 100 hours cracking an impossibly dense strategy game that was clearly designed to be cracked.
• Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana—55% off at $17.99 (Opens in a new tab): Just a classic JRPG that’s totally classic and charming retro.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – 50% off at $19.99 (Opens in a new tab): The first in a four-part series of more modern turn-based JRPGs (all for sale) that require a high tolerance for high school students’ animation but offer smooth combat.
• Triangle Strategy – 50% off at $29.99 (Opens in a new tab)Remember that beautiful strategy game with an awful name and lousy marketing? It’s really good!
• Resident Evil 7 & Village Gold Editions – 50% off at $39.99 (Opens in a new tab): Get all the bells and whistles of the two latest major Resident Evil games, both of which are great in their own right.
• Devil May Cry 5 – 67% off at $9.89 (Opens in a new tab): One of the defining character action games of our time.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy – 50% off at $14.99 (Opens in a new tab): a visual novel turned detective lawyer that was so good the world finally bullied Capcom into putting it on PC.