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EDIT January 6, 2024:

All games have been accepted by the winners! Thanks everyone for your participation! I loved reading the different messages and hearing some of the positives, the things that made you feel hopeful, and a bit about some of the games you've played. While I wish I could give you all more copies of games, we will do another giveaway like this in the future.

Stay safe, and happy 2024 ahead!

EDIT January 5, 2024:

Minor edit for posterity. All games have been claimed apart from God of War. Each winner of God of War never responded so I'm working down the list through a randomizer to select the eligible winner for this game. I'll update this post one final time as soon as we have an eligible winner that claims this final giveaway.

EDIT January 4, 2024:

There was no response received for the selected winners for Elden Ring and God of War.

I am re-drawing for both these games and will update this post once these final two game codes are accepted by the new winners.

EDIT January 3, 2024:

All games have been claimed apart from two: Elden Ring and God of War. Considering it is the holiday and there may be some obligations, I'm extending the 24 hour window by another 24 hours. If the winners do not reply by Jan 4, 2024 ~ 9 AM ET, they will be forfeit and I will re-draw new winners.

EDIT January 2, 2024:

Giveaway Ended! All winners have been notified, but they have 24 hours to respond. If the winner does not respond, I will re-draw for the new winner the next day until all codes have been exhausted.

I will also be editing this post periodically to acknowledge who won and if they accepted.

I loved reading all these comments, and thanks for everyone responding here and also sharing an optional story! There's a lot of positivity and hope out there, which makes me also feel the same.

P.S. - I really wish I could afford more games to giveaway to you all, but we can certainly do something like this in the future and perhaps make some kind of collaborative giveaway.

Stay safe, and happy new year ahead!

Original Post:

Happy Holidays everyone!

In spirit of the holiday and the upcoming new year, I want to do something nice for you all and give away 10 Steam codes for some of my favorite games that I've played recently!

Games I'm giving away:

  1. ~~Elden Ring~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  2. ~~God of War~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  3. ~~Hogwarts Legacy~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  4. ~~Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  5. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  6. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  7. ~~Persona 5 Royal~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  8. ~~Returnal~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  9. ~~Tales of Arise~~ - Winner @[email protected]
  10. ~~UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~~ - Winner @[email protected]

How to Enter:

  • Comment on this post with the one game you are interested in.
  • Optional: Share a story about something that made you happy or hopeful this year. Or share a story about a game you recently played that you loved.

Restrictions:

  • You can only enter once, and pick only one game.
  • Your Lemmy account must be at least 30 days old and have participated recently in Lemmy/Fediverse.
  • If your account appears to be a bot, troll, or spam account, you will not be selected.
  • Moderators of the [email protected] community are not eligible.

Winner Selection:

  • I will randomly select eligible winners below.
  • You will be notified via two ways: I will @ mention you and reply on your comment to this post. I will also send you a private message.
  • If you are selected, you will have 24 hours to respond to me to claim your eligibility.
  • For transparency, please also reply to my public-facing comment so that others know you received and claimed the code successfully.
  • If I do not get a response from you within 24 hours, you are forfeited and a new winner will be redrawn the next day.

Deadlines:

  • You must enter by end of day December 31, 2023, local time.
  • I will start drawing 10 winners either on Jan 1 and Jan 2. (Hey, I have family obligations so I'll do my best to start on Jan 1.)

Disclaimers:

  • This not a sponsored post of any kind. I purchased these keys myself for the sole purpose of this giveaway.
  • They activate only on Steam as Retail OEM keys.
  • These keys come from Game Billet, a legitimate reseller. They do not come from sketchy places like G2A (NEVER, ever do business with G2A or companies like them).
  • Steam Support: How to activate a Product Key - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2A12-9D79-C3D7-F870

Proof:

Cheers (the holiday kind),

CatZoomies | PCMR Moderator, on behalf of the moderation team

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hey there,

Thats Nice of you 🥰🥰,

The best things for me, don't laugh, my life isn't cool lmao, was finishing twice cyberpunk in a month, and then my first use of stable diffusion on my arch station (BTW), I almost did an coming out too :D but this one doesn't count, because its in progress.... ✊

Im applying for Persona5, I really want to give him a go, but if someone is in need prefer this someone, I can buy it after all. That's really lovely from you. 😘

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Merry Christmas to you OP!

Elden Ring please 😊

One thing that made me happy: been doing that Advent of Code and got a few answers right without relying on tuts or hints or anything. I only started studying Python again in my free time a few months ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That's super kind of you to be giving away that many great games! Shame I wouldn't have time to play any of them but best of luck to all!

Happy Christmas!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would love Horizon, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Merry Christmas! I've had God of War in my wishlist forever! I remember playin the OG in the PS2 and Chain of Olympus in PSP and I loved them. I would love to repeat the experience in this PC remake :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hey, I'd be really interested in Elden Ring :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Having been a Xbox player before getting my PC, Spiderman Remastered had been on my list since it was announced. Thank you for the giveaway and good luck everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would love to have God of war. This year was the first year with my first baby, and seeing her grow over the months has been a joy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Game: Elden Ring

This year I decided to start biking to work and it's been a complete joy. The commute is fairly long, but it's beautiful and gives me time to reflect and turn my worry-brain off. I'm more productive at work, I feel better about my lifestyle, and my body is really happy about it. I'm lucky to be in a career and geography that allows this, and I'm grateful for all the work that people in my community have done to improve cycling infrastructure.

Thanks so much for doing this!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Tales of Arise would be my choice!! I'm glad that you are doing things like this, making Lemmy and this community stronger!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'd like to enter for God of War.

So what made me happy this year is that I finally moved out and have less interaction with my extremely toxic family. Also my GF came back from abroad and we're going to be working towards getting a place here so that we can start living together.

In any case, thanks for this OP and good luck everyone!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hogwarts legacy is very cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would like Returnal if you would be kind.

Happy holidays everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hogwarts legacy!

Just picked up a new steam deck and would love to check it out on there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Will not participate, but props to you for organising this, it is really nice 🎄

Some of the games in the giveaway are in my wishlist, I hope in the next year I will get some and play them. Best of luck to the participants and wish a great time playing, best of luck to the moderation team, too. Happy holidays

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

My wife doesn't game much buy she is a MASSIVE Harry Potter fan. I wonder if she would play Legacy if we had it.

Thanks for doing good for people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Returnal

There are 3 cockatiels living with me(I rescued them, not in Australia) and I had a pen with a string attached to it and was writing when two of them flew over and started fighting over the knot in the string, not an active fight just one would start chewing on the knot and then the other would pull it away and back and forth it went for a good 20 minutes.

I really enjoyed watching them passive aggressively fighting over a toy, it was cute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts legacy would be rocking!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I'll sign up for Returnal.

A few months ago I ran into the demo for an indie game called Laika: Aged through Blood. It came out around a month ago and it's an extremely solid indie game, I'd suggest anyone who likes metroidvanias a shot if you don't mind them being unforgiving as hell.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's so cool that you're doing this, tysm! I'd love to play God of War if I end up getting rolled, it's been on my list for ages

My happy story is that 2023 was the first full calendar year I spent with my current partner and love of my life ❤️

Happy holidays!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wow you’re very kind! I’d like Horizon Zero Dawn to play with my Steamdeck when the children are asleep because the TV is theirs 😁

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Horizon zero dawn please and thank you!

I finally had that moment in life where I could sit back watching TV with my family and just breathe and be grateful for everyone and everything I had. Where most of the stress of day to day was lifted and I could just.... be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This is really nice. I would like Hogwarts Legacy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've finally decided to give Cyberpunk 2077 a shot, deciding that it has had enough time in the oven, and... yup. I'm happy to have waited all these years to play something that's a finished product, runs well, looks beautiful and is engaging and fun to play. Honestly I spend half of my time in this game just walking around the city - it's the first city in a game that feels realistic, with all the street markets, food stalls, drunk people wandering the streets at 4 am...

BG3 was overall the best game I've played this year though.

I would like Persona 5 Royal, never really had a chance to get into this series but I've heard good things!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Insomniac's made some of the greatest games I've ever played

But heck, this game is about 30% of the minimum wage here lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Gotta be in it to win it!

Horizon Zero Dawn would be great, never got around to playing those games.

This year has been quite the ride, I started a new job and I've really loved it. It can be a lot of work sometimes, but it's work that I enjoy, so the days sometimes just flash by which is great. As far as gaming goes, I played a lot on my Switch this year. I sunk nearly 200 hours into Tears of the Kingdom. I'm a huge Zelda fan, so I tried to milk it as long as I could before getting the credits to roll.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

This year for the first time I tried to cook a seitan roast with crackling. Also vegan potato dumplings as well as bread dumplings and gravy. It turned out quite okay. I would just like to experiment with better spices to make the taste of the seitan roast more intense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

Thank you CatZoomies and a merry Christmas!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hogwarts legacy please, my kids would love it. Merry Christmas!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Game: Persona 5 Royal

The biggest thing that made me happy this year was being home for the holidays. I have a job that often sends me to remote sites for work. I was sent away in the end of 2019 for work, right before all the pandemic stuff started. Soon after that lock downs began and many travel restrictions were put in place, including ones within my own company. Basically I have been stuck very far away from my family for a very long time. The off-shore work contract finally came to an end and even though I am now technically unemployed for the time being, this was the first Christmas holiday period I have been able to spend with my family since 2018. That meant the world to me and one of the things that has made me the happiest in many years, let alone just this year. As far as hopeful, I am hopeful that this will definitely not be the last holiday season I can spend with my family and currently have no plans to leave again like that anytime soon (not that I planned it like that in the first place though anyway lol).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you for the giveaway! Looks like you went out of your way to get a good diversity of games. Awfully kind of you =)

I would like to try for Spiderman: Miles Morales, please

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'll throw my name in for Elden Ring. Cheers to you for doing this OP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

This year I got back into Destiny 2. I got to level 535 in Season of Defiance, and made a ton of new friends through it and the Discord servers connected to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'd like to get Hogwarts legacy for my wife.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'd like to win hogwarts legacy, thanks for doing this awesome giveaway!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered!

Baldur's Gate 3 is probably my game of the year, but lately I've actually been playing Fortnite with some friends and having a blast in zero build mode. The new update is great, plus you can't go wrong with some LEGO survival mode.

Thanks for doing this, you're a kind soul! Have a wonderful holiday, as well as everyone in this thread. Good luck to you all!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

God of War would be a great one to have! I've only played the one version on PSP like 10/12 years ago and loved it! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Always fancied elden ring but my inability to git gud has held me back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Happy Holidays! So awesome you're doing this!

Been wanting to try out Elden Ring, so add me to that drawing please! And thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I already own/played most of these. A very kind action on your part!

I will go for the uncharted games as I fear the Elden* ring is beyond my gaming capabilities :').

I've recently been playing Jedi survivor. While I feel my pc isn't entirely up to the task anymore, streaming it downstairs through the steam deck really makes it more enjoyable to play!

Best of luck to everyone! May the odds ever be in your favor! Have a great Christmas/new years/2024.

Shout-out to the person doing the giveaway! It's a very generous year end gift to do for strangers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Elden Ring for me. Thanks for the chance to win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

God of war, please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It would be so cool to win a Spiderman game or that Hogwarts game!

Something that made me happy this year? We got a new dog after our last dog got sick and died right before Christmas. The most curious part? The death day and birth day are the same somehow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Happy holidays!

I'm interested in Elden Ring.

Thank you for your generosity!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm hoping I get picked for persona 5 royal. Happy holidays everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for doing this!

I would personally be interested in Spider man remastered.

As for a game I played recently and loved, I've been playing Xenotilt and Demon's Tilt and they're both amazing pinball games. I loved Metroid Prime Pinball as a kid and these are the first pinball games that really capture that same appeal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Would definitely be interested in Returnal, my friend worked on the PC port for it so he's been trying to get me to buy it since it released, was just hoping for a good enough sale.

My happy story was starting to contribute to an open source Minecraft mod and getting invited to join the offical development team after a few months, definitely makes me feel like I'm actually good at programming :D

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