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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 @chaogomu@kbin.social
  2. ~~God of War~~ - Winner @MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world
  3. ~~Hogwarts Legacy~~ - Winner @silentknyght@lemmy.world
  4. ~~Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition~~ - Winner @stefano@lemmy.world
  5. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered~~ - Winner @OriginalMP3@lemmy.world
  6. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales~~ - Winner @b_crussin@programming.dev
  7. ~~Persona 5 Royal~~ - Winner @Commiunism@lemmy.wtf
  8. ~~Returnal~~ - Winner @Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de
  9. ~~Tales of Arise~~ - Winner @kamenridermaddie@lemmy.world
  10. ~~UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~~ - Winner @mwproductions@lemmy.world

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 !PCMasterRace@lemmy.world 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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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Returnal

Considering BG3 is not on this list, you should absolutely consider giving it a playthrough. I've never played a crpg I liked, and my wife had never played one at all, and now we're on our 4th playthrough. It is a legitimate masterpiece and the hype is well-deserved

[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

Returnal.

What a cool thing, thanks for doing this.

As a fan of titles like Hades and Control, Returnal's unique mix of gameplay elements is right up my alley. My budget has been maxxed lately so I've just been replaying the stuff in my steam library.

Happy everything to everyone!

[–] nomad504@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

I'd love to get Hogwarts Legacy

[–] ksp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Happy holidays!

I'm interested in Elden Ring.

Thank you for your generosity!

[–] dotdi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Happy Holidays everyone!

I’d be interested in Horizon Zero Dawn

[–] mayas@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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

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[–] Doublythumbs@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Elden Ring. I've been meaning to try it out. My friends have been hounding me to play it, but I've not had a chance to play any Souls Like games so I've been hesitant to purchase. Whether I'm a winner or not, thank you for the generous giveaway! Happy Holidays!

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

A friend recently recommended the Persona series, so I think I'm gonna have to go with Persona 5 Royal.

Something that made me happy this year (and gaming related) is that we finally got a remote Dungeons and Dragons group going with that friend, our significant others, and our mutual friend group. After a little hemming and hawing over how to set it up, we went with Foundry Virtual Tabletop (which we find suits our needs). It's good to be DMing for these friends and new faces again!

For a game recommendation/story, our tabletop group had been bandying around throwing in some one shots to try out some different systems and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader came up.

I'm pretty excited to test it out and recently found that Owlcat released a Rogue Trader crpg. I've been pretty busy near the end of the calendar year, so jumping into some science fantasy lore to share with my girlfriend has been great. I'll have to talk with the guy GMing that one shot about the similarities between the crpg and the tabletop system, but we're already brainstorming characters for the one shot and beyond (if we like it).

Hope this reply finds you all cozy and enjoying the season. This giveaway is a really cool idea and good luck everyone!

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 2 points 10 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

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Pretty sweet man, been Wanting to play returnal for a while but haven't had the time lately

[–] Swagicus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for your generous spirit, brought a smile to my face.

Horizon Zero Dawn would be appreciated.

[–] Pr0v3n@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ooooh Returnal! I’ve been wanting to play it with a mate for quite some time but that price tag has been quite the hump to get over… Best of luck everyone in the giveaway! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope you all have a better year than this one~

[–] whiskyjack@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Elden Ring, please.

Thanks for this, and Merry Christmas! Hope yours is wonderful!

[–] Undef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring for Elden Ring! My favorite game I've played this year is gonna have to be God of War. Getting a chance to revisit a matured and wise version of Kratos, after having experienced how he used to be when I played the original games on PS2 was great.

[–] Ashen44@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Would be pretty happy with Persona 5 Royal. I played it on ps4 back before I had a good PC but I never got far because playing on console is very inconvenient for me!

As for something that made me very happy recently, they finally announced the next monster hunter game, my favourite game series of all time! AND it's finally a pc release on launch! I'm definitely upgrading my computer when that one comes around! Also I passed all my college courses that I was really worried about failing, but you know, priorities.

[–] msp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Elden Ring. For the story, I remember those days that you stay up with your friends doing a full run! Not much time to do that these days, but the nostalgia always kicks in this time of year. :

[–] Lairo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Well this is just very sweet. I'm hoping for a spiderman or P5 royal. Merry Xmas!

[–] ExcessivelyNoisy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'd love a chance at Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered! Thanks for doing this, and happy holidays :)

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Happy holidays :) put me in for elden ring, thanks!

[–] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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

[–] Fracturedfox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Returnal looks like so much fun!

[–] Sprucie@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for being so generous with this! I've been meaning to try out Returnal for a while now so that would be awesome to get. Something that made me very happy this year was my dog. We got him just over a year ago as a puppy and I'll be honest it was pretty tough at the beginning, puppies are a lot of work and he's a stubborn little boy, but this year he's just got progressively better and better and it makes all the work we put in at the beginning so worth it.

Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year!

[–] Applejuicy@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Put me in for Elden Ring!

A game I've been playing recently is Bread & Fred. It has put the pure fun factor back in games for me. No competitiveness, no completionist motivation, just pure fun.

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Horizon zero dawn please! Thank you so much for running this, is there a place we can offer a kickback to you?

[–] teddy2021@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

So, a friend of mine and I were playing Hunt: Showdown in duos. We find the target, but someone else already had. Multiple someone elses. For those who play, the target was at Sweetbell, and we approached from Arden Parish. I'm rocking a lebel marksman variant, so I take a look into one of the windows. Someone's there, so I pop him. Headshot. We move, rotating south and getting contacted but coming out victorious. I take a look in again at the bounties, but neither is giving me a window shot. I happen to see one move though, and headshot him through the wall. "I'm getting reported for that one" I comment. We continue to rotate clockwise around the building, and I ascend the tower between Sweetbell and Fort Carmic. I quickly get draw a bread and drop a player. This time his partner returns for and gets me. My own partner remains hidden for long enough that they look elsewhere to more immediate threats, and he picks me up. Eventually, as we're rotating north, they make a break for it, and get an area away by the time we finish looting their kills. I suggest going after them, and my partner expressed doubt. I mention that we have scopes, and hop onto some stairs to see if I can spot them. I do, and take my shot, downing one. The other scurried into the brush. I hold the view, waiting for the partner to make his move, and after a short pause my partner checks his map and says the other target made a break for it. We collect one of the bounties and leave via the same path. When we check the teams that round, we realize that I only killed one of the pair in that building... ever. The morale damage that must've done in order that the other just abandoned his buddy. My friend and I now use that player's username as a verb for when we down a player more than three times, and in particularly... efficient manner. For the game, I'm interested in Returnal.

[–] pacoo2454@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Happy holidays! I’d like a chance to win Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. Still haven’t had a chance to play it and forgot it’s on PC now. Thanks!

[–] MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm really only interested in GoW so I can give it to my brother. He's a dad of 2 and needs some quality games in his backlog.

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[–] stoned_ape@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'd throw in for Persona 5

I'm happy that after a really lame start to the year (getting canned from my long time job and bouncing from job to job for a couple months) I finally got settled making way more money that lets me be home every night & weekend with my wife, and practice music with some good friends

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Joyous Holidays and I hope y’all have a happy new year!

Thanks again for doing this giveaway it’s always a hoot.

I’d like to throw my hat in for Miles Morales if I could. I really like the Spider-Man series even if my graphics card hates me for playing it.

And for my Happy Thought: If you’re one of the people who still hasn’t seen the new Spider-Verse movie, oh you’re gonna have a great time watching it.

Thank everybody

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't mind Persona 5. Happy holidays.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hi, thanks for doing this! I'd love God of War 😁

I've sunk almost 500 hours in to baldurs gate 3 since it's release. Despite that, my favorite game I've played this year is probably going to be Tony Hawks Underground. I recently got hit with the nostalgia wave and have been playing THUG 1 and 2 which were major foundations of my childhood; the soundtracks are unbeatable ("Deadly Sinners" on the same playlist as "Burning Ring of Fire"? Who makes games like this anymore?) and the story and characters are the perfect level of bad.

[–] luxinnocte@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

I'll put my request in for Persona 5 Royal. Buddy of mine is obsessed with it and has been trying to get me to play. Thanks for giving people the opportunity to win one of these games!

[–] WaywardFlock@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Haven't had a chance to play God of War yet so that would be sweet, happy holidays and thanks for the giveaway

[–] analog@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Definitely P5 Royal, played it for a bit on Playstation when it came out and would love to finish.

[–] c0mput0r@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago
[–] NinjaTeensy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Persona 5! Thanks for opportunity!

[–] Papercrane@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Would love to have uncharted. Thanks for the giveaway it's awesome that someone is doing something for the Christmas spirit

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Elden Ring, please.

[–] piratehat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 10 months ago

How about Elden Ring.

Fun thing for me this holiday was solving a puzzle for another Lemmy user. Figured out the movie they couldn't recall for years was New Friends, 1981, and they are able to share that and the online video of it I found with their sisters for the holidays. Bonus points, there's was a monetary reward that's now going to charity. Was very entertaining.

[–] SuperThr33s@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

God of war, please

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

hey thanks for doing this! I'm interested in god of war. I've been meaning to play it for a while but I haven't had the cash to buy it 😭

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I've always wanted to try out Elden Ring but have been holding off on it to work through my backlog. Just finished Bully for the first time and I gotta say it was one of the best open world games Rockstar has made despite the PC jank. Everything about it was just so charming it's hard to believe conservatives lost their shit to this game just for the title of the game.

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I absloutely bloody love to try Elden ring/spoderman sign me up woooo

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for doing this!

The game "spider man remastered" looks interesting, never tried anything like it!

[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Eden Ring.

My son (first child) was born last December, so I got to spend all year watching him grow and turn in to a little human.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Sick idea! Elden Ring would be sick, have really wanted to try it on my Steam Deck

This year I graduated from my undergrad. No good job yet or anything but, it's feels like a new section of my life for now, hopefully my first full year out of school will be a good one :)

Thanks for the new years treat!

[–] krush_groove@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Very cool of you to do this! I would love to check out Uncharted, I've never played it.

My happy/hopeful story is that the company I work for is looking pretty good for next year and this year was already pretty good. So I'm looking forward to the new year!

[–] pepperonisalami@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Persona 5 Royal.

Got a new job this year! Will start next year and I'll have some time off in between so I can visit my family.

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