505 Games' 15th Anniversary Sale Offers Plenty Of Discounts On Switch

505 is a trash-tier publisher. Some of their games are good, but usually their retail physical releases use the lowest cartridge size for maximum profit. Just have customers download most of that physical release, right 505? And they never delivered by backer copy of Indivisible.

Indivisible is looking mighty tempting, but some say the combat is unintuative and the story is dull so I'm not sure...

@Magician I don't know about any of the other claims but I have many of their physical releases I don't remember any large download sizes or mandatory ones. Honestly could be wrong though. Savage Planet I can't remember but I THINK it was all on cartridge except for a small patch. That's my most recent one anyways.

@Erigen Tried it on gamepass and I really wanted to like it but the combat never synced with me. Dropped it after about an hour :/ Liked the art style though. Didn't get far enough to have much of an opinion on the story.

@Joker13z Is it really? I've watched a few Let's plays of it and most complain that the combat is unfocused and requires too much from the player, making it hard to "get into it". Guess I'll wait for an even lower price drop.

For those yet to try. Horace is superb. Well worth the full price that one

Portal Knights is fun. It's Minecraft with quests and cutesy graphics.

I'm REALLY interested in Journey to the Savage Planet at that price. Anyone else have it on Switch and can give an opinion?

@Highlar It's a good game. The performance could have been better but it's perfectly playable, and in fact they released a patch just after I finished the game which might have improved it, I don't know how much though. But yeah I'd recommend it.

Portal Knights can go **** itself. There's 2 versions, with those who bought early on stuck with a standard offering, whereas late adopters could buy the deluxe version for barely any more than the original cost. The kicker being that there's no way for early adopters to upgrade to the deluxe version without buying the whole game again or in individual dlc packs costing just as much. Lost interest in it at that point.

@Highlar @Dogorilla
Picked it up during the last sale and the patch did help quite a bit. I have really liked it so far; like a candy-colored tongue-in-cheek low budget METROID PRIME.

Thanks for the info! Definitely sounds like something I'd be interested in then, especially at that price. Go, wallet! Purchase it now!

@Erigen Yeah that's basically pretty much how I felt about it.

They could discount Bloodstained a bit more...

@Savino People say the same thing about Outer Worlds on Switch (though I've never thought it looked all that bad) and I absolutely love it. So yeah, I think I'll pick up Journey to the Savage Planet on this sale too. Thanks for the tips!

@Highlar it was a lot of fun. Played both xbox and switch and enjoyed both. Kind of like a Metroid style game. Backtracking and exploring and alien planet.

I’m going to say at that price, anyone who was a diehard fan of drawn to life should try it.

I think in Bloodstained everytime it goes on sale. Is it still have performance issues? I'm not comparing with other platforms, but I'm not looking for a game that struggle to play. And Blasphemous, is it have performance issues? Thanks!

@Erigen

Started playing it recently and early impressions:

I can see why people find it unintuative, it's a more combo focused version of Valkyrie Profile 2's (I wonder who still remembers that game, jeez I'm old...) battle system and I struggled with that game back in the day.
Fighting feels more like trying to learn combo's in a fighting game really, now that I think about it.

Fighting games always have that problem where you have to put in a lot of effort before the combat clicks with you, even something like ARMS took 10+ hours before its combat clicked with me and I started having fun, and there's no guarantee it will ever click with you.

But, for that low of a price I'd say just give it a shot. In the end you are the best judge of what you'd like and you're tempted, so there's something about it that appeals to you ^_^

@RCGamer bought bloodstained in other sale and it plays ok. There is one or two places in the game that u get some slowdowns but for me its ok. ITs a nice metroidvania. ON the other side the game is ugly. ANd that isnt an switch issue. Is the art style and some level design decisions

@RCGamer The Switch port of Bloodstained, when I played it a couple years ago, was better than it was at launch but the performance still buckled in a few places.

I remember Bloodstained Curse of the Moon (the game that came before Ritual of the Night) having sold around 60% of total sales on switch-enough support to validate a proper switch version of RotN, right? No. Its crap compared to other versions of the game. Sooo.. I am not touching this even though it feels like Ive played every metroidvania game there is and no discount can help.

@Magician I hope you at least tried contacting customer service.

Horace was good but went on way too long, kept getting to "throw your joycon at the wall" frustrating, and at one point I got lost in the metroidvania-esque level. I literally was unable to go back from whence I came, and didn't have the necessary upgrade to progress, so I watched the ending on Youtube. I say wait for this developer's next game.

I'm still waiting on a 90% discount for Bloodstained. If they had just released it without bugs in the first place, I would have paid full price for it.

Pretty sure I bought ABZU on sale for $2.50

@RCGamer @RCGamer I don’t recall any performance issues with Blasphemous. Some of the mid boss fights are a little janky and the final boss is all about luck. The game is awesome, btw.

Looks like 505 publish a lot of games with performance issues and then put them on sale before they have fixed them. This must annoy people who picked them up at full price. This makes me cautious of all their games.

Did they ever fix the input lag in the Switch port of Bloodstained?

Already own Last Day of June, ABZU and Brothers... So, going to give it a miss this time.
I wonder how come Firewatch never goes on sale! It's been on my wishlist for more than a year.

@Little_Squee
I can highly recommend Horace. But it's been on sale for far less.

I actually have 7 of the games on the list which were largely good to be fair bar maybe drawn to life.

Already have:

• Terraria
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• ABZU

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is unfortunately one of those games that just screams: "good game but DON'T BUY ON SWITCH!!!"

@Zverik Signed up. Thanks for sharing.