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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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[–] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'd love to be considered for Persons 5 Royal (or Returnal), please.

One thing that made me happy this year? I became a father. It's really difficult to say whether that makes me hopeful for the future. On the contrary, it makes me kind of afraid? Like ... I maybe have another 25-30 years left to live, but my child will be the in the peak of their life at that time. And I worry about what kind of world I'll be leaving them in. Everything feels more important now than it ever did...

But anyway, on a happy note, I bought 2 games at release this year and they were both quite good (Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring) :)

[–] cso@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Happy holidays!

Hogwarts Legacy

[–] molme@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] massivefan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Happy Holidays, Elden Ring.

A game that I recently played and loved was Bombrush Cyberfunk, I am a massive fan of Jet Set Radio Future and it just felt amazing to play a modern game based off of JSRF!

[–] reflex@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years 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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[–] AndyNarkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

This is really nice. I would like Hogwarts Legacy

[–] Cere@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Merry Christmas! Have been eyeing up Elden Ring since release but haven't had the time since having a baby.

[–] Zennyker@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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!

[–] leon1qotsa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring for Tales of Arise!

Merry Christmas and kudos for this giveaway 🎊

[–] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have a new GPU coming and Returnal would be awesome to play on it.

[–] ReadingCat@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Wanted to play God of War for forever but never got myself to buy it. This would be a great opportunity. Thank you for doing this and merry Christmas.

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[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Merry Christmas! I'd like Returnal.

[–] ecdis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

Thank you CatZoomies and a merry Christmas!

[–] Kittenstix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] fedev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be great!

[–] Tosti@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] hangyor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] amazingBarry@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Sandbag@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Hogwarts legacy would be rocking!

[–] brumberg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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!

[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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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[–] DoctorWhat@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I’ve kind of had my eye on Returnal for a while! I’m afraid it might kick my butt, though. Thanks for the giveaway!

[–] Pr0v3n@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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~

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered would be awesome. I keep waiting for it to be 50% or more off but I have to be a patient gamer.

Thanks for doing this. Good luck to all.

[–] yabai@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm putting in for Spiderman Remastered! It's the next game on my list when I finish Stardew Valley. Thanks for doing this, excellent community building!

[–] Kylamon1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's very awesome of you kind sir/ma'am. I would be interested in #5 spiderman.

[–] msp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years 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. :

[–] Tom_bishop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hi, Spiderman remastered would be my choice. Merry christmas to OP and lemmynation!

[–] Papercrane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

Happy holidays!

I'm interested in Elden Ring.

Thank you for your generosity!

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Been looking at Elden ring for a while but dont feel like spending even more money on games. Would be amazing to get it!

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years 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

[–] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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

[–] Kharmawasvaluable@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

Elden Ring please (and thanks -even if I don't win).

[–] piratehat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't mind Persona 5. Happy holidays.

[–] stoned_ape@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] whiskyjack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Elden Ring, please.

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

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'll try for Elden Ring.

Thank you and Merry Christmas.

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[–] Hatecoach@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the opportunity and for being so generous. I've been interested in God of War for quite some time. Funny enough I played Persona 5 Royale all the way through this year, and it was the first time in quite a while I got the opportunity to give the time necessary to complete a game.

Happy Holidays!

[–] ExcessivelyNoisy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] teddy2021@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

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

Elden Ring, please.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Put me in for Hogwarts. Thanks for bringing these to Lemmy and happy holidays

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