You can buy one of the best games ever for the price of an ice lolly
The GOG summer sale is live and a discount on one of our favourite games is so good it feels almost criminal.
We've highlighted some fantastic sales deals for video games recently (such as Sony's Mid-Year Deals sale, which went live yesterday) but we don't think we've ever seen a discount as generous as this one.
We've always loved XCOM 2, a strategy game so perfect that we can easily recommend it even nearly 10 years after release and one we still hope developer Firaxis Games will return to with a new sequel.
If you've yet to play it yourself, you really have no excuse now, as you can currently buy the game on PC for such a low price that it almost feels insulting to the game.
GOG is currently running its annual summer sale, boasting discounts upwards of 95% off, across more than 8,000 PC games.
We don't need to see the full list to tell you that XCOM 2's discount is the best deal. Instead of its usual asking price of £34.99, you can buy it for just £1.79.
This doesn't include any of the DLC, but almost all of that's discounted too, including the equally excellent War Of The Chosen expansion for just £3.49.
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That means you can get two 10/10 classics – XCOM 2 and War Of The Chosen – for just £5.28. That's less than the price of a pint of beer in London nowadays.
It's such a good deal that we can't help but worry it devalues the game, and gaming in general. When titles of this quality are barely more expensive than a Mars Bar, and cosmetics for Fortnite are 10 times the price, it does feel as if something has gone badly wrong. More Trending
No that we're complaining about low prices though, and XCOM 2 is far from the only generous deal at the moment. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is almost half off at £34.49 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition is even cheaper at £7.
You can view the full list of discounted PC games on GOG's storefront here, but the summer sale is only set to last for a few weeks, until July 9.
While there's sadly no sign of Firaxis considering an XCOM 3 yet – in part because a lot of the top developers left after Marvel's Midnight Suns proved a flop – EA looks set to deliver the next best thing with next year's Star Wars Zero Company.
It's certainly in good hands since developer Bit Reactor is comprised of former Firaxis staff who have experience with the XCOM games, something Zero Company is taking very obvious inspiration from.
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