What the... For me Ori is more than $10, that's more than twice the US price! So far THQ Nordic has been one of my favorite publishers. But with such regional pricing they will go to my blacklist. I hope this price difference is only a mistake!

Nice, even better than a good sale is a good regular price :) (hopefully they fix the regional pricing). I highly recommend Little Bug, one of my favorites. A nice neon mood. I haven't tried Ori yet, but I started a new list to track interesting looking games at a buy anytime price (maybe someday GOG will add wishlist tags or target price).

Permanent? That's crazy, expecially for Ori
:O

wasn't is free on Xbox pass already? They could lower all those prices for those games that went free IMHO
sure it does
I remember why I gave up to Horace, there's a section that must be completed in a short time, after too many attempts I had enough.

Hi, I've downloaded Planetblupi from www.blupi.org as a single .exe file of about 83Mb. Is this it; it seems to start well on Windows 10 v.2004 using full screen? CORRECTION: I was having trouble with the site, but yes the games you mention are there as ISO's along with PDF manuals.

If anyone could recommend an easy platformer in the sale below about £3.80 (about $5.00 US) i'd really like to know.

That's not the platformers (Speedy Blupi 1 and 2 at the very bottom of the page) I was talking about specifically but maybe you'll have fun with that. :)

https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ might work for mounting ISO files if that helps; I haven't used this software myself however.

Sorry, my last post may not have been clear, I did download Speedy Blupi 1 and 2 and used Daemon to extract from the ISO's. Haven't tried the games yet, though.

Nice. Let me know if you do end up trying one or both of the games out.

Shuggy starts off fairly easy and most of the challenge is figuring out what to do not doing it. The video is better than most at showing the gameplay. Of course, for the same reason depending on what you are looking for in a platformer it might not fit what you want (it is more puzzle than platformer).

140 is divided into two parts, the first part is maybe not easy, but not super hard IMO (and you restart instantly nearby). The second part (using the same levels as the first part but in a different way that I don't remember the details of) was quite impossible for me (as someone who could eventually manage everything in Hollow Knight except the last circus boss, although I haven't tried it again since then so maybe I'd do better now), The first part is done really well in my opinion and well worth the low price.

Blocks that Matter is also more puzzle than platformer, although there are a few timed levels that are not that easy (although not super hard). I didn't really like it that much, but it wasn't all that bad overall.

Beatbuddy, Yoku's Island Express, A Short Hike, and RiME are other easy platformers that aren't in this sale but I would recommend.

Not easy, but while writing here again I'll mention that I tried Downwell and Cyber Hook and both are good. Downwell is a nice NES-style experience, like the early 80s (70s?) game Pitfall but with a gun (not the Activision one but this one; hit Ctl-F11 a bunch of times to slow it down, Ctl-F12 if you make it too slow, should be maybe 3-4 lines per second). Cyber Hook reminds me of Action Henk, particularly the grapple levels, but in lo-fi 3d. That is one of my favorites so hopefully the Cyber Hook levels are all good. (The style reminds me of Fotonica, although I didn't like the levels in that game).

Thanks for your comprehensive reply; I've downloaded Shuggy and Stick it to the Man. I'm new to gaming and also ageing, so I'm prepared to experiment with various cheap games even if I don't like some, or can't play them. The PC and graphics card I set up are about 2010 vintage, so I need to watch required PC specs when choosing games.

I hope you like Shuggy, I think it is a solid game and a good one to be one of your first. I haven't played Stick it to the Man, but I was looking at that one and would likely try it if I didn't already have so many that I haven't played yet. It sounds like it doesn't have the obnoxiously obscure puzzles that many adventure games have, so that sounds like a good one to start with also. I am disabled and I like that games are more active than most of what I would do otherwise (I also grew up playing games).

There are also some good free open source games that I can recommend if you are interested: Flobo Puyo is a tetris-like puzzle game good for fairly quick games now and then, The Battle for Wesnoth is a strategy game, Super Tux Kart is a cartoony racing game (and I think the only one of these that might not work on your system depending on your GPU), Pingus is a puzzle game (video intro), and OpenTTD is a simulation game with a somewhat obscure interface at first and an online-only manual, however the manual is very good as is the game itself and there are a bunch of settings so if you find yourself thinking you like it except for something in particular, there is probably a way to change it.

I was playing on a Sandy Bridge era laptop with integrated video until a couple of years ago (that I still use for everything but games :/) so I know it is limiting, although a bit less so not using an integrated GPU. Usually being somewhat under the minimum CPU specs is ok (they just didn't test anything slower), but occasionally not. Unfortunately, very few newer games work on older systems even if there isn't fundamentally a reason why they couldn't just becuase developers happen to use a feature of newer GPUs or don't have an older system to notice some minor issue. Luckily, there are a bunch of good older games :).

I will resist the urge to list off a dozen good games that would work on your system to avoid overwhelming you more than I might be already. Of the ones I mentioned, Beatbuddy, 140, and Blocks that Matter should certainly work and I think A Short Hike is likely to as well (unless you have an integrated GPU). If you haven't seen the refund policy it is more generous than the text on the order page suggests and games can be returned within 30 days if they don't work or you just don't like them, although they say they have some unspecified limit on the number of returns if you just don't like the game (that might be fairly low when you haven't purchased much here). Of course, best not to need to return anything if possible and many of the best games here go for very little on sale.

Thanks for the tips on games, and for letting me know about the returns policy. My GPU is an AMD 7470 1Gb with Catalyst Control Centre. It easily copes with the older games. Thing is I got on carried away, starting on Boxing Day, and have bought over 50 games on sale with an average discount of over 70%!

:). It seems like a lot but they can go quick between short games and ones you don't like or don't work well. At one point a few years after I started getting games here (and before the current refund policy) I was frustrated by the number of low quality games and added up the cost of the ones I most regretted getting and luckily it wasn't much since they were individually so inexpensive. New releases can be more expensive mistakes; your setup sounds good for playing older games well while avoiding the temptation to try the expensive new games with lots of bugs :/, although simpler newer games should often work with that card.

I played some of Shuggy again and there is more running around and avoiding things than I had remembered, although I still think it is relatively gentle compared to most platformers. There was one annoyingly strictly time dependent level in the couple dozen I played, although at least the game lets you skip some levels while still being able to access at least most of the others. Some others have a gentler time limit. Hopefully I didn't give you bad advice :/.

No worries, your advice has been most helpful. I've been tied up a lot lately and have sadly had no time for games. Hopefully this will normalise!

Windows 10 can mount ISO files natively by simply double clicking on them.

WinCDEmu is much more helpful for mounting CUE / BIN file pairs, which Windows 10 cannot mount natively.