Weekend PC download deals: tumbleweeds

Now that Gamescom is behind us, it's time to vault into the fall season… in a few more weeks. Yes, it's still summer doldrum time, but that's alright, because it means you can catch up on some of the big PC games you might have missed. Well… sort of.

You see, retailer deals are somehow really hard to find this week. The best deal you'll probably find is Steam's discount for the Counter-Strike franchise. But Amazon, Get Games, and even the normally reliable Humble Bundle seem to have pulled their tents up for this week. It's an odd week, to say the least.

Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

• Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai Collection [Steam] - $9.99 (75% off)

Bundle Stars

Pay $2.99 for Pool Nation, Football FX, International Snooker, Total Pro Golf 3, World Basketball Tycoon, Franchise Hockey Manager 2014, and Out of the Park Baseball '14. These activate on Steam.

Or pay $3.99 for Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game, Dustforce, Postmortem: One Must Die, EvilQuest, Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem 2, Cubetractor, Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf, A New Reckoning, Containment: The Zombie Puzzler, and Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage. These activate on Steam.

Or pay $3.49 for Vector, Rush for Glory, Montas, Steel & Steam: Episode 1, Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory, Ionball 2: Ionstorm, Clockwork Tales: Of Glass & Ink, and Growing Pains. These activate on Steam.

• Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller GOTY Edition [Steam] - $3.75 (75% off)
• Out of the Park Baseball '15 [Steam] - $20.00 (50% off)

GameFly Digital

Use the code AUG20OFF to get 20% off purchases over $14.99. If you're across the pond, use UKAUG20OFF.

• Portal 2 [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)
• The Orange Box [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)
• Other titles in GameFly Digital's Valve sale can be found here.

GamersGate

• Space Marine [Steam] - $7.49 (75% off)
• Dawn of War II [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)
• Other titles in GamersGate's Warhammer 40K sale can be found here.
• War of the Vikings [Steam] - $12.50 (50% off) (Other War of the Roses/Vikings content can be found here.)
• Tex Murphy Collection [Steam] - $22.49 (25% off) (Other Night Dive games can be found here.)

GameStop

• Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut [Steam] - $9.99 (60% off)
• Cloudbuilt [Steam] - $7.99 (60% off)
• World of Warcraft - $9.99 (50% off)

Get Games

• Alien: Isolation [Steam] (Pre-order) - $39.99 (20% off)

GOG

• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - $3.99 (80% off)
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - $1.99 (80% off)
• Spelunky - $4.99 (66% off)
• Dust: An Elysian Tail - $4.99 (66% off)
• Other games in GOG's Platformers Aplenty promo, including Duke Nukem and Escape Goat games, can be found here.

Green Man Gaming

Use the code O7CNAE-Z1Y29P-QZAJ1I to get 20% off purchases over $10.

• Green Man Gaming is counting down the Top 50 Games You Must Play Before You Die! #30 through #21 are posted and on sale right now, so check out the list here.

Humble Bundle

• The Total War franchise is on sale and you can find those titles here.
• Papo & Yo (Today only) [Steam] - $3.74 (75% off)
• Sci-Fi Bundle - $14.99 (85% off)
• Richard & Alice [Steam] - $1.99 (60% off)

Indie Royale

Pay $3.58 for Dream Pinball 3D, Planets Under Attack, Earth 2140, Enclave Gold Edition, Commander: Conquest of the America's Gold, Jack Orlando, X-Blades, 3SwitscheD, Chicken Shoot, Chicken Shoot 2, and Pressure. Pay $6 or more for a bonus soundtrack. All of these games work on Steam.

Steam

As well as regular discounts, Steam has a couple of additional weekend deals.

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - $7.49 (50% off)
• The Darkness II - $5.99 (80% off)
• Sanctum 2 - $2.24 (85% off) (FREE WEEKEND until 8/17 at 1PM PDT)
• Kalypso is celebrating their anniversary! Celebrate with daily deals on games like Tropico 5, which you can find here.
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - $3.99 (80% off)
• Counter-Strike Complete - $14.99 (50% off) (Individual content also on sale)
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - $1.99 (80% off)
• Awesomenauts - $1.99 (80% off)

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?