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Cheap games for Christmas: the best bargains we’ve seen so far

Cheap games for Christmas: the best bargains we’ve seen so far

Spread Christmas cheer by giving them as gifts (or add them to your own library, we don’t judge)

As we know, this is a time for giving. The problem, of course, with such a time is that it coincides with a cost of living crisis that makes even buying a new can of butter a jaw-dropping experience. In short: we all need good deals more than ever.

Here are the gaming discounts we noticed during the holidays. Use them and be happy.

You’ll find current titles and classics for both current generation consoles and last generation hardware, and we haven’t limited ourselves to racing games either.

These offers are active at the time of writing. However, please double check the prices in your region and at the time of your visit to the store as each offer is only active for a limited time.

PlayStation Store: Winter Sale

Star Wars: Jedi Survivor (PS5) – £17.50

All the puzzling exploration and masterfully crafted hand-to-hand combat of a Soulslike, set in the imagination of George Lucas. Actually, this might not sell Jedi survivor all right then. Listen, it’s brilliant. Instead of trying and failing, be interactive star Wars Like so many other games with this license, Respawn’s focus is on playing brilliantly first and using the universe to take you along on the journey.

EA WRC (PS5) – £11.25

The best game with the official WRC license in many years is available this Christmas at an extremely affordable price and has been accompanied by countless free updates since launch, making now the best time to play it. Anything more than a tenner for all these WRC cars and courses, as well as a host of classic vehicles, is basically theft.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PS5) – £41.99

It just came out! And now you can grab BioWare’s epic action role-playing game at a hefty discount. It’s not as deep or as fascinated with dice rolls as the entry in the valuable series, but on the whole that’s a good thing. Think Mass effect with elf ears.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage (PS5 & PS4) – £17.99

AssCreed is such a Christmas game, isn’t it? The perfect way to spend those magical days off, just you, a confrontational sized box of sweets, a Sports Direct mug with a pint of tea and a historical RPG stealth open world game to lose yourself in. Mirage returns to the series. Its roots lie in 9th century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age – magnificent views from rooftops, rolling sand and a very inconspicuous game protagonist “hiding” at the top of a tower.

UFC 5 (PS5) – £27.99

Family disagreements are an unavoidable fact of life during the Christmas holidays. Buy this, load it up, then beat up your teenage cousin who thinks he’s going to be famous on TikTok and keeps bragging about his Dogecoin wallet.

F1 24 (PS5 & PS4) – £20.99

Not just a racing game with the license to simulate the pinnacle of motorsport, but a role-playing game set in this diamond-studded universe. Codemasters career mode in F1 24 is so deep and engaging that you care deeply about the results of the training sessions and lie awake at night thinking about how to resolve your bitter rivalry with someone genuinely nice and normal, like Alexander Albon. As long as you never take it into the public multiplayer lobbies, your fantasy of F1 stardom is safe.

Xbox Store: Xbox Series X/S

No Man’s Sky – £15.99

18 trillion planets to explore and now, after many years of updates, there’s actually something to do when you land on them. NMS is an incredible turnaround after a poorly received launch, and it can now be considered the best space exploration survival sandbox thing on the market. As for value for money, 18 trillion planets for £15.99 equates – if you wear one – to £8.88 \times 10^{-18} pounds per planet. Bargain.

Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 – Turbocharged – £8.99

Old school channeling Micromachines Games from the 16-bit era, Milestone’s Hot Wheels Unleashed The series leaves all the hustle and bustle behind and offers simple, lightning-fast arcade racing with great attention to detail on the titular toy cars. Also ideal for playing with younger racers.

Resident Evil 2 Remake – £7.99

How to recreate a classic game. Technically speaking, Capcom was unsentimental in updating the survival horror classic, ditching the old camera, controls, dialogue and graphics in favor of modernized equivalents. But the spirit of Resi 2 feels untouched. More frightening than Max Verstappen’s passenger seat, full of atmosphere and well under a tenner.

Descenders – £15.99

A brilliantly designed downhill mountain bike racing game with rogue-like and procedural elements that bring a real sense of risk to tabletop play. You complete events on three different world maps, working your way up to the “Boss Jump”: always a ridiculously steep stunt with a technical landing that tenses every muscle in your body until your tires hit the dirt again.

Lies of P – £29.99

Pinocchio doesn’t see us as a prerequisite for a Soulslike game, but that doesn’t make us game developers. Neowiz Games saw something in the story of the little wooden boy whose nose grows when he lies and decided it was the perfect setting for a ruthlessly challenging action RPG full of boss battles, and we can only praise their vision. If you download it, it will be a spooky Christmas but a worthwhile New Year.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 – £19.99

Look, it’s not like anyone gets bored driving, but sometimes it’s nice to have an excuse to get out of the car and start fiddling with your insides. This game offers just that excuse and is also a surprisingly deep business management game. Accept orders via email and perform brake pad changes and engine replacements to your heart’s content on a variety of vehicles, from basic to high-performance cars.