Last edit: All the winners have been drawn and contacted - check your inboxes if you haven’t yet.
Thank you all once again for commenting and all the positive responses. Might just do another giveaway in the future when applicable!
Also huge thank you to all the people who were generous enough to contribute to the giveaway - be it via codes or money. I appreciate it hugely and the people who won likely do too. 💜
Hey guys! As a little thank you to the community and in light of the current ongoing Steam Summer Sale, I would like to give a little back to the community: I’m giving away a number of soulslikes and soulslike-adjacent titles. I’m not made of money, so sadly, I can’t give away the “best” titles there are (Edit: They’re getting better by the hour now 😂), but there should be something interesting in the mix here. :D
I’m giving away copies of:
- 2x Hollow Knight (thanks to TheOakTree 💜)
- 5x Blasphemous (thanks to TheOakTree 💜)
- Nioh: Complete Edition
- Mortal Shell
- Thymesia
- The Surge 2
- Elden Ring (thanks to Demigodrick 💜)
- Dust: An Elysian Tail (thanks to p3e7 💜)
- Lies of P (thanks to an anonymous donation 💙)
Requirements:
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Post a comment here. Ideally, you’ll include which of these titles you already have, so you don’t get a duplicate in case you are pulled as a winner.
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You need to be from the EU. Because of regional pricing differences affecting which countries can be sent Steam gits to (needs to be within a 10% price difference between the two countries), I cannot send you a gift if the difference in pricing is too big. Gift cards would be a solution, but I don’t have that much money :]
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You need to be subscribed to the community at the time of entering the giveaway (no minimum amount of time being subscribed). You don’t need to be a Lemmy.Zip user either. However, your account needs to have been created before 20th June 2025.
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You need to have a Steam account (duh) and be fine with adding me on Steam, so I can gift the game to you. From my research, a 3-day period of us being friends is not required here since I’m not gifting a gift card but a game.
The giveaway will be open for 48 hours how many hours it is until Friday (lol) from when the post is live on 30th June 2025 to 10 pm CET on 2nd 4th July.
The giveaway will be handled by Zippy Bot ie. the winners will be pulled automatically. This means that at the end of the giveaway, I will lock the thread and Zippy will pull six seven eight 14 random entries as winners. The six seven eight 14 winners will be given the games from top to bottom in order of messages received. Wishes for certain games will be taken into consideration where possible.
Should the order I get you pulled as a winner coincide with a game you already own, we might be able to do some switcheroos with the other winners - we’ll have to see when it’s time.
This is the first time I’m doing a giveaway like this, so please don’t rip my head off if something goes wrong - I’ll do my best. :D
Ninja Edit: An informal request of mine would be that if you’re pulled as a winner, that you consider making a post about the game you won. It can be your experience with the game, why you like it/don’t like it etc. It helps contribute a little to the community and people would likely be interested in different perspectives outside my own lol. No pressure tho :]
Another edit: I’ve set the last day of entry to 4th July on Friday, so we can do manual edits and adjustments if something goes wrong
Yet another update: @[email protected] was kind enough to throw in a copy of Elden Ring to give away too, so there’s 7 people winning something here. :)
Tired of these edits yet?: @[email protected] was also kind enough to add a different game to the mix: Dust: An Elysian Tail. Thank you!
ediiiiiiiiit: @[email protected] came in clutch and donated another 16€ for the giveaway. Theoretically it’s meant for half of a copy of Lies of P, if someone wants to chip in that is, or for several more copies of Blasphemous and Hollow Knight. I’ll give this a day or two to see if someone wants to pay the other half - otherwise, there’ll be a couple more winners in the end. :D Thank you, oh mighty Oak Tree 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
more edits: thanks to an anonymous donation, we can offer a full copy of Lies of P now. The funds we had recently received for half the copy will be used for more Blasphemous and HK now. :)
Thank you for being part of the community and enjoy your week!
Congratulations to the winners of this giveaway: TheEighthDoctor, underscore_, Outwit1294, grinka, ddv, PhireFloofski, errror, Bassman27, ddash, p3e7, shittydwarf, count_duckula, yetAnotherUser, donuts!
The winners of this giveaway have been drawn randomly by ZippyBot.
Thank you! Good luck everyone!
How nice! I believe Steam changed the cool down to 7 days instead of 3, but that shouldn’t be a problem to anyone involved.
Also not all games have regional restrictions, it should show on the Steam Store page whether it is locked to a region, and if so, to which countries. Good luck everyone!
Wait, is it a cooldown for the number of gifts you can send or is the minimum days required to be friends before I can send a gfft?
According to my research, I can send someone a gift immediately after befriending them, but there seems to be a limit on how many gifts I can send to different people because their fraud detection doesn’t like that.
Do you know which of the two it is?
Days to wait until you can gift a new friend something. I imagine this is to prevent shady / fraudulent transactions, but I’m not sure.
In 2019 it was 3 days (personal experience), but I’m seeing posts of this year that speak of 7 days. I wish Steam just had this info on their site, would have been a lot easier
Huh, I thought that only applied to gifting store credit and vouchers. I’ll have to see for myself in a couple hours, then. Thanks for the info
Yea for sure. Most of the info I’ve found was either buried in forum posts, at least they were on Steam, or was inconclusive. Weird
Heyo! Thanks for this! I’ve only got Eldenring and would love to be included in the draw!
Thanks for doing this! Commenting because I am interested.
To be honest only interested in Hollow Knight, it’s been on my wishlist for ever. So if you pull something else for me, feel free to give it to someone else!
Are you sure? I respect that if you are
Yes!
Awesome, thanks for doing that! I don’t want anything though, just leaving a thumbs up :)
I suck at souls like games, but it did get to the second stage of the boss in Elden Ring, never finished it tho.
Edit: I would be down to write a post venting my frustrations in dying over and over again
Awesome :)
Yea it’s always a journey to get started in the genre. But once you get going and it clicks, there’s no coming back :D
I’m in! I don’t have any of these, so anything would be nice!
I don’t need a game, but thanks for doing this.
You claim you can’t include “the best” games, and yet you have included Hollow Knight. I’m disgusted by the insinuation.
I’ll have to edit the post for sure now since a copy of Elden Ring was thrown into the mix too :D
I’m with you on this. I also throughly enjoyed Blasphemous, and am looking forward to starting Blasphemous 2 soon. Dont need a game, just need more free time!
Not from EU and don’t have steam but cool to see these, good luck all else!
Same, I’ve had my eye on blasphemous for a while and it’s cheap right now, but I just don’t have any time. Great to see a giveaway to build community.
Same, but i don’t game a ton and plan on picking up at least one game this sale so I’ll be fine. Love the idea though ^^
I like this ! (not taking part in the winning, i have the games i am interested in from the list already, and still trying to digest last years steam summer sale. :D
Really cool idea! :]
Not entering (don’t care for Soulslikes nor am I from the EU), but I want to thank you and demigod for doing a giveaway. Anyone willing to do a giveaway, especially with things they’re buying with their own money, is really cool.
Love how this message implies that that person’s name is Demigod Rick
appreciate it 💜🙏🏻
Thanks for doing this. I dont need a game, just cool to see stuff like this.
Good luck to everyone participating!
I have all of the games listed except Thymesia and Mortal Shell.
Though this account was created only yesterday, this is a mirror of my older lemm.ee account so I hope it qualifies? I can’t exactly comment from the old one now.
Normally, that would disqualify you from the giveaway since it’s a hard restriction I have set for the giveaway when creating it - wouldn’t be able to make adjustments now without re-doing the giveaway.
However, we might be able to manually add your account to the giveaway by Friday. Since I know you and can vouch for your prior existence and contributions on here (lol) plus lemm.ee’s recent closure, we can make that exception. :)
I’ve extended the giveaway window to Friday to accommodate for that
I’m on the same boat, but I don’t need another game, even though my hoarding evil me is telling different. I’m happy there’re still these generous gestures to be seen here in fediverse. Good luck to everyone!
Hey, so I’ve been checking the other comments in the thread, and I have to tell you that I’m also using the Ukrainian storefront in Steam as I am physically in Ukraine. So you probably don’t have to bother with adding me to giveaway, as I might not be able to receive the gift anyway even if I win.
No worries - we’ll figure something out if you’re pulled
Thank you! That’s very kind of you :)