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Summer is here, and so is the itch.io Summer Sale! Creators across the site have put discounts on thousands of games, game assets, tabletop RPGs, soundtracks, and more.

Running now until July 6th, you’ll find over 30,000 projects on sale, including 4,500+ games, 14,000+ game assets, and 2,700+ tabletop games. Whether you’re picking up something to play on a long summer afternoon, grabbing assets for your next project, or stocking up on tabletop adventures, there’s plenty to look through.

Looking for picks tailored to you? Your library has personalized Summer Sale recommendations drawn from the games you already own and the things you’ve shown interest in. It’s a quick way to find discounted games you might have missed. You can also browse everything from the main sale page.

If you’re a developer who wants to join the sale, you can create a promotion directly from your dashboard, where there’s a prefilled link to make it easy to participate.

Introducing the Sale Explorer

As part of the summer sale, we’re introducing a new way to browse the tens of thousands of pages on sale. The Sale Explorer is a brand new browsing experience that lets you quickly filter and exclude pages by their tags and classifications to find exactly what you’re looking for. The sale explorer is automatically activated on the sales page during a site-wide promotion.

The Sales Explorer has quite a few enhancements from our regular browse page. (We hope to backport many of these in the future to our standard browse page.)

• Exclusion filters: Want to completely exclude a particular tag or classification? Click the X and it will not be included in the results.
• Subcategory counts: When viewing any listing page, you can see all the most popular subcategories that you can filter on and the number of projects contained from within.
• Accurate price filters: You can filter projects by their final sale price so you can find a deal that meets your budget.
• Staff Picks filter: This filter sorts projects that our team has reviewed to be interesting and possibly worth your time up towards the top. This is on by default, but if you want to see everything, you can toggle it off with the checkbox.
• My recommendations: We’re experimenting with a new recommendation system that sorts items based on your account’s interests. Pages that have similar tags and classifications to stuff you’ve previously interacted with will be sorted towards the top.
• Find Similar: Enabling the similar mode will resort the results such that projects with a similar set of classifications are sorted to the top.

Sale Highlights

Here are a few highlights from the sale to get you started:

A Short Hike

A little exploration game about hiking up a mountain. You play as Claire, making your way to the summit of Hawk Peak Provincial Park, climbing and gliding across the island at your own pace. Along the way you can chase down collectibles, fish, and chat with the other hikers you meet on the trail.

OneShot

A surreal puzzle adventure where you guide a child named Niko through a dying world, carrying a lightbulb that may be its last sun. OneShot is aware that it’s a game, and some of its puzzles reach beyond the window and into your computer itself.

Andromeda Six

A sci-fi visual novel that puts you aboard a starship with a crew of six you can get to know over the course of the story. Your choices shape your relationships as the journey unfolds.

Lancer Tactics

A turn-based mecha RPG adapted from the Lancer tabletop game. Build and customize your mechs, then take them into grid-based tactical battles. It draws on the Lancer setting for players who already know the tabletop game, and works as a starting point for those who don’t.

OBSCURA

“No one goes under the mountain without a reason.” OBSCURA is a horror game from Rotten Raccoons that sends you below ground into the dark.

Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator

A sandbox strategy game where you set up a free-for-all of nations across multiple maps and watch the wars play out, with randomization, statistics, and history tracking along the way. You can draw your own countries and let the simulation run, or step in and direct the conflict yourself.

What are you picking up this summer? Let us know in the comments!

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