Buggy GOG as usual, wrong countdown clock.

Nine Parchments has nice price, and other titles are tempting, too.

Interesting sale. Not sure why there's a Nine Parchments background as it is not on sale.

EDIT: Ah, there it is!

GOG have fixed it.

Hotline Miami should list "soundtrack" as one of the goodies since the in-game music is in the game's folder as .ogg files. Worth it for that alone. The game itself is great too.

Is Convoy more or less a tower defense game or am I WAAAAY off on that?

Just throwing this out here: Hotline Miami 2 is crap.

Now that I've got your attention. It's not entirely true but it is a spoiling of the great simple concept of the first one.

Making the player oblivious to what is off screen without any way to see what is happenning there, is bad design imho.

I endorse Steamworld Dig 1/2 and Finding Paradise among others... Having played a bit of it, one of the mechanics is relative to that but from far away, as you control the vehicles during the action phase.

I've taken Lilly Looking Through.
For $1 I can't be wrong ;)

It almost sold at the price in every big promo.

It's possible :)
During big sales I'm usually focused on my wishlist and/or bundles offering exceptional discounts. I suppose there is still a lot of titles I don't know. I sometimes buy games during Weekly Sale and Daily Deal only because they've finally grabbed my attention.

I recommend MagRunner, which I think it's really underrated and not appreciated enough. To me it's better than qube or Portal (I didn't play QUBE 2 or Portal 2 however). Puzzles are fun to solve and the game is fairly long, especially compared to mentioned titles.
If you like these kind of FPP puzzle/logic games, then you should definitely grab it.

Considering I have to rely on laptops for work reasons (no point in buying an expensive desktop just because of video games, since it's not video games who pay the rent and the bills or put food on my table), I welcome this Weekly Sale aimed at those of us with more modest (and sometimes actually crappy) machines.

I know this is not up to GOG, but to the publishers and distributors of the games, but it's a shame that Torchlight, Torchlight II and Rebel Galaxy haven't been included in the sale, because those three games work great on laptops and older, weaker machines (the Torchlight games even have a "netbook mode"); they manage to still look good while using fewer resources. Of the games I own on GOG, these three are definitely something I recommend people with lower-specced PCs to get, along with Owlboy, Super Time Force Ultra, The Guest, Grim Dawn, Aegis Defenders, Stick it to the Man!, Guacamelee, any of the Shantae games (even the newest one, 1/2 Genie Hero, runs like a charm on laptops) or even Hyper Light Drifter -- though this last one is kind of a RAM hog, so you should have AT LEAST 4GB RAM for it to run decently (I tried playing it on an older laptop with only 2GB RAM, and while it did run, it took more than 15 minutes just to start, all the while slowing the computer to a crawl).

As for the games in this promo, I don't know how well the X series will run on modest laptops; my understanding is that they tend to be very resource-intensive, and unless you have a gaming laptop, I don't think your run of the mill "mid-to-low-tier" carry-around PC will be able to run them in a satisfactory manner. Finding Paradise is apparently a great game, but it's not really optimized to run on lower-end machines; I tried running it on two different laptops, but it freezes and slows down so much that I eventually gave up (which is odd, because both To The Moon and A Bird Story could probably run on a toaster) and uninstalled it. Maybe the devs addressed this and released a patch in the meantime, but I don't remember seeing an update for that game. Everything else IS very laptop-friendly, indeed, a good selection of new-ish games that you can play on your laptops while on vacation. If you haven't, already, you should get the Hotline Miami games (or at least the first one) and the Steamworld Dig series (I'm not a big fan of Heist, but I can -- and will -- vouch for Steamworld Dig and Steamworld Dig 2).

Well, it's an interesting sale. Shame that pretty much everything has three or three-and-a-half star reviews, though. The only games that would have drawn my attention (To the Moon, Bird Story, and Finding Paradise) were bought ages ago.

Honestly, I'd have welcomed some older games (Roller Coaster Tycoon, SimCity 3000 and lower). They'd tie in with the theme, but also be much more tempting to buy.

I like how you highlight steamworld games, while, say, steamworld heist didnt receive ANY (atleast based on subforum's thread and mentions in "what did just update") updates. While regional prices for steamworld dig 2 may be higher than on steam (basic, without sales. And yes, I've reported that to support - its doesnt seem to be a glitch, but rather developer's position).
Not to mention steamworld dig (not sequel) being a drm-free title on steam (didnt require client to launch - only for initial download) for years, but then suddenly receiving an update adding nothing but steamworks drm in.

Inb4: this post has nothing to do with gag, just a highlight of a developer, in case anybody is intrested in their games