Intro

Hello /r/GiftofGames! /u/XYZGiveaways has kindly sent me more money to spend on the community here - €80! That's approximately £70 or $94 USD.

Want a €80 game? There's a chance, but unless your request is amazing and absolutely blows me away, it's not happening. Want a €30 game? Your request still has to be really good. Want a €5 game? You'll have to convince me, but it shouldn't be too hard, as long as you've not got a bad record, there are still funds left and I can see enthusiasm.

Of course - there's a limited budget and only so many winners. If you don't win this round, you're welcome to enter any future rounds too. People have not won several times in a row and then eventually got gifted, whether it was due to improving their request or just luck.

What Can I Get?

• Games for any platform that I can either purchase the game for or purchase a gift card for as long as it's from a respectable source. Digital or physical are fine. DLC is fine, but keep in mind my choosing criteria.

• Hardware/Accessories - Keep the budget in mind! Need to replace a broken controller? Ask for a cheaper third-party one for a higher chance.

Note: I cannot buy games from GOG.com due to their restrictions. I can get my hands on gift cards for consoles, but not for all countries. Games redeemed via Ubisoft Connect may be an issue. Origin games too, depending on the store.

How do I enter?

• Convince me that you want the game.
• Include the relevant Steam/other relevant profile link
• Mention which region you live in/your account is for.
• Tell me how much it will cost. Bonus points if you've found it cheap on a legit (non-grey market) site. We do not speak of G2Å , ÇÐKëys én€b@ or similar websites.

Doing all of these in a structured way helps me. People who make my life easier in this way may have an advantage in winning.

How will I choose?

First off, feel free to upvote entries you like, but the points don't matter. I'll be choosing based on my own criteria. I read all entries too, so downvoting won't help you.

To convince me, writing a good request is the most common way. Tips on that are linked in the sidebar.

Writing a good request isn't the only way though. Have you shown that you want the game in other ways? I know not everyone is equally good at writing, so leaving this open. Before I gifted someone with one of the worst requests, but they'd played several other games in the series extensively and had proof of such.

Here are my personal thoughts:

• Do I feel that you really want this game? How have you shown that?

• Continuing that - do I feel you'll play the game? Or will it languish in the backlog. Conversely, can I see that you've played several similar games a lot?

• Are you going to get a lot of enjoyment out of this? Value for money helps here too.

If your chosen prize is physical, try to make life easy for me. Tell me how I can get it to you without sending you money.

What lowers my chances?

• The winner will not be based on your personal circumstances. I may even deduct points for sob stories.

• If I see you've not played previous games gifted, that's a very bad sign.

• Choosing something expensive won't definitely stop you from winning, but it'll definitely lower your chances. If one person wants a AAA game at $60 while twelve people want Among Us, you'll have some convincing to do.

• I do have a 'negative list'. People not to gift due to being serious rule breakers or just to give extra scrutiny to if I've seen things like dishonesty.

Time Limit

At least 24 hours. It will likely close soon after this, but may remain open longer if there are a lack of entries or if other circumstances require it.

Things to Remember

• You need to name a specific game. No requests for gift cards to save, only for ones for a specific purpose that you'll be using immediately to buy the game on receiving them.

• It has to both be from somewhere that I can buy from and not a dodgy site.

• Console requests may be more expensive than they appear. For example, a $2.50 game might only be grantable by a $10 gift card, which also has a surcharge of $2 to buy online, bringing it to $12.

• There's also that currency conversion and costs in different regions are a thing - currency I receive is in €EUR, but I primarily buy in £GBP and you might be looking at a $USD price.

• If it's a request where I need to send you Steam money as it's significantly cheaper in your region, we need to be friends for 72 hours first. If the game is on sale and this is the case, then make sure it doesn't end soon. Otherwise the request will be at the UK price.

• You may not request: Money, Accounts, lootboxes or microtransactions (as per subreddit rules).

Final Reminder

Read through the above, but one of the most important things to keep in mind - choose your request wisely. Is something cheap? Is it in a bundle currently? Is it on sale? The more expensive your request is, the higher the bar is.

Is There Any Deal is a useful tool to look at game prices with. /r/GameDeals is great too. If it's cheap in your region on Steam and not on a sale that ends soon, we can work with that.

If you've entered one of the previous offers - if you didn't win, there might be a reason. Some people would've been gifted if there was enough budget or the other requests weren't so good that day, but some weren't convincing, some hadn't played previous gifts, some were asking for something expensive, etc. This could be a good time to look at your request and try to improve it.

DO NOT DM TO ENTER

Bonus Keys

An anonymous donor has donated the following keys. If you would like one of these, feel free to say so and write a short reason why. These are in addition to the normal request for anything within €60. You can enter for either or both. As these keys come from elsewhere, we cannot guarantee them.

American Fugitive

Little Misfortune

Smile For Me

Tsioque

Rover Mechanic Simulator

Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt

UK Nintendo Switch trial 7 day code

Gifted

Starting Balance: £71

/u/CelestialRoze - Total War: Warhammer II - Spent £13.59

Lots of playtime in Warhammer games. Enough in a Total War game to know whether they'll like the series. Has been on wishlist for some time. History of looking into the game.

Remaining: £57.41

/u/Jayy66 - Oxygen Not Included - Spent £9.49

Lots of time in Don't Starve Together, has been asking for a while, played a previous gifted game

Remaining: £47.92

/u/Manntias - Catherine Classic - Spent £7.49

Multiple previous attempts for the game, quite a lot of time in JPG/anime games

Remaining: £40.43

/u/kaydaaawg - Hollow Knight (Switch) - Spent £5.82

Playing previous gift about 15 hours so far, has been entering giveaways for Hollow Knight for quite long.

Remaining: £34.61

/u/Carliewarliee - Nippon Marathon (PC) - Spent £2.87

Has been asking for it previously, cheap.

Remaining: £31.74

/u/ughdelaide - TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX® SIEGE - DELUXE EDITION YEAR 5 - Spent £6.86

Made a decent request for it long ago, plays a few FPS games a lot, played previous gift a lot

Remaining: £24.88

/u/Revotry - Hitman: Blood Money - Spent £1.67

Cheap, a few games with high playtime where stealth is important, has talked about Hitman previously

Remaining: £23.21

/u/Geekboy07 - Halo 3 ODST - Spent £2.59

Has been on about Halo for a while, Almost 100 hours in the Halo collection, already tried it in beta

Remaining: £20.62

/u/spartanwolf223 - Sniper Elite 4 - Spent £5.99

Wishlist for long time, has a stealth game with high playtime, previous request

Remaining: £14.63

/u/Daigo_Dojima - Halo 3 - Spent £4.54

Played previously gifted game a lot, good request.

Remaining: £10.09

/u/Leonaides04 - Fallout 3 GOTY - Spent £4.94

Played previous gifts and other Fallout Games

Remaining - £5.15

/u/Chokelz - Among Us - Spent £3.19

Played similar game, cheap

Remaining - £1.96