It’s that time of year again: contributing to the financial instability of the Epic Game Store. And this time around, Sweeny is extra committed to going deeper into the red with an endless 33%-off coupon that stacks with existing sales + 10% “cash back” that you get unlocked 10 days later. While the 33%-off only applies to purchases $14.99 and above, you can get the discount by adding more than one cheap game together in the same cart.

I’m being a bit flippant here, but I’m actually pretty surprised at the deals at hand. Here is what is on my wishlist (prices do not include the 10% cash back):

• Untitled Goose Game – $6.69
• Assassins Creed Odyssey: Standard Edition – $8.09 (Game Pass)
• Assassins Creed Valhalla: Standard Edition – $10.04
• Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria – $13.39
• Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: Chaotic Edition – $13.39
• God of War – $16.74
• Far Cry 6: Gold Edition – $16.74
• My Time at Sandrock – $21.46
• Dying Light 2: Winter Tales Edition – $24.11
• Alan Wake 2 – $26.79
• Dead Island 2: Gold Edition – $32.15

Steam’s Winter Sale will not be kicking off for another week, but I would be very surprised if it beat any of these prices. For example, I don’t anticipate that My Time at Sandrock will go from 20% off at Thanksgiving to 50% during Christmas. And even if it did for some reason, that will basically just achieve price parity.

In any case, I’m not about to just purchase everything on that list. At a certain point, it’s less about Patient Gamer and/or Wait Until Game Pass and more about not setting oneself up for failure. I like the Assassins Creed games, but I haven’t played the last five or them, and it’s doubtful I would jump in and plow through the ones that take 100 hours to complete or whatever. Same with God of War. I played the first two way back in the day, and nothing since. Would I enjoy my time? Sure. But I still haven’t gotten around to Red Dead Redemption 2 after a year and a half.

Of course, none of that really matters. What matters is: what do I want to play right now. Sometimes it is bullshit farming sims to mindlessly pass the time, and other times it is Serious Business Games. More so the former than the latter these days, honestly.