Facepunch Studios is celebrating its fifteenth birthday and throwing an enormous half-off sale to have a good time it

As a Birmingham lassie myself, I do have a patriotic tender spot for Facepunch Studios. The British developer has produced some mainstay PC gaming bangers: Garry’s Mod modified the face of my YouTube beneficial for a number of years, and gamers proceed to run round as bare blokes smacking timber with rocks in Rust. 

Facepunch additionally turned 15 years outdated earlier this summer season which is a fairly large milestone, particularly on this trade. It is actually a trigger for celebration, which suggests the studio is throwing an enormous ol’ sale to have a good time its decade-and-a-half existence. Proper now you may get Facepunch’s complete library of video games, DLC and soundtracks for a tidy 50% off from now until July 22 on Steam.

There’s PvP survival crafting sport Rust, which is presently going for $19.99/£17.49. The sport’s offered over 17 million copies because it launched over 10 years in the past, frequently making an look on the record of Steam’s greatest sellers. 

I’ve by no means performed Rust myself however discovered far too many hours of enjoyment watching my friends construct bases and kind alliances with strangers over muffled voice chat. We gave the sport an 80 in our Rust review again in 2018, with Luke Winkie writing: “I believe everybody ought to at the least have a style of Rust. It is onerous to consider many different video games which might be this uncompromising in its worldview, and I am completely entranced with how little religion it has in our skill to get alongside. We might construct a utopia on this island! … I like how Facepunch dangles that potential in entrance of our face, with no actual incentive pushing us in any route.”

If it someway is not already in your Steam library, you may as well nab a replica of Garry’s Mod for $4.99/£3.49. Seems it is really bought a Guinness World Report for being the very best promoting PC-exclusive sport, shifting over 22 million copies during the last 18 years. It is an actual timeless traditional that is all the time ripe for potential due to its group, being the originator of some large user-created sport mods and moes like Prop Hunt, Jailbreak, and Hassle in Terrorist City. It is also been dwelling to some well-known machinima like Shelf-Life and Haven. 

It is powerful sufficient pushing out one legacy sport that finally ends up with a shocking quantity of endurance, however Facepunch has someway managed to do it twice. We have finished tons of neat interviews with founder Garry Newman over time too, which it is best to most positively take a look at. From how a “total accident” led to Garry’s Mod’s funniest feature to the immense player freedom Rust offers, it is value testing all of the neat issues Newman and workforce have managed to perform over time.