Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Steam’s got discounts.
And so should you.
It’s Valentine’s Day, which means one of two things: you’re planning a romantic evening… or you’re planning a romantic evening that just happens to involve a controller, snacks, and yelling “WHY DID YOU JUMP?!” at someone you love.
This week’s Friday Steam Wishlist Sale is dedicated to love in all its forms, romantic love, bestie love, chaotic gremlin co-op love, and that very specific kind of love where you promise not to let your partner starve in a forest and then immediately let them starve in a forest.
Here are the gems that deserve a spot in your heart (and your cart).
Don’t Starve Together
Price: R35 marked down to R105
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Why It’s On Arielle’s Wishlist:
Valentine’s Day is about commitment.
And nothing says commitment like looking your partner dead in the eye and saying, “I’ll gather food,” only to return three days later with twigs.
Don’t Starve Together is the ultimate love allegory. Relationships require effort. Communication. Planning. And occasionally setting a tree monster on fire.
And if you both starve? Well. At least you starved together. That’s romantic.
What Is Don’t Starve Together:
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don’t Starve.
Enter a strange and unexplored world full of odd creatures, hidden dangers, and ancient secrets.
Gather resources to craft items and build structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of “The Constant”.
Cooperate with your friends in a private game, or find new friends online. Work with other players to survive the harsh environment, or strike out on your own.
Do whatever it takes, but most importantly, Don’t Starve.
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
Price: R95 marked down from R190
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Why It’s On Cody’s Wishlist:
Another good-looking pixel-art rogue-lite that promises extensive meta progression.
Sure, that’s a sentence flooded with a load of sales jargon, but it’s worked on me.
Maybe it will work on one or two of you, too.
Also, it looks hella chaotic.
What Is Heroes of Hammerwatch II:
Heroes of Hammerwatch II is a top-down action-RPG with rogue-lite mechanics, where one must build their town for meta-progression, then head on to take down the Dark Citadel with their heroes in either solo or co-op play.
Split Fiction
Price: R599 marked down to R799
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Why It’s On Arielle’s Wishlist:
Not all Valentine’s love stories involve roses and candlelight. Some involve screaming while being chased by a cybernetic troll.
Split Fiction is for the besties. The ride-or-dies. The “we share memes at 2 AM” friendships. The platonic soulmates.
It’s chaotic. It’s creative. It’s giving “we said we’d play for an hour and now it’s 3 AM.”
One minute you’re in a sci-fi fever dream, the next you’re in a fantasy epic.
This is the kind of co-op game that strengthens friendships, or at the very least gives you inside jokes for the next decade.
What Is Split Fiction:
Split Fiction is a co-op action-adventure about two writers, Mio and Zoe, who get trapped inside their own sci-fi and fantasy stories and must work together across wildly shifting worlds and abilities to escape with their memories intact.
Half Sword
Price: R184 marked down from R230
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Why It’s On Cody’s Wishlist:
I saw a streamer play it and couldn’t stop laughing.
That’s pretty much the gist of it.
Now I want to try playing it while laughing at the same time.
What Is Half Sword:
Half Sword is a medival fighting game, with a heavy lean on physics.
Use “historically accurate” weapons and shields to become the king of the ring, or fight your way to the top.
It also features “in-depth” blood. Whatever that means.
It Takes Two
Price: R129 marked down to R649
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Why It’s On Arielle’s Wishlist:
If relationships had a final exam, It Takes Two would be it.
This isn’t just a co-op game. It’s therapy. It’s communication practice. It’s “please stop jumping off the edge for science.”
It’s the ultimate “us against the world” simulator.
You play as a married couple turned into dolls and forced to fix their relationship, which honestly feels less stressful than planning a wedding seating chart.
Every level throws something new at you, from weaponised vacuum cleaners to emotionally aggressive self-help books.
And through all the chaos, the game constantly reminds you that working together is the only way forward.
What Is It Takes Two:
It Takes Two is a co-op-only action-adventure where you and a partner play as Cody and May, a couple magically transformed into dolls who must navigate wildly imaginative levels and repair their fractured relationship by solving inventive, teamwork-focused challenges.
Menace
Price: R299,95 marked down from R399
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Why It’s On Cody’s Wishlist:
This game popped onto my Discovery Feed, and I was instantly hooked by the “turn-based tactical RPG” words it threw at me.
After checking it out a little more, the game actually looks like something I would enjoy, thanks to its futuristic military aesthetic.
Good job, Steam.
What Is Menace:
Menace is a turn-based tactical RPG, where players will lead a strike force of soldiers, mercenaries and even criminals.
Taking control of infantry, vehicles, and mechs to execute the single-player missions with a detailed turn-based structure.
Whether you’re celebrating with your Player 2, your best friend, or that one person who always picks support but secretly carries the team, Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to game together.
Love isn’t about grand gestures. It’s about sharing the snacks. Reviving each other.
Not blaming them when you absolutely walked into that boss attack on your own.
So light the candles. Queue the downloads. And remember:
Couples that game together… stay together.
(Or at least respawn together.)
