All good things must come to an end. In 24 hours, the current Steam Autumn/Thanksgiving sale will be closing its doors, and approximately fifty hojillion games will be returning to normal price until the inevitable Winter/Holiday sale. They’re not going out without a bang, though, and they’ve saved some of the best indie deals for last. After the break, our roundup of today’s noteworthy discounts, and the best of the rest.

First up is Greed Corp, by Vanguard Games. 75% off for today, it’s a brutally competitive digital board-game, best played with friends and/or sworn enemies. In a last-man standing competition over dwindling resources, the key gameplay element is that each turn a hex on the board is harvested for resources to build up your army with, it shrinks. Shrink it too far, and it collapses altogether off the map, meaning that the available space is constantly dwindling as the armies grow. A neat steampunk aesthetic ties this one together, but it really doesn’t have much bearing on what’s a nice, simple, high-tension boardgame to play with friends. Just don’t go expecting much of a singleplayer campaign – it’s just not nearly as fun played against the AI.

Demolition Inc. by Zero Scale Entertainment is also rocking a 75% discount today. A physics-based action puzzle about a helpful alien construction working returning a planet (namely, ours) to nature. How? By blowing up everything man-made. Each level, you’re given a limited number of demolition tools, ranging from straight explosives to car-diverting oil slicks to destroy a region of city. It’s fairly reminiscent of Blast Corps back on the N64 in some regards, although the game really makes you use each tool with pinpoint precision – there’s not much wiggle room on a lot of levels for error.

And last but by no means least, is a larger-scale indie release – 75% off Section 8: Prejudice. Timegate Studios are a comparatively large outfit, but they proudly proclaim themselves to be self-funded, self-owned and resolutely independent. Initially released at a budget price, this remarkably large multiplayer sci-fi FPS offers somewhat slower, more heavyweight combat than other games in the genre. Power-armored troops skydive out of orbiting cruisers instead of spawning directly onto the map, and team holdings are defined by who has more anti-air stuff set up. In addition to a rather hefty multiplayer side, there’s a remarkably well fleshed out singleplayer campaign, too, which should provide a good 5 hours of play and introduce you to most of the gameplay mechanics.

As this is the last day of sales, and nothing else is going to be put on daily deal, this seems as good a time as any to point out some other particularly neat indie discounts that’ll be expiring in the next 24 hours:

Edit: One extra deal, and one that I had to jump on is the mega-scale space strategy game Star Ruler, which is currently 80% off. Heard a lot of good things about it (this is the re-launched version, after about a hundred major patches and updates), and Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviewed it a while back with a lot of good to say.

The newly released and rather bright and chaotic co-op tower-defense/shooter hybrid Dungeon Defenders is currently 50% off, along with most of its DLC. It’s still in very active development, with the developers seemingly rebalancing it every other day while constantly releasing new content.

Million-selling Indie Mining Metroidvania Megahit Terraria is also 50% off – now would be a very good time to get it, as there’s an enormous update coming December 1st that is set to double the size of the game or more.

The Gundemonium Collection (as rather positively reviewed here) is rolling at half price here, too. Not quite as polished as Jamestown, perhaps, but you get three very fleshed-out shmups for the price of one.

On a more cerebral note, Arcen Games’ Tidalis is 80% off for the next day. A block-matching puzzle game with more than a few twists, and a shockingly well fleshed out campaign mode in addition to a whole raft of arcade and competitive/co-op modes.

Jason Rohrer’s quirky and infinitely recursive fractal shooter Inside A Star-Filled Sky is 75% off as well. Worth a look if you want something a little more experimental wrapped around your arcade arena-shooters.

Indie horror masterwork Amnesia: The Dark Descent is 50% off at the moment, too. Expanded by the original developers during the Portal 2 ‘Potato Pack’ sale, this has since spawned a whole range of shockingly good and complete mods.

There are just a couple of the dozens/hundreds of discounts just from the designated Indie sub-section of the Steam storefront. Perhaps you’ll even have time to play a few of them to completion before the next sale happens, eh?

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