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My first steam game was CS 1.6 because I was forced onto steam to continue playing when steam was first released -_- (I had been playing since 1.3 I believe)
My first purchase was Day of Defeat: Source but no it wasn't a good purchase because I barely played any. I kept on playing regular Day of Defeat as I prefered it over the source version.
If I recall correctly, it was the first Humble Indie Bundle
watch dogs 1 for $5. Couldn't (didnt want) to play it on mouse and keyboard it was annoying and not made for that at all. Waited a year till i could afford it and got myself an oled steam deck to play it (way before it got expensive). Great decision now addicted to my steam deck.
apparently counter strike source, but I don't think I've ever played it
so I'm going to say The Orange Box, technically my second purchase, but I actually played Portal
Cities: Skylines
It's been 18 years, so I don't know exactly which game was first, but I remember hearing about how Steam would honor physical game purchases if the game existed in their store. You just type in the game code of your physical copies and Steam would add them to your library for free.
I added Call of Duty 1 and 2 this way, along with Left 4 Dead and... a few other games that aren't coming to mind now. I remember being upset that my Warcraft WarChest collection and StarCraft wouldn't add to Steam, but I learned years later that Blizzard never sold their games through the Steam store. Well... not until Activision bought them out and sold a few limited games through Steam like Diablo IV and Overwatch.
The first game I actually purchased from the Steam store was probably Half-Life.
18 years later, I have nearly 5,000 games in my Steam library. Their consumer-friendly practices kept me coming back for more games all these years.
EDIT: I checked my purchase history in Steam and I was correct: my first purchase was the Half-Life Anthology and Half-Life 2 Complete. I bought them on October 15th, 2009 for 49,98€. I was stationed in Germany with the US military at the time, which is why the transaction was in euros instead of US dollars.
2010 Torchlight, then Puzzle Quest three times, and then Terraria. Torchlight was for scratching the Diablo II itch, but it didn't really do so for long. $20. Puzzle Quest was pretty addicting, so I gave two others their first hit. $1.50 for each one. Terraria was $10 and I've been playing it on and off for 15 years now.
Torchlight 2 was way better. I actually have far more time playing that than any Diablo game.
In steam (digital purchase) was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2008 but the first game on my account, I think that was The Orange box with Portal and HL2 (physical copy).
Technically, my parents' copy of the physical Elder Scrolls Anthology set, which came with free Steam keys for Morrowind through Skyrim so long as I made an account, which I did. I wouldn't have known about Steam otherwise and was, when I couldn't find physical copies of my games, a loyal WildTangent user 💀
The first game I bought myself was LISA: The Painful, then a friend bought me the whole Valve Complete Pack and I was hooked from there.
Terraria and Dungeon Defenders Ultimate Collection. I had a bunch of free games by then though. It was 2017
Jade Empire in Jan 2008
L4D2, gmod, and Republic Commando together was my first purchase, it was when I got my first laptop in high school. I’d probably give L4D2 the first game credit.
What a great day
Dawn of War II, got it in '09 or '10 I think?
Spintires! My laptop could barely run it, but I had so much fun with it. Still playing Snowrunner today!
Team Fortress 2, back when that had a price. After that was Magicka. Great games both of them. The spell combining in magicka led to hilarious accidental combos, and I loved just parking myself as a heavy with a doctor and an ammo machine.
Apr 20, 2021
The Jackbox Party Pack
The Jackbox Party Pack 2
The Jackbox Party Pack 3
The Jackbox Party Pack 4
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
Shoutout to my buddy Sean; miss you and I know you never liked the drawing games.
Puzzle Quest and Audiosurf are the earliest entries in my history, both purchased in February 2008.
Puzzle quest.
My friend bought me the orange box, ugh I have to install this new "game manager" to play these things, but they look fun....
At the same time "how do I figure out which of these files to torrent when the game is only 50mb? So many viruses are 50mb". Sure enough I download a virus, wipe my computer and create the " 1 dollar per ten megabytes" rule, so long as I'm getting at least 10mB of information per dollar I'd rather pay for it and not risk getting another virus.
Sure enough, puzzle quest just barely fit into that rule, I bought it and have since added a thousand other games (and just recently bought the re-release of puzzle quest!)
I bought half life 1 and gmod at the same time for $20 11 years ago. It was a great purchase
RWBY Grimm Eclypse lmao, definitely not worth the $15 I paid. Was really into RWBY at the time, I wanna say I bought it between seasons 3 and 4, but it might've been before S3, idk.
Spec Ops: The Line $6.59 in 2015. Great game, I had been playing Team Fortress 2 for free for a while at the time. I do remember also getting some game keys included with hardware purchases prior to that as well.
Most of my PC gaming before steam was through CDs and I had a period in between CDs and digital copies where I was exclusively gaming on consoles.
Civ V Complete for € 8,45 in 2016.
Given I clocked some 500ish hours it seems like a good deal.
I think it was Half Life 2... or possibly TES4: Oblivion? I'd played Morrowind before Oblivion and I remember thinking that the graphics were so realistic!
Counter Strike 1.6, I still remember the controversy.
Same. It was a steaming pile of shit back then. It got better