apparently cities skylines on 14 march 2015

Counter Strike Source, June 25th 2010

The orange box. ~$50. Great purchase.

The Orange Box. Greatest gaming value-for-your-buck there ever was.

Skyrim.

the orange box

Call of Duty Black Ops 1. It needed something called a "steam qccount" to work? Couldn't just install and play it straight from the disk?

Race: the WTCC Game was my first Steam game, I’ve bought a CD of the game and it came with a Steam key. I’ve pretty much forgotten about it until I heard of this new game called Portal 2 and it needs a Steam account to buy. Tried registering and whoops, you already have an account on this email.

The game itself currently cannot be purchased on its own , the bundle the game’s included costs 40$ which i don’t think is worth just for that game.

Currently I have 250 games bought and 700ish more with Family Share.

Zeno Clash i 2009

Mine is Subnautica in 2015 for $18. I currently have about 200 hours playtime on it. Also have 140 hours on below zero.

The oldest game on my account is Torchlight 2, but first purchased game was Ascension, the deckbuilding game. Or the Crucible DLC for Grim Dawn if that counts.

Portal in 2007!

the og sierra retail box of counter-strike is my steam originator code.

my purchase history wouldn't go back far enough for the few steam sales items i have on it. the only other retail box added was hl2 the week it came out.

I don't have a clue. I would have guessed Half-Life or Counterstrike, but those predate Steam. Diablo was Blizzard.

TF2 after playing the orange box at a friend's.

I don't even have to look it up because I still remember it fondly. In I think 2013 I bought Company of Heroes

Surprised on this one, but it's actually Geometry Dash. I already played it on mobile, but know it was better to play on PC. Got Cities Skylines soon after.

The Talos Principle. That was in 2016, when I created my Steam account. It was also the first game I bought legally. I will now proceed to install it on my Steam Deck.

Garry's Mod

I grew up as a console kid so I apparently didn't buy a game on steam til 2017 but it was civ 3 complete edition and cities skylines. Edit: I did have PC games but always bought them separate. I remember zoo tycoon 1/2/ultimate, red alert 1/2 as early games

My first game on Steam was Counter Strike, but I had already been playing the retail release for a while. They had some one-time activation to bring over your CD key. When they launched Steam, it was horrible. Remember, this was the time of single core processors (Pentium 4), so any anything that interrupted the cpu would effect your FPS. Plus it was buggy and crashed all the time.

I boycotted Steam and Valve and kept playing pre-steam CS 1.6 till the Orange Box came out. But TF2, Portal, and HL2 plus episode 1 was too good of a deal to pass up, and I had a new AMD Athlon that felt like a beast at the time.

Kinda sad I forgot my original account, would have been neat to have an account as old as Steam. Oh well.

According to my history, Killing Floor was the first game I actually bought in July 2012 but I installed DC Universe Online (gross) alongside it.

Age of Empires II HD.

Half life 2

Counter Strike: Source

Terraria back in 2014

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People in 2009 50% off for ~18€. Presumely because the game was full price on the Telltale site.

And it was a really good decision.

The Orange Box - well, technically Steam came with it...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, in 2006

I‘m old - Half-Life 2 in the box. I had dial-up. Needless to say I loathed Steam and it’s puke green interface through the 00s. I’m still not exactly fond of it.

Half Life 2 retail standard. August 18, 2005.

I didn't even know that this list was available. There's a ton of games on there that I've never played because I bought them to play after I upgraded my computer and forgot about them. I have a steam deck now and really should go back and try them out.

No sort or search function?

First game I activated was a retail copy of Half-Life Platinum Pack, in August 2004. I had made by account few months earlier just for fun right after Steam originally launched.

The first games I bought from Steam specifically was the Orange Box, and AudioSurf in 2007.

The orange box was $61, which inflation adjusted means it cost $99 :)

Aliens vs predator classic 2000.

According to this page my first in store purchase was Audiosurf in 2008, and yeah - great decision and great game. I put 80 hours into it for $10.

But my actual first "steam game" was Half Life 2 in a box from a department store

Just cause 2. Bought a physical copy and was confused why I needed an internet connection.