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It wasn’t .99 but it was 2.50 at one point, and that was Terraria. Poured over a thousand hours into it. The consistent free mega updates they push out breathe life into it and I’ve been floored how much they’ve supported the game well over a decade since it’s launch. The team there could have just walked away after the 1.1 launch which helped fix some bugs and introduced some new things and called it a wrap. I’m very glad they didn’t
This. Plus the modding community is quite active, I feel like you could throw a few good ones on, play through them, and find updated and new ones half a year later. Easily one of the most timeless games in my library.
Vampire Survivor and Dredge
Dredge is $30
Vampire Survivor is a great game. I'm a little sad 'cause I'm running into the end of the content.
Vampire survivor.
Yeah this is banger. My wife walked up while I was playing it one night and said do you really wanna play this shit looking game instead of fucking me, and I'm like ummm yep
Yeah sure man, we all really believe that you are allowed to play games at night... So farfetched
Pony Island. Don’t look into the game at all. Go in blind. Awesome little gem of a game.
Second this.
Also once you're done, play Dan Mullens other games: The Hex and Inscryption.
Celeste. That game is way more time consuming than I ever would have guessed. High replay value too imo.
Freakin' Terraria, man. Bought it for just six quid on release day and it's gotten me almost 3,000 hours of enjoyment. And I'm one to flit from game to game, too - my library's huge, but Terraria is just that one game I keep coming back to. Just one more playthrough. Let's see what I can get up to this time... (Especially with the new Remix seed!)
The og Knights of the Old Republic. Got it for like $2 years ago, and once I got over the dated graphics the story blew me away. Have since rebought on mobile replay it and it’s sequel frequently.
I picked up Portal 2 during a $2 sale of it. Still one of the best games I've ever played. And it has multiplayer, so it's infinitely replayable
How about a free one? (its free forever)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/404410/Endless_Sky/
This really gave me a "Sid Meijer's Pirates but in space" kind vibe. Ferry goods between ports (planets and station) shoot loot and take enemy ships work on a quest to ~~find your lost family members~~ save the galaxy its great.
To the Moon.
It's a cute little RPG-maker adventure game and by the end of it I was ugly crying
I don't know if a $35 game would count for this, but RimWorld has absorbed vast amounts of my life, and it is a very good game.
I got "To the Moon" for free (steam gift). Not saying I cried, but I cried.
FTL - Faster Than Light is my favorite game of all times and i`m not overstating. Its regularly on sale for around 2 dollars on steam.
Both Portal games, $0.99 (due to the Puzzle Fest). I know I'm late asf but Portal was booming all those years ago but I didn't have any money. I finally got to play both games a few months ago. Portal 1 was cool I guess. Portal 2, however, is probably the best game I've played. The graphics and design, the story, the overall puzzle, the music, I immediately fell in love when I played it.
I bought Minecraft way way back when it was pretty new and nobody was talking about it for about $1.50. Like a month or so later, they dropped the survival update that put it on the map.
Got MC for something like $10 in their early alpha/beta period. Probably my most played game over the last 10+ years with how many times I've gone back to it and dived into one modpack or another. It's just astounding the amount of momentum that game has had, with both Mojang developed content and fan developed.
Titanfall 2 for like 4$ cuz it's rare to find it not on sale these days
Hands down the single best fps I've ever played. And an amazing campaign too.
Tabletop Simulator is around €3 on third party seller sites
And has a massive library of downloadable games in the Steam Workshop!
Seriously, buy the software and you can probably download every board game you've ever heard of to play.
To celebrate Steam coming to OSX, Valve had Portal on sale for 100% off (as in, free).
Mount & Blade: Warband ($3.00), Spacechem ($0.99), Cosmic Star Heroine ($1.50), Doom 1(????)
Man I remember trying the demo for the original Mount & Blade and being instantly hooked, then I pirated it and it was glorious. Warband with it's many mods is one of the best games I have ever played
The bannerlord is very good as well!
I have bought all the games and dlc's on steam since
Closer to $10, but Streets of Rogue. It's a top down roguelite that's...kinda hard to describe. It's one of those games where you can approach situations in multiple ways, from killing everyone, threatening some guy, to just teleporting through a wall and stealing the quest target with nobody the wiser. It's simple but fun and addicting... I'm also fairly bad at it, as I still haven't beaten the game with most of the pre-made classes.
Streets of Rogue 2 is in the works just so you know. I loved the first game and I'm excited for the second.
Not on steam, but Voices of the Void. It'll probably be sold at some point, but for right now it's free on itch.io. It's still in pre-release, but it has more content even now than a lot of fully released games have.
Randomly grabbed the Rusty Lake Hotel for a few bucks, was not expecting it to become my favorite point and click puzzle game of all time.
XCOM2 - I'd heard of it but was never really interested. Then it was either on sale or in a humble bundle (with all its dlc) very cheap (under £10). I absolutely loved it from start to finish and it's made me obsessed with turn-based combat.
Vampire survivors was great, its not .99 but it is still pretty cheap and has been free on epic a few times. But enter the gungeon is one of the best games I have ever played.
exit the gungeon on the other hand is an empty shell of itself. Pun intended.
Dave the Diver is 20 bucks, not a dollar, but it's super relaxing.
Salt and Sanctuary. Great souls like metroidvania with great hand drawn graphics.
I don't have a story like this regarding Steam but the game was Morrowind. I picked it up from a $10 bargain bin at Best Buy having never heard of the game before and the whole open world character sheet thing blew my mind. Prior to that I used to play first person shooters, racing games, and sports games but after playing that I switched to mostly playing RPGs.
Superflight, 3$ normally goes on sale for 0.59$. I've gotten a good 30 hours out of the game so far. Perfect for winding down after a stressful day or playing while talking to friends and passing the controller around.
Once bought Darwinia for 99c in some US store, what an amazing game. Wouldn't mind a remaster or sequel to it.
Brotato - such well spent 5$
It was closer to $10, but Wandersong was worth every penny. It's a puzzle/platformer game where you play a bard, the main gimmick of the game being that you have to sing your way out of any problems you encounter. It feels like something that should get stale, but the game is always thinking up new ways to use the mechanic from communicating with ghosts, to making plants grow, to convincing bugs to move rocks out of your way. Great characters, great story, good soundtrack. Definitely worth trying if it's sitting in your library from a bundle or a sale.
Spaceplan on mobile, it's a fun ride
Not Steam but, GunMan Clive was a great platformer on 3Ds, had a gorgeous art style and the best usage of the 3D-Effect i've ever seen. The game was 99c, not on a sale 99c normally, absolutely wild
Dicey Dungeons. I love roguelike deck builders, but on paper DD has too silly a premise and too much RNG. It's a lowkey masterpiece of game design. I ended up buying it for my switch, android, and steam. If you like games like Slay the Spire or Monster Train, you owe it to yourself to check out Dicey Dungeons. I am not sponsored in any way.