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.
Another Terraria vet who got it for $5 (and several more licenses to give to friends.) While I didn’t build hoiktronics computers with it, I got very involved with the logic gates.
I really like that game and I think I got it at full price. While it doesn’t scratch the same itch for me as Stardew Valley, both are amazing.
2000 hours here, it’s not favorite game of all time
Same, I got it for 2.50 in 2012 and I’ve played around 500 hours. It’s surprising the amount of content they’ve added to the game over the years.
I still remember the surprise I got when I found out there was a boss battle at the underworld, and beating it unlocked even more and better stuff. At that point I think the last bosses you could fight were the mechanical bosses and the best armor was the Hallowed set.
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.
God dude, Vampire Survivors consumed like 3 weeks straight of my life when I bought it. I feel like a crackhead any time I pick that game up again lol.
Dredge is $25 though
It was 4.99 when I got it.
Really? The lowest historically recorded price for the game is $16.74 usd on fanatical and $19.99 usd on steam. source
I got it on sale too, but I don’t remember what I paid for it. Fantastic game.
$5 in the same vein as Vampire Survivors, I have loved Halls of Torment
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
Haha, reminds me of this kid in General chat in WoW once who thought that once he got married he’d literally never have to jerk off again cause his wife would “take care of that.”
And more recently, Halls of torment. I’m so excited for upcoming updates cause I couldn’t help completing it 100%.
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.
Oh wait, Inscryption was made by the same guy? That explains a lot.
Yep. I beat Hex. I stopped playing Inscryption by the 2nd “phase” (I don’t know what it’s called, but you know what I mean). I’m having a difficult time picking it back up.
The 2nd and 3rd acts of the game were a bit weaker than the first one(to the point where they released a version that is just an endless act 1) but the ending of the game was incredible
Trying to take your advice and not look into the game. Can you tell us what genre this is?
I haven’t played it in years. I guess would say puzzle platformer? It reminds me most of Undertale and it’s a little hard to nail down a specific category. It’s much more than it appears. I would say there’s very little replayability.
I never could get far in it. I have absolutely terrible hand-eye coordination for the exact type of action the game presents. I’ve never gotten past the second round of pony levels. I’ve lost at least 30 times in stage 4 (the second stage with floating demon heads). I just can’t do both things at once.
Which is a shame. The puzzle part of the game is great. I wish there were a way to skip the action parts. I forgot all about it til your comment here. I might just have to give in and watch a let’s play of it.
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!)
Yeah I can’t get into the game too much, I prefer playing with friends but none of them are online. Are there servers or something on there?
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 played it on the original Xbox and I’ve had it for iOS/ipados forever and it’s just bullshit I can’t play it on my AppleTV, it kinda lends itself to the remote more than the touchscreen.
That’s a shock to me - didn’t realize it’s not on AppleTV. I’ve played it on PC with a controller, but found that I actually prefer m+k and even touch controls (except for when searching menus).
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 memberssave the galaxy its great.Endless Sky is awesome, and it’s got really active development - which is something I didn’t expect when I first got into it.
Being free, I thought with the main story finished, the loose ends would mostly stay loose, but no - a whole community of content and engine development has sprung up while the original author is busy with IRL.
Even art assets are open source and I love it
Thank you for being one of the few people who actually answered the question instead of just posting their favorite game. This game looks great!
Great game
To the Moon.
It’s a cute little RPG-maker adventure game and by the end of it I was ugly crying
Haha same. There’s a sequel, but I don’t know if I am emotionally prepared for it.
I found Finding Paradise as good, if not better, than To The Moon. I sniffled on the first game, but full on crying for the second one.
The third one is personally meh. I couldn’t sympathize with the conflict. But I can see it touching other people’s hearts. Still glad I bought it, to support the dev.
I got “To the Moon” for free (steam gift). Not saying I cried, but I cried.
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.
It has consumed thousands of hours of my life.
I’ve done the math a few times and it currently has cost me about 8 cents per hour played including all dlc
According to Steam, I’m at 2.29¢ per hour. Even if it’s only half of that – quite a few of those 3,700 hours were spent paused, playing a bit here and there throughout the day – that’s a phenomenal value.
This is almost my boyfriend’s hours and reasoning (he hit 4k and I side eyed a bit), but he said a lot was load time - he plays with over 400 mods, I usually barely push 150, and that sometimes it was just easier to leave it on than shut down and restart it, and that he’d leave his laptop running in the background while he was at work 😆. Thankfully load isn’t as bad as it was a few years ago, but with that many mods it can still take a bit for him to get in
I’m pretty sure a fair chunk of mine were from when I was making mods back around 1.0 and just testing
Isn’t RimWorld one of those games that is like heroin? I’m too scared to try it
For me, I do eventually get tired of it. But then a new dlc comes out and I make a new colony or two to experience the new stuff. And I have spent 100+ hours on colonies before.
It can really suck you in for sure. You may want to avoid it if you experience video game addiction. But, on the other hand, it has given me something to actually look forward to. Shrug
It’s more the gateway drug into factorio i think. Never played any of these but that’s what i’ve heard.
Naw, Rimworld is like Dwarf Fortress, nothing like Factorio
They have an overlapping fan base, but they’re distinctly different games. I prefer RimWorld, personally, but I have put many hours into Factorio, as well.
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.
I got it for a little over a dollar in the summer sale. It’s suprising just how fun the game is. Money well spent.
And, when you’ve finished the base game, try Multiverse. It’s a mod for FTL, really well made, and so big on content that base FTL is essentially the intro!
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.
Portal 1 is still great. It’s way funnier, and I think has a creepier vibe, specifically because of how little information you’re given.
2 is, yeah - a more fully realized game. Also, if you didn’t already know: co-op mode gives a whole new set of puzzles that can only be solved with 2 people working together. Finding that and playing it with my friend was my fav part of either game.
I actually didn’t know that and I’m going to try it now, thanks!
I own these but can no longer play them on my Mac :-(
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.
Yup, a friend harassed me into buying the alpha two days before the deadline, while it was still 10E
I think I paid 12.99 and it’s crazy in this age DLC that I’ve gotten 10 major content updates completely free… I fucking love MC. Got 2 of my kids hooked on it too so far
Minecraft is grand! But I got kinda stumped when Microsoft bought Mojang back around update 1.8. 0, and instantly tried to screw up all the modders.
Some of the mods have come back, and many new created, but it just doesn’t feel the same to me. :(
I don’t think I got into modding until after that, after it got much easier to use. There are definitely some fantastic mods and packs being released these days though. It’s definitely still a vibrant scene.
