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.
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.
I got it on sale too, but I don’t remember what I paid for it. Fantastic game.
Really? The lowest historically recorded price for the game is $16.74 usd on fanatical and $19.99 usd on steam. source
$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
And more recently, Halls of torment. I’m so excited for upcoming updates cause I couldn’t help completing it 100%.
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
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).
Celeste. That game is way more time consuming than I ever would have guessed. High replay value too imo.
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.
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
Oh wait, Inscryption was made by the same guy? That explains a lot.
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.
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!)
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 bit of those 3,700 hours was spent paused, playing a bit here and there throughout the day – that’s a phenomenal value.
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.
I bought Minecraft way way back when it was pretty new and nobody was talking about it for about $1.50.
Got MC for something like $10 in their early alpha/beta period. Probably my most played game over the last 10+ years with how many times I’ve gone back to it and dived into one modpack or another. It’s just astounding the amount of momentum that game has had, with both Mojang developed content and fan developed.
Yup, a friend harassed me into buying the alpha two days before the deadline, while it was still 10E
I think I paid 12.99 and it’s crazy in this age DLC that I’ve gotten 10 major content updates completely free… I fucking love MC. Got 2 of my kids hooked on it too so far
Minecraft is grand! But I got kinda stumped when Microsoft bought Mojang back around update 1.8. 0, and instantly tried to screw up all the modders.
Some of the mods have come back, and many new created, but it just doesn’t feel the same to me. :(
I don’t think I got into modding until after that, after it got much easier to use. There are definitely some fantastic mods and packs being released these days though. It’s definitely still a vibrant scene.
To the Moon.
It’s a cute little RPG-maker adventure game and by the end of it I was ugly crying
Haha same. There’s a sequel, but I don’t know if I am emotionally prepared for it.
I found Finding Paradise as good, if not better, than To The Moon. I sniffled on the first game, but full on crying for the second one.
The third one is personally meh. I couldn’t sympathize with the conflict. But I can see it touching other people’s hearts. Still glad I bought it, to support the dev.
I got “To the Moon” for free (steam gift). Not saying I cried but I cried.
Not on steam, but Voices of the Void. It’ll probably be sold at some point, but for right now it’s free on itch.io. It’s still in pre-release, but it has more content even now than a lot of fully released games have.
Titanfall 2 for like 4$ 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.
Unfortunately the multiplayer has massively inflated skill curves now and is getting ddosed 95% of the time.
But still my favourite game of all time
Fucking “Heat Signature”. Look it up, buy it, thank me later.
