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
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.
2000 hours here, it’s not favorite game of all time
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.
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.
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.
Dave the Diver is 20 bucks, not a dollar, but it’s super relaxing.
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
Great game
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!
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 $10 in their early alpha/beta period. Probably my most played game over the last 10+ years with how many times I’ve gone back to it and dived into one modpack or another. It’s just astounding the amount of momentum that game has had, with both Mojang developed content and fan developed.
Minecraft is grand! But I got kinda stumped when Microsoft bought Mojang back around update 1.8. 0, and instantly tried to screw up all the modders.
Some of the mods have come back, and many new created, but it just doesn’t feel the same to me. :(
I don’t think I got into modding until after that, after it got much easier to use. There are definitely some fantastic mods and packs being released these days though. It’s definitely still a vibrant scene.
I think I paid 12.99 and it’s crazy in this age DLC that I’ve gotten 10 major content updates completely free… I fucking love MC. Got 2 of my kids hooked on it too so far
Yup, a friend harassed me into buying the alpha two days before the deadline, while it was still 10E
To celebrate Steam coming to OSX, Valve had Portal on sale for 100% off (as in, free).
Not Steam but, GunMan Clive was a great platformer on 3Ds, had a gorgeous art style and the best usage of the 3D-Effect i’ve ever seen. The game was 99c, not on a sale 99c normally, absolutely wild
Seconded! Beat it as every character. While the 3DS eShop is gone, the HD collection of it and its sequel goes on sale for dirt cheap.
Hah, I bought it on sale for 59 cents, try not to be jealous of all the money I saved.
Oddly enough, that’s one of the first games I ever got on steam like 10 years ago for around .80$
icey. i literally only bought it for the £5 steam link, but it’s actually a really good hack&slash platformer with a stanley parable-esque story. i’d recommend anyone who has it languishing in their library to give it a go
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.
They gave this away for free at one point on both steam and iOS and it’s just been sitting in my library.
Guess I’ll have to give it go.
Insurgency Source was on sale for 1.99 one time and I picked up a bunch of copies for my friends and I. Ended up clocking close to a thousand hours on that game and spent years playing off and on
I may have paid more and it is not necessarily my favorite game but I was pleasantly surprised with I Am Alive.
Vampire Survivor and Dredge
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
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.
I think I bought Glyph for pretty cheap on the Switch. I loved it so much I bought it full price on Steam shortly after
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).
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.
Ultima IV: free on GOG, one of the greatest games ever made that still holds up today (though irritating in certain ways, the core game is pure gold).
