There is not much to specify for the question, its really simple: Which title is the first game you have purchased on Steam? Was it a good decision? How much did you pay? When was it and what device? You don’t have to answer all questions, this is just a fun discussion to have.
You can check your history: https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/ Edit: Some in the comments pointed out that the purchase history doesn’t go back all to the beginnings of Steam. So if you purchased something earlier, it won’t be listed on your account.
(I reply with my game too.)
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.
Same, but I always liked steams look.
Same!
The orange box. ~$50. Great purchase.
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.
Great game, I never finished it. Got stuck on some puzzle after completing 50-100+.
I really loved the narrator and minimal storytelling in that game. It had a strange sense of religion, math, technology, and mystery.
Like portal, but with absolute severity and no jokes.
I may try it again myself. I had a fun time.
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.
Pretty sure mine was the same. My history doesn’t go back that far though, only to 2020 which was my first purchase through steam online.
Found the date: 16th November 2004!
I got my Steam account through a HL2 disc too!
I remember being very excited when Steam added a new game that was not made by Valve. It was, at the time, an interesting experiment in digital distribution outside a big publisher. “Rag Doll Kung Fu”, a shitty click-driven fighting game.
Early on, I never imagined they’d get big names like Call of Duty publishing there, but it happened sooner than I expected.
Half-life 2
Wow, so many Half-Life 2 as their first game. … wait a sec, is that a kbin account? I thought kbin died. It was one of the reasons I switched over to a Lemmy instance.
It’s Mbin now, but they kept the original URL. There’s also fedia.io
There are dozens of us!
Also, Steam was released adjacent to either hl2 or the orange box, don’t remember which but that’s when i got it. I remember being pissed at the time for it installing a launcher lmao
To be fair, at that time you had all the rights to be pissed about it.
As I recall, you couldn’t get hl2 in stores when it first released. It was the vehicle that got people onto steam. It was a few years before they opened the platform up to other publishers.
You could, but it was the first game that needed steam to run it. You bought the game to make the install/download faster.
That makes sense. I’m pretty sure I bought it as soon as it was available for purchase. It might have been the one and only time I pre-ordered a game. I definitely remember doing the pre-download a while before it was officially released and available to play.
The Orange Box. Greatest gaming value-for-your-buck there ever was.
the orange box
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.
TF2 after playing the orange box at a friend’s.
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, in 2006
Skyrim.
Jan 16, 2010 The Orange Box
Garry’s Mod
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.
Half-life 2 ofc :)
Me too, I’m pretty sure. But iirc it was very different. I don’t think you could even buy other games yet
