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.)
27 of June 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 and Audiosurf
At a 69% discount, nice.
Cities: Skylines
Transistor from Supergiant.
Back then Steam didn’t even support my local currency, but that changed the same year.
In steam (digital purchase) was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2008 but the first game on my account, I think that was The Orange box with Portal and HL2 (physical copy).
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.
L4D2, gmod, and Republic Commando together was my first purchase, it was when I got my first laptop in high school. I’d probably give L4D2 the first game credit.
What a great day
Assassin’s Creed Revelations - Gold Edition
Spintires! My laptop could barely run it, but I had so much fun with it. Still playing Snowrunner today!
Terraria and Dungeon Defenders Ultimate Collection. I had a bunch of free games by then though. It was 2017
I didn’t have to look it up to see what game it was, but I didn’t remember the price. I bought Portal for $19.95 almost 19 years ago. Played it on a Windows PC that was not focused on gaming. I guess I’ve also played it on every computer I’ve had since then, including my new-to-me refurb Steam Deck a couple days ago.
Hey congratz on the Steam Deck! I personally can’t play Portal, I always get motion sickness. Not sure when this started happening with me, but this really bugs me. I love that game!
Nidhogg!
Totally underrated. I never played the second game BTW.
RWBY Grimm Eclypse lmao, definitely not worth the $15 I paid. Was really into RWBY at the time, I wanna say I bought it between seasons 3 and 4, but it might’ve been before S3, idk.
First game was Portal, but I got it free when Portal 2 came out. First games I spent money on and got on Steam were a couple of Humble Bundles (Introversion, Egosoft, EA). My first purchase actually from Steam was Goat Simulator.
First purchase on Steam was the Goat. xD Played it too, I think I got it through Humble Bundle. Man good old times.
Weird several games are not on that list for me?
It goes back to20132012, but I used Steam on Linux way before that.
But in the beginning I had my games gifted to me because I didn’t have VISA.Edit typo, it was 2012 not 2013.
Steam for Linux was released 2013. You probably used the Windows version through WINE. Or maybe Linux version was in Beta before, I don’t remember the details. Some in the comments in this thread suggested that the purchase history doesn’t go back to the beginning.
Thinking about it a bit more, I now recall I had multiple steam clients installed in Wine to start them up with different Wine settings, because the games didn’t run with the same settings.
But to see my first game, I may have to ask my wife, because she had Visa before me.Weird, I must admit my memory is unclear on that.
On my list it says 5 Apr, 2012 Age of Empires: All in Wonder 13,49€
So if the Linux client didn’t come until 2013 I must have run it in Wine as you say. Because I’ve been running Linux since 2005, and I “only” dual booted for a couple of years.
It may have been my first Visa purchase then? Kind of embarrassing that I paid 13.49 Euro for a Microsoft game. 🙄 Especially since it became free to play soon after. 🤡Hey no shame in paying money for good games! … would I have said if I played it. I assume its good.^^ Usually if a paid game goes free to play, they often give some owners specials. Didn’t they do something? At the very least it was not expensive game, (Edit: here is something missing, I think I wanted to say it still hurts if it goes free after paying) especially if it gone free to play not long after.
For the thing with Linux, there were presets to run Steam through WINE in tools similar to Lutris (not saying Lutris, but some tools making it easier to use WINE).
I didn’t play it very much, I suppose it was OK, but I think it was a huge failure for Microsoft. Maybe others did like me, only played it for a few days, and then lost interest.
I think we had Playonlinux back then. Before that I personally only used WineHQ and their recommended tweaks. So 100% manual. Goddam there were some weird settings for graphics that could be crucial. 😋 It was quite a chore to get anything to work back then.Yes, I was thinking of PlayOnLinux, just couldn’t remember. I never got into Steam over WINE, because WINE was always cumbersome to use for me. And I didn’t want bet my money on that. Lot of people did though, with various levels of success. Wish I was more brave!
Counter Strike 1.6, I still remember the controversy.
Same. It was a steaming pile of shit back then. It got better
