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.)
The orange box. ~$50. Great purchase.
The Orange Box. Greatest gaming value-for-your-buck there ever was.
the orange box
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.
I grew up as a console kid so I apparently didn’t buy a game on steam til 2017 but it was civ 3 complete edition and cities skylines. Edit: I did have PC games but always bought them separate. I remember zoo tycoon 1/2/ultimate, red alert 1/2 as early games
I was also a bit late to Steam, not the very least because it was not available on Linux before. So for you, you started buying games that made actually sense to buy on PC (from your perspective). I see you are a slight fan of strategy games.^^ Just little bit slightly maybe :p
slight fan of strategy games
Maybe just a little bit haha
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.
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.
No sort or search function?
Unfortunately not. It is sorted chronologically from the time you purchased. To find out the oldest entry, scoll down, click the “more” button and scroll all the way down. I guess this is not a list most people use or need, so there is no need for Valve to invest building further. To find something specific, you can use the browser search functionality
Ctrl+f.I’m a Valve pay pig. That’d probably take me hours.
Not really. You just click “more” once and scroll down. Its a 5 second thing.
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.
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.
Half-Life 2. steam was mandatory to play it and the shitstorm around it was something else. But I learned quickly, that youbcpuld just switch languages to not only download the original version but also the uncut one. Loved steam ever since.
I remember that whole kerfuffle. It spawned the first meme gif I can recall seeing. Warning, moderately NSFW:
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Man, so many had one of the Half-Life games as their first game on Steam. How everyone hated Steam in the beginning, and now, most seem to love it. In fact in Gaming, Steam is one of our saviors it seems.
The Orange Box - well, technically Steam came with it…
Yup. First Steam account created 24th of December (guess why) 2007 for Orange Box.
Back then, it was possible to play Team Fortress 2 on one account on two PCs at the same time, but not on the same server. So my brother and I sat beside each other playing TF2 “together”, but each on a different server.
We did this until we gathered enough money to buy a second copy of Team Fortress 2 in April of 2008. We were finally able to play both in the same match and it was glorious.
We both have and use these accounts to this day.
Wow, that sounds amazing able to play on two PCs with a single license. I didn’t know this was possible. Also being able play against or together must have felt like heaven. :D Sounds like Steam was very worth it back then even.
I think that page only tracks 2008 and newer
Because my “first” purchace aparently was in 2009, and by that point my steam account was already in active use for 6 years.
The first game that I used steam for was CS 1.6 - about a week after steam launched.
And I think the first new game I paid money for and added to steam was HL2
According to this page my first in store purchase was Audiosurf in 2008, and yeah - great decision and great game. I put 80 hours into it for $10.
But my actual first “steam game” was Half Life 2 in a box from a department store
Half Life 2 as the first Steam game. You were eating good.
Purchased myself or redeemed a code for?
I was gifted the orange box for Christmas and that’s when I registered my account. First actual purchase through steam was audiosurf but had redeemed Left 4 Dead and CS:S before that.
Technically my question is about when you decided yourself to buy a game on the Steam platform itself, to spent money on it. But I didn’t think everything through. Therefore, we are here to have fun, so the question can be understood a bit more loosely too.
First game I activated was a retail copy of Half-Life Platinum Pack, in August 2004. I had made by account few months earlier just for fun right after Steam originally launched.
The first games I bought from Steam specifically was the Orange Box, and AudioSurf in 2007.
The orange box was $61, which inflation adjusted means it cost $99 :)
You’re one of the OGs!
