For me it was the original Subnautica. Was a free give away before it got popular and I had no expectations when I played it. Really enjoyed the exploration and the pacing.
Second was Axiom Verge - I got it for free before it became popular but I don’t remember how. I bought it when it went to Steam because I wanted to support the creator.
Both are fun exploration sorts of games if you haven’t played them. Axiom Verge is a metroidvania. Kinda a weird game, but in a good way.
Yeah, that’s decent. Still haven’t gotten through it, though.
I think that the price of a game matters a lot less than the gameplay time, in terms of value. You can have enormous differences in the amount of time you play a game, much more than the price typically varies from game to game.
looks at Steam
My top-played games by hours of playtime are:
Oxygen Not Included
Fallout 4 (the game itself is decent-sized, plus there are expansions, but this is really due heavily to mods)
Wargame: Red Dragon
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (also improved by mods)
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Caves of Qud
Fallout 76
Rimworld (mods, though honestly the base game is pretty good on its own)
X3: Reunion
Mount & Blade: Warband (again, mods add a lot to this)
So those are probably the best deals, as I’ve gotten the most time out of them.
The bad deals are games that I get and then don’t like and so don’t play.
I played it for a while, but never got that into it. Ditto for Mindcraft and Satisfactory. They’re all fine, but…I dunno. Oxygen Not Included just has more stuff going on.
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Yeah, that’s decent. Still haven’t gotten through it, though.
I think that the price of a game matters a lot less than the gameplay time, in terms of value. You can have enormous differences in the amount of time you play a game, much more than the price typically varies from game to game.
looks at Steam
My top-played games by hours of playtime are:
Oxygen Not Included
Fallout 4 (the game itself is decent-sized, plus there are expansions, but this is really due heavily to mods)
Wargame: Red Dragon
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (also improved by mods)
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Caves of Qud
Fallout 76
Rimworld (mods, though honestly the base game is pretty good on its own)
X3: Reunion
Mount & Blade: Warband (again, mods add a lot to this)
So those are probably the best deals, as I’ve gotten the most time out of them.
The bad deals are games that I get and then don’t like and so don’t play.
I don’t see Factorio on this list! Why is the factory not growing?
I played it for a while, but never got that into it. Ditto for Mindcraft and Satisfactory. They’re all fine, but…I dunno. Oxygen Not Included just has more stuff going on.