It’s a small game that people rarely ever heard of but https://store.steampowered.com/app/406150/Refunct/ Refunct is simple and awesome in its movement mechanics.
Closer to $10, but Streets of Rogue. It’s a top down roguelite that’s…kinda hard to describe. It’s one of those games where you can approach situations in multiple ways, from killing everyone, threatening some guy, to just teleporting through a wall and stealing the quest target with nobody the wiser. It’s simple but fun and addicting… I’m also fairly bad at it, as I still haven’t beaten the game with most of the pre-made classes.
SoR is really good, and has co-op!
Currently $4 until the 31st
Streets of Rogue 2 is in the works just so you know. I loved the first game and I’m excited for the second.
I’m still trying to go through the Big Quests myself too. I want to get most of the standard ones done before starting the DLC characters (however tempting Alien is), but man… Scientist and Wrestler are an eternal struggle, and are currently my main Brick Walls.
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.
To the Moon.
It’s a cute little RPG-maker adventure game and by the end of it I was ugly crying
Haha same. There’s a sequel, but I don’t know if I am emotionally prepared for it.
I found Finding Paradise as good, if not better, than To The Moon. I sniffled on the first game, but full on crying for the second one.
The third one is personally meh. I couldn’t sympathize with the conflict. But I can see it touching other people’s hearts. Still glad I bought it, to support the dev.
I hope you’re not referring specifically to Wheat Thresher-vania. I’m reminded of what that Dead or Alive guy said about Dynasty Warriors… “Yes, there are tons of onscreen characters, but they’re all dumb as toast. You’re just lopping off dozens of cabbage heads.”
There’s just something mechanical and hands-off about Vampire Survivor that I don’t like. It’s playable? But rarely did I experience anything I would call fun. It was more of an unhealthy compulsion than anything, like picking at a scab.
Same here. People keep raving about it but I find it so boring. No story, no adventure or exploration, just a step above a random number generator in terms of strategy or puzzle
Risk of rain, and Murder miners. Anyone I add on steam immediately gets gifted both.
I didn’t buy it for $0.99 but it has been on sale for that much in the past: N++ is an incredible platformer, excellent value at full price: https://store.steampowered.com/app/230270/N_NPLUSPLUS/
i think n+ was cheap-as-free on xbox360 a while ago not long after i first got one,
awesome game.
I didn’t know it had plussed one on steam.Yeah, if you enjoyed N+ you’re going to love N++, the graphics are nice, great music, tons of colourschemes, lots of features like level creation / sharing, online scoreboard and replays with optional uploads: you can see how other players completed levels. There’s local co-op and versus, also works online via Steam Remote Play Together or Parsec. Highly recommended.
Just be warned that sometimes save files can get corrupted and wipe progress, the most popular guide is a warning for this and instructions for backing up your save. I had it wiped once a few years ago and I’ve been backing it up since, it’s not super common, devs have looked into it extensively and are stumped.
Bro I used to play n+ on web browsers in high school. Shit was legit.
Perhaps you mean the original N? I think N+ was the Xbox release. I may be mistaken.
Yes, N was an amazing flash game, one of the best. If you enjoyed that, definitely check out N++, it’s so good. :D
Hell yeah dude, I’ll check it out. It was fun back in the day. The half the classroom would be playing it trying to see how far we could get before the bell rang. Really good times.
Deadlight, from Tequila Works. I bought it for less than $3 on a whim (might have even been $1) during a Steam Sale on the last day, because “Why not” I thought. Then I actually gave it a shot, and it turned out to be really good. Especially surprising since I don’t normally like side scroller puzzles with action elements. The difficulty was just right, and the forgiving checkpoints did away with the usual frustrations I have with games like this.
Brotato - such well spent 5$
Not steam, but Defunct and Fearful Symmetry are xbox games that I spent about a buck on each (on sale, probably), and expected about 5 minutes of amusement from; however, they both proved to be very enjoyable games. The levels on Fearful Symmetry get diabolical, and Defunct is just extremely chill. Meditative, even.
ZZT on shareware
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/zzt“World of Goo” was this for me, just a fun little surprise.
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.
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
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.
Soma
I wouldn’t call this a super cheap game, but it is still one of the best games I’ve ever played.
I got soma for free on epic at one point. I started my playthrough mostly as a joke, since I did a similar thing with amnesia - I’m not good with horror but a friend wanted me to play. It caught me super off guard when I realized that it’s actually really good. It’s become one of my favorite games just for the story alone.
Why would that make you angry?
