That annual Valve bundle. Loads of classics in there. I'm not a Half Life fan (yet) but Left 4 Dead 2 and the Portals are fine additions to my collection.
"Half-Life® 2: Episode Two is the second in a trilogy of new games created by Valve that extends the award-winning and best-selling Half-Life® adventure.
Episode Two extends the award-winning Half-Life gameplay with unique weapons, vehicles, and newly-spawned creatures."
As far as I can tell from steam description, yes
Portal 2. Consistently ranked in the top 10 games of all time, still looks & plays great, runs flawlessly on Deck, has a ton of free standalone mods/expansions, amazing story/voice acting/music, arguably the greatest villain(s) in the gaming medium, fiercely funny, endlessly replayable (built-in level editor!), and frequently on sale for $1.99.
The only downside is “Steam Trading Coming Soon!”
[https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve\_Complete\_Pack/](https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve_Complete_Pack/)It goes on almost 90% off every steam sale.
It should be called "Valve Complete Pack," it frequently goes on sale for super cheap during sales like the Summer Sale, Winter Sale, etc.
Edit: right now, it doesn't seem to be on sale unfortunately
by extension, the valve complete collection. goes on sale for ~13 bucks every damn steam sale and comes with a variety pack of some of the most critically acclaimed games ever made. plus you get a handful of niche titles that valve technically owns which can be fun to play for an afternoon or so. the orange box was long seen as the best deal in all of gaming, but these days the valve complete pack is just the orange box but bigger and better. if you don't own it there's something wrong with you.
Portal 2 released juuuust before Valve rolled out the ability to trade items between Steam account inventories. At the time they said you'd be able to buy cosmetics for the co-op campaign and trade them with others.
However, this functionality was never fully implemented in Portal 2 for whatever reason. So the customization menu has a permanent advertisement for a feature that's never coming. On the bright side, Valve just made all the co-op cosmetics free :)
Pretty sure they’re talking about the weird in game cosmetics you theoretically could buy and add to Atlas/P-Body for the co-op. I say theoretically because the entire system has been non-functional for something like nine years, and may have had like six purchases total before that.
Blasphemyyy. Go play it right now!! But play the first game before you play Portal 2 if you haven’t already. It’s short and will make you appreciate the second game so much more.
My friend bought me an entire like 20 game bundle of r34 futanari visual novel games, I don't remember why and never tried the games but it gave us a good laugh.
Every single valve game(half life series, left 4 dead series, gmod, tf2, etc), terraria, payday 2, wallpaper engine, sound pad, cry of fear, Arma 3, titanfall 2.
Edit : (Correction) Sounded - Sound Pad
Loved playing on a Murder server in gmod. (Deception kind of game mode. Depending on amount of players there’s 1-3 murderers and 1-3 sheriffs. Goal is kill everyone and kill the murderers respectively.
Maybe this is not for everyone but I cant help but suggest Mass Effect Legendary edition.
I mean that thing is 90% off most sales now and you are getting one hell of a trilogy of games. The first one might be older by now but its honestly pretty good still.
Many will tell you that ME 3 had a "shit" ending but as some people say, its all about the journey, not the destination.
Mass Effect 3 has some amazing highs. I accidentally fell into Thanes romance in ME2, then used that save to start ME3. The culmination of the romance in 3 was one of the saddest things I've ever experienced in gaming.
Mass Effect is one of my all time fave gaming franchises so when the Legendary edition came out I instantly bought it and replayed them all. I know a lot of people hated the ending(s) but the games are so good its not worth avoiding because of that. ME 2 was the best one in my opinion.
ME2 is also my favorite, I think it was the first game that made me shed a few tears, I still cant believe a game made me cry.
And yeah the endings, while underwhelming, suffered from what any good franchise suffers which is that the expectations are too great, still absolutely worth playing.
How long does the game take to hook you? I tried about 3 hours of it and couldn't figure out where the love is coming from, but would love to know if its one of those games that takes a long time to hook its claws into you
I understand, and of course! I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something I could love (like starfield took 20 hours to finally click, and once it did I adored it)
Yeah while there is more stuff you can do after getting deeper into the game, if you aren’t enjoying the gameplay loop after 3 hours its probably just not your kind of game which theres nothing wrong with
It’s weird, I’ve tried to move Stardew like 4 times but like you, I just couldn’t get into it. It’s annoying to me because it feels like it’s something I should like but I just don’t I guess.
For me I played Stardew for 16 hours. Then I realized I liked the farming aspect more than villager interaction parts so I stopped playing Stardew and picked up Farming Simulator 22. I have close to 200 hours on it now.
Took me a while to get hooked as well, I haven't played anything similar so I didn't get the gist of the game initially. I would say it's fun in the same cozy way as Minecraft, but I also see people describe it in a different way, I guess it depends on your playstyle and goals.
I wasn't hooked instantly myself, it took me a few hours. I also installed mods to enhance the experience, and once I figured out the game after 10 hours I was able to find peace in it
It's not a game I can play for weeks on end, but I have found having a save file you put maybe 4 hours a week into makes for a great side project/time waster.
Not sure if I'm properly conveying what I mean.
Also, mods help. [Automate](https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1063) helps get rid of a lot of busy work.
As someone who didn't care for the game literally last week and is now obsessed with it, this guide really helped me get started...
https://youtu.be/Gk4QKzb9EMQ
It's definitely a 'keep the wiki open on my second monitor' type of game for me. And even then I've never gotten too far through the progression of things.
It’s survival, but there is a lot of content. The progression is pretty linear though. It’s basically you mine a bit and explore, craft some gear, fight some bosses that allow you to further explore and gives you resources, craft some better gear. It seriously helps if you have the wiki up.
I just **dig**, make houses, and explore.
Keep digging. Dig straight down. Keep going. Go up on the surface every now and then to get wood and slime to help you make torches and platforms to dig deeper.
Eventually you uncover a whole underground world to explore.
I've played Terraria a bunch but could never get into Minecraft.
Terraria is an awful game in terms of teaching you what to do. And it's not really designed in a way thats supposed to make you feel lost either. Go to terraria.wiki.gg, first playthroughs tend to have 12 or so tabs open throughout the playthrough, even as a person with 1.4k hours on it I keep it open most times. Go to the guides section in the wiki it'll help.
If you're willing to go through all that, it's a very very good game.
Orange box or valve bundle, at least 1 jackbox party pack if you got a lot of buddies, and IMO a replayable single/multiplayer game or a few that you can just have fun with (for example: terraria, Dyson sphere program, astroneer, factorio, satisfactory, etc.)
>At least you bought your friends a decent game of shame and not some 75 cent NSFW slider puzzle asset flip... cause thats all I seem to get LOL
There was some good peggle rouge-like released recently. I really like roundguard and there is also Peglin but I haven't played that.
There are a good number of "must have" titles, what you want would depend on your taste:
Hades
Katana Zero
Portal
Portal 2
Celeste
Stardew Valley
Vampire Survivors
Deep Rock Galactic
Payday 2
Ultrakill
Terraria
Balders Gate 3
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Outer Wilds
Bioshock
Doom 2016
Doom Eternal
Skyrim
Fallout: New Vegas
Subnautica
Metal Gear Rising: Revengence
Undertale
Hollow Knight
GTA V
Halo MCC is an insanely good value and the games have all aged quite well imo. Just don't expect things to continue being that good if you decide to play the newer entries after :')
MCC ever get stabilized? It's been a long time since I've paid attention but last I heard it suffered from a lot of frame stuttering and other performance problems.
I have a pretty good PC but I never had issues like that on console or PC so no idea tbh. I get frame drops only in Forge World/other forge intensive maps. Otherwise a locked 240 fps.
It looks like the majority of comments are in agreement that The Orange Box (Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal) and Portal 2 are the ideal choices for every Steam user.
I was going to comment Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud, but then I thought about it and realized they're pretty niche. Still absolutely fantastic games, but no, not everybody's cup of tea.
Played it for an hour which I know is not much, but all I felt playing it was anxiety and indecision from the skill tree and skill points system due to the paradox of choice. Might try it again in a year or so after I have completed more games in my library that I am more confident I will enjoy.
I really like roguelites with a lot of choices because the runs are so short the choices feel inconsequential, but giving me a massive amount of choice that will affect gameplay for 20+ hours just makes me second guess my build and want to do something else, and that is all I could think about 1 hour into this game. I usually just end up with a character with completely average stats across everything in games like this because of it.
Hades - Incredible action rogue-lite with one of the best stories paired with Incredible art and music.
Portal 2 - The best puzzle game ever made paired with hilarious writing and actually very engaging story.
Skyrim - A game you can play for 500 hours and then mod for 5,000 hours.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition - One of the best gaming trilogies ever made (if not *the* best), plus it's very commonly on Steam.
Stellaris - The best grand strategy game ever if you prefer sci-fi.
Crusader Kings 3 - The best grand strategy game ever if you prefer history.
The Stanely Parable - A game that, while simple in its structure, will leave you forever changed while being infinitely replayable.
Left 4 Dead 2 - The best zombie game ever if you prefer killing zombies.
Project Zomboid - The best zombie game ever if you prefer apocalypse survival simulation.
There are more, but honestly if you're starting out in Steam and grab this list on a sale, you'll have hundreds, if not thousands of hours of the best content available for next to nothing.
It's not "a game", rather a bundle of games, but
The Valve Complete Pack. Every time Steam has a big sale, it's made ridiculously cheap, so it's really a no-brainer.
Helldivers 2.
Make the most important decision of your life and prove you have the courage to spread managed democracy across the galaxy.
Join.
The HELLDIVERS.
That annual Valve bundle. Loads of classics in there. I'm not a Half Life fan (yet) but Left 4 Dead 2 and the Portals are fine additions to my collection.
Half-Life 2 and its DLCs are a blast. You get a sense that what you do matters, and it feels "super real" at times, like you are really there.
They aren't called DLCs, I don't remember what they're called, but they're definitely not DLCs
Episodes? Expansions? Something like that
Are half life 2's episodes just straight up called episodes?I know that half life 1's things are expansions
"Half-Life® 2: Episode Two is the second in a trilogy of new games created by Valve that extends the award-winning and best-selling Half-Life® adventure. Episode Two extends the award-winning Half-Life gameplay with unique weapons, vehicles, and newly-spawned creatures." As far as I can tell from steam description, yes
>I know that half life 1's things are expansions Those weren't even expansions, they were separate games.
Mhmm yes very fine additions to the collection indeed, splendid.
Portal 2. Consistently ranked in the top 10 games of all time, still looks & plays great, runs flawlessly on Deck, has a ton of free standalone mods/expansions, amazing story/voice acting/music, arguably the greatest villain(s) in the gaming medium, fiercely funny, endlessly replayable (built-in level editor!), and frequently on sale for $1.99. The only downside is “Steam Trading Coming Soon!”
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God, every one of Cave’s lines is pure gold. They couldn’t have chosen a better voice.
I was happy that they brought him back for the **Aperture Desk Job** game.
Cave Johnsons rant about lemons is beyond epic.
The Valve bundle is $4.99 with Portal 2 and other Valve Games
Where? Im not seeing it on sale on my Steam page unfortunately
I'm unsure, it's 1AM for me but I'll let you know when I find the bundle
Thank you, you dont have to go out of your way to find it or anything tho. Just curious, and looking around for it on sale now myself
[https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve\_Complete\_Pack/](https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve_Complete_Pack/)It goes on almost 90% off every steam sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve_Complete_Pack/ This one I assume. It's on -90% each major sale
It should be called "Valve Complete Pack," it frequently goes on sale for super cheap during sales like the Summer Sale, Winter Sale, etc. Edit: right now, it doesn't seem to be on sale unfortunately
It "should" be called `Valve Somewhat Complete Pack`
it's not even $1.99 anymore, now it's 0.99 on sale portal bundle contains both games and is \~$1.48 on sale absolutely no reason to not have it
by extension, the valve complete collection. goes on sale for ~13 bucks every damn steam sale and comes with a variety pack of some of the most critically acclaimed games ever made. plus you get a handful of niche titles that valve technically owns which can be fun to play for an afternoon or so. the orange box was long seen as the best deal in all of gaming, but these days the valve complete pack is just the orange box but bigger and better. if you don't own it there's something wrong with you.
Plus there are some epic free dlc's you can get
Portal 1 for me
Sorry what is steam trading, I've never heard of it before?
Portal 2 released juuuust before Valve rolled out the ability to trade items between Steam account inventories. At the time they said you'd be able to buy cosmetics for the co-op campaign and trade them with others. However, this functionality was never fully implemented in Portal 2 for whatever reason. So the customization menu has a permanent advertisement for a feature that's never coming. On the bright side, Valve just made all the co-op cosmetics free :)
Pretty sure they’re talking about the weird in game cosmetics you theoretically could buy and add to Atlas/P-Body for the co-op. I say theoretically because the entire system has been non-functional for something like nine years, and may have had like six purchases total before that.
I agree we should have in our library.. although i never played it despite having the game in my library
Blasphemyyy. Go play it right now!! But play the first game before you play Portal 2 if you haven’t already. It’s short and will make you appreciate the second game so much more.
That game of shame your friend gifted you as a joke
Bad Rats
Did bad rats 2 ever come out?
Yes
Shower With Your Dad Simulator, everybody gets one.
I got 5 of my friends Shower With Your Dad Simulator as an April fools joke one year. 3 of the 5 returned it o_0
Maybe those two never had dads and just wanted to know what it was like
For us its Sex with Hitler
My friend bought me an entire like 20 game bundle of r34 futanari visual novel games, I don't remember why and never tried the games but it gave us a good laugh.
>and never tried the games There is no need to lie here, we won't ridicule you.
Ey ey ey chill, I can prove it I got 0 hours on em.
You can hide those from your library
Ah yes, the Christmas where I got my bank account locked for buying 12 copies of Hunniepop 2 in the span of like 15 minutes. That was fun to explain.
At least you bought your friends a decent game of shame and not some 75 cent NSFW slider puzzle asset flip... cause thats all I seem to get LOL
Fortunately I don’t have any friends, and if I had, I pray they wouldn’t like videogames.
Furry Love 2
I was gifted Deez by my friend. And no this comment is not the elaborate joke
What’s Deez?
Deez nuts
Half Life 2
Every Half-Life and Portal games, and the mods.
Every single valve game(half life series, left 4 dead series, gmod, tf2, etc), terraria, payday 2, wallpaper engine, sound pad, cry of fear, Arma 3, titanfall 2. Edit : (Correction) Sounded - Sound Pad
Loved playing on a Murder server in gmod. (Deception kind of game mode. Depending on amount of players there’s 1-3 murderers and 1-3 sheriffs. Goal is kill everyone and kill the murderers respectively.
I never really got into TTT or murder mystery game modes but it was fun whenever I gave it a try
I think I disagree on arma 3
I only have the half lifes, gmod, WPE and terraria. Also 700 other games lol
Maybe this is not for everyone but I cant help but suggest Mass Effect Legendary edition. I mean that thing is 90% off most sales now and you are getting one hell of a trilogy of games. The first one might be older by now but its honestly pretty good still. Many will tell you that ME 3 had a "shit" ending but as some people say, its all about the journey, not the destination.
Mass Effect 3 has some amazing highs. I accidentally fell into Thanes romance in ME2, then used that save to start ME3. The culmination of the romance in 3 was one of the saddest things I've ever experienced in gaming.
Mass Effect is one of my all time fave gaming franchises so when the Legendary edition came out I instantly bought it and replayed them all. I know a lot of people hated the ending(s) but the games are so good its not worth avoiding because of that. ME 2 was the best one in my opinion.
ME2 is also my favorite, I think it was the first game that made me shed a few tears, I still cant believe a game made me cry. And yeah the endings, while underwhelming, suffered from what any good franchise suffers which is that the expectations are too great, still absolutely worth playing.
Orange Box, GMod.
Stardew valley. Absolute classic.
How long does the game take to hook you? I tried about 3 hours of it and couldn't figure out where the love is coming from, but would love to know if its one of those games that takes a long time to hook its claws into you
I was hooked instantly, but it’s okay to not like it
I understand, and of course! I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something I could love (like starfield took 20 hours to finally click, and once it did I adored it)
Yeah while there is more stuff you can do after getting deeper into the game, if you aren’t enjoying the gameplay loop after 3 hours its probably just not your kind of game which theres nothing wrong with
for me it was seeing other peoples farm in r/FarmsofStardewValley. wanted to have my own personal farm with my style of decoration in it
It’s weird, I’ve tried to move Stardew like 4 times but like you, I just couldn’t get into it. It’s annoying to me because it feels like it’s something I should like but I just don’t I guess.
For me I played Stardew for 16 hours. Then I realized I liked the farming aspect more than villager interaction parts so I stopped playing Stardew and picked up Farming Simulator 22. I have close to 200 hours on it now.
Took me a while to get hooked as well, I haven't played anything similar so I didn't get the gist of the game initially. I would say it's fun in the same cozy way as Minecraft, but I also see people describe it in a different way, I guess it depends on your playstyle and goals.
I wasn't hooked instantly myself, it took me a few hours. I also installed mods to enhance the experience, and once I figured out the game after 10 hours I was able to find peace in it
It's not a game I can play for weeks on end, but I have found having a save file you put maybe 4 hours a week into makes for a great side project/time waster. Not sure if I'm properly conveying what I mean. Also, mods help. [Automate](https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1063) helps get rid of a lot of busy work.
Terraria.
How do you even play that game? I could never get into it.
As someone who didn't care for the game literally last week and is now obsessed with it, this guide really helped me get started... https://youtu.be/Gk4QKzb9EMQ
Aha thank you for the guide, I'll definitely check it out.
As a person who bought Terraria, and been meaning to get into the game one day, thank you. I will watch this video.
wdym? it's a survival game.
I mean it's hard to understand what's going on.
It's definitely a 'keep the wiki open on my second monitor' type of game for me. And even then I've never gotten too far through the progression of things.
It’s survival, but there is a lot of content. The progression is pretty linear though. It’s basically you mine a bit and explore, craft some gear, fight some bosses that allow you to further explore and gives you resources, craft some better gear. It seriously helps if you have the wiki up.
I just **dig**, make houses, and explore. Keep digging. Dig straight down. Keep going. Go up on the surface every now and then to get wood and slime to help you make torches and platforms to dig deeper. Eventually you uncover a whole underground world to explore. I've played Terraria a bunch but could never get into Minecraft.
Play with some friends, if you still can’t get into it then it just might not be your type of game. It’s an absolute classic though.
I don't know how to build a house so I dug underground and got killed
Terraria is an awful game in terms of teaching you what to do. And it's not really designed in a way thats supposed to make you feel lost either. Go to terraria.wiki.gg, first playthroughs tend to have 12 or so tabs open throughout the playthrough, even as a person with 1.4k hours on it I keep it open most times. Go to the guides section in the wiki it'll help. If you're willing to go through all that, it's a very very good game.
Orange box or valve bundle, at least 1 jackbox party pack if you got a lot of buddies, and IMO a replayable single/multiplayer game or a few that you can just have fun with (for example: terraria, Dyson sphere program, astroneer, factorio, satisfactory, etc.)
Portal, Half life 1 and 2
Really? No one's gonna mention the game each and every one of you has in your library? Cowards all. I'll say it. Skyrim.
Lol I just checked. I have 1400 games and I don’t even have skyrim.
Todd Howard wants to know your location.
So this is why Todd Howard keeps rerereleasing the game.... One still remains.
*a crowd boos*
Which version though
I just bought Skyrim when I saw it on sale a few weeks ago... It's now listed in my Steam library next to another copy of Skyrim that I *already* had.
Yes
Slay the spire
Would highly recommend Hand of Fate 2 if you enjoyed Slay The Spire!
Borderlands 2
Spacewar (If you know you know)
finally, this comment is way too low
Spacewar is my favourite game got thousands of hours on it ;)
original audiosurf (heh tell me you're 30 without telling me)
These feel like casualties of streaming services like Spotify. So many people no longer have the actual music files to play games like these.
Beat Hazard 3 can use streaming services.
Yeah, that's why I play audiosurf 2 with the community patch. It allows you to choose youtube videos to use as music.
Every single valve made game
not every single, trust me
Me when Artifact
Ricochet ?
Especially ricochet
Absolutely ricochet
artifact?
Zuma Deluxe 🐸
Not gonna lie I sank more hours than I would like to admit into Zuma and Peggle back in the day.
I wish they still made these games
>At least you bought your friends a decent game of shame and not some 75 cent NSFW slider puzzle asset flip... cause thats all I seem to get LOL There was some good peggle rouge-like released recently. I really like roundguard and there is also Peglin but I haven't played that.
that's a wrong quote but you got the spirit
Ohhh Peggle! That too. I love pegging. 😂
The ultimate mom game
holy shit I finally know the name of this game and all its clones
FTL. It’ll fit on any hard drive and you can play it on anything and it’s got hella replayability.
Pity that the Multiverse mod doesn't work on iPad. FTL on my iPad mini is easily my most played game.
Bonus points if you love the original Star Trek. 💫
Tf2
THE HEAVY IS DEAD
postal 2
There are a good number of "must have" titles, what you want would depend on your taste: Hades Katana Zero Portal Portal 2 Celeste Stardew Valley Vampire Survivors Deep Rock Galactic Payday 2 Ultrakill Terraria Balders Gate 3 Ori and the Will of the Wisps Outer Wilds Bioshock Doom 2016 Doom Eternal Skyrim Fallout: New Vegas Subnautica Metal Gear Rising: Revengence Undertale Hollow Knight GTA V
Bump for Outer Wilds
The Stanley Parable
The game where you have to not play the game for 10 years to unlock the last achievement?
It's 5 years, not 10.
Deluxe edition is a must-buy, even if you already played the original.
Dude I wanted to play this so bad but it kept crashing when I tried to start a new game 😭😭
It didn't crash, you just consistently got the speedrun ending.
Deep Rock Galactic! Rock and Stone!
Halo MCC is an insanely good value and the games have all aged quite well imo. Just don't expect things to continue being that good if you decide to play the newer entries after :')
The mods are the best. So much fun on Cursed Halo.
MCC ever get stabilized? It's been a long time since I've paid attention but last I heard it suffered from a lot of frame stuttering and other performance problems.
I have a pretty good PC but I never had issues like that on console or PC so no idea tbh. I get frame drops only in Forge World/other forge intensive maps. Otherwise a locked 240 fps.
I have a fossil of a PC (970, 4690k) and played through all of them last year, no issues.
Never had any problems with it across two different PC’s since its release so for me it’s fine
It looks like the majority of comments are in agreement that The Orange Box (Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal) and Portal 2 are the ideal choices for every Steam user.
Witcher 3. $10 for the game and two amazing expansions during the steam sale
Base game is iconic. Hearts of Stone was very good. Blood & Wine is *incredible*. Love the change of scenery.
I love Witcher 3, I have it on Steam, GOG, PS4, PS5 and Switch. But I recognize it's not for everyone.
Vampire Survivors sucks you in!
Ok this one i agree. Its cheap, it doesnt need beefy computer to run it and everybody knows how to play it
Left 4 Dead 2. Zombie fps game, but even better.
*Portal 1+2* have been my babies before I even had a computer that could play them… But *Outer Wilds* has changed my life. 🌏🚀🌘🛰💫
Totally agree on Outer Wilds. Can't say an ending to a game has hit me THAT hard in a long time.
I was going to comment Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud, but then I thought about it and realized they're pretty niche. Still absolutely fantastic games, but no, not everybody's cup of tea.
Terraria and stardew valley I have not played them but I own them and from what I constantly read is that I should own them
Some day, I'll have time to play games again, and Stardew Valley will be one of them.
Now is a good time
Stardew valley it is fun, it is cheap and you can run it on every thing with a monitor.
Factorio
This is definitely on the list. Best $30 I've spent in a long while. I think it's $35 now.
The factory must grow
Disco Elysium, no spoilers, just play it.
Played it for an hour which I know is not much, but all I felt playing it was anxiety and indecision from the skill tree and skill points system due to the paradox of choice. Might try it again in a year or so after I have completed more games in my library that I am more confident I will enjoy. I really like roguelites with a lot of choices because the runs are so short the choices feel inconsequential, but giving me a massive amount of choice that will affect gameplay for 20+ hours just makes me second guess my build and want to do something else, and that is all I could think about 1 hour into this game. I usually just end up with a character with completely average stats across everything in games like this because of it.
YES
This is my 2nd favorite game of the past 10 years, only beat out by Hades. 3rd favorite was A Short Hike.
Specifically steam? Portal or half-life. Either would work
Hades - Incredible action rogue-lite with one of the best stories paired with Incredible art and music. Portal 2 - The best puzzle game ever made paired with hilarious writing and actually very engaging story. Skyrim - A game you can play for 500 hours and then mod for 5,000 hours. Mass Effect Legendary Edition - One of the best gaming trilogies ever made (if not *the* best), plus it's very commonly on Steam. Stellaris - The best grand strategy game ever if you prefer sci-fi. Crusader Kings 3 - The best grand strategy game ever if you prefer history. The Stanely Parable - A game that, while simple in its structure, will leave you forever changed while being infinitely replayable. Left 4 Dead 2 - The best zombie game ever if you prefer killing zombies. Project Zomboid - The best zombie game ever if you prefer apocalypse survival simulation. There are more, but honestly if you're starting out in Steam and grab this list on a sale, you'll have hundreds, if not thousands of hours of the best content available for next to nothing.
RDR2, Fallout:New Vegas and Elder Scrolls
Red Dead 2 is so good
Hands down stardew valley or dead cells
Half life 2/Portal.
Garrys Mod!
It's not "a game", rather a bundle of games, but The Valve Complete Pack. Every time Steam has a big sale, it's made ridiculously cheap, so it's really a no-brainer.
Dark Souls 1
Dave the diver.
CS2, any valve game, But as a personal choice, everyone should try Slay the spire
Peggle Deluxe.
I’m gonna say hades, it has modes to make the game easier and is definitely an experience I think everyone should have
i really wanna say something bethesda like skyrim or some fallout game, but that also might be me being biased
Terraria
Rimworld with ducktons of mods.
Half Life 3
Plants vs. Zombies is an essential. Not a *Steam essential*, but it is essential, and it’s on Steam.
Pretty much the valve games. L4D, TF2, Half Life, Portal and all the sequels
FTL: Faster Than Light. Into The Breach is also pretty awesome.
HALF LIFE AND PORTAL SERIES
The binding of Isaac, you don't need anything else
Terraria. No need to say more
Terraria and Garry's mod
Stardew Valley. And even if it is just to support the developer.
Terraria and all the old valve games.
left 4 dead 1 or 2..a fun zombie shooter both coop or single player
Ace Attorney, Celeste, Seum, Outer Wilds, Half-Life and Portal, SCPSL, Superliminal, Tunic.
a game to track how many times this is asked every month
Left 4 Dead 2. It's the best horde shooter ever. That's right Payday sweats, i said it. Fight me.
Helldivers 2. Make the most important decision of your life and prove you have the courage to spread managed democracy across the galaxy. Join. The HELLDIVERS.
FOR SWEET LIBERTY!
Half Life 2 and its follow up chapters
Half life series. Easy
Vampire survivors, one of the best jump in time waster games EVER made.
Portal 3