Indigo Prophecy was my first game. I think I bought it after the quick look.

Audiosurf was my first. And I'm happy with that first purchase.

orange box

@CosmicBatman said:

@Dagbiker said:

@CosmicBatman said:

Super Meat Boy. I thought it was Braid but I checked my history.

Get out while you can.

Now I have 20+ games and I'm still not done Super Meat Boy.

I have 300, and most of them have no time played.

Civilization V

I BOUGHT HALF LIFE 2 WHICH GAVE ME STEAM, not the other way around. Launch day bb.

Worship me you dirty console plebes.

Counter Strike Source and TF2.

is there a way to check your history? but i think i registered my half life 1 discs onto steam as my first game.

@Marz said:

is there a way to check your history? but i think i registered my half life 1 discs onto steam as my first game.

View -> Settings -> View Account History.

The one and only game I bought is Civ V

@Shivoa said:

I'm going to bet my answer is also going to be, by far, the most common: HL2.

Though to be fair, it was more that I bought Half-life 2 retail and had to install Steam to play it. I guess that counts?

Counter Strike: Source. The second thing was The Orange Box and Team Fortress2 is still one of the games that I play the most.

The Orange Box.

Well I bought the Half-life pack at a store, but I could only play counter strike with this strange program called steam. But, the source pack was the first thing that I bought using the store itself... That was a christmas present to myself way back in the day

Fallout 1.

counter strike.

TF2.

The witcher enhanced edition.

Mine would have to be Half Life 2 as far as a product being activated on Steam. I'm not sure what the first thing I bought on the Steam Store was though.

I beta tested a version of steam before it came out. It was a horrible piece of shit back then :( The only game on it at the time was counter-strike, if I recall.

I remember the error log folder for steam created so many .txt files that windows would crash when I opened the folder. I took a screenshot of the folder properties and it was like almost a million files... I really need to go find that :D

X-COM: UFO Defense.

Torchlight. Although I got Portal at the same time for free when Steam for Mac came out. I have since gotten a Windows PC as well so now I buy too many games.

Left 4 Dead 1

Bought Bastion and The Witcher at the same time, those were my first games...I'm very new to Steam

Hmm. Well my Civilization 5 boxed copy was the steam version, so that? Im not sure I've ever actually downloaded a game from steam. It's all codes from humble bundles and PC games I bought that ended up just being the steam version anyways. I am not a pc gamer by any stretch of the imagination though.

Retail copy of Orange Box. I purchased it because a friend of mine convinced me to get it for Team Fortress 2. Strange enough, I never saw myself playing that game, but now it's my most played game of all time and I regret nothing.

Mine says Half-Life Platinum Pack, whatever that is!

First thing that registered was a friend's friend's serial I was using to play the original Counter Strike (pre 1.6). One day Steam just locked the serial to my account. According to the store records, first thing I ever bought was Borderlands. Though I question that, their record keeping might not go back far enough to see my first true purchase.

Half-Life 2: Episode 3

Winter sale 2008 was where it all started for me:

• Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl
• Lucasarts Adventure Bundle
• Torchlight

First game though was a gift copy of Half-Life 2 some time earlier that year.

According to my account, my first purchase was Half-Life Platinum Pack, but I installed Steam back when it was super shady and terrible was for the release of Half-Life 2.

I think the first game I ever registered was Dawn of War 2 but the first game I actually purchased on Steam was Torchlight on my Macbook Pro. Since then I've bought a few more games for it. But yeah, I got into Steam properly pretty late and would use it much more if I had a gaming PC.

hl2

I believe it was Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded. Shortly after that I bought Arkham Asylum.

If we're talking games I actually bought through the Steam Store and not retail, I think it's the first Red Orchestra. Didn't play it much though.

Torchlight!

Half Life 2 was the first game I owned over Steam, but it was a gift.

I have no idea which is the first game I actually bought.

Torchlight. That was also the first thing I used Paypal for.

I created an account to get the "free-portal"-offer thing they had a few years back. That's how they got me.

A friend of mine gifted me a copy of Half-Life 2. I imagine the next game I purchased directly on steam was probably Left 4 Dead or the id pack.

My first steam game was actually a boxed version of the Orange Box that required activation through steam.

Half-Life 2. I guess I was technically in the CS 1.6 beta in 2003 when it first launched. What a piece of trash back then... it has gotten marginally better, but there are some weird unfixed crap that I am still not super happy with.

Peggle

KOTOR

Hmm, I didn't end up joining Steam until a long while after it came out, my join date is Feb 17, 2008. So, I think it's safe to say my first purchase was actually NOT Half-Life 2 since it was outdated at that point. It's kind of hard to remember what it was, honestly, but I'm pretty sure the first thing I bought was a combined pack of TF2 & Garry's Mod.

Coming from console gaming, I wasn't aware at the time of all the crazy Steam sales that go on all the time, but as a newbie to steam, I bought it at full price, and figured It was good because I could install a bunch of other source mods. Honestly, in retrospect, it was kind of a bad idea, considering I could have waited for a steam sale and just bought the valve complete pack for probably about $20 more. Oh well, at least I had fun with them, and I still went buckwild on my first few steam sales. Now I have about 275 games in my library. Sheesh.

First game I got was Portal (when it was given away for free), but the first one I bought was Dirt 2.

Ironically, my PC was not strong enough to run Dirt 2, and I have not booted it up once to this day.

I first downloaded Team Fortress 2, but it didn't run well on my Mac. The first Steam game I invested any real time in was Portal.

Hm if the account details are correct my first purchase on Steam was The Orange Box. Apparently I didn't buy anything on Steam for the first 4 years, curious.

Believe that after the Orange Box it was either Unreal Tournament3 or Torchlight.