What’s the best game deal you ever got?
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.
Portal 2, bought it a month ago for 1.-
GTA V for free.
A customer left a seller review on G2A stating that their provided key didn’t work. They posted the key in the review and I claimed it on steam without any issue.
Kind of weird to admit to stealing someone’s purchase. Dick move, really, regardless of how dumb that was of the buyer.
They publicly posted a key that “didnt work”. How is that stealing? It would be like me leaving a piece of equipment in my front yard with a sign that says “free, doesn’t work” but a mechanic picks it up and fixes it in a matter of minutes.
Was it the buyer giving it up to anyone who wanted it or were they under the impression G2A customer support would be refunding it?
Skyrim for under 4 euro (iirc) in 2012 in a christmas sale.
I bought a big box copy of Quake 2 on eBay many years ago, and was surprised to open it and find not only Q2 inside the box but also a full retail CD of the original Quake. I’d never played the non-shareware version before, so I got two great games that day!
It’s not really worthy of Patient Gamers because I bought it shortly after launch (in an actual box at Best Buy), but the Orange Box was one of the most absurdly good deals I’ve ever seen. I can’t even calculate how many hours I’ve gotten out of it because it ended up on an old Steam account, but TF2 alone is easily my most played game ever.
Same story, 1400 hours in TF2, and traded enough hats to sell em all for an Index. Great deal!
Okay thats a level of crazy I never thought Id see. Trading in digital items for enough cash to buy a freakin VR set. Madness. Congrats!
I bought this for the 360 and it blew my mind at the time. I had never played a Half Life game before, and that coupled with TF2 lead me down the path to PC building for the superior gaming platform. I owe a lot to The Orange Box!
Dang, Valve stealth indoctrinated console gamers to Steam with the Orange Box lol.
Got Bloons Tower Defense 6 for free on mobile (it was a 24 hour promo I believe), and I also got it for $1 on Steam. There’s cloud save between both of them and I’ve maybe put in over 200 hours into that game, what a steal that was.
I think I got Terraria for like a buck (can’t remember where) and while it isn‘t my favorite game ever, my gf loved it to death and I got dozens of hours out of it (my gf hundreds). It‘s undeniably a great game and the dev is a maniac in terms of long term support.
I got it in exchange for a slice of pepperoni pizza because an old school friend wanted me to join him.
Wow, what a value.
Picked up borderlands 3 for $3 maybe 2 months after release. Bought 2 copies actually one for my brother.
I don’t know if this counts, but it was a trade. I won Tenchu z for the Xbox 360 and I didn’t have one (yet), so I traded with some random guy for the following GameCube titles:
- DBZ Budokai
- Viewtiful Joe
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Tales of Symphonia
Got GTA 5 for free from a terrible game store no one should use or give money to.
Only take, no give
Years ago, probably… 2006 or 2007, Microsoft had some kind of deal online where you could get Age of Empires 3 for 99 cents, it wasn’t that old at the time. Bought it on my hotmail back in the day, but lost that when Microsoft decided they desperately needed to wipe e-mails for people.
First one that comes to mind was getting a used PS3 for $75 in late 2017.
I’d become a big Persona fan after liking P3 and with P4 becoming an all-time favorite soon after, but I’m mostly a PC gamer. I don’t always pick up current-gen consoles. Eventually I got sick of hearing the heaps of praise for P5 that I figured I’d take the risk on a used PS3 (getting a PS4 was way out of my budget). That’s not why it ended up being a great deal, though.
Now that I had a PS3, I figured I’d try all the games I’d been missing out on that didn’t have PC ports. I had a remarkably high hit rate with these: Demon’s Souls, Dragon Quest Builders, Journey, The Last of Us, NieR, and of course Persona 5 itself. Ended up playing through (almost) all of FromSoft’s following games and NieR: Automata because of this pickup. Still never got that PS4, though, so I’m still waiting on Bloodborne and TLOU2.
Final Fantasy 13 disc-only for $0.33 (CAD). It was.3 games for a dollar from the local library when they were clearing out old stock.
Couple of decades ago bought a box of new ps2/1 games that had fallen off a truck… got around 300 games for 100$
Just got the Lego Batman trilogy on Steam for like $5.
