2012 Steam-core
(not strictly for stuff from 2012 pls dont message me saying i put a game from 2013 here or i will strap a gibus and pyrovision goggles to your head and force you to go on tf2outpost)
(also you can probably turn up 90% of this list looking at old humble bundles or combing through totalbiscuit wtf is videos. yeah i brought that guy up but you have to admit those are a time capsule)
annual number of games released on steam worldwide:
2005: 79
2010: 309
2015: 2500
2020: 9635
there werent that many games on steam back then, so there was a console-like community around the ones that were. some popular games from back then - super meat boy, garry's mod, bastion. oh you still see people talk about those? cool! what about these?
(also you can probably turn up 90% of this list looking at old humble bundles or combing through totalbiscuit wtf is videos. yeah i brought that guy up but you have to admit those are a time capsule)
annual number of games released on steam worldwide:
2005: 79
2010: 309
2015: 2500
2020: 9635
there werent that many games on steam back then, so there was a console-like community around the ones that were. some popular games from back then - super meat boy, garry's mod, bastion. oh you still see people talk about those? cool! what about these?
71 Games
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(zn0)
probably pushing it with this one idc
the games on this row (except amnesia) all have something in common. im sure you know
this and a few others here are more xbla but fuck it
i think this is still in everyone's brains but no one cares enough to talk about it.
when people talked about it as a fun game and not a citation for how much the dev sucks
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ok it ""came out"" in 2016 but everyone was playing it in early access in 2013. barely makes the cut off i dont make the rules. was the shit
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1 and 2 as well. these felt like the only bullet hells on steam forever
(jobosno)
this ended up being so hilariously overshadowed by its sequel that thats still a thing today
(zn0)
also probably too big for this list but fuck if it wasnt inescapable
i see this occasionally get talked about still but by shmup heads. including it anyway
maker of stephen's sausage roll!
it's a valve game but im including it because i see literally no one talk about it now, when it wasnt obscure then lmao
i didnt even know what the oregon trail was
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(jobosno)
see killing floor
(chandler)
league of legends isnt on steam and no one has a dota 2 invite. youre getting this. cope
i had over 700 hours in this game...
i had over 700 hours in this game...
why did this feel so popular?
i think this still has an audience but ill include it anyway
its first here because its first in your library
lol i had no idea the GDPR killed this game. yes that. the fuck??
aeiou
no one played this but im including it because everyone used the default avatar from it
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it was about immigration that makes s wait what
wait its free? u dont have to pay for it? huh. im downloading it!
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still notorious but i had to include it anyway
this is a placeholder for indie game: the movie because its not on igdb but needs to be mentioned. no clue what this actually is
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thats a good one, tbh a lot of the tf2 promo stuff is
God I got so many of these free in humble bundles and have yet to play them lol
faerie solitaire goes hard
yea i played that for a few hours back then, its solid
cortex command
hadnt heard of it but its the sort of thing thatd fit the list so sure
torchlight 2 for sure, i'd say, but especially because the first game was kind of a big deal in the earlier steam days. amnesia is absolutely not pushing it imo. maybe super crate box, ftl, hotline miami, botanicula, to the moon, chivalry...?
This is giving me horrendous flashbacks to when I created my steam account on my hand grenade HP pavillion Laptop ten years ago.
Man, I miss playing Speedrunners. That shit actually went super hard despite it just being 4P Genesis Sonic racing. I loved the shark guy, lmao.
torn between including ftl and to the moon too since theyre also still really big and talked about, but its def undeniable how big ftl actually was back then
Revelations 2012 ia a must, wasn't really popular but it was one of those bad games that made it onto Steam before Greenlight launched
Codename: Gordon is probably too old for this list but whatever
TrackMania Nations Forever
These Bit Trip games like Bit Trip Runner and Beat
EYE Divine Cybermancy
Neotokyo
Codename: Gordon is probably too old for this list but whatever
TrackMania Nations Forever
These Bit Trip games like Bit Trip Runner and Beat
EYE Divine Cybermancy
Neotokyo
Also Go Go Nippon lmfao I think this was the first VN on Steam
firing up the mafia 2 demo or supreme commander 2 and immediately receiving a message asking me to play Monaco or APB
Included some more of these, thanks all.
Codename: Gordon is a weird one, I don't remember it but apparently it was made private on Steam in 2008? Before this list's time though yeah. I'd include Gang Garrison 2 but that's not actually on Steam
Codename: Gordon is a weird one, I don't remember it but apparently it was made private on Steam in 2008? Before this list's time though yeah. I'd include Gang Garrison 2 but that's not actually on Steam
Thanks for reminding me about tribes: ascend. Great game when it was still supported by the devs.
Damn, Tribes ascend, they dont really make them how they used to
Dungeons of Dredmor and Antichamber both feel like they were in this same vein
that and maybe some of the not-currently-present Potato Sack games (especially Cogs)
that and maybe some of the not-currently-present Potato Sack games (especially Cogs)
Why do I feel so nostalgic for this list
Detchibe
11 months ago
do the kids remember PC Gamer Episode 1?