Hotline Miami (opens in new tab) - An arcade violence simulator that doubles as a workout for the light receptors in your eyes.

Super Meat Boy (opens in new tab) - The uncontested GOAT of oddly satisfying rage platformers.

A Building Full of Cats (opens in new tab) - It's a building full of cats.

AER: Memories of Old (opens in new tab) - a supremely chill flying adventure about transforming into a bird and exploring ancient ruins.

Grow Home (opens in new tab) - Guide a cute little robot through a procedurally generated climbing adventure that'll soothe your soul and occasionally bring out your acrophobia.

Limbo (opens in new tab) and Inside (opens in new tab) - I'm putting these two atmospheric side-scrollers together because Playdead's catalog really deserves to be experienced together.

Portal 2 (opens in new tab) and Left 4 Dead 2 (opens in new tab) - Just to complete your Valve collection after The Orange Box.

The Orange Box (opens in new tab)- It's Portal and all of Half-Life 2 in one little bundle.

SteamWorld Dig (opens in new tab) - A sublime 2D Metroidvania platformer about digging holes under a steampunk Western town, and possibly my strongest recommendation on this list.

Divinity 2: Developer's Cut (opens in new tab)- This is notably not Divinity: Original Sin 2, but it's a slice of Larian's history that's worth seeing if you've a taste for the slightly retro.Florence (opens in new tab) - A romance adventure and mobile triumph that plays even better and hits just as hard on PC.You can get all of these games for $2 or less apiece, and they're all standouts of their genre. I've trawled the Spring Steam sale depths seeking the best super-cheap games around, and after sifting through about a thousand increasingly absurd sex games – seriously, why do they infest this price bracket so heavily – I've come up for air and to share my findings.

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