{"id":62916,"date":"2026-06-22T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62916"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:52:59","slug":"this-1000-steam-game-offers-very-little-but-at-least-its-honest-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62916","title":{"rendered":"This $1,000 Steam Game Offers Very Little, But At Least It\u2019s Honest About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With people wondering if GTA 6 preorders will kickstart a new $80 era for standard edition PS5 and Xbox Series X|S games, one new release on Steam already has Rockstar Games beat: Congratulations On Your Purchase. The new red carpet-simulator launched not too long ago, and it can be yours for the <em>mere <\/em>price of $1,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed to be a &#8220;first-person luxury experience&#8221; set inside a palace, the Steam listing says that players can expect a red carpet, a chandelier, and a velvet rope barrier to protect them from &#8220;the wrong kind&#8221; of people. As for the gameplay, there is no combat, no enemies, no quests, no skill trees, and one box that contains only the feeling of having arrived somewhere important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer Minimal Viable Prestige is also brutally honest about what you can expect from their debut game. &#8220;You paid for this. Not accidentally. Not on impulse. You saw the price. You read the description. And then you bought it anyway. Welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;: { &quot;image&quot;: { &quot;initialized&quot;: true } } }\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1798624\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Congrats.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1798624\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">For $1,000, I was expecting character models not to look squished.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, players are protected, just in case they take a bad stumble near their PC, open up Steam, input their credit card details, and then click through several confirmation pages during their fall. Steam&#8217;s refund policy allows for a game to be returned, provided that it hasn&#8217;t been played for more than two hours or owned for more than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations On Your Purchase might be expensive, but several other special editions of games have also been priced high over the years while&nbsp;offering more content overall in comparison. This $750 Stylish Edition of Resident Evil 6 came with a wearable replica of Leon S. Kennedy&#8217;s leather jacket, and&nbsp;an $800 Assassin&#8217;s Creed Origins collector&#8217;s edition was limited to just 1,000 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you had cash burning a hole in your pocket for a publicity stunt, there was the $190,000 edition of Grid 2 that included an actual car, one Dying Light player could get a custom-built zombie apocalypse shelter, and Saints Row 4 even offered to send you to space if you purchased the one-of-a-kind $1 million special edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prefer not to<em> <\/em>spend $1,000 on a single game? Then check out our favorite recommendations from the recent Steam Next Fest. All the demos are free to play, and we&#8217;re pretty certain that each game won&#8217;t be too expensive when they eventually launch in full.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/this-1000-steam-game-offers-very-little-but-at-least-its-honest-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With people wondering if GTA 6 preorders will kickstart a new $80 era for standard edition PS5 and Xbox Series X|S games, one new release&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[258,14602,1906,3418],"class_list":["post-62916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-game","tag-honest","tag-offers","tag-steam","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}