Formerly free games that were turned into paid-for? (STEAM)

Tales of Maj'Eyal

It's still free on the official website, Steam sells the "donor edition" with some extra bonuses and Workshop integration... good value if you like the genre

Eversion.

The name does not mention it, but the Steam version is a HD version. Still worth the money though because I loved it and I gladly supported the developer.

Stealth Bastard

Evoland

Though the paid versions are a lot more polished.

Look at all the "special" people talking about paid games that became free and free games that added content when they became paid. This topic is about steam being greedy, people.

If I were you I would take a lot of what you read in here with a grain of salt. Honestly, I don't get all of these people that mention free flash or web-based versions of certain games as if they were somehow an identical experience to a proper standalone version. Among other things, you generally have to play in a small window/area and probably aren't going to get any kind of HD resolution/graphics. I will use Kingdom Rush as an example here -- I can tell you that it is definitely a significantly better experience being able to take full advantage of the display and play at native resolution with HD graphics rather than in a small-ass window.

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games was free on a British site to people with a UK IP.

Insurgency and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare both used to be Free HL2 mods but now paid games,
also The Stanley Parable.

No Time To Explain, there's still a free version on Kongregate

Vanguard Princess was and still is free in Japan. You're basically paying for the translation.

How about features in a game? When Knights of Pen and Paper +1 was added to Steam, it still had a cash shop. They have since removed the cash shop and made everything purchase-able in the game.

Did someone mention Cart Life ? That was free then pay on Steam. Then the developer didn't feel like fixing the bugs anymore so he took the paid version off Steam and made it open source.

Super Hexagon? The original flash game Hexagon is still free, but the super version is paid.

Portal

Mmm can't think anything worth noting as now, but I recently saw NEStalgia on Steam for like 10€, but I remember playing it for free years ago

today red orchestra 2 it's f2p.. but tomorrow it's gonna be like 8$ again.. that sucks,right? lol.

Eufloria was originally Dyson. Same spheres, trees, and seed-like units. There's a lot of new content, sure, but it's still a free-to-paid example.

A bunch of games from the Basement Collection.

azaza

http://www.miniclip.com/games/trial-bike/en/ --> turned into Trials.

Remember playing the unrestricted (linked above is restricted) flash version like a maniac =)

Race the Sun. Its free on Kongragate. But the paid version has editor and a few other stuff.

Binding of Isaac?

GTA 1 and 2, but now they are not free and they are not on Steam. :)

Kingdom Rush... although I'd say they added enough to make it worth the $

Wasn't To The Moon free long time ago? I don't remember...