so my luck turned today and I got my first steamgifts win... and my second too! ok, technically they were separate days as one was around 10pm Sunday and the other 4am Monday
it got me thinking though, how many of you remember what your first win was? did it live up to your expectations (assuming you had any)? was it something you'd been after or one that you only heard about on steamgifts?

my first was Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel. I don't remember how I first heard of it but at some point it caught my interest and has been in my whislist for a while. 8 hours later, just as I was about to log off and get to bed (it being 4am I should have done so long ago...) that space cat pops up to say hello again. after thanking, whitelisting and removing entries into other giveaways for those games, I should, if I decided to be sensible, bugger off to bed. instead I decided to make this post...
anyway since you're probably asking what the other win was (or wondering what the hells I'm doing awake), it was Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes - also been in my wishlist for some time
both now have pride of place in my "priority to play" Steam category

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That was a good one

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A resource pack for RPG Maker VX Ace

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ArmA 2, played it then the campain bugged and cant complete it on that save anymore :,v ill go back one day.

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My first game was Dwarfs!?. It was from a 100,000 copy giveaway. Never actually played it.

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lol i get this game from giveaway too =D

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This was my first win too, 100% win chance haha. I played it for a few hours, was actually quite fun.

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First win was Hotline Miami awesome game was a wishlist game at the time too was happy as hell

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4 days after registering here, I won Krater from a giveaway with 1,660 entries (which may be my highest ratio of entries to copies among games I won). I thought this site was going to rain games down on me at that point.

While I haven't been quite that prolific, I am coming up on 100 wins, and only one of them was a private giveaway (guy started a public giveaway, then put a link to a private giveaway for the same game in the link to see if people read giveaway descriptions.)

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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. I entered it because... well, it looked okay. It was a triple A game. And I entered mostly any of these back in the days.
My reaction to it? It barely ran on my old GPU, and the game is... well, it's not bad. Just very glitchy and "annoying" to play. I also got stuck at one point in the game, then just dropped it after dozens of failed attempts.

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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Oddly enough sgtools says I never activated it but I have the game in my library.

So technically my first activated win was Serious Sam 3: BFE and I was blown away by the game.

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Maybe because the page the game points to is a package for the Serious Sam complete pack instead of just Serious Sam Classic which I assume you probably don't own.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/41050/

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I won PAYDAY 2 in July 2014, which I was so incredibly happy about. I've since played 37 hours with a couple friends, have really enjoyed playing it. It's not something I'd want to play multiplayer without friends, but is good when I'm craving an FPS game. I always come back to it every couple months to play a few games. I did get Payday 2 in the December Humble Bundle Monthly, but I was able to give that copy away to a friend.

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My first was Sins of a Dark Age (15,000 Copies) =D

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Mafia II, it was GREAT!

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i won a dlc for a nice game.

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I Joined steamgifts yesterday and my first was Escape Machines (It's my 4th entered giveaways :D)

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you are incredibly lucky.
I had over 5000 entries before I won.

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Arma II, 9 months back.

Spacecat scared the crap out of me.

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My first win was Titan Quest a week after I joined. It was a private giveaway so I must have discovered the forum pretty early. :P
I hadn't heard of it but I did play and enjoy it. I even bought the expansion for it myself.

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F.E.A.R. 2

I had entered 3 private giveaways, one for each game in the series, and somehow I knew that one of those would be it. I subsequently traded for F.E.A.R. 1, which I'm currently playing, just so I can get to it.

My next two wins, on the other hand...
Life is Strange - Episode 1. Don't really want to start it until I can get my hands on episodes 2-5, because I know I'll want them
Else Heart.Break() I didn't realize that I had entered, and wasn't even interested in the game. But, I was still too new to the site to turn down a won gift, so it's currently rocking my backlog. In all fairness, I had 0 interest in the game beforehand, and had given away a copy I received in a bundle, but, now that I won it, I want to actually try it out, and I have every intention of giving it a fair shake.

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Bad Rats, I didn't even know about that game before that :x

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Oh I will never forget my first win.. sadly it's not for a good reason.

My first win was Trine Franchise two years ago.

Sad thing is the guy that made the giveaway never logged on after he made the giveaway so I never got the game from him. I did buy it like a year ago but I've still not played it.

The next win I had was for some game called Fish Fillets 2, back when I entered everything and anything, still haven't played that game and I don't think I will.

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Thanks again :3

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on first month on this website i wanted to win everything i didn't think it's real or something etc anyway my first won was Eurofighter Typhoon and it didn't even work xD

now i enter wishlist games only ;D

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You dont need to remember your first win. You can check it :D mine was Abyss Odyssey . 20 copies GA that was. And fee hours later i won second Abyss GA. Ofc didint get it but it was nice :D pretty decent game too. Liked it.

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2 years ago after 1500 entries... DayZ Standalone
now waiting on every win 3-4 months... very funny when u can see guys who winning every 2 days.

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It's time for some post necromancy. I like your choice of topic, OP!

The first game I won was "TinyKeep". Funnily enough, it was the first GA that I entered for that game, and immediately after putting it on my wishlist.
It's a pretty neat indie rogue-like game with physics based combat, that includes parts of the environment. It's quite fun - I've played it a goodly number of times (more than Steam would lead one to think, as I like to play off-line). I've not completed it yet, but I anticipate returning to the level that I was stuck on in the near future.

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My first win was a copy of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West.

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Left 4 Dead 2 - Not Received.
Also blacklisted by the giveaway creator.

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