[Steam] Heretic/Hexen Pack (90% off | 0,99€ - Historical Low)

Absolutely! Here huge fan of Doom! This must have and Quake aswell! And few more great Boomer Shooters games!

Yes, these are the cool games we had back then.

If you love FPS games - yes. You can "upgrade" the experience using gzdoom (except for hexen 2 which uses q1 engine) and texture packs. Check some reviews on youtube. Anyhow the price is really low..

If you like Doom 1993 sure.

There is little to lose as they cost only a dollar / euro, but tbh if you don't lean towards being interested in retro games / video game history, you can just skip it.

They're quite interesting, in a mostly good way.
Heretic is like a fantasy DOOM. Some fun monsters, levels are a bit more open and it's more challenging. If you like DOOM you'll like Heretic, it's a good one, though I would not say it's quite as good as the old DOOM games.
Hexen is interesting. It plays a lot like DOOM, and feels remarkably smooth to play. The game has a far more open design with a greater focus on puzzles. Some people love this one, others find it confusing. Three classes with unique weapons gives it some replay value as well. Worth checking out!
Hexen 2 is rough. It runs on an upgraded quake engine and the levels are pretty big. Combat feels good and once again you have multiple classes. Some of the puzzles are downright fiendish in this one though and it suffers from a classic case of "where do I go?" syndrome. Still worth a try, you might find the exploration fascinating, and even if you just play through the first world and drop it afterwards you'll get your moneys worth out of it thanks to the solid combat.

These games were made in the mid 1990s and there wasn't much native controller support back then. There might be some workarounds if you search the forums on their Steam pages.

They feature multiple difficulties and have cheat codes, including invulnerability, level skip and all weapons/ammo.

Yes both games have an easy mode (first difficulty). There are also cheats, but you won't need them on easy.
Controllers should work since Wolfenstein 3D and Doom had controller support. Will test and confirm.

Update: So they use Dosbox which does not support controllers out of the box. Possible but tiresome
You can use a different launcher / frontend like Doomsday or GZDoom which have inbuilt controller support.

As a plus, GZDoom will automatically find the games once installed on Steam / GOG

I'll add that these Marathon games are free, and have been for a long time. I remember playing them back in 2008 or so. If you don't want to play the Steam versions for whatever reason you can fiddle around with the open source project:

https://alephone.lhowon.org/

And for the uninitiated, Marathon was made by Bungie and is related to Halo in some ill-defined way.

Mandaloregaming did some amazing videos about the Marathon games, it's a really intriguing series

What do you mean 'remastered'? That is exactly how the game looks like in my head thinking back. 😆

I appreciate all the work that comes into these remastered graphics, but for some reason I like to play the old fps's in a small window, in their original, pixelated glory. ;-) I make use of the modern controls, though. :D

Jawohl

witches, plural
hexe is one witch

It's also where "hex" [as in, "to place a hex on someone"] comes from, having a similar morphological and contextual association to hexe as "bewitch" does to "witch".