{"id":1614696,"date":"2026-06-23T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/P2CkUivsZg6u9x6kMWhva9"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:59:59","slug":"i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I played that $1,000 Steam game. I regret it"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A recent Steam release has been making the social media rounds of late. <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4693030\/Congratulations_On_Your_Purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congratulations On Your Purchase<\/a> is a, I hesitate to say &#8216;game,&#8217; but a product, released at the end of May, that costs $1,000 \/ \u00a3748. &#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; reads the description. Kind of. There&#8217;s actually a bunch of broken HTML in there I can&#8217;t copy over without confusing our CMS.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a status symbol, in essence: a 2026 replay of that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Am_Rich\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Rich iPhone app<\/a> from 2008. The intention is that Steam users with more money than sense see it, purchase it, and flaunt it as a testament to their fantastic wealth, while also conveniently signing themselves up for the guillotine come the October Revolution 2.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-amazon-prime-day-pc-gaming-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We&#8217;re curating all the best Prime Day PC gaming deals here<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"iGhqPS5wBKGGv5Li7JmnTA\" name=\"Congratulations 3\" alt=\"Fans stretch off into the distance.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Worth It Studio)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Naturally, I picked it up. Oh, don&#8217;t worry. While it&#8217;s true that I am incredibly wealthy from my lucrative games journalism career, I didn&#8217;t drop a thousand bucks on Congratulations On Your Purchase. I used a Steam press account to play it for free and take a nose around, to see if the wonders contained therein could possibly justify the extortionate pricetag.<\/p>\n<p>They can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"QefpssXPNBXD6CKBngjeTA\" name=\"Congratulations 5\" alt=\"A placard trumpets today's star: Josh.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-1.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Worth It Studio)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations On Your Purchase is a first-person luxury experience set inside a palace,&#8221; goes the Steam description. &#8220;There is a red carpet. There are chandeliers. There are velvet rope barriers.&#8221; All true. That&#8217;s also pretty much all there is. There&#8217;s you\u2014in first-person\u2014bearing whatever name you typed in at the game&#8217;s start, an L-shaped corridor, and a legion of mildly deformed supporters fixed in a rictus of enthusiasm. They do not animate, they simply rotate on their Y-axes to follow you unblinkingly around the room. Many of them are identical. Looking at them slows my PC to a crawl and makes my fans spin louder than a BIOS update.<\/p>\n<p>Your slack-jawed apostles exist behind the velvet rope. You cannot reach them and they cannot reach you. Instead, you roam the red carpet and, once you have passed the elbow of the L-shaped corridor, come face to face with a featureless blank wall. <\/p>\n<p>This is Congratulations On Your Purchase&#8217;s one and only mechanic: you can daub the wall with whatever you want\u2014write your name, a witty quote, a rude picture; these are the privileges of wealth. Anything you put up there will go on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamelite.zone\/\">the game&#8217;s website<\/a>. So long as you put it in the right bit, anyway: the first thing I scrawled was too far off to the left, meaning it&#8217;s not included on the website.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"E6bW54d54LtqVXCQRPYgTA\" name=\"Congratulations 2\" alt=\"The wall and some celebrating fans.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-2.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Worth It Studio)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I get the impression that Congratulations On Your Purchase thinks it&#8217;s <em>doing something, man<\/em>. &#8220;There is no combat. There are no enemies. There are no quests, no skill trees, no loot boxes\u2014well, there is one box, but it contains only the feeling of having arrived somewhere important,&#8221; reads its description, enigmatically. &#8220;The question of whether this experience is worth $999.99 is, philosophically speaking, unanswerable. Worth is constructed. Price is arbitrary. The fact that you are reading this suggests you are already considering it\u2014which means the answer, for you, may already be yes. We respect that about you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Droll, but there&#8217;s no &#8216;there&#8217; there. The product doesn&#8217;t live up to the possibly-satirical promises of its description. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite enough to slap a $1,000 pricetag on a hunk of junk and call it a savage act of detournement. At the very least, you probably ought to donate your earnings to charity. Moneygrabbing is still moneygrabbing if you do it with an arched eyebrow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"H5U9gApEPrCPw9nD4zT5UA\" name=\"Congratulations 4\" alt=\"Wall graffiti reading 'I regret my purchase'.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-3.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Worth It Studio)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s it. That is the entirety of the game, which you should under no circumstances buy. Indeed, judging by its credits page, it has only ever had seven players, of which I am number seven. There should never be a number eight.<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-ORV41O\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/ORV41O.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"42d9dfd3-f6d8-4a50-9a9f-a90802c19784\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/i-played-that-1000-steam-game-i-regret-it-4.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"42d9dfd3-f6d8-4a50-9a9f-a90802c19784\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/i-played-that-usd1-000-steam-game-i-regret-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Steam release has been making the social media rounds of late. Congratulations On Your Purchase is a, I hesitate to say &#8216;game,&#8217; but a product, released at the end of May, that costs $1,000 \/ \u00a3748. &#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; reads the description. Kind of. There&#8217;s actually a bunch of broken HTML in there I can&#8217;t copy over without confusing our CMS. It&#8217;s a status symbol, in essence: a 2026 replay of that I Am Rich iPhone app from 2008. 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