I'm just going to assume people are overlooking Portal because, well duh, it's Portal, so it's a given :P

In all fairness, I got Steam just for that game, and to this day, I haven't encountered a more outstanding game, in the most literal sense of the word. You all probably remember tons of moments from it, whether you care to admit it or not ;)

Likewise, I got Steam only for HL2 and portal. Those where my first digital buy-and-download purchase.

All time most memorable would be King`s Bounty. Maybe a tie with Torchlight.

That's a + for you, my friend!! :D
Always like to see people who love this great serious! And I had to register on Origin only for ME3, too :/ It was worth it, though :)

As for only digital purchases, I am enjoying Dragon Commander pretty much at the moment. And Defender's Quest wasn't bad either. But I've got most of the games I've purchased this year on my backlog, so I should probably post in here again in a few years xD

It's really hard to pick just one.
I went through my GOG and Steam catalogs, and these jumped out as some of the most memorable - Portal, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Resonance, and System Shock 2.

But I think the most memorable for me was Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. I had been a fan of Road to Hill 30, so I bought the other 2 games. Hell's Highway didn't just take it to the next level, it took it like 14 levels higher. This was the perfect WW2 shooter. I played it in one sitting, because I literally could not stop. It was everything I loved about the first game, but better in every way. It looked beautiful, it played very well, and the story was amazing.

That was probably the most memorable gaming experience I've had in the last 5 years, if not longer.

Pretty sure that all PC games have always been digital...


Assuming you mean titles that I have purchased as downloadable only, XCOM:EU and Spec Ops: the Line. Probably heaps of others also.

Recent Title = Legend of Grimrock

Oldie = Wizardry VI

Non-RPG - Mirror's Edge

This is going to surprise everyone, I know, but The Witcher 2!

Eador: Genesis, after 25 years of computer games I had given up hope that something this good would come out. And this was a total surprise and I loved it from day one.

Even though it isn't a digital only game, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

Way back in the early to late 90's, during a period that consoles weren't quite sure where they were headed yet, I set down my Genesis and SNES controllers an began PC gaming starting with Doom II.

Towards the end of the reign of the PSOne I turned my back to PC gaming completely disgusted by the patching process and Pool or Radiance and Ultima Ascension which were the last two straws.

Once console gaming also started moving into that nasty realm of hard copy alphas with intentions to patch, I figured I may as well move back to PC again because, at least, the games were much cheaper and everyone had evolved past that era of collecting physical things.

So this is just from memory of my past three years experience since I turned tail from consoles and ran back to the PC.

Story and dialogue-wise there has been a massive improvement since many films of the nineties and early two-thousands. Unfortunately many will never experience these much more progressive and sophisticated ideas and writing simply for the fact that they are too intimidated to learn anything that requires more than an Atari 2600 joystick to operate.

I've been playing Max Payne 3 recently and had it only been a movie instead it would've never caught my attention the way that it has.

I guess it would've been more accurate to say "PC games this side of 2010."

The PC game which provided me with the most hours of use and therefore clearest memory was the original R.O.T.T. but to be fair I have to look past nostalgia and note the vast technological improvement and story telling in more recent efforts.

Relying even more on old school nostalgia I could also address consoles claiming that Bump N Jump, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter and Robot Alchelmic Drive cling strongest to memory but to be fair I would eventually have to admit that mass improvements were made since then borrowing from those past ideas.

I mean Intellivision's Bump N Jump was to me in the 80's what Spec Ops is to me today but to pit Bump N Jump VS Spec Ops would look as if I were jaded to the point of being blind.

Hard to say, especially since I still mainly play the older backlog. But some:

Crysis 2: I always really liked the intro music, and it is still the game I like to show to anyone as a showpiece of modern gaming, even though it is not my favorite FPS game.

LIMBO: There was always something fascinating about this little platformer.

I guess I also pick Portal, there's no denying of its originality, and the antagonist is funny. I might even replay that at some point, even though the game is very linear.

My view on Spec Ops: The Line

Too bad I heard so much praise of it, so the story etc. didn't take me by surprise, and it was easier to concentrate on its bad parts, like very linear and repetitive gameplay, very restricted levels etc. It annoyed me a lot how some levels made you feel you were on an edge of a very vast area to explore, but you were still guided through a very narrow path through it.

But a bit like Crysis 2, I've felt it is a very good game to show esp. non-gamers what modern gaming is about. It certainly has that feeling of "Wow! It is like you are in a real movie!" especially when you are watching someone else play it, similar like I guess any new Call of Duty game has etc. Rather than showing them Minecraft and they go like "Huh? What the heck are you doing there?".

Thief Gold, played and beat it for the very first time last year and it's now my new favorite stealth game.

Haha. *high five*

In June 2013 I made my first digital PC purchase. Since then beating F.E.A.R. was a blast and I'm enjoying Immortal Throne (despite some bugs). Wow... I really need to prioritize Eador: Genesis out of my new backlog.