Game Historical Low Price: Best Cheap & Co-op Picks

Knowing a game's historical low price is what separates a smart buy from buyer's remorse two weeks later. This list rounds up titles that genuinely reward patience, the ones with a track record of deep discounts across Steam, Eneba, Kinguin, Epic and GOG. Wait for the floor, skip the launch tax, and put the difference toward the next thing on your wishlist.

Last updated: June 7, 2026. Prices checked: June 2026. Sources: Steam, Epic, publisher pages and partner stores. We refresh prices and sale notes regularly.

Best picks at a glance

• Best near-free pick: Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, regularly pocket change at its low and a frequent giveaway.
• Best cheap couch party: Stick Fight: The Game and Duck Game.
• Best co-op looter shooter: Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced.
• Best single-player RPG at a discount: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009).
• Best premium worth waiting for: Untitled Goose Game and Skater XL.
• Best puzzle brain-bender: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension.
• Best management sim: Mad Games Tycoon 2.
• Best for big groups: Wargame: Red Dragon.
• Best cross-platform: Borderlands and Untitled Goose Game (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch).

Quick list

How to spot a real historical low

The headline percentage on a store page tells you the discount off list, not whether it is the best price ever. Those are different numbers. A title can show 50% off and still be more expensive than a sale it ran six months ago.

Best single-player picks at a low

This is where the deepest savings live, because most of these games are older and sit on storefronts year-round.

• Fallout and Fallout 2: two of the most influential RPGs ever made, both regularly bottoming out near a dollar or two. If you only know the modern 3D Fallout games, these isometric originals are a cheap, dense surprise.
• Oblivion GOTY (2009): a genuine open-world time sink that includes the expansions. At its ~$4-5 floor the cost-per-hour is almost a rounding error.
• ATOM RPG: the indie pick for anyone who finished the classic Fallouts and wanted more. Drops to a few dollars often.
• There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension: a short, sharp puzzle comedy that breaks the fourth wall constantly. Best enjoyed blind, and cheapest at around $3.
• Mad Games Tycoon 2: a deep management sim about running a studio. Slower to discount because it still gets updates, but worth grabbing at its low.

For more in this lane, the RPG hub and indie hub track the same kind of dependable price drops.

Best for 2 players

Honest note: these are true two-player titles, not solo games with a tacked-on label.

• LEGO Batman and LEGO Ninjago Movie: both run shared-screen two-player co-op and both fall to single digits. Ideal for a relaxed evening or playing with a kid.
• Untitled Goose Game: solo by default, with two-player co-op added in a free update, so a couple can terrorise the village together. Premium-priced, so the ~$8-10 low is the sweet spot.

Best for 3-4 players

• Borderlands GOTY Enhanced: up to four-player online co-op looting and shooting, easily the standout group buy here. The Enhanced version is the one to track.
• Stick Fight: The Game: 1-4 local or online physics brawling, almost free at its low and hilarious in a group.
• Duck Game: 1-4 quick-draw chaos where one hit ends a round. Cheap, fast, endlessly replayable.

Best for 5+ and big groups

• Wargame: Red Dragon: large-scale real-time strategy that scales to massive multiplayer matches, with a tiny ~$3-5 floor that makes rallying a squad painless.
• Skater XL: online sessions support a crowd of skaters in one park, so it works for a loose, drop-in group. Wait for the ~$8-10 low rather than paying full freight.

Best couch picks

Grab a few controllers and these handle local play cleanly: Stick Fight: The Game, Duck Game, LEGO Batman and LEGO Ninjago Movie. All four are cheap at their lows, and the two LEGO titles are the gentlest on younger or newer players.

Best cross-platform

If you want one purchase that follows you between machines or matches friends on console, look at Borderlands GOTY Enhanced (PC, PlayStation, Xbox), Untitled Goose Game (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch), Duck Game (PC, PlayStation, Switch) and Skater XL (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch). Handheld players should also peek at the Steam Deck compatible list, since most of the lighter picks here run beautifully on it.

Honourable / adjacent picks

• Sultan's Game: a strong dark-strategy game, but it is recent enough that its discounts are still shallow, so the "historical low" is not yet dramatic. Worth wishlisting and waiting.
• Borderlands GOTY: the original edition is fine, but it is superseded by the Enhanced version above for almost the same price, so it earns an adjacent slot rather than a core one.

FAQ

What does "game historical low price" actually mean? It is the lowest verified price a specific game has ever reached across the major stores tracked, including limited sales. It is a more useful benchmark than the on-page discount percentage, because that percentage is measured against list price, not the best deal the game has ever offered.

How do I know a game has hit its historical low? Check a price-history tracker and compare the current price to the recorded floor. If the live price matches or beats that number, you are buying at the low. Setting a price alert means you do not have to watch the storefront daily.

Are marketplaces like Eneba and Kinguin safe for grabbing the low? They often list keys below the headline Steam price, and they can be a legitimate way to hit a historical low. Buy from well-rated sellers, confirm the platform and region of the key before paying, and treat any price that looks too good as a reason to read the listing carefully.

Do GOTY and Enhanced editions have separate historical lows? Yes. Each edition is usually its own product with its own price history, so Borderlands GOTY Enhanced and the original Borderlands GOTY can sit at different floors. Track the exact edition you want.

Which games here go free instead of just cheap? Classics like the original Fallout and titles such as Wargame: Red Dragon have appeared in giveaways before. It is worth watching our giveaways page, since a free claim beats any historical low.

Is it worth waiting months for a historical low? For older catalog games, often yes, because they drop predictably during seasonal sales. For newer releases like Sultan's Game or Mad Games Tycoon 2, the floor moves slowly, so a near-low price now can be reasonable if you actually want to play it soon.

Do historical lows differ by region or store? They can. Regional pricing and partner-store keys mean the same game might have a lower floor on one storefront than another. That is exactly why comparing across Steam, Epic, GOG and the marketplaces matters before you commit.

Which of these run well on Steam Deck? The lighter and older picks (the LEGO games, the Fallout classics, the party brawlers and the puzzle title) tend to be a comfortable fit. Check the current Steam Deck list for verified status before buying for handheld play.

The bottom line

The smartest move is rarely buying on day one. Bookmark a tracker, set alerts on the games above, and let the historical low come to you. When you are ready to compare every store at once, our full catalog and current deals page do the legwork, the Steam sale tracker flags the next big event, and the giveaways page catches the freebies before they vanish. Genre fans can dig deeper through the action and horror hubs too.

Alex, Scout Team