This Steam game costs $1,000 and proudly offers almost nothing

A new Steam release called Congratulations On Your Purchase launched recently at a price of $1,000 — and the developer isn't hiding what you get for that money. Spoiler: it's not much.

The game bills itself as a "first-person luxury experience" set inside a palace. The Steam listing promises a red carpet, a chandelier, and a velvet rope barrier keeping out "the wrong kind" of people. There's no combat, no enemies, no quests, no skill trees — just one box that contains, according to the listing, "only the feeling of having arrived somewhere important." Developer Minimal Viable Prestige leans fully into the absurdity in their own description: "You paid for this. Not accidentally. Not on impulse. You saw the price. You read the description. And then you bought it anyway. Welcome." For a grand, the character models still look squished.

Steam's standard refund policy applies — under two hours played and under two weeks owned — so anyone who somehow clicks through all those confirmation screens by accident does have a safety net. Congratulations On Your Purchase isn't the most expensive game-adjacent purchase in history, though. A $750 Resident Evil 6 Stylish Edition came with a real Leon S. Kennedy leather jacket, an $800 Assassin's Creed Origins collector's edition was capped at 1,000 units, a $190,000 Grid 2 edition included an actual car, and Saints Row 4 once offered to send a buyer to space for $1 million.

If you'd rather spend nothing, the recent Steam Next Fest has free demos worth checking out — and whatever those games eventually cost at launch, it's a safe bet it won't be four figures.