'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
Our champion Steam spender has dropped a new car's worth of cash into Gabe's yacht fund.
There's a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can't tell you how precisely much you've actually spent on Valve's wallet-plundering platform, microtransactions and all.
If you bought on sales or Humble Bundles then this number will be so far off its useless. If you only buy new and retail then I feel bad for you sucker.
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
I got Steam so I could play Half Life 2 when it was released. May 4, 2006. 153 games. $1,725 spent.
This thing about not owning the games ... um ... Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device I've ever owned. Other than the Ubisoft games that are designed to not be re-usable (never buy Ubi again) I have access to every game I've bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.
I don't feel bad. It's a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. I'm sure I'd be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.
My 17-year-old account is at $600. That's an average of $35 per year.
Most of my gaming spending for the last 8 years has been on Nintendo Switch. That number is too embarrassing to post.
$602.41 for 50 games in 18.4 years. Cost at today's prices: $698. I'd say that's a win.
2,095 hours. 72% of games played. Guess I need to get to work.
I wish I could track my pre-steam numbers. Id be interested to see how much time I put into Mechwarrior 3, or Rollercoaster Tycoon, or Unreal Tournament.
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.
I‘ve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, it‘s alright. I‘d be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending
Considering I have 827 games on Steam, the figure of $1620.26 doesn't seem too bad. Now I've probably bought a load more bundles bumping that up, but there's no convenient way to figure out how much that adds (let's round to $2000). I've had the account 18 years, 9 months.
So that's... $8.89 per month.
Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable.
It's not wasted if you've enjoyed
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount I’ve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
$130 over 14 years. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I did pretty good. So far 530 games for $1867
That's about $3.50 per game
I often leave games in my wishlist until they are 70-80% off
$1300 CAD on games over 15+ years with a current value of $8350.
Yeah, I'm cool with that.
1300$ in 17 years. Around 1200 games. I think I probably spent more elsewhere and got steam keys. I still have a physical copy of portal 2, which was cheaper at release than on steam and had a key inside haha. Good times.
530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. There's almost no time recorded in Half-life, Day of defeat or Counterstrike and those are the games I played the most. I also got most games through Humblebundle, where I spent 270 dollars since June 2012. But as I haven't been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I don't even want to know.
Woo $6k!
Oh, it's not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
3465 € in 21 years at today's prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 € that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.
3,6 € per game, 49 € per year.
Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, it's well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!
Not bad, under $9000! I thought for sure it would be over 10k. I'm at 2k games, and I almost always buy on sale.
Surprised to see I've only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
Well not how much you've spent, how much it values your collection. But what's that number based on? I've only bought one full price game in my entire life on Steam. And it was one of my biggest regrets so I'm not doing that again. So right there all the sale prices I'm paying aren't being calculated right? Then there's the case of free games and humble bundles, back when they were awesome. Hell probably a third to half of the games I have in my Steam account either came from Humble bundles or free giveaways.
If your account is less than about 5 years old (and you live in the US) you can also just look at the points shop. Each Steam Point corresponds to one cent spent on Steam.
$1118 over 15+ years isn't too bad
€15.77 on a 5 year old account
I own Terraria, Among Us, BTD6, Celeste and Gelatine, all bought on a discount
Outside of steam i own minecraft and the mobile version of BTD6 and have only once pirated a game that i actually played
Why play other games when you have modded minecraft and terraria
- I have only tf2 on steam
This site puts my lowest cost estimate at ~$400 USD. Out of curiosity, I then went through my purchase history and added everything up, which came out to ~$1,000 USD. The average was ~$14 and the median was ~$10.
Less than 1000€ for dozens of games I've played, I think the average price I payed is 15€, so I don't feel robbed
I mostly buy on GOG whenever possible though, even if it means I have to wait a year or two
I'm even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don't have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments. Today's price is over $900 tho, patient gamer gang.
I just checked and i thought it would be more.
But I do not know and will never check the amount of time spent playing.
This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge can't harm you.
Nice 👍
"May" nothing, I don't.
I only buy physical so mines like 20$ 🤣
$187 / 2 years
Im happy with this, especially since all the games I have bought, I actually really like. So I have all the bethesda game studio games (literally), ESO, Doom, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Batman Arkham Night, Injustice2, and No Man's Sky (the only one I regret buying).
I think all these games are worth those $187. I have only bought a copy of Skyrim outside of steam (GOG) otherwise it's all on steam.
£1,585.73
Not bad for 16 years I guess.
