Do I have a problem? Steam Deck/Steam game buying trend

CrimsonTide

CrimsonTide

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Here's a list of games I've bought since August 2024

Since I got my Deck. No idea how many this is. Probably over 100. Most are from key sites like CD Keys. Some from various others and sales on Steam etc

Only have a paltry 722 Steam games (doesn't count GOG and other platforms like consoles)

DATE ITEM
Apr 12, 2025 Lords of the Fallen
Apr 12, 2025 Katana ZERO
Apr 6, 2025 The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered
Apr 4, 2025 Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection
Mar 27, 2025 Atomfall (ROW)
Mar 24, 2025 LISA: Complete Edition
Mar 24, 2025 Outward Definitive Edition (Tier 1)
Mar 23, 2025 The Gunk
Mar 23, 2025 Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
Mar 23, 2025 Mega Man Legacy Collection 2
Mar 9, 2025 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Rest of World)
Mar 9, 2025 Far Cry 4
Feb 22, 2025 Sonic Origins Retail - [Digital] (RoW)
Feb 22, 2025 Ultra Street Fighter IV
Feb 22, 2025 Street Fighter - 30th Anniversary
Feb 22, 2025 Street Fighter V - Champion Edition (NA)
Feb 22, 2025 Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Bundle
Feb 22, 2025 Capcom Arcade Stadium Packs 1, 2, and 3 - Launch (WW)
Feb 17, 2025 Chicken Invaders 5
Feb 17, 2025 My Big Sister
Feb 17, 2025 Andro Dunos 2
Feb 17, 2025 RESIDENT EVIL 3 (NA)
Feb 17, 2025 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy / 逆転裁判123 成歩堂セレクション (NA)
Feb 17, 2025 Mega Man X Legacy Collection / ROCKMAN X ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
Feb 17, 2025 Devil May Cry 5 + Vergil (NA)
Feb 16, 2025 Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered
Feb 15, 2025 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Tier 1)
Feb 2, 2025 Turbo Overkill
Feb 2, 2025 Prodeus
Feb 2, 2025 White Noise 2
Feb 2, 2025 Floppy Knights
Feb 2, 2025 Beat Cop
Feb 2, 2025 Not The Robots
Feb 2, 2025 Lucasfilm Classic Games: Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol
Jan 30, 2025 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
Jan 30, 2025 Another Crab's Treasure
Jan 29, 2025 HER STORY
Jan 29, 2025 60 Parsecs!
Jan 29, 2025 The Adventure Pals
Jan 29, 2025 Yoku's Island Express
Jan 29, 2025 God's Trigger
Jan 29, 2025 State of Mind
Jan 29, 2025 MOTHERGUNSHIP
Jan 29, 2025 Guacamelee! 2
Jan 29, 2025 Distance
Jan 29, 2025 Slay the Spire
Jan 29, 2025 PLANET ALPHA
Jan 29, 2025 Sonic Mania [DIGITAL RETAIL] (WW)
Jan 29, 2025 SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
Jan 29, 2025 Call of Duty: WWII - Call of Duty Endowment Fear Not Pack
Jan 29, 2025 Call of Duty: WWII - Call of Duty Endowment Bravery Pack
Jan 29, 2025 Call of Duty: WWII (RoW)
Jan 29, 2025 Baba Is You
Jan 29, 2025 Hyper Light Drifter
Jan 29, 2025 Endless Space Collection Retail (WW)
Jan 29, 2025 NBA 2K20
Jan 29, 2025 The Jackbox Party Pack 4
Jan 29, 2025 This War of Mine
Jan 29, 2025 FTL: Faster Than Light Retail
Jan 29, 2025 Kingdom: Classic
Jan 29, 2025 GoNNER
Jan 29, 2025 Broken Age
Jan 29, 2025 No Time To Explain Remastered
Jan 29, 2025 EarthNight
Jan 29, 2025 Plunge
Jan 29, 2025 My Memory of Us
Jan 29, 2025 MirrorMoon EP
Jan 29, 2025 In Between
Jan 29, 2025 Neo Cab
Jan 29, 2025 Planet of the Eyes
Jan 26, 2025 Shadow Man Remastered
Jan 25, 2025 DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin Asia
Jan 23, 2025 Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition
Jan 23, 2025 DOOM 64
Jan 20, 2025 Terror At Oakheart
Jan 20, 2025 Punch Club
Jan 20, 2025 Pathologic 2
Jan 20, 2025 Police Stories
Jan 20, 2025 Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection - Launch (WW)
Jan 18, 2025 Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Jan 13, 2025 Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
Jan 13, 2025 Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania
Jan 13, 2025 Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell
Jan 13, 2025 Vampire Survivors
Jan 13, 2025 Disney's The Jungle Book
Jan 5, 2025 Remove
Marvel Rivals
Jan 5, 2025 Remove
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Prologue Demo
Dec 26, 2024 Titanfall® 2: Ultimate Edition
Dec 26, 2024 Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Dec 25, 2024 Men of War: Vietnam Retail
Dec 25, 2024 Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1-2 Remastered
Dec 21, 2024 DEATHLOOP
Dec 21, 2024 DEATH STRANDING: Director's Cut (ROW)
Dec 14, 2024 Assassin's Creed Origins - Standard Edition
Dec 14, 2024 Hitman Contracts
Dec 12, 2024 Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
Dec 12, 2024 Cyberpunk 2077
Dec 11, 2024 Steelrising
Dec 11, 2024 Tormented Souls
Dec 11, 2024 Souldiers
Dec 10, 2024 Control Retail (ROW)
Dec 10, 2024 The Disney Afternoon Collection
Dec 10, 2024 Disney Classic Games Aladdin and the Lion King
Dec 7, 2024 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Dec 7, 2024 Redfall
Dec 7, 2024 Hell Of An Office
Dec 7, 2024 Amnesia: The Bunker
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: Abes Oddysee RETAIL
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee RETAIL
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath RETAIL
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus RETAIL
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty - Alf's Escape
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty - Scrub Abe
Dec 4, 2024 Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
Dec 4, 2024 Leisure Suit Larry - THE COMPLETE CUM-PILATION - Retail
Dec 1, 2024 Metro Exodus - Gold Edition (WW)
Nov 30, 2024 Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 1 + 2
Nov 28, 2024 ACE COMBAT™7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Nov 28, 2024 Deadly Premonition 2
Nov 28, 2024 Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition
Nov 28, 2024 FIGHT KNIGHT
Nov 28, 2024 Need for Speed™ Heat Deluxe Edition
Nov 28, 2024 Red Dead Redemption 2
Nov 28, 2024 STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
Nov 28, 2024 Psychonauts 2
Nov 28, 2024 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition
Nov 27, 2024 ELDEN RING Americas Retail
Nov 27, 2024 METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.1
Nov 27, 2024 Dark Sector Limited Free Promotional Package - Nov 2024
Nov 26, 2024 DARK SOULS III
Nov 25, 2024 Castlevania Anniversary Collection
Nov 24, 2024 Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition -New Retail
Nov 21, 2024 RoboCop: Rogue City
Nov 21, 2024 The Last of Us™ Part I
Nov 21, 2024 Not For Broadcast - Live & Spooky
Nov 21, 2024 Not For Broadcast: Bits of Your Life
Nov 21, 2024 Not For Broadcast
Nov 2, 2024 Resident Evil 4 (NA)
Oct 12, 2024 DARK SOULS: REMASTERED
Oct 12, 2024 Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
Sep 27, 2024 Remove
Enderal: Forgotten Stories (Special Edition)
Sep 16, 2024 Mortal Shell: The Virtuous Cycle - Retail (ROW)
Sep 16, 2024 Mortal Shell - Retail (ROW)
Sep 2, 2024 NASCAR Heat 5
Aug 30, 2024 Hogwarts Legacy: Digital Deluxe Edition
Aug 29, 2024 Toy Story 3
Aug 28, 2024 Heavy Rain
Aug 28, 2024 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - Retail (RoW)
Aug 28, 2024 System Shock Enhanced
Aug 26, 2024 Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Aug 23, 2024 RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2 Standard Edition
Aug 18, 2024 Shenmue I & II (Digital Retail) (RoW)
Aug 18, 2024 Killer Frequency - Deluxe Edition
Aug 18, 2024 Shenmue 3 (WW)
Aug 18, 2024 Arcade Paradise
Aug 18, 2024 Remove
Last Broadcast
 
Can you still afford your bills?

If you can, then who cares, right?

But yes, you do have a problem. Out of all the problems you could have, though, this isn't that bad.
 
Loomy said:
Can you still afford your bills?

If you can, then who cares, right?

But yes, you do have a problem. Out of all the problems you could have, though, this isn't that bad.
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Bills come first lol 😂 so yeah. 👍

But it's just beyond wild how hoarding up cheap digital copies of games are. It's mind boggling
 
Also. Not every game I have Is "amazing". But I FEEL most… of my games, it's a game I'm interested in playing. Not just junk
 
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CrimsonTide said:
overwhelming majority of my guys were on deep deep discounts. Key sites. Sales. I do not pay full price
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Good man. Same.

I'm not doing that bad actually:

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Alex Anderson said:
I've quite the insanely large library as well from bundles from humble but Fanatical really hooks me.
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Big fan of fanatical. Some of their bundles are nice. Some suck. But they have some great ones at times. CDkeys is kinda my goto for individual games

But I'll always cross check GG.Deals for the best value
 
You do you OP, buy whatever you want while you can afford it. Maybe in the future you'll go poor and have to live on the streets and look back to your life and wonder if you couldn't have bought more.
 
CrimsonTide said:
Damn. So I'm an outlier. Does it help 99.99% of these purchases were super steep discounts. Many even sub $5?
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That's really the only way I buy anything on Steam. I also don't think you're all that much of an outlier, I'd say it's relatively typical behavior for Steam users, just quantity varies on funds typically available at any given time.
 
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DownLikeBCPowder said:
That's really the only way I buy anything on Steam. I also don't think you're all that much of an outlier, I'd say it's relatively typical behavior for Steam users, just quantity varies on funds typically available at any given time.
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You're missing out if you don't use key sites. Legit ones that is. Majority of mine comes from that. Steam has nice sales many times. But no where near like 10+ years ago.
 
If you're not actually playing them it's a waste of money since you could likely getting them for cheaper in the future.

If you're playing them then no problem.
 
I'm constantly buying Steam keys and I know it's going to be forever before I play the games. I'll get in a mood and buy a handful and never play them.
 
HRK69 said:
Did you perhaps automate the process of getting all the free games on Steam? I've read that's apparently a thing

If not, impressive library
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I can't name 5000 games lol 😂 I'd imagine many are JUNK

No judgment on my end. But been buying off Steam since around 2006. Only have 722 games. Feels tiny now
 
That's very frequent game purchasing, but they look like a lot of older titles, so you're probably buying them during sales and for cheap. In which case, grow that backlog like the rest of us.
 
Loomy said:
That's the thing, and why PC gaming is so good. Being able to buy something like Far Cry 4 for $4.99 is a no brainer if there's even the most remote of chances you'll boot it up some day.


When does your support group get together? lol
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Yep. It's exactly why PC gaming is amazing. Key sites and sales are beyond belief at times. Genuinely amazing. Consoles have SHIT SHIT sales. Always shit
 
ComputerBlue said:
That's very frequent game purchasing, but they look like a lot of older titles, so you're probably buying them during sales and for cheap. In which case, grow that backlog like the rest of us.
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That and some double dipping

Had already played and beat cyberpunk and Witcher 3 etc

Wanted them on native steam. Not GOG or console

Etc
 
HRK69 said:
Did you perhaps automate the process of getting all the free games on Steam? I've read that's apparently a thing

If not, impressive library
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I have a few free games, but not all of them. This is at least 95% games I own / paid for.
 
You are buying from key sites and sales and you are still paying your bills. I love how everyone uses the Steam Deck so many different ways. A friend of mine uses his as an exclusive emulation machine and even uses the Nintendo Online controllers and Wii Remotes for the authentic experience but using texture packs. I use it mainly as a remote play/cloud gaming handheld device for my Xbox. Another friend uses it as a Windows 11 machine. Enjoy the games!
 
Quasicat said:
You are buying from key sites and sales and you are still paying your bills. I love how everyone uses the Steam Deck so many different ways. A friend of mine uses his as an exclusive emulation machine and even uses the Nintendo Online controllers and Wii Remotes for the authentic experience but using texture packs. I use it mainly as a remote play/cloud gaming handheld device for my Xbox. Another friend uses it as a Windows 11 machine. Enjoy the games!
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Bills first. Games LAST.
 
I don't know, I see it as a hobby, Gotta Catch them all.* There is a small rush from youthful memories of getting a good deal on a video game. I live on a limited budget and still feel the need like people with scratch cards to like at least spend 30-50 euros a month on games. Because browsing the keysites for like a combo of This cool game for 5, one for 10 that has a high meta critic, another for 8 that helps you complete a collection, and than getting two really retro for 1-3 euros. That's how I shop and the shopping process is part of the fun. Like collecting cards or people who gamble. You're trying to beat the house. But the house always wins because you buying games you may never boot.

*All means games you heard in passing were good and you should play, or wanted to play at any point in your life.

PS: I kinda feel bad for you, EPIC games gave so many of your purchases away for free. And I enjoy having them but don't play them. I understand fully however the itch of "I wonder how this runs on steamdeck, it should run really well in theory therefore I should buy it and confirm".
 
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mathello said:
I don't know, I see it as a hobby, Gotta Catch them all.* There is a small rush from youthful memories of getting a good deal on a video game. I live on a limited budget and still feel the need like people with scratch cards to like at least spend 30-50 euros a month on games. Because browsing the keysites for like a combo of This cool game for 5, one for 10 that has a high meta critic, another for 8 that helps you complete a collection, and than getting two really retro for 1-3 euros. That's how I shop and the shopping process is part of the fun. Like collecting cards or people who gamble. You're trying to beat the house. But the house always wins because you buying games you may never boot.

*All means games you heard in passing were good and you should play, or wanted to play at any point in your life.

PS: I kinda feel bad for you, EPIC games gave so many of your purchases away for free. And I enjoy having them but don't play them. I understand fully however the itch of "I wonder how this runs on steamdeck, it should run really well in theory therefore I should buy it and confirm".
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Won't do epic. Nope. 👎 it's a no go.
 
Sooner said:
If you're playing the games and can afford your bills, you're fine. Otherwise, yes, it's a bad decision.
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Bills are paid. Games are last on my spending agenda. Always have been. I'd never buy a game and then can't pay a bill. Doesn't happen. Not in any alternate universe either
 
And this, dear GAFers, is the devaluation of games.

If you've paid a decent price for a game, you're more likely to look into it before buying, and then value it more if you do buy it.
 
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