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[winjer]

Pop quiz, hot shot. How much money have you spent on Steam? And do you regret having spent so much, or so little?
To find out, just open Steam, and follow these steps.

"help > steam support > my account > data related to your steam account > external funds used"

It will tell you exactly how much money you have spent on Steam, though it won't tell anything about keys bough on other sites.

Here is my result. It's not huge, but on the other hand, in recent years, I have bought a lot more games on key sites, than directly on Steam. So the number will be higher.

Remember not to post personal information, as a precaution. No links to your account and personal data.

 

[Adapting]

 

[Magic Carpet]

Step 1 Help, where is Help found?

 

[HRK69]

Direct link:

Steam Help

help.steampowered.com

Might as well join the party:

 

[winjer]

Step 1 Help, where is Help found?

 

[Azelover]

I only have NiGHTS on it..

 

[OverHeat]

 

[Pejo]

Damn, I had anxiety looking that up. I did some quick math and I'm at around $560 spent per year which isn't that unreasonable

 

[winjer]

 

[Adapting]

 

[OverHeat]

Yep

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I'm not answering this question without a warrant.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[OverHeat]

Come on show us

 

[demented waffle]

Last so far.

 

[rm082e]

$3757.34 USD on Steam. I'm guessing another $1500-ish on codes through other sites, so I'm in the $5000-$6000 range. Probably another $500-ish spent on other storefronts like Epic, UPlay, Battle.net, etc.

 

[Celcius]

Type	Time Calculated	Amount	Currency
TotalSpend	2025-04-02 18:00:37.393	3280.45	USD
OldSpend	2025-04-02 18:00:37.393	117.65	USD
PWSpend	2025-04-02 18:00:37.393	0.00	USD
ChinaSpend	2025-04-02 18:00:37.393	0.00	RMB
PackageOnlySpend	2025-04-02 18:00:37.393	3233.60	USD

 

[OverHeat]

Lots of money for something I don't own…

 

[N0S]

Direct link:

Steam Help

help.steampowered.com

Might as well join the party:

Im over 5000 but got 669 games

 

[jshackles]

Keep in mind, this doesn't count money I've spent on other websites like GreenManGaming, which are probably easily 3x-4x as much as this.

 

[Durin]

Never knew about this feature, cool. Will admit over the last 5 years definitely spent more on keys on other sites.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

 

[OverHeat]

Over 20000 is you admit it.

 

[DaciaJC]

Had the account since 2011/12.

 

[nikos]

$3,376 USD but I almost exclusively buy keys from other sites.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

 

[SlimySnake]

I am cheap and mostly buy games on key sites, epic, uplay and origin launchers.

 

[demented waffle]

Well fuck, I was last.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Nowadays I buy mostly from key resellers so I guess it should be higher.

 

[HRK69]

Im over 5000 but got 669 games

I used to spend a lot on FIFA Ultimate Team a few years back

Then I discovered that EA shuts down the servers after just 2 or 3 years (I can't remember exactly). That definitely influenced how I spend money on pay 2 win games like these

But sometimes I still feel tempted to buy points, especially when new promo cards drop.

On top of that, they've really gone overboard with the sheer number of available packs and what's inside them

 

[GudOlRub]

2669.00$, I also buy a quite a few keys so that figure should go up by a couple hundred more at least.
But at least what some of y'all have spent is making me feel a little bit less bad about myself.

 

[OverHeat]

We got 2 votes for 20000$ lots of ballers here.

 

[swaffles23]

$2123.53 USD

 

[GHG]

Not bad at all for 20 years.

This is why I say this is not an expensive hobby.

 

[JoduanER2]

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Around 1,000 dollars lifetime.

 

[Deerock71]

 

[SirDaracon]

not too bad for a 20 year old account

 

[jshackles]

Although this gives you an "actual money spent" total, which is great, I do think the SteamDB tool is a better estimate of your total spend if you're like me and usually buy stuff from 3rd party sites.

Steam Calculator and SteamID Finder

This page will calculate the approximate value of your Steam account by looking up your games on your Steam community profile, using the current prices for each game on the Steam store.

steamdb.info

So in my case, even if I had bought every game that's on my account for the current historical lowest price (hint: I didn't) then I'd have shelled out $11,698.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

barely under 1,000 -- interesting. I've had the account for roughly a couple decades but rarely buy anything that isn't on deep sale.

Although this gives you an "actual money spent" total, which is great, I do think the SteamDB tool is a better estimate of your total spend if you're like me and usually buy stuff from 3rd party sites.

oh yeah, good point. With everything taken into account that I purchased through other sites, the total would be much higher.

 

[Kacho]

Yikes

 

[MandingoMcThickens]

25 dollars. That will increase exponentially as time goes on.
(Console pleb my whole life, recently bought a ROG Ally X).

 

[VGA-Games]

Zero

 

[OverHeat]

Zero

Why are you here then?

 

[simpatico]

Lots of money for something I don't own…

At least your game licenses aren't susceptible to disc rot

 

[pudel]

4101$ in 20 years. And I never buy keys. I just dont want Gabe to starve to death.....but if anything is available on GOG, I buy over there. Any other stores are usually a red flag for me.

 

[OverHeat]

At least your game licenses aren't susceptible to disc rot

I feel better now hahaha

 

[Moses85]

19,56€ for Half Life Alyx

Still waiting for Black Mesa beeing available for 4,90€ again.

 

[Mr Moose]

119.68.
This doesn't count stuff from humble bundles and shit, right?