For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …
10-20$
Total spend says 12k, not bad for 15 years considering how often I buy games for my friends lol
£600 in 21 years apparently and most of that is from the first 10 years too. It’s not my go-to store anymore.
I’ve had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I’ve got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.
I’ve had and been using steam since 2003… I really don’t want to know what that number is. And I am also convinced someone is collecting this data point for nefarious purposes, because its 2026 and everything is being used for nefarious purposes. Including this comment.
Outside of my mom being an nefarious purpose there isn’t one here.
Rather to get a gauge of how bad and expensive it be if Steam just ceased to exist. Sounds like some people already had accounted for that
…erm
£12,898 according to SteamDB at today’s prices
In my defense I’ve had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that
You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.
Even that won’t be perfectly accurate, as it doesn’t include money spent on secondary stores for steam codes. So things like humble bundles aren’t included.
True, but it at least covers all of the purchases actually made on the platform.
Oh, I didn’t know that was a thing. Only $1,746 for me. Pretty sure my wife’s is much more, but she’s hidden her games.
@64bithero
4771 € according to SteamDBAccording to SteamDB, $18,181 over 18.6 years. I’m sure that number will be much higher when the Steam sale is over, since it pulls data from current game prices.
Hah, I have you beat by $200.
…Nice! Glad to know I’m not the only person sinking ridiculous money into my gaming habits. 😅
It’s cool, I’m sure they’ll bury me with my steam account.
More true than you know. Valve won’t allow you to transfer accounts to other people, so your account is legally dead when you are.
I am completely fine with that. I wouldn’t really expect anything different.
Nobody wants my steam account, they want and have their own, so its fine.
That’s jaw dropping
$1219.04 since 2011 (I didn’t bother with Steam until Skyrim released and I was living somewhere without a local game store)
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
I don’t wanna set my library to public so SteamDB can figure it out, but it’s over $1000 just going by what I can get to in my purchase history (which does not go all the way back to 2003 when I first made my account and had gotten HL2 and Ragdoll KungFu as my first two purchases on Steam). Not sure how accurate SteamDB is anyway, since it wouldn’t necessarily know if what I bought was on sale when I bought it 🤷♂️
Can you not check directly if your account is private? I went through Help > Support > My Account> Data Related to Account > External Funds Used for totals. Does that rely on a public profile?
Like… 5 bucks or so? For Hollow Knight. The rest of the games are either free, demos or gift.
The vast majority of my library is on GOG
Aah, that’s a bit hard to calculate due to Steam keys from bundles and other websites. Running some rough numbers it looks to be about $2600 CAD over 15 years, so… not too bad?
Apparently $3135 is what I’ve spent on Steam games, according to Steam themselves. That isn’t what the current value is, but what I’ve actually spent.
Many steam games are DRM free and would work even if Steam shuts down. It’s been like this at least since 2011 or so (that’s when I discovered this, it could be earlier).
I guess the impact would depend on the types of game which one buys on Steam.
If you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?
And, friendly nudge:
It’s not hard to back up games from Steam. Especially those with no DRM. Just keep them on a drive somewhere.
Pretty expensive though, given the prices on storage. And many of them will be out of date in a few months. Face it, we can download from the high seas at any time, the only reason most of us are buying on steam is convenience. Whatever we could backup on steam today we could just retrieve from elsewhere at any time.
I would just a get pirated copy.
I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.
yep. the game exists somewhere. I’ve bought it. I have no issues pirating it to get access to it again. nobody has been hurt by this.
Same here. Steam is the last “digital library” I’m ever really going to use or trust. I’ve been screwed over by everything else, so if that shuts down too, I’m basically just done, and will buy a NAS or something to hold all my games from GOG.
Steam has a back up feature I have my steam games backed up on my NAS
Steam Offline mode is your best friend for archiving games forever.
Yeah, I suspect if Steam shut down, not only would we see a bunch of cracks released for games that now have no way to update to try to kill the cracks, but we’d probably see something like emulation of steam to get around it without even needing individual cracks.
Generic stream emulators already exist and is how a vast number of games are “cracked”
Only 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It’s not as many as people think.
It looks like this list is manually curated, so there’s probably more that just aren’t documented as such.
Probably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.
