I have used a tool (not this one specifically) that could do this specifically for its other function of calculating the worth of all your steam trading cards/marketable game items, and to batch sell them when I have enough to get something with the cash.
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
598.34 since Dec 2010
$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.Devil gamer confirmed 😈
$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.
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
$1300 CAD on games over 15+ years with a current value of $8350.
Yeah, I’m cool with that.
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.
Home - > Account - > Purchase History
I don’t know why you would use a third Party Tool that estimates your purchases, when it has always been right there in your account, without estimates.
This isn’t a 3rd party tool, it’s a separate Steam Support page that lists your total purchases. It basically takes the data from the Purchase History section (assuming that you usually pay directly and not using Steam gift cards) and totals it so that you don’t have to do that manually.
Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren’t included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesn’t know how much you paid for it, though, so it’s completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
It’s been known for atleast 7 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/8m9fxm/what_is_difference_between_totalspend_and_oldspend/
edit: no need to point out those are 2 different links, ill leave this up
That path is incorrect and the article tells you exactly how to find it on Steam, as well as the limitations of the third party tool you’re alluding to.
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)
To judge my friends, of course.
Legit
$884.31 for 162 games in 10 years. Saw lowest prices value is $583, should probably use isthereanydeal way more often. But hey, it’s $2,591 in today’s prices, so I’m not doing too bad? Also a patient gamer checking in.
I still feel like I ought to step it back, but hey, my discretionary media spending is very low everywhere else (thank you local library, thank you PDFs and articles online and even the occasional video, I also have a bunch of other quirks that just help end up pushing my demand for a lot of media way down even if money was no object… although clearly not for video games) so I’m probably not doing too bad. I know that video games are my biggest discretionary spend category nowadays and seeing this number, I feel way less bad than I did before checking these numbers.
1300$ 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.
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.
That’s exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find “External funds used” deep in the Steam Help menu…
After many years of selectively evaluating and purchasing bundles as my main source of new games, I’ve come to wonder if it would’ve been better to just buy the individual games when I wanted to play them at whatever the available price was - the rate at which I get through games is far lower than the rate at which games are available in “good” bundles. In the end I’m not even sure if I’ve saved money (because of how many games have been bought but are as-of-yet unplayed) and it does take more time to evaluate whether something’s a good deal or not.
The upside is way more potential variety of games to pull from in my library, but if I only play at most like 1-2 dozen new games a year then I’m not sure that counts for much 🫠
A bit tangential, but I also feel a lot of people make the same mistake with GamePass. I buy a lot of gameson release day (mostly indies, but also some AAA), so theoretically I should be the target audience for GamePass, but I did the math once for a three-month period and came out at a loss if I had bought GamePass.
Based on nothing but anecdotal evidence, the type of person to get GamePass also typically enjoys a lesser variety of games on average, making the cost/benefit ratio even worse.
I guess I’m a weird one. I’ve saved so much money using Game Pass it’s not even funny. Throw in the pc version, and I’ve saved even more. I can try so many different genres I wouldn’t typically risk my money for. I have also avoided buying games I thought I would love but then ended up hating.
Yeah, I don’t think I make that many that wrong purchases, although that doesn’t mean that a lot of games I enjoy end up unfinished due to limited time. When it comes to testing games, one thing that’s neat is that demos got a huge revival in the last few years, particularly due to Steam Next Fest.
Looking at the current line-up, I’ll say that right I’d probably come to a different conclusion, seeing as Blue Prince, South of Midnight and the new DOOM are all included. Then again, I use Linux, so I wouldn’t be able to use Game Pass even if I wanted to.
I let the charity be the deciding factor. Some times I will just get a bundle and move the sliders all the way over for EFF because I would have donated to them anyways. Other times I see that the cause (relief, children, etc) is just worth doing. If I don’t play the games, at least the money was not wasted.
Surprised to see I’ve only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
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.
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.
SteamDB gives you a valuation based on full price. The article describes an entry on Steam’s Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.
That’s very unlikely, I couldn’t have spent so much money on steam. I’ve bought like 5 games on steam and not even at full price. The rest comes from grey zone shops/HB
Edit: Just added up the numbers in my purchase history, it’s about 1/4 of the sum there
Well not how much you’ve spent, how much it values your collection. But what’s that number based on?
Please re-read the article. The values are on Steam itself, based on your interactions with it.
