For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
…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.
the money is already lost. if that happened i would pirate whatever i want to download again.
Nothing I couldn’t pirate right back, given time.
Total spend says 12k, not bad for 15 years considering how often I buy games for my friends lol
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
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?
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.
Only 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It’s not as many as people think.
Steam Offline mode is your best friend for archiving games forever.
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Generic stream emulators already exist and is how a vast number of games are “cracked”
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Heck, there’s at least one opensource generic steam emulator that you just drop into the game files. I used it before when messing around with modding a multiplayer game, to run multiple copies at once.
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Or by visiting this link: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
Not as much as you might first think as I generally wait for Steam sales. Well over a thousand bucks CAD though.
Shut down or not it’s already lost.
Steam reports my total spend to be $4,114.82 Steam Calculator reports $4,518 when bought at lowest prices and $7,250 in today’s prices. The calculator says I have 1,468 games, steam says 1,350 and my steam profile lists 1,354
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.
Over 12 years, apparently only ~$1255.33USD over the past 12 years. Also realized I have a huge gap in my purchase history from 2015 to 2020. And it looks like the majority of my spending has been from 2020 onward.
Gonna have a presume at least a little over a quarter of my spending is due to me buying an officially refurbished LCD model deck when they were in stock a couple years ago. IDK actual price because it’s lumped in with like 3-4 games I bought at the same time, roughing out to $403.something-cents before tax.
696 games at $4142 over 22.5 years
Like 20$ i guess.