One savvy gamer online has created a tool that will show you exactly how much you’ve spent on your Steam library, what your average playtime is, how many games you own and even what your most played game is.
And… I’m not gonna link it here. Instead, I’m going to show you a much better option, for reasons I will explain shortly.
So, a thread popped up on Reddit recently showing off a custom-made “Steam library calculator.” It got a lot of attention, and people thought it was cool, because it is cool– and also it was made by someone who designed it as a backdoor method for advertising their key-selling website.
Because of that, I’m going to show you a much better, much safer and much more morally sound method for doing the exact thing that the user claims to have invented.
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This is the SteamDB Steam Calculator, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. Go to your Steam profile, and either copy the link to your profile or copy your 17 digit long unique ID, paste it in, and hit the appropriately named “Get disappointed in your life” button.
You see, SteamDB isn’t claiming to do anything unique or special with this tool, because (much like the rest of SteamDB) they scrape all the data from your profile that Valve has already provided you with. You could easily find this info without the tool, you’d just have to do some basic addition to figure it out.
Still, it is cool as hell, and it’s a lot simpler than doing everything manually yourself. It’ll also tell you a bunch of info that the other website doesn’t, like, for instance, if your account is VAC banned, or how much time you’ve spent playing demos. The only thing that the other website has over SteamDB's tool is that it adjusts for inflation, although how accurately it does so seems to be up for debate.
Just keep in mind that it won’t work if you’ve made your account private. I briefly un-privated mine just to check exactly how much I’d spent on Steam games, and I kind of wish I hadn’t. Like sure, games are cool and all, but… I could have bought a car with that, man.
Anyway, enjoy finding out what you could have purchased instead of buying 500 Steam games you never played, just because they were on sale. I’m not judging when I say that, because I’m not a hypocrite.
And remember, kids, if you’re gonna buy a digital key at all, don’t do it from some random, dodgy website on the internet.
Do it on one of the well-known key selling websites instead.