'How much is my Steam account worth?': How to figure out how expensive your game library is, and how much time you've spent playing

Ross James

Nov 6, 2019, 21:20 IST

'How much is my Steam account worth?': How to figure out how expensive your game library is, and how much time you've spent playing

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You can learn out how much your Steam account is worth using a free website.

To figure out how much your Steam account is worth, you'll need to calculate how much it would cost to replace every product currently in your account's library.
Third-party tools can connect with your account and use Steam's database to appraise your library, and give you an estimate of how much you average in dollars per minute of game time played.
Steam accounts aren't intended for resale, so these statistics are just for fun and personal edification.
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If you've owned a Steam account for a few years, it can be surprising just how large your library is, even if you consider yourself a frugal gamer. It all adds up so slowly that it can be hard to get a grasp on just how much you've spent building your Steam library.

There are third-party tools that can show you how much it would cost to replace your entire Steam Library, and because Steam also tracks play time, how many hours of play you've gotten out of every dollar you spent.

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It's against Steam's rules to sell your Steam account, so this should be considered a theoretical rather than a practical exercise. Theoretical exercises are still fun, if you're curious.

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How to know how much your Steam account is worth

1. SteamDB's calculator is a third-party app that accesses your public Steam library. Make sure your profile settings are set to Public, or else SteamDB won't be able to access the data it needs.

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If your account isn't yet Public, follow the instructions here.

2. SteamDB will search for your account in its database to make its estimates. The best way to tell it which account to look for is to use your account number, which is a long string. The easiest way to get that profile number is to open the Steam app and click on your username at the top of the window - the URL that appears below your name will have the number.

3. Copy and paste the long number into SteamDB to search for your account.

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Your URL should contain a 17-digit number. This is your account number.

4. SteamDB will give you two dollar values - the low number in green is how much it would have cost if you bought all the products in your library at their greatest discount, and the number in red is how much it would cost if you bought them all at current prices.

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SteamDB will give you a variety of stats about your library.

You can also see the average price of all the games in your library, your "average price per hour," and a breakdown of how many games you've bought at every major price tier.