How To Check How Much Money You Spent On Steam

When information technology comes to parting fools from their money, at that place are few places on the net quite as glorious as Steam, specially during a Steam Sale.

And then you can imagine our surprise, please and quaking horror to larn Steam at present lets you see exactly how much y'all've spent on games!

For instance, one CNET editor spent $2,809.31, and is now slightly genuinely afraid that number might somehow reach the missus.

To find your total, just click this handy link and log into Steam'due south website. (Or you can navigate a crazy menu tree in the Steam desktop app similar so: Help > Steam Back up > My Business relationship > Information Related to your Steam Account > External Funds Used.)

Just know information technology won't count codes you're received, so no Humble Bundle purchases or Kickstarters.

Here'southward how much some of CNET's other gamers accept spent, high or low -- and what they accept to say for themselves. Note that some names take been withheld to protect the innocent/guilty.

Anonymous CNET editor

Total spent: $3,503.04
Most hours on a game: TrackMania United (786 hours)
Joined Steam: March 2004

"Throughout my life, video games accept been the safety style to do things I never would have otherwise done (race cars, wing fighters, kill demons, etc). I'm never going to jump off a cliff wearing a wing conform in real life, simply I tin can do it from the rubber of my burrow with a video game... and Information technology'South FUN."

Nick Hide, global copy chief

Full spent: $699.27
Most hours on a game: Civilization VI (572 hours)
Joined Steam: January 2010

"I'1000 shocked I've spent and so much, I had no idea -- I thought all I used it for was a flake of Civ every few years. (Absolutely 572 hours is more than a bit.) Apparently at that place's 10 games I've put at least twoscore hours into. In my defense I would say that I sometimes leave my PC on intermission and get out, so that'south not 100 percent play time."

Anonymous CNET editor

Full spent: $one,790.36
Near hours on a game: Fallout 4 (147 hours)
Joined Steam: May 2006

"I could e'er justify ownership new games to 'test' for piece of work on new gaming laptops, so my trigger finger was a piffling itchy."

Lexy Savvides, senior editor

Total spent: $17.96
Almost hours on a game: Age of Empires II: Hard disk Edition (47 hours)
Joined Steam: December 2010

"I'one thousand glad both numbers are depression, because it hides the hundreds of hours I used to spend playing the original Age of Empires II on PC before Steam was even a thing. I was and so dedicated I'd fifty-fifty play with an Ethernet crossover cable hooked into to another PC so we could play multiplayer."

Kelsey Adams, senior copy editor

Full spent: $206.84
Most hours on a game: Surviving Mars (399 hours)
Joined Steam: May 2014

"A STAGGERINGLY depression $206.84! Wow! If this doesn't include outside codes, it should be at to the lowest degree l percent higher, just withal. Considering the, for example, 135 hours of enjoyment I've gotten out of Sunless Sea, I barely feel guilty at all. And as for the 97 hours playing Fallout Shelter, um... I was multitasking!"

Anonymous CNET editor

Total spent: $one,602.11
Nearly hours on a game: Grand Theft Auto V (277 hours)
Joined Steam: 2004

"That'southward only what I've actually spent. I get a lot of codes for consideration, feedback and review so if I were to full my actual Steam account value that'd be $10,273.82."

David Katzmaier, section editor, TVs and Home Theater

Total spent: $864.83
Almost hours on a game: Fallout four (487 hours)
Joined Steam: July 2013

"I chalk a lot of those Fallout 4 hours upwardly to bases I've synthetic, but between that game and Skyrim I've logged exactly 768 hours (32 days) of Steam play time -- what can I say, replaying with different characters and styles is and so much damn fun. If Skyrim counted PS3 and Switch, I wonder if I'd be close to 1,000 hours between the two?"

Morgan Footling, social media manager

Full spent: $698.06
Nigh hours on a game: Team Fortress ii (183 hours)
Joined Steam: March 2010

"BUT the caveat being that I handed off an business relationship to my little brother that had been around since about 2005 that easily had a few hundred boosted bucks and an ungodly amount of TF2 time put into it. If they make a TF3, I'll probable never exist seen again."

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Anonymous CNET editor

Total spent: $418.14
Most hours on a game: BioShock Infinite (87 hours)
Joined Steam: July three, 2017 ("Now I know how I spent my July 4")

"It'due south such a short time because I but joined when I finally got fed upwards using a shared business relationship and constantly losing my progress (technically, I've spent near of my time ripping demons apart in Doom, just not all under my account). I don't have a lot of hours on whatsoever item game considering I accept the attention span and frustration threshold of a 3-twelvemonth-quondam, and leap from game to game when I become stuck. I also have the financial skills of a 3-year-old, which is why I limit myself to games under $20."

Tim Stevens, editor-in-chief of Roadshow

Total spent: $146.49
Most hours on a game: BioShock Infinite (106 hours)
Joined Steam: February 2005

"Oof, I approximate I'm cheap. Shows my console preference. Also, a lot of my Steam 'purchases' lately have been Kickstarters. Anyhow! I joined in February of 2005 and I've spent 106 hours in wedded, co-op bliss wandering around lost in Divinity: Original Sin ii with my wife. (Battletech is my biggest solo game, at 94 hours.)"

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Jeff Sparkman, senior copy editor

Total spent: $one,104.72
About hours on a game: DC Universe Online (227 hours)
Joined Steam: January 2010

"That'southward non counting all the stuff I've bought over the years via game packet deals, which are e'er my downfall. My pinnacle game is DC Universe Online, with 227 hours on tape, and sadly all of that fourth dimension was playing without having a character really named Sparkman (I did manage to snag the name when the game hit the Xbox)."

Sean Buckley, social media producer

Total spent: $696.81
Most hours on a game: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (80 hours)
Joined Steam: Jan 2008

"I try not to look at my Steam stats -- they both make me experience relieved that, in a decade, I oasis't spent more a month's hire on games (well, as long every bit you don't wait at my GOG, Boxing.net or Origin profiles), and also ashamed that I oasis't spent enough time playing those games. How are PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Star Trek Online my about played Steam games?! Am I even a 'existent gamer'? I mean, yes. Only don't count by the numbers."

Sarah McDermott, associate editor

Full spent: $80.14
Almost hours on a game: Civilization V
Joined Steam: January 2016

"Well, I have no thought how this has happened because I experience like I've only bought the tiniest scattering of games on Steam, just apparently I've notwithstanding somehow managed to spend $80.xiv.

"I estimate this makes it await like I accept a fulfilling life, unencumbered by time-sucking video games. But all it really means is that I prefer to waste material my time on my phone. If Steam factored in the hours I spent completing Tiny Tower back in 2014, it would paint a different picture altogether."

Anonymous CNET editor

Total spent: $1,312.04
Most hours on a game: DOTA 2 (1,676 hours)
Joined Steam: July 2005

"I'yard shocked by those numbers. I don't play half of the games on my Steam business relationship and I should probably be improve at DOTA if I've sunk that much time into it."

Eric Franklin, managing editor, Reviews

Full spent: $2,582.01
Most hours on a game: Far Cry 3 (1,228 hours -- I left information technology running in the background a lot)
Actual near hours on a game: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (167 hours)
Joined Steam: October 2004

"There'south nothing like the thrill of buying a new game, then if I can buy fifteen games over the course of a sale and spend less than $300, I come across that as a win. Priorities..."

John Falcone, executive editor

Full spent: $76.80
Most hours on a game: The Stanley Parable (0.8 hours -- aye, truly)

"I only buy 'classic' games on sale for $5 or less, on both Steam and GOG. In my head, I encounter myself getting that new laptop with dedicated graphics anytime, the 1 that'll finally be able to play through Half-Life: Black Mesa and the like. In the meantime, any championship that costs less than a caramel macchiato is fair game."

Sean Keane, staff reporter

Total spent: $392.87
Most hours on a game: Deus Ex (twoscore hours)
Joined Steam: Oct 2010

"I'thousand more of a panel gamer than a PC guy, but I've been bewitched by many a sale and regularly buy gifts for friends. I've spent a total of $392.87 since I joined in October 2010 and played twoscore hours of the incredible Deus Ex (which I'chiliad pretty sure were my quaternary and fifth playthroughs). It doesn't reveal that I've spent 200 hours on Breath of the Wild! I can't determine if I'm proud or aback of that."

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Stephen Shankland, senior reporter

Total spent: $181.73
Most hours on a game: Trackmania 2 Stadium (107 hours)
Joined Steam: September 2011

"I take kids and my spare screen time, already saddled with an abundance of guilt, goes mostly to photography. 107 hours playing TrackMania 2 Stadium, because my son loved creating courses for me, but I haven't played for years. I should try information technology again."

Logan Moy, video producer

Total spent: $702.42
Most hours on a game: Ghost Recon: Wildlands (55 hours)
Joined Steam: October 2014

"Wish my 400+ hours on Overwatch was accounted for."

Sean Hollister, senior editor

Total spent: $two,809.31
Most hours on a game: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (395 hours)
Joined Steam: October 2004 (for Half-Life 2, of course)

"I've bought a lot of gifts for my friends on Steam over the years. But who am I kidding: I'm a Steam Sale-aholic, or at least I was until I started wasting my life exclusively on PUBG. Nothing else has grabbed me that tight... though I may have put 120 hours into Night Souls 2 and a couple hundred into XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2 combined."

Then there y'all have it: CNET staffers have spent about $20,000 on Steam. ($19,885.95, if our math's correct.) How about you?