As pc gamer (and new Deck owner) i’ve started to check any good game deal, mostly x games on Steam but not only. I’ve soon realize that there are great site like Humble to use to buy keys for cheap, but also “shady” sites with very low price who apparently sell non working keys or try to scam you. Did we have a list of the “Safest” site where buy games???
isthereanydeal.com lists only legitimate retailers, no second hand/grey market sites. Not exclusively Steam though, so check on the site before purchasing (though usually every website will be selling Steam keys except like Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Ubisoft, EA Origin).
You can also link your Steam wishlist, set up alerts for when a game falls below a certain price, etc.
I use this site and there are links to some dubious site too. They put them in a sub list but they show “their” price as the lowest some times.
Do you have any examples of dubious sites they list? To my knowledge they take the legitimacy of the sites seriously, so it would be great to know if that’s not the case.
fwiw, if you care about developers getting paid, then you probably want to stick to humble/steam.
pretty much everywhere else resells keys and the developers get screwed. not such a big deal with big developers but Chet Faliszek has talked a lot about the effect these services have had on his new studio (hint, really bad) because they did some sales and all the key resellers took a massive advantage
Good to know ty 👌
IMO not a great option for Steam Deck. It’s certainly doable, and excellent for PC, but it’s been too much of a pain to run on Steam Deck.
I find installing via Lutris works most of the time for most games. Definitely not as clean or easy as going through Steam, but it’s typically not hard enough to avoid entirely.
wdym, pretty easy through Heroic Launcher. I have GoG, Epic and Amazon Games working great on it.
Just use it for the purchase and let steam manage the deck chairs.
https://gg.deals/ has a bundle section if you scroll down a little. And their listings (if you search for a game) separate between legit and key sites.
Edit: oh and https://www.steamgifts.com/discussions/deals which has historical ones too, and their region locks.
Cheapshark is what I generally use. I haven’t bought stuff from every seller they track, but so far I havent had any issues with Humble, Greenman, GoG Fanatical, Gamebillet, or WinGameStore. Tho for the last two I’ve only made one purchase through them. Take it as you will.
Their email notifications are pretty handy
I’ve never had any issues with Humble, CDKeys and Kinguin.
Kinguin for example is one of those site i would like to hear more opinion and experience about. I’ve read different opinins on the old Redead social before. It seems a 3 to 1 situation there. I even buyed a small indi there using PayPal and so far I had no issues. Any experience about this site???
It’s one of the grey market sites afaik. I used it a few times for digital versions of games I own, some overpriced DLCs and oldies, which rarely goes on sale.
I know it’s not ideal and they might have some questionable stuff there, but user experience-wise I had no issues with the site so far.
I‘ve bought a good amount of games there and personally never had any issues.
I used “Instant Gaming” a few times without any issues. The initial registration is a bit annoying with their confirmation process, but after that everything works wonderfully well. Their prices are great, especially on older (i.e. not just released) games and DLCs. Never had any problems with or after activating the stuff using the keys I got.
i don’t have one, but i do trust MMOGA.
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