Steam lets you see how much total funds you’ve poured into your account over the years, and many users are shocked to find out how much of their net worth they’ve poured into their accounts. It all started whenReddituser u/HappyMcflappyy shared their Steam Points balance of 3,566,945. Given that you earn 100 points for every dollar spent on the platform, that means they had sunk over $35,000 into games and other apps. But another Redditor replied, saying that the fastest and best way to see how much you’ve allocated throughout the existence of your account is to go toHelp > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.
When you go here, the app will ask you to sign in again, as if to confirm if you’re ready to see how invested you are. Once done, you’ll see five categories: ‘TotalSpend’, which is the total amount you’ve put into your Steam account, ‘OldSpend’, which is how much you’ve expended on Steam before Jul 11, 2025, ‘PWSpend’, which tells you how much you’ve spent on the Perfect World platforms for CS:GO or Dota 2, ‘ChinaSpend’, which is how much you’ve spent in Steam China, and ‘PackageOnlySpend’, which is the total amount for non-transferable purchases — i.e., game purchases for your own library using external funds.
However, a few other Redditors are a bit more hardcore than we are. We went through the original Reddit thread and saw some real high rollers there. One user replied with ‘19k, yikes’, while another one said, ‘I’m just shy of 15k myself…’. These numbers might seem like massive amounts, but if you buy a $4.50 latte at Starbucks every other day for 22 years, then you’ve spent $17,820 on coffee alone. This might make accounts that are worth $10,000 to $20,000 feel less extravagant.
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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
