How much did you spend on games in the past few years/decades?

Just getting my taxes and finance in order for my security clearance application soon.

In the process of trying to tracked down all my expenditures in the past few years.

Here is the gaming expenditures over the past fours years and 2 months, I spent $878.82

That is about $210 per year, which is higher than I thought. Most games are bought when I see them on sale.

My worst purchases is definitely Halo master chief collection, now I often see it on steam special for like $13 ish.

Here is the list, not including all the freebies on Epic and Steam.

 

No idea...
But more than that

 

Way too much on my end. But I also don't really have any other hobbies, so compared to people who are into their cars/bikes, I'm probably getting off easy lol.

 

Not something I frankly care enough about to bother tracking.

 

Young me says $toomuch. Older wiser me that no longer has any debts says $notenough.

 

fark... waaaay too much... but fuck it, its better than going to the pub and destroying brain cells.. i hardly have any of those anyways..

 

according to steam it's a few grand but it also doesn't include other launchers and older consoles so it's a metric ton of cash.

 

How can you tell on steam? Quite interested now....

I can see the.list, but you have to add it All up yourself?

 

I spent more that that on just one of my many pixel ships in Star Citizen.

I can't give an exact figure but I'd be thousands deep in Flight Simulators as well.

 

I spent way more on hardware. Between free epic games and gamepass I've had a dearth of games to play and not enough time.

 

This is definitely one of my favourite memes.
Thanks Michael

 

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

I think this is the most popular way. Though I think you need to make your games list public for it to work.

 

Not too bad actually , it pays to buy on special. and then theres my kids x 3... and Epic, and GoG and all the RL game boxes ive bought..

 

just checked mine. 16 years. $28aud lol.

 

Here is mine a lot more hours that I thought but at least I get value for money on what I buy . Though like others it only is my steam games, does not include all of the heap I have purchased since the 80's

 

oh god don't make me add it up, this is just Steam

 

This is just steam. i am not counting other launchers, consoles (past and present).


If you really want to go back i'd have to say from the gameboy till now.... that's a lot of money even after inflation.

 

Pretty even so far, within a couple of hundred bucks., aside from the bell curve mean, a couple of outriggers no doubt. guess we all do the same shit,