A surprisingly large number

[andrewducker]

I just counted how many games I have on the Steam game delivery system and was rather surprised by the number.

But then I have picked up a lot of games cheap (i.e. for £1.50 or so) when they were on sale (things like Peggle, or Osmos). Plus stuff in the Humble Bundle. And picking up the Half Life complete set adds a few items.
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[octopoid_horror]

I do not want to answer questions about how many of those gamse are cheap indie ones or part of bundles, and how many were... not.

[andrewducker]

If anyone is wondering how I square my happiness with Steam with my hatred of DRM on music/books then it comes down to reusability.

I don't play many computer games more than once. So if Steam folded tomorrow then there would be a couple of games that I'd think "bugger, I picked that up for £5 and never got around to playing it.", but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I re-read books on a semi-regular basis, and if they all vanished I'd be very upset indeed.

[kiffkin]

Counter on Steam says 161, although that does include things like the Sam & Max episodes or all the bits of Half-Life as separate games. I think the only thing I've bought full price was Torchlight (coincidentally the first game I bought on Steam). Everything else was sales or packs or packs in sales or free.

I am expecting this number to increase substantially during the upcoming sales.

[andrewducker]

Counter? I did it by hand! Where is the counter?

[kiffkin]

Click on All Games in your library in the Steam browser (near the top under the Library link). You can also filter your library there too.

[andrewducker]

Awesome. Turns out I was only out by one! Thank you!

[ice_hesitant]

4 on Steam, but most of my game purchases so far have been on GamersGate and GOG instead.

On Gamersgate, I own 27 not counting DLC for Cities in Motion.

On GOG, I own 19.

I was unimpressed with how Steam requires me to be online in order to play the original Kohan (2001), but then that game is unavailable anywhere else.

[hano]

24 on Steam. But I spend most of my gaming time playing non Steam stuff especially Eve and various Combat Mission iterations.
BTW, you've reset your Steam password haven't you?

[andrewducker]

With SteamGuard set, and the passwords salted and hashed, I'm really not worried, as they can't actually do anything.

[octopoid_horror]

I'm more worried about the credit card details than the well-protected steam passwords, tbh.