Buy All Steam Games

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Ever wonder how much does it cost to buy all games from Steam?

You can check it out at https://steam.seewang.me

This application was inspired by http://buyallofsteam.appspot.com/, but it hasn't been updated since 2014.

This application however is based on PHP and Laravel. Once a day it pages through every app on Steam with the Steam Web API, adds up the store prices, and saves the discounted and full-price totals. The homepage charts the history and picks out Steam sales (runs of days at 20% or more off) to show the deepest discount on record and the lowest total of the latest sale.

You can hit https://steam.seewang.me/api/records to get all the data for the US region, in US dollars. It looks like this:

{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "original": 233448.27,
            "sale": 229259.34,
            "created_at": "2017-04-24T20:27:36+00:00"
        }
    ]
}

Add ?interval=week to get one record per week instead, the cheapest of each week, so sale dips are kept.

Requirements: PHP 8.2+, Composer, a database (MySQL in production) and a Steam Web API key. Node.js 20.19+ is only needed to change the frontend, since the built assets in public/build are committed.

git clone https://github.com/cwang22/buy-all-steam-games.git
cd buy-all-steam-games
composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Set your database credentials and STEAM_API_KEY in .env, then create the tables:

php artisan migrate

Fetching runs as a queued job (QUEUE_DRIVER=database), so start a worker and queue the first fetch. It takes about 10 minutes per region:

php artisan queue:work   # keep this running in another terminal
php artisan fetch US

In production, keep php artisan queue:work running under a process monitor such as Supervisor, and add the Laravel scheduler to cron so prices are fetched daily. See the official documentation for details:

* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

npm ci
npm run dev       # Vite dev server
npm run build     # rebuild public/build before committing frontend changes
php artisan test

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