Wanting to get a game on release day is probably the only good reason to buy it on Steam at full price. But if you're patient, you can save a lot of money.
With the tools described in this article, you can find out where and when sales are taking place, track prices, and receive notifications with information about discounts.
Game Hunters app
Game Hunters monitors dozens of sites to find the latest promotions and even free giveaways on Steam. Most often, discounts are 65-80%, but they can reach 99%. Games can be saved to a wishlist or purchased immediately. The wishlist is synced with Steam.
In the "Promotions" section, keys for Steam, Epic Games Store, Uplay and Origin are given away for free. When new promotions appear, a push notification is sent. If desired, you can add any game to the ignore list. The application has convenient navigation, there are filters by price, genre and developer. The interface is in Russian.
You can enter the application and start searching without authorization, without telling the developers any data about yourself. But after authorization via Steam, you can synchronize your favorites, hide discounts on already purchased games and send uninteresting ones to the blacklist.
Available for Android And iPhone.
Discounts in other countries
The Steam website contains a lot of information: reviews, DLC lists, and more, but the site lacks important data that the service does not plan to add in the near future. For example, you cannot find out where the best deals are. But the extension Enhanced Steam available for all popular browsers will do it. It is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge.
The extension will tell you how much you can buy the desired game for in another country. This is convenient if you have a foreign friend who could pay for the game and give it to you. It also shows great deals in different stores in your country.
Tracking game price changes
Service SteamDB provides detailed information and analytics on many releases. But its most important function is tracking prices and choosing the most advantageous offers. You can narrow your search results to a specific range of ratings, an exact discount percentage. Filters by platform, game genre, tags are also available.
This service is recommended for tracking special offers during big sales, not for monitoring prices for one game. Not everything is offered at official Steam prices. Other sites sell activated games at a much lower price. So there is no need to limit yourself. Maybe you are just interested in what is being sold at a discount today? In this case, the service will also come to the rescue.
Find sites with lower prices
If you don't want to install the browser extension, IsThereAnyDeal allows you to do without it. This site tracks the prices of games in different stores and shows the history of their changes. You can see which sites offer the best deals at the moment. Also check how often discounts have appeared previously. Such monitoring will help you identify resources that are definitely worth checking out from time to time. You can use this data to determine whether you should buy now or wait a little.
You can import your wishlist from Steam and get notified every time a game you're interested in goes on sale. Choose which stores you want to receive notifications from. The site also lets you specify what discount you want to receive. Notifications will only come when the price of a game drops by a certain percentage or below a certain dollar amount.
Don't forget to add games to your wishlist
Speaking of wishlists, there is no worthy alternative to the official Steam website yet. Be sure to use the tools we present to save on buying games. But it is still better to use Steam to create a list of desired releases. This service will always notify you that the game you have saved to your wishlist is already on sale. It is quite possible that there will be discounts. Isn't it nice to buy a new famous game for just a few dollars?
Of course, this is not the most convenient tool for finding the best deals. There is no price tracking function.