If you've owned a Steam account for a few years, it can be surprising just how large your library is, even if you consider yourself a frugal gamer. It all adds up so slowly that it can be hard to get a grasp on just how much you've spent building your Steam library.
There are third-party tools that can show you how much it would cost to replace your entire Steam Library, and because Steam also tracks play time, how many hours of play you've gotten out of every dollar you spent.
It's against Steam's rules to sell your Steam account, so this should be considered a theoretical rather than a practical exercise. Theoretical exercises are still fun, if you're curious.
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How to know how much your Steam account is worth
1. SteamDB's calculator is a third-party app that accesses your public Steam library. Make sure your profile settings are set to Public, or else SteamDB won't be able to access the data it needs.
2. SteamDB will search for your account in its database to make its estimates. The best way to tell it which account to look for is to use your account number, which is a long string. The easiest way to get that profile number is to open the Steam app and click on your username at the top of the window — the URL that appears below your name will have the number.
3. Copy and paste the long number into SteamDB to search for your account.
4. SteamDB will give you two dollar values — the low number in green is how much it would have cost if you bought all the products in your library at their greatest discount, and the number in red is how much it would cost if you bought them all at current prices.
You can also see the average price of all the games in your library, your "average price per hour," and a breakdown of how many games you've bought at every major price tier.
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