About Us
Steam sells the same game at wildly different prices depending on where you live. A title that costs $60 in one country can be half that — or less — in another, all officially, all set by the publisher. Most players never see those differences, because Steam only shows you the price for your own region. CompareGamePrices exists to make that information visible.
Global Coverage
We track Steam prices across 66 regions, covering all of Steam's major currencies and pricing zones — so wherever a game is cheapest, chances are we'll show you.
Pricing Transparency
Local price, converted price, and the exact percentage gap between regions — all side by side, sourced directly from Steam's official store API.
Player First
We don't sell anything. We're not a key reseller or a store. Our job is to give players the information they need to make an informed decision.
Our methodology
1. Discovering which games to track. We pull our catalogue from Steam's own Global Top Sellers list. Every run, we merge the latest rankings with the games we already track — new hits get added, and older games keep their history even after they fall off the chart. This gives us a catalogue of 1,500+ games that leans toward what people are actually playing and buying right now, without losing the long tail.
2. Fetching prices. For every game in the catalogue, we query Steam's official store API — the same data source that powers the Steam store itself — once per region. That gives us the exact price a player in that region would see, in their local currency, including any active discounts. Prices are refreshed weekly to capture sales, publisher changes, and new releases.
3. Handling reviews.Alongside prices, we fetch each game's Steam review data (overall score, positive percentage, total number of reviews) so the “is it worth it?” question can sit next to the price question on every game page.
4. Converting currencies. To let you compare a price in Ukrainian hryvnia against one in Japanese yen, we convert every price into a common currency using live exchange rates from public providers — primarily open.er-api.com, with fawazahmed0/currency-api as a fallback if the primary is unavailable. Rates are refreshed almost daily, so the converted prices stay close to what your bank or card would actually charge.
5. Ranking and presenting. For each game, we rank all 66 regions from cheapest to most expensive and calculate the exact percentage gap between them. Every game page shows the local Steam price, the converted price in your preferred currency, and the difference at a glance — no hidden math, no affiliate shuffling.
Always honest about source.We never invent, estimate, or guess a price. If Steam doesn't publish a game in a region, we show it as unavailable rather than fabricating a number.
What you can do on the site
Beyond the core comparison table, CompareGamePrices is built to answer a few different questions:
- What's the real price of this game around the world? Every game page ranks all 66 regions from cheapest to most expensive, with local prices, converted prices, and percentage differences.
- Which country has the cheapest Steam games overall? Country-level pages aggregate pricing across the full catalogue so you can see which regions consistently come out ahead.
- Is this game actually worth buying? Each game page includes a short verdict grounded in Steam's own review data, so price and quality sit side by side.
- What's happening in Steam pricing right now? Our blog covers regional pricing explainers, seasonal sale roundups, and topical deep dives.
A few things worth knowing about Steam regional pricing
Regional pricing isn't a loophole or a glitch — it's a deliberate choice by Valve and publishers. Prices are set per region to reflect local purchasing power, taxes, and market conditions, which is why a game can legitimately cost several times more in one country than another. That's also why the gap between the cheapest and most expensive region for the same title can be enormous, and why comparing before you buy is worth the thirty seconds it takes.
A few things we've learned from tracking this data:
- Discounts are not universal. A game on sale in one region may be at full price elsewhere, and vice versa.
- Currency swings matter. Exchange rate movements can shift the “cheapest region” ranking even when no publisher has changed a single price.
- The sticker price isn't the whole story. Steam charges in local currency, and your bank's conversion fee sits on top of whatever rate you see on our site.
What we're not
- Not affiliated with Valve or Steam. We're an independent project that reads public Steam store data.
- An information tool, not a store. We don't sell games, keys, or gift cards, and we don't process any payments. CompareGamePrices shows you what Steam charges in every region it operates in — what you do with that information is up to you.