"Must Buy Together" Steam Bundle workaround

Not a Deal.

There used to be a workaround where you added it to cart when logged out, then logged in and it stayed in your cart. It still works that way, but Valve added additional check on checkout and it blocks the finalisation (I tried it today with this bundle: http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/1011/Dinosaur_Hunt_XXL_Edition/).

As for your idea: it's not possible to gift this kind of bundle to someone who has one or more products in his account, either. I bought it for a friend who had none, but those who had 1+ were greyed out.

You can remove the game you already own from your Steam account and then buy the bundle yourself.

You can just remove the game(s) you own via help.steampowered.com and then buy the bundle in its entirety.

Looks like hiding the game from an account doesn't allow to buy a bundle nowadays

don't know if it is just me but those links/bundles in the op's post just send me to the Steam store page and not those bundle pages

I have a similar problem, albeit I have not yet activated any of the items on my Steam account. I want to purchase V-Rally 4 with all DLC. The Ultimate Edition is a "Must Purchase Together" bundle and has the game with all the DLC bar one: the pre-order exclusive Ford Shelby GT 500, unavailable in the Steam Store. I own, but have not yet activated, the "Day One Edition" of the game with the pre-order bonus, but lacking any other DLC. My plan is to purchase the Ultimate Edition and then activate my Day One Edition and hope the Ford Shelby GT 500 DLC activates successfully. Do you guys think it might work?

Ultimate Edition:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/8087/VRally_4_Ultimate_Edition/?curator_clanid=4777282
https://steamdb.info/bundle/8087/

Day One Edition:
https://steamdb.info/sub/186310/

My intuition tells me that Valve and publishers make more money from not breaking up bundles. Prob an API thing where the game is already packaged in a format that is easily distributed on the servers thus it makes it impossible to allow you to just get access to certain products within the distro. That is what I think hence Steam has moved away from allowing you to "buy what you are missing". Unless its been solely separated by the publishers/Devs. Prob more cost effecient for the publishers to upload bundled distros.

5 years ago.

1. Add bundle to the cart
2. Try to buy bundle
3. See the message that you already have some of the games
4. Remove needed games from account via help
5. See the message, "Your account already owns a removed copy of the above items, so you can’t purchase them again. You can restore these items via Steam Support, purchase these items as a gift or adjust the contents of your cart to continue."
6. Restore game from help (At this point, bundle still should be in your cart!)
7. Navigate to the cart again - only message that should warn you is "Price of some games has changed"
8. Buy bundle.

Used that to buy bundle without any 2nd account, used with steam client not browser.

Update: used on Untold Tales Treasures. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/42192/Untold_Tales_Treasures__30_for_30/