Please read this part before linking a game: If you are going to link a game here, please check to make sure that it has not already had it's CV removed. Support has already removed the CV from a very large number of these type of games. People can still create giveaways for the games, they just won't get any credit for them. There are a few different ways you can check. If you see a giveaway, you can just click the magnifying glass icon to the right of the game name and it will bring you to a page that will show a date next to "No Value" if it has already been reduced to give 0 CV. You can also go to the bundle game list here and search the name of the game or it's Steam ID. It will show a date in the "No Value" column if it has already had it's CV removed. The last way you can check is to go to the page to create a giveaway here and type in the name of the game or the Steam ID. The game has already had it's CV removed if there are 2 red asterisks next to the name of the game.

A lot of games have been reported in this thread that have not had their value reduced. To make it easier to see if a full CV game has already been reported here in the past, PoeticKatana has taken the time to go through the entire thread and check all the reported games. He found a large number of games that have not been reduced and created a table with a list of all the games and other helpful info about them.

Gelweo has taken over and is updating the list of games that have already been reported.

List of reported games that have not had their CV removed yet

List of reported games that have already been reduced to 0 CV



Update: Thanks to the support members who are looking into this. I noticed that many of the games listed below have been set to reduced or no value. Dropping the games to no value is great, but letting them get reduced value on fake $50 games is still kind of crazy. They are still getting $7.50 real CV each for dozens of copies of $50 games. It would be nice if those could be reduced more, but at least something is being done. Thanks for helping :)

Update 2: Big thanks again to support. A comment has been posted to let us know that all the games listed here have been added to the free list so they don't give anyone CV at these crazy prices. I just checked the dates on all the games compared to the date of the first GA anyone created for them on SG and I am happy to report that every game listed here has been set so that nobody will get any CV from these games no matter when they created the GAs.

Update 3: I just want to point out that this thread is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all of these type of games. I stopped adding games to the list here a long time ago. I originally created the thread to try and figure out why these games are being priced so high and if there was something that could be done to prevent users from abusing them to cheat the CV system. There is a large number of these games being created and support has been working to remove the CV from them. There are probably hundreds of these games at this point and I have no intention of trying to keep track of them all.

I am not a support member, so I personally cannot modify the value of these games. If you want to report one of these games that has not had it's value reduced yet, support members may be watching this thread and posting about the game here may get their attention, but I am not positive. I believe the official way to report these games is to file a support ticket in the "Add game to list" category.

Also, if you notice that some of the games listed here are not expensive anymore, they were at one time and probably will be again. I do not know why they change the prices so drastically. The game may be $2 one day and $200 the next.


Original Thread

I just noticed users giving away multiple copies of games that are full CV with a value of $50 (a lot are $50, some are $25-45) and they look like they should cost $1 or $2. There is no way anyone would pay that much for these games and they all have around 10-12 review that are 100% or 90% positive.

Is someone creating these games for the purpose of cheating the CV system here or is there some other reason why they would be created and somehow users here got keys to give away?

I am not saying that everyone who gives away one of these games is bad since I can understand if a user normally creates giveaways for any free keys they get and happens to get one of these from somewhere, but I checked one user's account and they are creating multiple GAs of most of these games and another account that is giving away 5 copies each of a lot of them.

I'm not sure what can be done, but maybe support could manually set the value of games like these to $1 or just mark them as free so they don't give any CV. I don't think anyone would have much to complain about because I doubt anyone is actually paying much if anything for these. The only ones that would be upset would be the ones who lose their fake CV, but they have nothing to complain about.

I just want to point out that the majority of users, like myself, have been here for many years slowly working our way up through the levels. I am almost level 8 after 8 years, but if I knew where to buy these games on grey market sites for pennies, I could be level 10 tomorrow. I don't want to do that though because it is wrong and if everyone started doing it, it would hurt the site. If a new level 0 user gives away 5 copies each of 12 of the $50 games listed, they would be level 9. It would probably only cost them around $10 to do this where it would cost the average user giving away their spare Humble Monthly games around $1200 or someone who looks for decent sales or bundles that give about 4 times what they pay in CV around $750. (Edit: It is no longer just $50 games, there is now a very large number of these games giving $200 CV)


This is just a short list of examples from when I created the thread. There are hundreds more that follow the same pattern.

Aoihana
Art your brains
Ball Torture
BeachRun
Bots City
CHICKWEED
cookies СOOkies COOKIES
CowboysShowdown
Crazy Zoo
DOLPHIN HUSTLE
DonutCrabs
Dr. Science quest
DUCK Mission
Eagle Simulator
Fishy Business
Fortitude invasion
Grot Slasher
helicopter 2.0
Hot Summer
Ink World
The Last Metal Shooter
Limousine Parking Simulator
Magic War
Mechaguard
MOVERS IN THE WAREHOUSE
My Sweet Ants!
Need for Spirit: Off-Road Edition
Over City
Panda Run
Pixel Pirate
PLANETOIDS
Police Hot Pursuit
Puzzles with nature
Ragedanger Earth
Rich Taste of Ecchi
SCALEPLANET
SpearFrog
SPLAIT RAGE
Super Arkanoid
TOTO Quest
Underwater battles
Villwars
Voice Shooter "Pif Paf"
What do you hear?? Yanny vs Laurel
Yuonger Adventure

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I was going to get it for the online play but it doesn't seem as anyone has played it since release!?!

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It seems like they are trying to sell the game as a training tool for businesses and anything sold to a business is usually more expensive. I'm not saying that I think it's worth the price, but they probably see it like a licensing fee where a company can buy it once and then use it over and over with many employees or schools can use it with students. They probably don't expect normal gamers to buy it.

Here are some quotes from their website:

Who Should Play The Leverage Game? Managers and Executives seeking to cultivate realistic, international management techniques. Consultants who wish to enrich their training programs for managers. Students and Educators aim to explore management concepts or enhance educational materials.

Learning through play: The Leverage Game incorporates ActionCOACH’s coaching methodologies, used in 70 countries, to facilitate hands-on learning of world-class management practices. Benefits include: Boosting motivation and self-confidence, Enhancing bookkeeping and accounting skills, Cultivating leadership behavior.

The Leverage Game is recommended for use as an in-house training program.
We have partnered with ActionCOACH, a global business coaching company, and can offer special pricing on coaching programs.

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I'm still not positive what's going on. That's just my assumption based on what their website says. It could be a pricing error if it was meant to be something like $99.99 or it could still be some kind of scam or money laundering type of thing that we just don't understand how it works.

Either way, it doesn't really affect us here unless people get keys for really cheap or free somewhere to create giveaways and get massive amounts of CV. As of now, it's just a really expensive game that nobody is going to buy.

Edit: This "game" is probably something similar. It looks like it is not a game, but a training or testing tool for businesses or schools and that is probably why they want a lot of money. It has been $200 since it released almost 4 years ago and has not changed price.

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Interess=ting.
And for this one ? https://store.steampowered.com/app/989010/The_Scenic_Treasures__Japanese_Learning/

Seems too simple in apparence, even for an educational app.

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I'm not sure about that one. It just looks poorly made and overpriced. It doesn't look like anyone has created a giveaway for it though, so if they haven't given out really cheap keys, it shouldn't affect is here.

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That's what I thinks, too.

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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

To save Turbo and Gelweo (who are updating the list) from getting a ton of repeated data, can people please use the SEARCH feature in the top left of this topic to see if the game/s have already been reported.

The Search bar in the top left of this topic doesn't search the forum but posts in this topic. However since everyone is linking different things only search for one word in the title.
Eg. Home Construction Sim has been reported 3 times, twice today but was reported by Gelweo a week ago. So when searching for the game only search for the term 'construction', this way you will get all 3 posts reporting it:
Home Construction Sim - Gelweo posted 9 April
https://www.steamgifts.com/game/XipqT/home-construction-sim - Mitsukuni posted 16 April (this is why we are only searching the term 'construction', cause searching 'Home Construction Sim' won't display this)
Home Construction Sim - ThatDave posted 16 April

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Took this as my cue to post a script on Greasy Fork: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/492663-steamgifts-steamdb-and-overprice-report-links-on-game-pages

Tested with TamperMonkey on Chrome (Windows). So I don't know how it behaves everywhere, especially the clipboard part.

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Thanks for your works.

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Thanks for this excellent script!

The clipboard part didn't work for me on Windows 11 + Opera GX. It doesn't even seem to work with Chrome.
Is the markdown supposed be placed in the clipboard when I click on the report button?

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As it seems, it's not that excellent after all.
Added a dirty workaround, you can activate it via updating the script first, and then uncommenting line 46 (so just remove the // in front, you can comment line 45 for pedantry, but it's not an absolute must). After that the markdown will appear in a "prompt" popup and it can be copied from there manually. Popup blockers may not like this hack, and then a second click on the link will be needed to actually get to this topic. Or it just won't work at all, please let me know.

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Thanks! That worked nicely.

Btw, I didn't have to click on the report link a second time. Simply closing the popup took me to the topic.

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Thanks for the PSA!

I was checking the previous couple pages to be sure not to post a duplicate but apparently it's not effective. I'll use the search from now on.

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I don't really do anything with the thread anymore. I just leave it up as a place for others to post games. But yes, any less work for the other users and support that are putting in the effort to try and stay on top of all these games is good since it seems to be a neverending task.

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Bump this. Agreed with these problems //:"( //

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Here, I just finished to update the list

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Added Climb Challenge - Find Items 4 and 5 .

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Added the last one. The two others are supsicious, bad games games and too expensive, but no overpriced in steamdb history (example : if the games were at 1 or 2 $ and become suddendly at 10 $, I'll count them).

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Well the second one IS made by gamesforgames so it's probably worth throwing on there anyway.

EDIT: https://www.steamgifts.com/game/baHWA/just-skill-shooter-3-2d-edition
^this one from them also just started popping up and is a likely candidate for a massive increase.

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I know, and I'll watch the evolution for these "games" from fishy publishers. But this list is about games with overpriced CV, and some of these don't enter in the criteria.

I must take some advice from other SG users, what I must do ?
add all the games from fishy publishers or only those with overpriced CV in this list ?

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Maybe make a list of these fishy editors and their aliases, too ?

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I had similar questions when I was managing the list. I don't think there's a simple answer.

My rule of thumb was not to list anything with a maximum historical price under $20, but I made exceptions for games from publishers with a history of jacking up prices, like Atomic Fabrik, if they cost $10 or more.

I think it comes down to prioritizing tasks and not wasting support's time. There are plenty of overpriced games on the list that support could and should be working on. I don't think it makes a lot of sense at this point to flood the list with dozens of games that are currently not (that) overpriced, purely based on speculation that their price might increase. It's extra work for little added value.

Maybe you can add a section at the top with links to the Steam pages of known fishy publishers, just as a reminder to check those games every now and then.

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Added Moto Parkour and Backflip, still from atomik Fabrik under the Alias of Runip P Games.

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Added Escape the Traps and Ruins Escape, still from atomik Fabrik under the alias of Yakimorova and Anatolie Chupchea.

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https://www.steamgifts.com/game/RuVmW/jet-skiing-race

Don't know if LLOD Studios might be an AF alias, but they did make this crap

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Already listed, but thanks.

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ah, thought since there hadn't been any giveaways for those before they would've been under the radar

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At least we have now the date for the first giveaways of these games.

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Thanks, added to the list.

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Games that are now 0CV :

  • Hidden Pirates Top-Down 3D
  • The lost adventure
  • Zombodesert
  • Spaceship Driver License
  • Save Giant Girl from monsters 2
  • Zombies vs You
  • Tuk Tuk Taxi
  • Forest Tower Defense
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A new winner : Cube War

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/636360/Silent_Gentlemen/
29,99€
Was down to 0,39€ multiple times on steam.
Listed as full value on sg

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Already listed, but thanks.

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Sry, i must have overseen it in the list.

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No problems :)

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Don't believe I saw this on the list...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235760/Tanks_Battle/

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It's not on the list, but it's also 0 CV as of Dec 17, 2022
https://www.steamgifts.com/game/tAs4Z/tanks-battle

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Sorry, didn't check the bundlelist :x

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Already on the list, but added the date of the first giveaway today, thanks.

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