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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https://www.steamgifts.com/game/awWvy/berry-madness
this still has full CV despite being high priced for ages

1 year ago
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and shouldnt this be no CV as well?
https://www.steamgifts.com/game/yYkEY/fly-tales

1 year ago
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That game was mentioned in a comment here on June 18th, but it might have been overlooked because the price was dropped on Steam to $4.99 on May 8th and was recently bumped back up to $50 again on July 13th. So maybe it was $4.99 when support looked at it.

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oh, didnt look for price drop, I just saw that I reported it with bunch of games at the end of April (but I closed ticket as almost everyone of them had been banned/removed and before that price reduced back to 1$)

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just came here to write same game XD

1 year ago
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Mountain Offroad Simulator

steamgifts game page
steam store
steam db

1 year ago
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How is this still full CV ?

1 year ago
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zombies in metropolis

cars vs trains

price history shows low price suddenly spiked to 45

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They all still give full CV and are currently being given away again.

1 year ago
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Is it normal to take this long for the mods to set these asset flip garbage to 0 CV? I mean yeah it’s applied retroactively and the gifters’ level decreases accordingly, but in the weeks in between, they can and probably do take advantage of the temporary level boost.

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Anything can take long unfortunately. The amount of active mods who have the necessary administrative rights seems to be low. And I am not sure if and how often some mod checks this thread. Probably best to report those games via "Add Game to List" as well.

1 year ago
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I’m still rather new to the site and my impression too is that the mod team is quite understaffed. Thanks for pointing me to that support feature, I haven’t noticed it before :)

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Spooky Men went from $5.99 to $99,999.99 back on July 17th. Couldn't find it indexed for giveaways, so maybe it's already been nuked.

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There have been no giveaways as of yet but they would currently give full CV:

https://www.steamgifts.com/game/OKGYP/spooky-men

Also: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2204850/discussions/0/7318962906698248812/

And I saw three giveaways for it pop up on IndieGala, all by the same user.

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Super Lumberjack

Seems like the dev themselves is giving them away here.

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Was just about to comment the same game. Didn't notice it was the dev though!

1 year ago
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Yeah... since they don't seem to enter giveaways, it didn't have a real impact so far but it should be set to 0CV retroactively regardless just to make sure.

1 year ago
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Agreed, that definitely won't hurt. I thought the dev was farming CV to win GAs and was ready to blacklist them, only to find out they don't actually enter that often.

1 year ago
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That might change anytime though. And the price of this game is definitely scummy.

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Yuuuup. No doubt about either. :)

1 year ago
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We have a winner: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2204850/Spooky_Men/

1 Million Dollars! xD

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TBH the most surprising part about this to me is that Valve set such a high upper limit for the price tag lol. I'd imagine something like, idk, 200 USD should be way more than enough.

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even valve know some games should be specially valued for their quality

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did this get a price increase as i just did a give away for it but i got it from a trade a few weeks ago

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Yup, on July 27 it went from $1 to $25.

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thanks

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How can i check if a game has already been added?

Just ran across this...
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/7RpZu/break-everything-park

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type into a new giveaway page - two ** mean it's zeroed out already.

- but of course you could have just read the first paragraph.

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Click the magnifying glass in the giveaway and you get to the app page:

https://www.steamgifts.com/game/jFzpP/break-everything-park

There it says on the upper right side, if and when it has been set to reduced or 0 CV. In this case it has been set to 0 CV on Jan 27, 2023. And: yes, it does say so in the first paragraph of the OP as well. :P

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Thx for the explanation.
Much appreciated.

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These are 0 CV already, posting for search purposes:
Murder of the Bear lake $
Water Drift $
Planets Battle $

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2404760/Turbotron/ - even if the price is not maxed out, it's definitely not a 35P game. Full CV atm.

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there can't be "maxed out" price, but yeah, it's definitely overpriced (1€ -> 34€ from 28th June)
Also, would be nicer to provide Steamgifts game pages :)
https://www.steamgifts.com/game/cEuPJ/turbotron

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It fits the pattern of all the other fake games. The dev makes a bunch of low effort junk games, a lot of them are just variations of the same thing, they each have 10 fake positive reviews, and are overpriced. The dev may have some cheap games, but they fluctuate the price for some reason and they will be priced really high soon.

List of the devs games by price

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yikes that's a lot of "games", and it's only one shitty "developer" :P

1 year ago
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They must be working hard. If you sort them by release date, you can see that they managed to get 5 games released in a single month a couple times.

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And this "developer" (i would call him/them trash spreader) use different dev names (4+), so you see with this dev name only a part of his/their trash portfolio that infest steam.

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Yeah, some times there are connection between those trash spreaders (mostly likely same person as well)

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I think almost all of these games from all the different devs and publishers are from the same person or group of people. I think it is some kind of organized racketeering operation. Almost all of them follow the exact same patterns with 10 fake positive reviews, a low price for a certain time while they sell keys for pennies on shady Russian sites, and then increase the price to something ridiculous.

I don't know why it is happening, but it is clearly some kind of big operation probably moving a lot of money for some illegal reason that has nothing to do with gaming. SG just happens to be caught in the middle of it because our CV system is affected by the price of these Steam games.

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I think same, must be money laundering or sth like that.

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https://www.steamgifts.com/game/0AGC9/keep-looking
https://www.steamgifts.com/game/nLZpw/crocodile-transformator once again by the ever-garbage atomicfabrik
https://www.steamgifts.com/game/nkAMb/pixxxel and anything else by Phoenixxx Games
Edit:deleted some games that I didn't notice had already been posted

Watch for any other games by Dlong and Blong Studios... or anybody with a similar name.

Oh hey, look at these guys. Multiple garbage games in a "series" including a blatant ripoff of Cuphead and Getting Over It.

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I have no idea what that last dev is doing. What is the point of making a very inferior copy of a popular game and selling it for the same price as the much better game? It also looks like they just split off every level of the game into its own release and charge another $20 for each. I could understand if they just tried to make a knock off game and trick people into buying it, but they have already released 9 version of the game and I doubt anyone is going to buy them or give them a positive review, so what is the point.

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