A good chance at a wishlist title? Hmm, maybe I should break my "no joining gibs" spree for once :p

To answer the question... well, yes - but not accidentally (like in your case). I did buy a few games I really enjoyed just to give them away - I don't think I wanna find out if the winners played them though... :)

You're a rot13ten and generous person with all your hidden giveaway tricks :) thank you!

I have bought games I already owned, unintentionally (not counting bundle extras). I'm not a trader so the extra oops keys just got dumped into my electronic trash can, my virtual shredder, also known as Steamgifts, where keys disappear never to be seen again.

I've also collected other things like music (records/tapes/CDs) and have definitely re-bought albums accidentally. Which is especially funny when it's something I have never even listened to once in the first place.... which is actually a lot of them... hmm... sensing a common theme here...

You probably bought it on Switch, its a fun game. Good while you're on travels. I do not usually buy the same game but I buy bundles so games from the bundles can repeat. Give it out here. I'm glad I managed to get into this one and take advantage of your laziness, anything more complicated I would have gave up. Went to bed but couldn't get to sleep, so its not ideal to figure a puzzle. XD

This is a game I really like, strategy and RPG. Never had the chance to play consoles when I was younger so now I am getting into these JRPGs. Liked what I saw on a release stream. Thank you for being generous, also have sometime to play games yourself. Recently started playing 7 days to die, I'm addicted but the zombies also scares the soul out of me. I am the type that focus on what they are doing and any slight sound triggers my anxiety. Kept looking around even though there's no zombie around hahaha!
Have a good day ahead, Cheers~

I've bought quite a few games I already owned, sometimes intentionally. I think I've had three copies of Watch_Dogs (the first one) now: one on XBox 360, one that was really cheap on Uplay, and then the "complete edition" or whatever it's called on Steam -- because it was cheaper than buying the DLC on Uplay.

(Aside: I still loved the first game when I played through it again a few weeks ago; I've never understood most of the poor reviews. I started Watch_Dogs 2 for the first time last week and, while the world itself is an amazing recreation of San Francisco, the graphics are impressive, it has a lot of stuff to do, and some of the hacking stuff is more interesting; the story is woeful, the characters are boring stereotypes, and the script and voice acting are simply awful. They also managed to destroy the easy-to-use mouse and keyboard controls and introduce a horrible mess of hotkeys, and remove most of the fun of the car chases from the first game. The sequel isn't terrible, and if I'd never played the first I'd probably think the second were amazing, but if they'd retained all that stuff from the first game it would have been so much better!)

There are a few other multi-platform titles that I've bought intentionally, too, and old games I used to have in boxes that I've bought again on Steam. Oh, and of course, buying bundles that happen to have games I already have in them, but I assume you were more interested in unintentional "rebuying".

I bought a bargain key for Evil Genius a while ago, not realising I already had it. At the time I'd thought to trade the key away, but it was bundled over and over by GMG for a small percentage of what I'd paid the second time (let's not even mention the first time) ... and other than a few short hours on a very, very long time ago game rental when it was first released, I haven't even played it yet. sigh I'll give the spare key away on here when I get around to it.

I'm sure there have been others, too! My memory isn't what it once was, unless I've forgotten how it used to be. That's entirely possible, too.

Thank you fiftykyu!

Yes I did, usually I would make Quake giveaways each year, hoping a new savior would be born in the future.........probably not.

I have an old retail copy of Arcanum, bought a digital copy for backup, then later another retail to give away on an evwnt. Same with Imperium Galactica 2. And not to mention Cook Serve Delicious - I think I bought 4 copies for giveaways/giving out as gifts :D

I think the only time I bought a game twice by mistake was the day I got Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons on gog, and then I realised I already had it on Steam.
I was pissed at myself and decided to keep the gog copy, as a way to tell my future self: "check your steam library before clicking that shiny buy button, you moron!" 🙄

Gotta say, it never happened to me that I bought a game I already owned. My budget's been tight for a long while now, so most of my games come from bundles. Dupes happen there, but they are not as tragic as buying a $50 game twice ;) - we're on a giveaway site after all and this is precisely the reason why I dound my way to here.
Another way of acquiring games for me is my Steam wallet money, but these purchases are so precious, I value every one of them high and I don't forget what I've bought.

So thank you very much for the chance at this, fiddy. Finally something I'd actually play \o/ :)
In the off chance of me winning this giveaway - I'll be away from 2nd to 11th of August. Would you kindly wait for my return? hope that's not asking too much.

Did you ever buy a game you already owned? What did you do with it? Just curious. :)

Frankly I don't know, most of the time I don't do it intentionally, probably bundles containing games that I already own would count.

Though, there is one scenario where the developer of a game sent it to me for free for helping to test it out from a barebones state until release...but because I love whatever the developer put out (and because there were preorder incentives), I actually preordered the game, stored it in my inventory (back when gifts were still a thing) and waited until release - then used the Remove Game feature in Steam to nuke the testing copy.

I might have also re-bought a few games I owned on other DRMs just to own them on Steam, but my memory's honestly fuzzy on that...huge collector shame 😅

Either way, appreciate the chance! :)

Did you ever buy a game you already owned?

Trick question, these days you don't own a game, you own a license

Several copies of small indie games I've enjoyed over the last few years come to mind, all of which I've bought to give away.

Technically I bought a couple of bundled games that I already owned on the Twitch Launcher, but they don't count right? :3

Yay, thanks fiftykyu ;) And I see you did remember to play this game ;)