I Spent $10,000 on the Most Expensive Steam Games to See If They're Worth It

A gamer spends $10,000 buying the most expensive games on Steam, ranging from $100 to over $1,500, to determine if they are scams or hidden gems. The journey includes absurd titles like a pixelated lumberjack game, a broken racing simulator, and a creepy virtual circus, revealing that most are overpriced and poorly made, with only a few offering genuine entertainment.

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I am about to spend thousands of dollars buying the most expensive games on Steam I went to steam sorted by highest price and I noticed there's tons of games listed at $300 what game could possibly be worth $300 are these scams are they secretly amazing I've set myself a $10,000 budget and we're going to buy a bunch of these games and see what's going on there's a couple rules for this video the game has to cost more than $100 and I'm not allowed to refund it I'm going to start more on the lower end and we can waste more and more money as we go this game's called super Lumberjack cost $145 all it's a 29 megabyte game that is $5 per megabyte play a lumberjack your first task is to chop

Woods bro this game is like seven pixels I've spent $20 per pixel we don't even get three dimensions all right my challenge is to get to 10,000 points I'm doing great challenge complete yes I passed the first level okay now I have the choice of doing this 64 times or touching grass oh my God I just [__] killed a bunny rabbit they've added innocent NPCs I tell you what though I split that thing in half do not kill the rabbit or you will die okay I missed that last time [__] bro I just can't stop chopping get off rabbit get off challenge complete okay oh my God I have an announcement I'm addicted I'm getting slightly better at not being a rabbit serial killer [__] [__] I got to stop there

I've already played like half the levels after this recording I'm coming back and beating the entire game time to give it a review 10 out of 10 apologize to the families of the rabbits I killed first game not a scam uh just overpriced this game is called Surplus it cost $200 no one's ever reviewed it before I'll be the first person to ever play it this is it the numbers go through my head oh I've got to do maths and then pick the right Square I spent $200 and you're making me do mathematics dude like what have I just spent my money on I wish I could get my money back that's it I failed I think I want to vom the same developer has made a game called equality this one's $218 this game's so

[__] it doesn't even go full screen so I guess the balls just got to drop down huh all right well I'm definitely getting scammed now I've just put this guy's kids through college giving him $400 I feel like I got scammed by those two games no refunding that's the rule hopefully as the games get more expensive they will also get good this game's called rush red and blue it's $280 look it's obviously ass maybe it could be funny [__] I'm curious I have to do it starting off with the fact that I can't read the menu vehicle doesn't even have like any textures on it $280 we couldn't even get textures all right we're in a race okay the bloody AI has teleportation abilities for $280

couldn't even get working AI he's stuck on my head I'm being mounted by the AI all right let's see what happens when I win the race at least you know yes play it again no I won't do that was horrible scream or die virtual circus this is a $300 game come to the dark circus bro this is so unbelievably creepy this is like a ripoff of digital circus man I know the guy who makes that show I should report this what the [__] is that oh my God I paid $300 to [__] my pants but that is also a milestone ladies and gentlemen we have spent over $11,000 and so far the best game has been a 2d Lumberjack simulator holy [__] the next game is Arch willio looks like you just run through the woods as an anime character this game cost $290 this is it like th this is the

entire game okay I've got to collect these like glowing apples or some [__] that's all there is to do in the game I think well done you find the all fruits yo what yo I just hit play again turns out this is secretly a Pirate game what I think I figured out why I spawned on a pirate ship the exact same developer made a game called cutless call he's just reused the same assets to make a new game and also sell it for $300 I can't make an accusation like that without being a 100% certain so I have to buy this game too let's just hit play and see what happens oh my God it's the same opening Cuts scene and everything except now I'm a pirate instead of an anime girl this dude has literally just copied and

pasted games and his charging $300 for each of them oh find all the fruits oh my God it's literally the same game except this time I'm finding like coconuts I'm was going to run up to that volcano and see if I can jump in it all right I found lava if I've spent 280 bucks and I can't burn up and die horribly in this I'm going to be furious well I died all right this guy has made a couple other games we have to be really careful uh not to fall for it again this is a game called I'm rich it has no reviews probably cuz everyone else is poor this is the game um it's just a red Diamond you click it and it Sparkles every now and then somehow this is not the worst use of money I've had

today what about if I click the I'm rich button not just wealthy I'm rich in every way but I think this is all the game is um I got the one achievement in the game this guy is filthy rich what a game this is called richest Thief there's got to be more to it than the trailer the developer of this game is going to be the richest Thief well the game is literally what you see in the trailer um you know they clearly displayed what the game was and I paid the price what am I doing with my life what did I expect to happen okay maybe I finally found a real game okay this game is called Forest Spring with the arrival of spring it is necessary to clear the forest but you will get blood not dust

on your hands it's been a while since I've seen something that may actually be a game oh my God it's got a gun on the ground oh my bro is this Call of Duty oh my it's got actual gun physics this could be an actual game what the is that a wolf I'm not going to shoot the wolf unless it attacks me first don't worry vegans come on does this count is attacking this is a bit awkward man this is a bit awkward um beginning to think this wolf might be indestructible man when the vet put my dog down they made it look so easy oh okay I think I've stumbled across the actual bad guys hey guys okay no I can actually kill these this is epic I've spent $25,000 and I finally have game playay oh my God there's going to be some parent out there very upset I killed

their quadruplets they're all identical man I've reached the edge of the map I've explored the entire thing definitely not worth $280 but compared to the other things I've played today legitimately might be game of the year I'm a quarter of the way through my budget and I have not learned a single lesson about getting scammed I knew these games were going to be [__] but the more expensive they get the more depressed spooky men this went Mega viral cuz at one point this game cost a million dollar I don't know really what it is I think it's like some sort of horror game but now it only costs $300 so realistically we're getting like a 3 million per discount after spending that money I realized you can't actually play the game with less

than three people I was stuck in the lobby it was unplayable am I allowed to refund that one no that's against the rule yeah okay it's against the rules ah this is a game called archaeology medieval oh my God I love archaeology this is the game somehow is this this is the worst yet the only thing medieval about this is the random medieval Tavern that's just floating in the sky there literally the sand is translucent oh I think I've dug something what is it's so hard to tell if like anything's here oh I got an 80 Coin Star all right this game is [__] dog [__] look how many versions of this game there are I thought surely the more expensive the games get it's going to get better but no I love getting scammed Bunny's buddy it's a $300 game about

being a bunny rabbit game is started I'm a bunny rabbit this is a game about a bunny rabbit shooting Fireballs I thought it was going to get a good review for sure I even spent an hour of my life playing it this is [__] this is a weird game until this happened I'm on to the final boss fight I played this game for legitimately an hour I'm stuck I'm I'm [__] stuck on the stairs B anticlimactic I'm stuck on stairs there's no I literally can't finish the game I'm done this is the first game to make me rage Quit I'm not returning the game I'm asking the developer to give me a refund that's different I still had a lot of money left in the budget and I had to spend it the next few games were very interesting

I spent $300 on a game that was the equivalent of a shitty fortnite event $300 on a cat surgery mobile game and $300 on a game where you eat flowers and hallucinate in the woods y whoa I didn't know it was going to be that kind of flower in fact every game you're seeing on screen right now cost me at least $280 and every single one of them was completely garbage this game looks like it's from a Tik Tok ad but it still cost $290 this volleyball simulator cost $290 but it was actually kind of awesome oh my God the butt shot and we won there was even a $280 School Bus Simulator all right I've picked up the child that child is no more but this next game save giant girl from Monsters maybe this will be good it's

got positive reviews it's $300 oh my God we're playing the game I got to save her from the monsters oh the balloons are attacking her no is this it is this the game the monsters are actually just giant balloons I'm an Engaged man I don't want to make ilsa jealous I'm going to have to let the enemy girl die I'm dead I think oh no I'm definitely dead that game was legitimately the worst thing I've ever played in my life you know the crazy part it's a series there's four of these games they're all exactly the same recording this video I knew I was going to get scammed I've just been buying the games knowing they're garbage but this is another level how have I spent over $7,000 and there has not been a single

good game I decided I had to use my brain to figure out what was going on about half of the games we've been playing are by the same developer they just make hundreds of these like let's be honest dog [__] games and then if we go to at a steam database save giant girlf from Monsters the lowest recorded price is $2 99% off so I think they make these games charge a bunch of money make them 99% off and then hope someone buys it thinking they're getting a good deal or something I don't know even though at this point it's obvious every game is a scam we only have the two most expensive games left so let's see if they're worth it the leverage game this is $1,500 this was a business board game you compete to

run a business against other players which doesn't sound too bad except they use a lot of big words you cannot m manage what you do not measure make sure everyone measures their kpis like what are we talking about margins and turnover and why is this $1,500 there was no way I was ending the video with this okay there is one more game left for me to play the game is called true love it costs $750 the thumbnail is written in Microsoft Paint apparently this game is created out of pure sadness I have no friends but I need to share my thoughts it's by a guy who heartbroken once I buy this game we should roughly hit our budget of $10,000 I have basically set $110,000 on fire let's see if this is a scam like the rest of them or actually a

good game okay this is the game greetings wonderer I am here because of the one woman she was gorgeous her eyes were so bright they can make the sun jealous game is undisputedly expensive yes it is because losing her cost me too much so he lost the love of his life and he's making us feel the same cost but instead of love it's $750 the main objective here is to find $7 nights each night will give you some advices about life so it sounds like the developer of this game is heartbroken so he's made a game to express that heartbreak yeah I can just run into this car oh I can drive the car this guy's out of driving physics there's already way more features than most of those other games

the car has zero audio though couldn't afford that apparently is that a KN or is that Elvis what the [__] I think it's just an Elvis that is thrusting all right easy mistake the map is 200k by 200k it would take 138,000 minutes to go to the edges that's that's 96 days worth of minutes he did advertise huge map bigger than most so he's not lying why the [__] is this map so big I have no idea so while you can consider refunding it he knows I'm not allowed to refund this game he's mocking me I may quit the game at some point but I will not refund it that's one of the nights I've been searching for legitimately 35 minutes I found one what wisdom does he have for me do not squeeze her let her be let her choose to

be with you and try to be a choosable guy and then he just disappears man what the [__] is this game oh I think I found another one it takes me like 30 minutes to find each of these things what wisdom will he have appreciate every minute you spam with her you'll never know it will end one day she can go and then he just disappears this is very emotional I've just spent like an hour driving around in circles in the abyss I don't think I can't finish this game I will not refund made me appreciate true love yeah the game was bad but at least it helped me appreciate the things I care about most in life like Elsa and super Lumberjack I went on to redownload that game and I beat every single level easily the best

game of the entire video well I've spent the entire budget I have basically lit all that money on fire maybe uh because most of these were scams you guys could let me refund them please

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