Can you use prepaid visa gift cards on steam?

[Goose Pants]

I’d like to purchase one and put it towards a steam deck dock. Can I do this? Can I pay the remaining amount with my regular credit card?

[Satoru]

Yes. Though you may need to register the card online so it has an address linked to it. Other than that it’s fine, people use things like Vanilla Visa and equivalents all the time

The only problem with them is that if you want to use the market, because you can’t verify the taps that Steam sends to the card you have market cooldowns

One caveat is that you can only use ONE payment method. The only way to get Steam to use 2 is to

1) have Steam wallet but not enough to cover the cost

2) secondary payment method must cover ALL of the remaining balance

There is no other way to use 2 payment methods

So your situation you would have to

1) fund your steam wallet using the prepaid card
2) then buy the steam deck
3) Steam will first drain your steam wallet
4) it will then ask you to fund the rest with a secondary method


Note I’m “sorta” sure this works with the SteamDeck. They did start allowing steam wallet for the SteamDeck but I’m not sure if you can split purchase it like with games. I recommend asking others who have maybe done this to confirm it works.

[Goose Pants]

Thanks.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It does work purchasing the Steam Deck too.