Which games are good for earning money on Steam?

[Advokaiser]

Exactly 1 year ago, I realized you could trade and sell cards for a few cents. Then I found out skins and cases where a popular thing on CS:GO, and I started playing for the money, but stayed for the game itself.

I'm wondering what other games are good for earning valuable in-game items for profit (as little as it is).

Thanks in advance.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

No, not really. Drops aren't meant as a means to fund an account, and AFAIK the only games that have "drops" like that are DOTA2, CSGO, and TF2. But in order to get those drops in CSGO and TF2, you need to have "premium" AKA spend money on the games.

[Mailer]

There are not many games that rival CS2 in terms of selling in-game items for meaningful amounts of wallet funds on commoner drops.

The closest second would probably be Team Fortress 2, though you should aim to be most active as soon as the next major update occurs and a new cosmetic/warpaint case gets added, which has been the trend for a long time. TF2 holiday events also come with such additions, but the selling price drops rapidly in short time.

Still, curb your expectations a LOT, because going into the mindset of playing games to earn money (it's not money, it's always wallet funds) isn't really healthy, and only gets you snared into scams and gambling, if you don't stick to the community market.

[ReBoot]

There's 2 problems with that plan.
1. Unlikely AF. That's like that influencer career, few win, bazillion try. You see the winners, not the losers, despite the, latter being legion.
2. You don't get money off Steam anyway. Not without going through shady services with associated downsides.

Learn game development, make game, sell game for money. That's the boring-yet-more-reliable route to Stream money.

[Advokaiser]

Thanks for the insight, guys. I haven't really gambled with CS drops (yet), so my earnings have been pretty steadily around $5 per month with everything I immediately sell. I bought prime last January and got my money back in just 3 months, and I've already bought 3 games with those earnings alone, so I'm not really aspiring for a huge profit, just the safest options however small they may be. TF2 it is, then!

Even then, I hadn't actually realized the dangers of giving those earnings away by opening cases (never actually saw it as gambling... but it makes sense), so it's good to keep that in mind for future reference.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Killing Floor 2 has some fairly high priced collectible and trade-able items.

There is another game where people are selling crystals for 75 cents each some other items for a few dollars but I forget the games name.

[Alex]

Probably CS:GO because of the value of the cases just couple of months of playing can return that money you spend on prime.

I have a around that had around 300 Euros from all cases he ever gotten in last 7 years he been playing

[Ni-Neith]

EVE Online.
50% of this game is the economic component.
Is it possible to withdraw money from this game? Look on the Internet.

[HikariLight]

Steam is not the place to go for games you can withdraw money from as Steam does not support it.

Look for a game called Entropy Universe (I think that's the name), it will allow you to withdraw money, but you have to put money into the game first.

[johnbaggett81]

There is a game called banana where you just click a banana and every 3 hours or so you get dropped a banana (They all look different) and they can be sold on the steam market. It's completely so give it a try.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Początkowo opublikowane przez johnbaggett81:

There is a game called banana where you just click a banana and every 3 hours or so you get dropped a banana and they can be sold on the steam market. It's completely so give it a try.

Apart from the unnecessary necro...
You do get free Banana skins, but I can tell you that you won't get any of them sold.
I speak from experience.

And even if, by some miracle, you get one sold, it will be 1 Cent you're getting.

[Steve]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.