Hopefully Steam will roll out this feature to all users soon.
Anyone who takes part in the big Steam sales knows the problem: a game has a high discount, but wasn’t it just as cheap or even cheaper just a few weeks ago? To answer this question, Valve is apparently working on a feature that the cheapest price of the last 30 days displayed directly on the product page. A graph like this would quickly tell you whether an offer is really as good as it seems at first glance.
This feature could help Steam users
However, the information does not come from Valve itself, but rather from an analysis of changes to the Steam client. The clues were discovered in data from the well-known platform SteamDB, which logs all backend changes to the gaming platform. The function is currently not yet activated for everyone and is probably in an internal testing phase (source: Notebook check)
Until now, many players had to rely on external websites to track the price development of a game. Above all, the SteamDB database is here as an indispensable tool for bargain hunters established. However, the detour via an external site is cumbersome and not all users are familiar with it – a direct integration into the store would therefore be an enormous relief.
This discovery triggers various reactions in the community. On the one hand, there is a lot of confusion because in some countries, unlike Germany, the 30-day feature has already been online for years. Others, however, complain that it would be much more useful to show a historically low price in order to be really sure that there is an exceptional deal (source: Reddit).
PlayStation and Xbox have already implemented the pricing feature
By the way, console players have been familiar with this function for a while – it was implemented in the PlayStation Store in October 2025. In recent years, new consumer protection laws – such as the EU Omnibus Directive – have put increasing pressure on retailers to make discounts more understandable. This is by no means a matter of pure goodwill on the part of the platforms, but rather compliance with existing laws.