How Expensive Is Your (Steam) Wishlist?

Name: How Expensive Is Your (Steam) Wishlist?
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Author: dejobaan

by dejobaan·May 19, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidCozy

Fun novelty for social sharing, but lacks tools to actually manage or prune the list.

Strengths

•Visualizes wishlist value clearly with immediate total and current price comparison.
•Displays flat feed of game capsules to help users remember why they wishlisted items.

Weaknesses

•Single-purpose utility with no ongoing value after the initial calculation.
•Does not offer export features or integration with price tracking alerts.

Post Description

A tool/toy that lets you connect to your Steam wishlist to calculate the total list/current price of all the games on it.

There's a shallow, jokey purpose to it ("I could buy a BMW with this amount!"), but the real purpose is to demonstrate how we can do a better job of portraying a game catalog. I often wishlist stuff, then it pops up in a "Hey, it's on sale!" email months later. In that email, there's a banner capsule, but that doesn't help my brain remember why I added it.

To that end, after you get the bill, you get a nice, flat feed of stuff about all the titles you've wishlisted over the years. It's all stuff that developers painstakingly put together, but which Steam tucks away under the fold of a game's Store page.

Anyway, my wishlist came to about $250. My QA guy is up to $19k. Give it a go; hope you enjoy it!