Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games

If you spend any significant amount of time using Steam, you’ve probably joked ruefully about your massive backlog of games acquired through cheap bundles or the service’s frequent massive sales. However, we’re willing to bet your backlog can’t hold a candle to that of SonixLegend, who recently earned a unique Steam badge as the first person to own 40,000 distinct paid games on Valve’s platform.

Based in Shanghai, SonixLegend obtained their 40,000th Steam game this week, according to Steam’s badge data, putting them atop an elite club of just 19 Steam users with at least 30,000 paid games. According to SteamDB tracking, that makes for an account roughly worth anywhere from $248,000 (based on the lowest prices ever tracked in the database) to $642,000 (based on the current prices of those games).

However, SonixLegend’s full collection might be more extensive than this massive achievement suggests. That’s because Steam’s Game Collector badges don’t track any of the many, many shovelware titles that have failed to reach “broad player engagement and some commercial success” on the service under Valve’s “profile features” guidelines. It also reportedly doesn’t include almost all free-to-play games, which could easily be used to inflate a title count for determined badge chasers.

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