On September 2, 2026, SteamDB, the site millions of PC gamers use to check whether a game’s price is actually a historic low, changed hands for the first time in its 13-year history. Chosen, the company that owns Nexus Mods, acquired the independent tracker from founder Pavel “xPaw” Djundik, who cited burnout after running it largely alone (TechSpot’s coverage of the sale). That deal put a spotlight back on a question a lot of PC gamers never think hard about until a sale drops: which price-tracking tool actually deserves a permanent spot in your bookmarks bar? SteamDB, IsThereAnyDeal, and GG.deals all promise to tell you whether a deal is real. They do it in different ways, cover different ground, and now one of them has new owners. Here’s how the three actually compare.
This comparison matters more in September 2026 than it would have a couple of years ago. Hardware costs have been climbing all year, DRAM shortages pushed Steam Deck prices up sharply and dragged gaming-laptop and desktop component costs higher across the board, and Valve is currently facing a price-fixing lawsuit alongside ten publishers over how Steam pricing is set. None of that directly changes what a single game costs at checkout, but it’s created a climate where PC gamers are paying closer attention to whether a listed discount is a real deal or a marketing number dressed up to look like one. A price-tracking tool that can prove a “50% off” banner is actually higher than a price the same game hit four months ago has become a more practical part of the buying process than it used to be, not just a bargain-hunter’s hobby tool.
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What Changed: SteamDB’s September 2026 Sale to Nexus Mods’ Parent Company
SteamDB has operated as an independent, donation-supported database of Steam pricing, player counts, and update history since it launched roughly 13 years ago. On September 2, 2026, that changed. Chosen, the parent company of modding platform Nexus Mods, announced it had acquired SteamDB, with financial terms undisclosed, according to Inven Global’s report on the acquisition. Nexus Mods CEO and Chosen founder Victor Folmann framed the deal as stewardship rather than absorption, and both companies said SteamDB would keep its name, branding, URL, Discord server, and community separate from Nexus Mods itself, per PCGuide’s interview with Djundik after the sale.
Existing free features are staying free, and users don’t need a Nexus Mods account to keep using SteamDB, based on the joint announcements both companies published on September 2. Djundik’s stated reason for selling wasn’t financial distress, it was the difficulty of maintaining a service used by a huge share of PC gamers as a one-person operation for over a decade. One report pegs SteamDB’s traffic at 140 million views, though the exact measurement window (monthly, annual, or lifetime) wasn’t specified in that coverage, so treat it as a scale indicator rather than a precise current figure.
The sale matters for this comparison because it’s the first ownership change any of the three major PC game price-tracking tools has gone through in years. IsThereAnyDeal and GG.deals remain independently run as of September 25, 2026. Whether SteamDB’s new corporate backing changes anything about how it tracks data, monetizes, or prioritizes features is the open question every regular user is now watching, and it’s the reason this comparison is worth revisiting right now instead of treating these three tools as interchangeable.
Reaction to the sale split along predictable lines. Some longtime SteamDB users welcomed the move as a succession plan that keeps a beloved tool alive instead of letting it quietly decay under an overworked solo maintainer, a fate that has ended plenty of smaller fan-run tracking sites over the years. Others, per Vice’s coverage of the announcement, raised concerns about eventual monetization pressure now that a company with a commercial modding platform is in charge, even though nothing in the current terms points that direction. Both reactions are reasonable, and neither is resolvable yet. What is resolvable, and what this comparison focuses on, is how SteamDB’s actual feature set stacks up against IsThereAnyDeal and GG.deals as they stand today, independent of who owns the backend.
Full Specs Comparison Table
| Feature | SteamDB | IsThereAnyDeal | GG.deals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary function | Steam data analytics (prices, players, builds) | Cross-store price comparison + history | Cross-store price comparison + collection tracking |
| Founded | ~2013, sold Sept. 2, 2026 | Independent, long-running project | 2015 |
| Current owner | Chosen (parent of Nexus Mods) | Independent | Independent |
| Price history tracking | Yes, Steam only | Yes, across authorized stores | Yes, across 50+ stores incl. keyshops |
| Concurrent player counts | Yes | No | No |
| Patch/build/version history | Yes (builds, depots, manifests) | No | No |
| Stores covered | Steam only | Authorized resellers only, marked by affiliate status | 50+ stores including keyshops |
| Subscription catalog tracking (Game Pass, PS Plus) | No | Yes | Yes (subscription comparison pages) |
| Browser extension | Yes | Yes (Augmented Steam + ITAD Everywhere) | Yes (GG.deals Extension) |
| Library/collection sync | No | No | Yes (Steam and GOG library import) |
| Sells game keys directly | No | No, links to authorized stores | No, links to stores and keyshops |
| Free to use | Yes | Yes | Yes (free for everyone) |
| Mobile app | No official app confirmed | Yes (Android) | Not independently verified for Sept. 2026 |
The table makes the split obvious. SteamDB is a Steam-only analytics tool that happens to include price history as one feature among many, IsThereAnyDeal is a cross-store deal engine built around authorized-retailer safety, and GG.deals is a cross-store deal engine built around collection management and broader keyshop coverage, including third-party resellers that ITAD deliberately excludes.
What Each Tool Actually Does
SteamDB: A Steam Data Warehouse, Not a Shopping Tool
SteamDB was never really built as a deal-hunting site, that’s a side effect of one feature among many. Its core purpose is exposing data Valve doesn’t surface in the standard Steam client: concurrent player counts per game, historical price changes on Steam specifically, update and patch history, and low-level technical data like builds, depots, and manifests that modders and developers rely on. A player deciding whether a live-service game is worth buying can check its SteamDB player count trend before purchase, something neither IsThereAnyDeal nor GG.deals offers. The tradeoff is scope, SteamDB only covers Steam. If a game is cheaper on the Epic Games Store, Humble, or through a keyshop, SteamDB simply won’t show that.
The player-count data in particular has become a genuine purchase-decision tool rather than trivia. A game that launched to a big concurrent-player spike and has since dropped 90% within a few months tells a very different story than one holding steady, and SteamDB’s public per-game charts let anyone check that history without needing to trust marketing copy or a publisher’s own retention claims. Developers and modders use the same underlying data for a different reason: build and depot history shows exactly when a game’s files changed on Valve’s servers, which is how the community first spots things like silently added anti-cheat modules, DRM changes, or a next-gen patch rolling out before an official announcement. That audience, technical users who need Steam-specific metadata, is why SteamDB survived 13 years as a niche tool that never needed to become a shopping site to stay relevant.
IsThereAnyDeal: Cross-Store Comparison With an Authorized-Only Filter
IsThereAnyDeal’s core pitch is safety plus breadth, and that breadth keeps expanding: the site added Zapagames to its tracked-shop coverage in August 2026, continuing to widen its authorized-store list through the year. Its own shops page states plainly that an icon on the site marks stores where IsThereAnyDeal has an affiliate partnership, and its policy page for store representatives says it covers “authorized resellers, meaning that they are sourcing keys either directly from publishers or from authorized distributors” (IsThereAnyDeal’s store-inclusion policy). That’s a meaningfully different approach from a marketplace that lets any third-party seller list a key, and it’s why ITAD tends to get recommended to buyers who got burned once by an invalid or region-locked key elsewhere. ITAD also ships two free browser extensions, Augmented Steam and IsThereAnyDeal Everywhere, both of which overlay current and historical-low prices directly on Steam store pages and other sites, according to Augmented Steam’s own product page. ITAD additionally tracks subscription-service catalogs, showing how many games are currently available through services like Xbox Game Pass, which none of the other two tools do in the same way, and in August 2026 it rolled out Playsum quick-buy carts, letting users purchase an entire tracked shopping list in one pass instead of checking out title by title.
The affiliate-transparency piece is worth dwelling on, since it’s the detail that separates ITAD from a lot of deal sites that quietly favor whichever store pays the highest commission. Marking affiliate relationships with a visible icon rather than hiding them in fine print means a user can judge for themselves whether a “best price” recommendation might be influenced by revenue rather than pure lowest-cost ranking. ITAD’s stated philosophy on its shop-inclusion page is that inclusion in the database itself is free regardless of whether a store has an affiliate deal, meaning stores aren’t excluded just for declining to pay commission, only the visible affiliate icon changes. That transparency push continued in August 2026, when ITAD introduced sharable community notes so users can flag context on a specific deal or store for others to see, and expanded default-rule support to 5 rules for automated price alerts, giving users more built-in filtering options without writing custom logic. That’s a meaningfully different trust model than a platform where affiliate revenue determines which stores even get listed in the first place.
GG.deals: Broader Store Coverage Plus Collection Management
GG.deals launched in 2015 as a price-comparison site for digital PC games and has since built out collection-tracking features on top of the core deal engine. Its own stores page and subscription pages describe comparing prices across “over 50 digital stores,” a figure GG.deals states directly rather than leaving to third-party estimates. Where GG.deals diverges from ITAD is scope of coverage: it includes keyshops (third-party resale marketplaces) in its price history alongside first-party storefronts, giving it a wider net of listed prices, though that also means a “best price” on GG.deals can sometimes point toward a reseller rather than a publisher-authorized store. GG.deals also supports library and playtime syncing from Steam and GOG, and it tracks game bundles from services like Humble Bundle and Fanatical, letting a user see bundle history alongside standalone store pricing in one place.
The collection features are what tend to convert casual visitors into registered users. Once a Steam or GOG library is synced, GG.deals can flag price drops on games already sitting in a wishlist without the user re-entering every title by hand, and the same sync pulls in playtime data so a returning player can see, at a glance, whether a game they bought two years ago and never finished is worth revisiting before buying its sequel at full price. GG.deals also runs its own public API, letting third-party developers build bots or tools on top of its price database, a level of openness neither SteamDB nor IsThereAnyDeal advertises in the same way. That openness, combined with the broader keyshop-inclusive store count, is the clearest signal of who GG.deals is built for: users who want the single lowest number on screen and are comfortable doing their own diligence on the store behind it.
Pricing: What’s Actually Free and What Isn’t
| Tool | Core Price Tracking | Paid Tier | What the Paid Tier Adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| SteamDB | Free | None publicly documented | N/A, free features continue post-acquisition per Sept. 2026 announcements |
| IsThereAnyDeal | Free | No officially confirmed paid consumer tier as of Sept. 2026 | N/A |
| GG.deals | Free | None (free for everyone) | Collection and price-tracking tools plus an official browser extension, all free to use |
The honest takeaway from the pricing comparison is that all three tools are free to use for their core function, checking whether a price is a good deal. None of them charge to view price history, set a wishlist alert, or browse stores. GG.deals is free for everyone, with its collection-management and price-tracking tools available at no charge, so none of the three gatekeep price data behind a paywall. SteamDB’s post-acquisition terms explicitly state existing free features aren’t changing, which is the detail most of its userbase actually cared about when the sale was announced.
Worth noting for anyone comparing this to the broader digital game marketplace world: none of these three tools work like a third-party key marketplace, they don’t handle payment, they don’t warehouse inventory, and they don’t offer buyer-protection programs the way a resale platform does, because they aren’t sellers. That’s a structurally different business than sites that resell keys directly, and it’s part of why none of the three currently carries the kind of key-authenticity controversy that has occasionally dogged marketplace-model resellers, since a price tracker’s worst-case failure mode is showing a stale or inaccurate price, not shipping an invalid key.
Benchmark Data: Store Coverage and Tracking Depth Across Three Sources
Store coverage numbers for deal-aggregator sites vary depending on who’s counting and how they define a “store,” so this comparison cross-checks multiple 2026 sources rather than repeating one unverified figure. GG.deals states on its own subscription and stores pages that it compares prices across “over 50 digital stores.” A separate 2026 roundup from ofzenandcomputing.com put GG.deals’ figure at “50+ (including keyshops)” and IsThereAnyDeal’s coverage at roughly 30+ authorized stores in the same comparison table. A different 2026 roundup from guidespot.com described IsThereAnyDeal as tracking “75+ digital stores,” a noticeably higher number than the ofzenandcomputing estimate. ITAD’s own changelog backs up that upward trend regardless of which third-party count you trust: the service added Player.Land across all regions in June 2026 and Muve for EUR-region storefronts the same month, on top of the Zapagames addition that followed in August. Given that spread, the safest way to describe ITAD’s coverage is “several dozen authorized stores, and still growing,” since third-party counts range from roughly 30 to 75 depending on methodology and neither figure comes from ITAD’s own published total.
On tracking depth rather than store count, SteamDB wins by a wide margin for anything Steam-specific. It’s the only one of the three that surfaces build and depot history, meaning a player can see exactly when a game’s binaries changed, useful for spotting silent patches, DRM additions, or a game quietly getting a next-gen update. Neither IsThereAnyDeal nor GG.deals attempts to compete on that axis, they’re not trying to be technical databases, they’re trying to be shopping assistants. That’s why the fairest framing isn’t “which tool is best” but “which axis matters for this specific check,” since the three tools were built to answer different questions from the start.
On price-history accuracy, GG.deals documents that it began recording keyshop price history “at the beginning of 2021,” according to its own announcement page, giving it roughly five years of keyshop-specific historical data by September 2026. IsThereAnyDeal’s authorized-store-only approach trades broader keyshop coverage for a narrower but arguably more trustworthy dataset, since every price point traces back to a retailer ITAD has vetted rather than an open marketplace listing.
A fourth source worth weighing is user sentiment rather than raw feature counts. Community discussion around all three tools in 2026 tends to describe SteamDB as the trusted technical reference nobody questions, IsThereAnyDeal as the safety-first recommendation for newer PC gamers worried about getting scammed, and GG.deals as the power-user’s tool for squeezing out the absolute lowest price once a buyer already understands the risk tradeoffs of keyshops. None of the three sources reviewed here published a formal satisfaction survey or Net Promoter-style score for September 2026, so this comparison treats that sentiment split as directional context rather than a hard benchmark, but it lines up consistently with the structural differences the feature table already shows.
Real-World Examples: Five Ways Players Actually Use These Tools
Checking a game’s population before buying. A player considering a live-service or multiplayer-heavy title checks SteamDB’s concurrent player count graph first, since a dying player base is a bigger risk than an unimpressive price. A game sitting at a few hundred concurrent players three months after launch is a clear signal that matchmaking queues will be long and the live-service roadmap might get cut short, information no price tag communicates on its own. Neither ITAD nor GG.deals can answer that question, since neither tracks live player data at all, it’s a gap unique to SteamDB’s Steam-native dataset.
Confirming a Steam sale price is actually the lowest ever. During a Steam seasonal sale, a shopper pulls up a game’s price-history chart on either SteamDB or IsThereAnyDeal to confirm the advertised discount beats every previous sale price, not just the last one, since publishers sometimes advertise a “sale” that’s actually higher than a price the game hit six months earlier. This has become a more common tactic as publishers manage margins more carefully amid rising development and licensing costs, and a five-second price-history check turns a marketing claim into a verifiable fact instead of something a shopper has to take on faith.
Comparing a keyshop price against the Steam store price. A buyer weighing whether a cheaper key from a third-party reseller is worth the tradeoff pulls up GG.deals, since it’s the one of the three that includes keyshop pricing directly alongside first-party store prices in the same comparison view. Seeing both numbers side by side, plus each store’s own reputation signals, turns what would otherwise be a multi-tab manual comparison into a single lookup.
Deciding between buying a game and waiting for it to hit a subscription service. A player debating whether to buy a game outright or wait for it to land on Xbox Game Pass checks IsThereAnyDeal’s subscription-tracking pages, which list which games are currently included across major subscription catalogs. That check can save real money for anyone already paying for a subscription service, since buying a game that arrives on the service they’re already subscribed to a month later is money left on the table.
Tracking a wishlist across a whole game library. A player who owns games across Steam and GOG uses GG.deals’ library-sync feature to import their existing collection and get price-drop alerts for games they already own on wishlist-adjacent DLC or sequels, something that requires manual wishlist entry on the other two tools. For anyone with a library running into the hundreds of titles, that automatic sync is the difference between actually using price alerts and abandoning the habit after the first few manual entries.
Spotting a bundle that beats a standalone sale price. A shopper eyeing a specific game checks GG.deals’ bundle-tracking pages to see whether it has recently appeared, or is likely to appear, in a Humble Bundle or Fanatical bundle alongside several other titles for less than the standalone sale price alone. Bundle timing is unpredictable, but a documented bundle history at least shows how often a given publisher has bundled that title before, which is useful context neither SteamDB nor IsThereAnyDeal surfaces.
Browser Extensions and Everyday Workflow
For most regular users, the browser extension matters more than the standalone website, since it’s what actually shows up while browsing rather than requiring a separate visit. IsThereAnyDeal ships two: Augmented Steam, which overlays current and historical-low prices directly on Steam store pages and had version 4.7.0 submitted for review in May 2026, and IsThereAnyDeal Everywhere, which adds a small price-comparison icon next to any Steam link encountered anywhere on the web, not just on Steam itself. Both are free and available for Firefox and Chrome-based browsers, and the standalone Steam IsThereAnyDeal Chrome extension was updated to version 0.2.0 on April 23, 2026, while ITAD’s Android app itself picked up an update on July 27, 2026, per its Google Play listing. SteamDB also maintains its own browser extension focused on surfacing its Steam-specific data (player counts, price history, review scores) directly on store pages. GG.deals also offers its own official browser extension, the GG.deals Extension, so all three tools give you an in-browser option.
Buyer Safety: Do Any of These Tools Sell Keys Themselves?
None of the three tools compared here sell game keys directly. All three are fundamentally data and comparison services that link out to third-party stores, earning affiliate revenue on purchases made through those outbound links rather than fulfilling orders themselves. That distinction matters because it means the actual purchase-safety question isn’t “is SteamDB/ITAD/GG.deals safe,” it’s “is the store each tool is pointing me toward safe.” IsThereAnyDeal draws the clearest line here by restricting its listings to what it calls authorized resellers, sourcing keys either directly from publishers or from authorized distributors, and by visibly marking which stores it has an affiliate relationship with. GG.deals takes a broader-net approach that includes keyshops in its comparisons, which surfaces more listed prices but shifts more of the safety judgment onto the buyer checking each individual store’s reputation before purchasing. SteamDB doesn’t broker purchases at all in any meaningful sense, its price tracking exists to inform a purchase made directly on Steam.
Common Mistakes When Reading Price-History Data
Price-tracking tools are only as useful as the reader’s ability to interpret what they’re showing, and a few recurring mistakes undercut the value of all three tools equally. The first is confusing a regional price with a global one, all three tools default to a specific currency and storefront region, and a “historic low” shown to a US-based shopper may not reflect what the same game hit in a different region’s Steam pricing, which fluctuates independently due to local market conditions and currency swings. The second is treating a keyshop’s listed price as equivalent to a first-party store’s price without accounting for regional key restrictions, a key priced lower on a reseller can sometimes be region-locked in ways a Steam purchase isn’t, something GG.deals’ broader listings won’t always flag prominently.
A third common mistake is assuming a tool’s absence of a price point means the game has never been discounted, rather than that the tool simply doesn’t track every store where a discount happened. IsThereAnyDeal’s authorized-only policy, for example, means a legitimate discount from a store outside its tracked list simply won’t appear in its history, which can make a game look like it’s never dropped below a certain price when it actually has, just not anywhere ITAD monitors. Cross-checking a “never discounted” claim across at least two of the three tools before accepting it at face value avoids this trap, and it’s the single habit that separates casual price-checking from genuinely reliable deal-hunting.
Migration Guide: Setting Up All Three Without Starting From Scratch
Players don’t need to pick just one of these tools, and most regular deal-hunters end up running at least two side by side. Here’s how to get set up efficiently.
- Install IsThereAnyDeal’s Augmented Steam extension first, since it works passively on every Steam store page without requiring a separate site visit. This single step covers the majority of day-to-day price-checking with zero ongoing effort.
- Create a free IsThereAnyDeal account and import your Steam wishlist so price-drop alerts start flowing without manual re-entry. Set alert thresholds conservatively at first, an alert on every single discount quickly turns into noise that gets ignored.
- Bookmark SteamDB for pre-purchase player-count checks on any multiplayer or live-service title, this isn’t a passive tool, it’s a deliberate lookup step before buying. Make it a habit to check the trend line, not just the current number, a game with a shrinking but still large player base reads very differently from one with a small but stable one.
- Set up a free GG.deals account if you want library sync across Steam and GOG, or if you’re comfortable considering keyshop prices alongside first-party stores. Sync your existing library first before setting new alerts, so historical purchases don’t generate redundant notifications for games already owned.
- Use GG.deals specifically when comparing bundle offers from Humble Bundle or Fanatical, since it tracks bundle history in a way the other two don’t. This is most useful for games a buyer isn’t in a rush to play immediately, since bundle timing can’t be predicted or forced.
- Cross-check any single “historic low” claim across at least two of the three tools before trusting it, since price-history depth and store coverage differ enough that one tool can miss a lower price the others catch. This is the single highest-value habit in this whole guide.
- Revisit SteamDB’s status periodically following the Nexus Mods acquisition, since any future monetization or feature changes are more likely to show up there first than on the two independently run tools. A quarterly check-in is enough, there’s no indication of imminent change as of September 2026.
- Keep browser extensions updated rather than installing once and forgetting about them, since store lists and affiliate relationships change over time and an outdated extension can quietly miss newly added stores or discontinued ones.
Pros and Cons: SteamDB
Pros: Unmatched Steam-specific data depth, including player counts, build history, and patch tracking. Free and staying free post-acquisition, per both companies’ September 2026 announcements. Massive existing userbase and community trust built over 13 years of independent operation.
Cons: Steam-only, it won’t help compare prices across the Epic Games Store, GOG, or keyshops. New corporate ownership under Chosen introduces uncertainty about long-term monetization, even though current terms promise no changes to free features. Not built as a shopping tool first, so its price-tracking UI is less purchase-focused than the other two.
Pros and Cons: IsThereAnyDeal
Pros: Authorized-reseller-only policy reduces the risk of invalid or gray-market keys. Two free, actively maintained browser extensions covering both Steam-specific and site-wide price overlays, backed by a public API that reached version 2.11.0 in September 2026 for developers building on top of ITAD’s price data. Subscription-catalog tracking helps decide between buying and waiting for a game to hit a service like Game Pass.
Cons: Narrower store coverage than GG.deals since it deliberately excludes keyshops, meaning it can miss the single cheapest listed price. No player-count or technical data the way SteamDB offers. Official current total store count isn’t published in a single verified figure, third-party estimates range from roughly 30 to 75 stores.
Pros and Cons: GG.deals
Pros: Widest listed store coverage among the three, including keyshops, giving it the broadest net of comparison prices. Library sync with Steam and GOG plus bundle tracking from Humble Bundle and Fanatical. Five years of documented keyshop price history dating to 2021.
Cons: Including keyshops in the comparison shifts more purchase-safety judgment onto the buyer than ITAD’s authorized-only approach. Its inclusion of keyshops is really the only caveat worth weighing; the service itself, including its browser extension, is free for everyone.
5+ Use-Case Recommendations
- Want to know if a Steam sale price is actually a historic low: use SteamDB or IsThereAnyDeal, both track verified price history rather than marketing claims.
- Buying a multiplayer or live-service game and want to check if it’s still active: use SteamDB’s player-count data, it’s the only one of the three that tracks this.
- Worried about getting burned by an invalid key from a shady reseller: use IsThereAnyDeal, since it restricts listings to authorized resellers only.
- Want the single lowest listed price regardless of store type: use GG.deals, since its keyshop inclusion widens the comparison pool beyond first-party stores.
- Managing a large existing game library across Steam and GOG: use GG.deals’ library sync to get personalized price alerts without manual wishlist re-entry.
- Deciding whether to buy a game now or wait for a subscription service: use IsThereAnyDeal’s subscription-catalog tracking pages.
- Want a passive browser overlay that works without visiting a separate site: install IsThereAnyDeal’s Augmented Steam extension.
The Verdict: Use Them Together, Not as Rivals
These three tools don’t actually compete for the same job, which is the biggest misconception buyers bring into this comparison. SteamDB answers a different question (is this game’s Steam community still alive, and what’s its real price history on Steam specifically) than IsThereAnyDeal and GG.deals answer (where’s the cheapest safe place to buy this right now). Between the latter two, the honest split is trust versus coverage: IsThereAnyDeal’s authorized-reseller-only policy is the safer default for anyone who’s been burned by a bad key before, while GG.deals’ broader keyshop inclusion and library-sync tools suit players who already vet their own resellers and want the single lowest number on screen.
SteamDB’s September 2026 sale to Chosen doesn’t change any of that math yet, both companies have committed publicly to keeping the free feature set intact, and the sale appears to be about sustainability for a 13-year solo project rather than a pivot toward monetizing price data. The practical move for most PC gamers is running IsThereAnyDeal’s Augmented Steam extension passively in the background, bookmarking SteamDB for pre-purchase player-count checks, and pulling up GG.deals specifically when a keyshop price might beat every first-party store. No single one of the three replaces the other two.
If forced to rank the three for a single default recommendation, IsThereAnyDeal edges out the other two for the widest audience, not because its data is deeper than GG.deals or its technical detail rivals SteamDB, but because its authorized-reseller-only policy removes the single biggest risk a first-time price-tracker user faces: following a “best price” link straight into a bad transaction. Power users who already know how to vet a reseller’s reputation, and anyone managing a large cross-platform library, get more raw value out of GG.deals. And anyone buying live-service or multiplayer games, regardless of which of the other two they also use, should treat SteamDB’s player-count data as a mandatory pre-purchase check rather than an optional extra. Bookmark the two that fit each type of purchase, and this stops being a three-way comparison and starts being a simple two-tool workflow that covers every angle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who owns SteamDB now?
As of September 2, 2026, SteamDB is owned by Chosen, the parent company of modding platform Nexus Mods. Founder Pavel “xPaw” Djundik sold the site after roughly 13 years of independent, largely solo operation, citing burnout as the main reason.
Is SteamDB still free after the Nexus Mods acquisition?
Yes. Both SteamDB and Nexus Mods stated in their September 2026 announcements that existing free features are staying free, and users don’t need a Nexus Mods account to keep using SteamDB.
Does IsThereAnyDeal sell game keys?
No. IsThereAnyDeal is a price-comparison service that links out to third-party stores it has vetted as authorized resellers. It doesn’t fulfill or sell keys itself.
Does GG.deals include third-party keyshops in its price comparisons?
Yes. Unlike IsThereAnyDeal’s authorized-reseller-only approach, GG.deals includes keyshops alongside first-party stores in its price comparisons, which widens its coverage but puts more of the safety judgment on the buyer.
Which of the three tracks concurrent player counts?
Only SteamDB tracks concurrent player counts. Neither IsThereAnyDeal nor GG.deals offers this feature, since both are focused on price comparison rather than Steam-specific analytics.
Are there browser extensions for these tools?
SteamDB and IsThereAnyDeal both offer browser extensions. IsThereAnyDeal ships two: Augmented Steam, which overlays pricing on Steam store pages, and IsThereAnyDeal Everywhere, which shows price comparisons next to Steam links anywhere on the web. GG.deals also offers its own official browser extension (the GG.deals Extension).
Can I track my existing game library automatically instead of manually building a wishlist?
GG.deals supports library and playtime syncing from Steam and GOG, letting users import an existing collection rather than manually re-adding every game. IsThereAnyDeal and SteamDB don’t offer the same collection-import feature.
Do these tools track game subscription services like Xbox Game Pass or PS Plus?
IsThereAnyDeal and GG.deals both maintain subscription-comparison pages showing which games are currently available through major subscription catalogs. SteamDB doesn’t track subscription services, since its focus is Steam-specific data rather than cross-platform comparison.
Is it safe to buy from a store just because it’s listed on GG.deals or IsThereAnyDeal?
Being listed isn’t a guarantee, but the two tools apply different levels of vetting. IsThereAnyDeal restricts its listings to what it defines as authorized resellers sourcing keys from publishers or authorized distributors. GG.deals includes a wider range of stores, including keyshops, so a listing there doesn’t carry the same authorized-only assurance, and buyers should check a store’s own reputation before purchasing regardless of which tracker pointed them there.
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