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The most expensive games on steam are all scams
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I'd love to see what Steam support thinks when they see that Kevin bought all these expensive games, and then immediately asks for refunds on all of them. That must be a fun one to explain.
@Depp did.. did you copy the right link?
@@heavenlything It's always a spambot if they say something like this. Please report them.
@@DoveJS Done and done! Together, we will defend Kevin's channel from the evil bots! =]
Please tell us you asked for refunds right?!?
I very much doubt that he played them for long, they probably won't ask shit
I forgot refunds existed on Steam, so when he said he was going to pursue them at the end, the sheer force of my relief nearly knocked me out
Yeah if he didn’t, it would be giving these scammers free money
@Jog Manson thank you, I try. Yours is pretty seggsy too if I do say so myself
I hate to steal but I have to start using that last sentence
@@danitho lmao go for it, i'm glad to see it put to good use
I used steam refunds so much it is great to try a game for 2 hours before committing to the game.
Game creators are probably like "Holy shit, someone actually bought this crap". Then Kevin hits them with the refund
Like a slap in the face from the asshole that is reality.
gotta be honest tho, as someone working on Indie game development "you have made me sad with this product" feels worse than the refund.
@@whiteday26 Yeah, that one hit different. My smile vanished when I saw that.
Making games isn't for the faint of hearts. You put yourself out there, you're bound to get shot down... Noone can be so delusional that they'd price their shitty games that high, though. It's almost so bad it makes me think there's something illegal going on like money laundering.
@@SofaSorcererSam literally
My anxiety was through the roof watching Kevin spend that kind of money on such poor quality games but then at the end when he said he has a lot of refunds to do, I swear I felt every muscle in my body unclench. Thank god for refunds.
My anxiety went like that when I thought Kevin was going to buy the 10k one
steam refund is great. as long as you play under 2 hours within 14 days, you can refund the game
I agree but one thing to add is that steam gets angry if you refund games too often
@YOU I am curious why translating your comment into English turns your Russian flag into the Union Jack.
to be fair Kevins a millionaire he probably didn't even notice the difference in his bank balance
Kevin " I'm not one to encourage gambling."
also Kevin, every time he plays bitlife "let's go to the casino!"
and betting on the horses in san andreas
Honestly!🤣
And that one time he played one of the dead rising games and spent thousands of dollars. I think he's just addicted lol
At least he hates his casino visits 😂
I mean, if you look at his bitlife series, you might start having a phobia of any mention of casinos, just from the sheer amount of times a great bitlife from Kevin was ruined by gambling.
At this point, i feel like i'll make a game that bad and extremely expensive to see kevin buy it and play it in his video.
Goddamn bots, begone
It would be so amazing to make a game that Kevin plays. What an honor
NFT card game sounds like the worst type of game ever, oh and add a gacha mechanism on it such as rolling for cards with a low chance of getting them, and energy/stamina system. All that for some sh*tty drawings on a card that may or may not be overpowered
@@HoloUniversee NFTs are banned on Steam and are fundamentally stupid.
Just make it the scene of spongebob saying hi Kevin
Whenever kevin takes a dive into the depths of steams library it brings a smile to my face
Rip this reply section
@Depp why the hell are you spamming this crap everywhere?
@@bigman-4756 no kidding 😭
@@friendlyhere7042 why the hell are you asking a bot about spamming 💀
@@shiroukun7432 another victim of having bots in your comments
Kevin trying to read Russian made me cry laughing
Yes
"selfhelp for Married, engaged, or newly wedded couples"
Kevin: "sure why not?"
Anna in the other room: "say what now?"
He only needed it for the marriage to himself so it's okay.
lmao Kevin even made sure by looking around
They should get engaged
I was like what... Are they engaged? Was this his announcement? 😂 It would be a very on brand kind of announcement.
As an indie developer, it always brings me joy watching youtube videos of really bad games. Every time I feel nervous that my Unreal Engine 5 game isn't going well, I see stuff like this and remember how low the bar really is on Steam. Like, as long as what I make is better than "The Island of Dr. Yepstein", I shouldn't have anything to worry about.
It’s like a movie director watching Ed Wood movies
Good luck with the game fellow dev 💪!
TBH for a while this is why I preferred publishing to Switch instead of Steam. Less garbage meant it was easier to get seen.
@@Stettafire I have so much respect for game developers.
I wish I could take the same path but I don’t even know where to start and I’m afraid coding a game is not for everyone.
@@Stettafire L + bozo + ratio + do not give a single shit because the order 1886 exists
The fact that Kevin bought these games, shows that he's a budgeting genius. Amazing.
maybe he got a refund
I hope he got a refund
Edit: I got to the end, and I'm glad he refunded it.
@@haruookami3386 i mean do you think they have 2 hours worth of content?
@@2D_Sphere it’s Kevin you think he’s that smart... actually I take that back kevin is a genius
@@2D_Sphere watch till the end of the video. He’s getting refunds.
For a second there I really thought Kevin was going to buy "to be a king" and I cried internally for his bank account
I’m literally trying to find someone that has and I can’t even find the games or the guy who made them on google 🤣 I need to know what makes them so expensive 😂
Actually checked the Russian steam and those games are 82 and 30 roubles accordingly. Maybe the developer really hates whatever country Kevin is from.
Salabar maybe they think western people are dumb enough to buy?
“I’m not really having fun but I got it on sale.”
Me after every impulsive purchase
Holy shit I recognise that first game, you can get a unity 3D for beginners book that teaches you how to make that exact game, they just added a worse coat of paint
Same locations and all?
@@carljoosepraave2102 pretty much, yeah
It was the default game for teaching new devs on how to code and use assets
"You made me sad with this product"
Hey, it was in Charlie's video. I remember him posting this review. Gosh. Feels like I've achieved something in my life. I was there, when the history was being made.
Do you remember which video it was? I kinda want to watch it now
@@LexiDancerina3 th-cam.com/video/zRpwfxCgeOE/w-d-xo.html
@@LexiDancerina3 He plays it in the video titled 'This Game Is $200 On Steam' and then talks more about it in the video 'What Is The Worst Game I've Ever Played'
Just to letting you know, if anyone's interested:
9:12 - Do you want to resume the game
9:24 - Menu or resume
9:47 - You didn't deliver the conspiracy scroll. Points earned: 1711 You ran 578 meters
And during gameplay the game casually told you that the pursuers are near, you must run
I like how the TH-cam algorithm decided Kevin wasn't playing The Island of Dr.Yepstein, but was actually playing Far Cry.
I don’t see what you mean, that was very clearly Far Cry!
I really Really REALLY hope you successfully returned all of those games and didn't really give any of these scummy scammers your money.
Thankfully all steam games refunds are automatically accepted if it's recently brought and you played under 2hours.
How does Steam even allow this?
@@drakemallard1486 Because Steam is designed for indie developers and other people who just don’t have the connections or assets for a spot in Epic Games for example.. however with that title comes some “developers” like these losers that take advantage of a lightly moderated platform that has to stay lightly moderated in order to stay a safe haven for indie developers
@@username2323 It wouldn't hurt Steam to do a little quality control.
Would love to see Kevin play The Advisor or The Testing Chamber. They're a really great mix between personality tests and RPGs.
They sound like perfect games for Kevin.
@Jack murphy you're funny how polite you are in the comments
The high prices are set so that you WON’T buy these games) I’ve heard about this before, when a newbie dev wants to test how their unfinished game performs on steam, they set the price high, so that noone buys it or plays it except them. Thats why one of descriptions said ”DO NOT BUY”.
While I love Kevin taking a plunge for us, I cannot help but feel disgusted with the fact that Steam doesn't seem to remove these obvious scams from their platform...
In regards to some comments about "free platform/free market", I would like to remind everyone that even selling a product has to be done according to laws, I'm pretty sure these obvious scams go against a few, I'm not 100% certain on American laws, but seeing as even third world countries have such laws, they probably do too.
Thank you for your time.
Yeeeah I know you can't really evaluate a games worth objectively but if a game is blatantly broken, extremely short or is clearly a mobile game copied from elsewhere there should be a pretty hard limit for how much it can be sold for.
Because the reality is there's people out there who will buy them and make videos like this for laughs only they won't get refunds and that means these shitty "developers" will still make a profit they don't deserve in the slightest.
@YOU This is what the reply says in google translate: "hold on soldiers 🇬🇧.."
@@CatBacon it’s a bot lol
@@mrcheesemunch Why wouldn't they get refunds...?
I mean, everyone is allowed to make and sell what they want at a price they choose. And people are allowed to buy what they like. If someone looks at these games with those price tags and isn't smart enough to know it isn't worth it, then that's a fault of theirs, not the developers. Everyone should make responsible purchases at their own discretion. If they don't, that's on them the way I see it. Also, if someone DOES spend that much money on a game, clearly they're loaded financially anyway and probably wouldn't miss the money if they were disappointed with the game they got lol
I wanna take a moment to appreciate this man playing these for us. Truly a hero
he said he was gonna request refunds literally at the end tho uwu
@@kathaai I mean I would too lmao
5:55 I love that Kevin found Charlie's review on Superfight. I remember watching his video on it and I was wondering if Kevin was gonna play it here
MoistCritikal Charlie or another person?
@@Alyakismydutchname yep, MoistCritikal / penguinz0
Buy a game for $166 (USD)... just to get the access for buying it again for an additional $150 (USD).
That should be criminal. The devs/sellers/creators should be arrested for fraud for that. Sure, Kevin got his refunds, but think of the people who didn't.
Pretty sure it's against Steam's ToS
What happen if you MIXED
Pay to WIN game with FREE to play also with ADS everywhere
= An Dead game
@@Stormlywing Or a GENIUS GAME THAT STEALS EVERYBODY'S MONEY! We can't lose! Muauahhhaahaaaaaahehehehqaehaehaehaez (seriously, screw these types of game devs)
The absolute fear and panic I felt when I thought Kevin was gonna buy a 10,000 euro game for a TH-cam video 😩
you are not his mom or wife he can buy what he wants.
@@prydzen lmao okay bud
@@foxtrapped i am not your bud friend.
@@prydzen Bud Is a way to say friend u low brain rat
"thank god for the steam refund option" said kevin after buying those games
Truly a scam exposing genius.
Can anyone else confirm if you translate that comment it turns from a Russian flag to your countries flag
@@harrymccc2532 it translated it to England’s flag for me (I’m American). must be based on language? super strange I had no idea it did that lol.
@@nosferat-ew same here
@@harrymccc2532 Changed to a British flag 😀 what an interesting 'feature', thanks YT.
It'd be hilarious if Steam started adding a secret extra screen (that the developer's accounts don't see) saying "this is probably a scam game, are you sure you want to buy it?". Start identifying trash devs and silently marking them, let them struggle to refute it.
At that point they'd be better off just removing them from the platform
@@Stettafire Deleting or banning lets the scammer know they need to make another account, slightly jumble things around, and re-upload. Silently warning customers or otherwise taking traffic away can go under the scammer's radar, meaning they stay unaware there's a problem or what the problem is for a long time. Sometimes social media does this with bot accounts and problematic people -- the lower their score, the more they're simply isolated to be with each other instead of visible to the rest of the world. The scammer won't necessarily know what's wrong, unlike a hard break event like a ban.
Game: "No one knows what hiddes this island"
Kevin: "Perhaps due to the price"
I was about to say something like that lmao
I don't know. The name, Yepstein, could probably provide a hint.
6:50. I'm pretty sure this one was confirmed as money laundering. I swear I remember seeing footage of this exact game on a video about money laundering on steam lmao
"I don't know what I'm doing!"
Funnily enough, the same thing the developer thought to himself while making this game.
Kevin dancing to the music while dead on the floor is the most Kevin thing ever.
That last scam game feels like the devs made a typo in the pricing box.
I hope he did make good use of Steam's refund protocol.
i assure you the last one was a decimal typo by the developer, especially considering the prices of all the other games, and they just werent bothered to fix it
That makes sense, it was probably supposed to be 3,99€, and ironically it was still the best game he tried in this video.
Well, now I feel infinitely better about every purchase I've ever made on Steam. Thanks, Kevin. You're a real lad.
My favorite was the speak to shoot game. I can just imagine Anna in the next room while Kevin yells bang bang bang over and over again lol
kevin could do an entire just finding and reading all the dumb as fuck steam reviews out there and i'd watch immediately because the way he presents and reacts to them is everything
i bet the asset-flip developer at the end just got so lazy they typed "399" instead of "3.99" in the price box. lol
Kevin is such a marriage genius that the 170 Euro game knew he didn't need anything to succeed in his marriage.
He and Brenden didn’t need the advice anyway 😌
Marriagebook comes across as the only real scam out of all these. The other ones just feel like plain incompetence or typos. Like, they're put out by content farms that accidentally added an extra 9 at the end of the price, but they have so many games and nobody buys most of them anyway, so they never notice the price is increased so dramatically on one.
This video did made me realize that I would have no idea what to expect from a $200 videogame. We live in a world where people pour their souls into a game that they sell for $10. You can get hundreds of hours of amazing gameplay for the standard $60. Besides collectors editions and rarity reasons, what could possibly make a game be worth that much???
Well I mean, how would you expect the developer to afford to actually buy his game to find the bugs at this price? Hence all bugs are still there, logic!
Kevin save 22000 euros I want to see the other two games
Kevin's steam reviews are always my favourite parts of these videos
I'm actually disappointed he didn't show the reviews for Derelict. I put a lot of effort into the update log review for that game!
To clarify: The game wasn't always $200 USD. It was like $20 or less.
Effort like that deserves some respect. Even a game such as Derelict deserves historians.
why is it so expensive now
@@genericname2747 the guy who started the project had legal trouble with the SCP project. The $200 dollars thing was to help keep people from buying it until he A: removed all the references to it and B: added more to the game.
He put the info in the news updates for the game. Should be the third one down if anyone cares to look.
@@linop2 Okay, I was not expecting an actual reason. The developer seems pretty cool
Don’t worry guys. Kevin has people making art in his basement. So if he doesn’t get the refund, he’ll make the money back in no time
Hah, in that Run Thief game, the text was Russian (for some odd reason even tho it was supposed to be in English) and I was cracking up at Kevin (poorly) trying to pronounce some of the words and just being overall confused, haven't laughed from a yt video like that for a long while thank you Kevin it was a blast 😂😂
Watching Kevin get impatient with his download made me laugh lmao. I'm over here with 3mbs on a good day.
This reminds me of when people on MMO’s would list things on shops at max value, so no one could actually ever afford to buy it. Their shops were actually just galleries of how rich that player was and they just liked to show you the items you wish you had…. In the end, it’s almost the same, except you felt good once you got those armor sets…… Cant say I’d be thrilled to buy steam games. 😂
A lot of it is extra storage space too, set at max value so that it won't be bought but on the off chance that it is then at least profitable.
All of these "(something) steam games" videos are really funny!
As someone who was forced to read lord of the flies three years in a row, I felt pain every time Kevin referenced it. My day is ruined. My mood is foul. I can’t escape that goddamn book even on TH-cam. Thanks Kevin.
Im so happy to hear you refunded them. Hate when scammers get something, cause "thanks for the content" mindset while good indie games get burried in shit like this.
When the bird laughed I nearly died.
a year ago today i commented that it was my birthday and that i was having a rough time. since then things have gotten a little better. i still have a lot of progress until i can be healthy but this channel has helped me so much. it seems silly but knowing that i’m part of such a wonderful community that is so kind makes me want to be better. thank you kevin for giving me hope, but also thank you to whoever’s reading this. i didn’t think i’d make it to my 17th birthday but i did it. looking forward to watching kevin’s videos always helped me get through rough days. love you guys
Happy birthday! Hope things get better for you, you deserve it
We all go through the bad times.. just gotta keep moving! Remember that you are an awesome person! I'm glad we are all apart of such a great community.
Ooooow happy birthday friend! I hope everything will be even better for you from now on. I was in a similar situation over a year ago and our community really helped. So yeah, I love you too!
I bet the dev of the first game flipped out when they got a notification about someone buying the game, and then reconsidered living when a refund was likely demanded.
4:21 Watch out for those pesky Mazda logos!
Just another long comment which i just wanted to thank kev for.
I do find myself confused of what I want to do in life and me making videos has come to a stand still. Trying to figure what i want to do is something i haven't done and am trying. As i do it, it makes me see what i can become in future. I could learn to make songs and copy your style of making montages, which are down right hilarious. I could learn how to just be damn social and military genius like you. Yet i am to put efforts. I can't put words well together to express what i feel right now.
But having to see you upload a vid just makes me hopeful and damn happy. Don't know what it is, but maybe just seeing you do what you love makes me want to be like you.
Love you kevin!!
Holy shit, what an Easter egg! Never thought Kevin would find one of Charlie's reviews in the wild on video!
When DJ Kevi uploads less now to take his much needed break, it makes me even happier now when I get the notification of the new video uploads.
Imagine paying $130 for an asset flip and then getting stuck
5:32 is basically how we all feel when going through life
Imagine they never refunded Kevin for trying to refund so many games at once 😂
Okay Kevin, hear me out..... You should try some of the horse riding games available on Steam. I found one I played as a kid in the early 2000's the other day and they gave me a bundle of like 6 horse games with it for under $10. There's some $30 ones that are better, but the early 2000s ones are so bad. I'd love it if you made fun of my childhood games. 😂
Honestly those games are so janky it would be pretty funny 😂
This is a brilliant idea! As someone who has explored some of the steam horse games...god are they awful.
@@felisazure1820 I remember them being the best thing ever when I was 7, but now they're soooo bad. A couple of the new ones aren't bad, but any before 2010 are rough!
He could call the video "A grown man plays little horsie games"
@@Hauntaku Or make a reference to one of his Minecraft horses from the old series! He had quiet the collection at one point!
Out of all the games you've played today, I'd guess the best value for money has come from the Steam Refund Request system 🤣
Videos like this assure me how well Kevin is doing with TH-cam, because that's a lot of cash to spend on shitty games, good for him.
The licensing for those shutterstock images would have made the first game €10,000 as well
3:29 "AssetFlipGames Studio" "Level Designer:Asset Store" the game is literally a 100 dollars shitpost.
"Mom, can I get Far Cry 3?"
Mom: "We have Far Cry 3 at home."
0:48 Far Cry 3 at home
Quality control? Who needs that when we can take 30% of every sale!
Just wanted to say Kevin that you’re a great TH-camr who never fails to make me laugh. Keep up the great work 👍
I just found your channel through TH-cam recommending a sim video of yours to me and your entire channel does not disappoint. Love the content so much
Welcome to the cult. I mean. The perfectly normal group of not cult related friends.
Ahem.
Praise the Dear Leader.
Praise Jim.
I have no idea why but the bird laughing at Kevin and the owl on the screen absolutely killed me and I had to replay it xD
5:55 that's Charlie's review 😂😂😂
For those who are curious like me, I checked for some of these games here, and it looks like most of them were like €10 indie games (both of the €10,000 games actually cost €2 until last month), but since these games are from Russian developers, because of all the _stuff_ going on, they decided to blow up their prices to protest against Steam's pro-Ukrainian stance.
Great to see that even in the context of a major international crisis, our dear cult leader manages to find inspiration in its consequences and makes us laugh. What a geopolitical genius.
Was looking for this thanks
@@Drakthaar123 this honestly makes so much sense
I'd argue the prices weren't blown up for political reasons. They were blown up due to bad currency conversions. Blowing up the prices will achieve nothing politically
The way the enemies flew off the stairs when you killed them in the first one was DEFINITELY worth all that money lol
The mass relief that overcame me when Kevin said the word “refund”.
@Jack murphy hi jack
salutatuions kevin! i want to say that your videos ar the best in youtube! because you are honest in making them! congratulations on evertyhing you acheived so far! you deserve all the praises!
lately the only joy in my life are Kevin's videos. thank you, Kevo!
Do you need to talk, pal?
@@MaylocBrittinorum that's so sweet! i appreciate it, but it's okay~
watching kevin buy these made me clench my hole in financial anxiety
This video could be twice as long, I love watching Kevin play awful games
And just like that my Day has improved exponentially. Thanks Kevin👍
I was so relieved when you said at the end that you were going to get refunds on these, all I kept thinking while watching this is that this was going to be one VERY expensive gaming video!
This whole video gave me anxiety thanks Kevin LOL
Love the Papers Please music during your translation!
kevin trying to read russian is one of the best things in the world
i am just so confused as to why ANY games are set to cost that much. it's so strange haha. great video! love watching you play bad games
It's mostly money-laundering, honestly. Same principle as selling crappy art for millions.
@@Yaspis There's also the realm of cost recoup. To publish on Steam you have to pay, so if you have a terrible game that might sell 3 copies or less.. it can be tempting to charge enough to make your money back. It's terrible business, but most of these people didn't goo to college for business.
Steam: You’ve requested a significant number of refunds recently... and expensive ones at that.
I loved that HD edit with sound system 009 omg
Congrats on the success of your channel. I love your videos and watch it all the time.” - Nikki
Kevin, go play the old lego games, they are a nice treat.
More of these, this was great.
"QA Engineer: nobody"
That guy must be amazing! you also see him a lot in big Triple-A games.
i wonder if you can calculate exactly how many euros per second of playtime kevin got out of these
I find it funny how "Your Way" is only $1.99 in the USA
from what I can tell it’s the same €10,000 price in every eurozone country, £10,000 in the UK and 40,000 hryvnia in Ukraine while being $2 everywhere else
I think I’m starting to get an idea of whose side Mr. Getmanskiy is on LOL
Kevin's smile is so contagious
whole comment section worrying about kevin and his bank account 😂 so wholesome
Watch rockstar make gta 6 cost this much
hi kevin :D im here to remind you that you are SUPER loved and appreciated, and i hope you have a wonderful night! ♥
;)
cap
Kevin best girl
Content always puts me in a better mood. Needed that
awesome editting Kevin!
I didn’t even know steam had such “wonderful” games for so much thanks Kevin for teaching me another valuable lesson such as soup is evil and children can be the scariest things in and out of games 🙏❤️ Ty Kevin