Free Redeem a Steam Gift Card or Wallet Code
There are a lot of options when you want to give a gift to the gamer in your life. If both of you use Steam, one option is a digital gift card.
Essentially putting money in their Steam Wallet is a handy feature. Unfortunately, the operation is a little clunky. This article guides you through the process if you are trying it out for the first time. It also offers some alternatives to Steam Gift Cards.
Steam offers access to cloud-based online gaming, as well as a marketplace to download digital games.
Some games on Steam are free to download and play. You can purchase other games and downloadable content with funds from a user's Steam Wallet. You can link the Steam Wallet to bank accounts, credit cards, and services like PayPal. Money can also enter a Steam Wallet via gift cards.
Steam does support physical gift cards. It even has a handy online tool for finding brick-and-mortar retailers in your area that sell Steam gift cards. If going to a physical store to buy a physical gift card to buy a digital game seems a little strange, you can buy a digital gift card to send to your friends on Steam.
In addition to gifting games on Steam, you can now send digital gift cards through email. Gift cards come in predetermined amounts from $5 to $100. You'll even have the option to include a personalized message to the recipient.
Gift cards can't be purchased using funds from your Steam wallet; you must use PayPal or a credit card. The recipient will have the option to return the gift card, in which case Steam will refund you for the purchase.
There are two ways to buy digital Steam Gift Cards: through the Steam app, or by accessing your Steam account in a web browser. Navigating to the actual purchase is a little different depending on how you go about it, but once you get there, the process is the same.
Buying a digital Steam Gift Card through your Steam account accessed on a web browser is much more user friendly, and we recommend this approach.
Digital gift cards on Steam are a neat idea. But, in addition to being kind of a pain, you have to have been friends for three days, and you cannot use money already in your Steam Wallet.
As mentioned above, you can buy a physical Steam Gift Card. In a hurry and your friend lives far away? Read the number off of the back of the gift card yourself and send it to them in a text or email for them to enter online.
Or, if you know what games they are into or a game that they want, just buy them a game instead. Gifting a game on Steam is faster and easier than gifting a gift card, you don't need to wait three days, you can use money in your Steam Wallet, and you get to keep the reward points that you get for buying games on Steam.