You don't want to know. It's lurid and potentially demeaning.

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1. Receive Awards on Your Steam Profile

People can visit your profile and give you awards directly.

This is common if you have a well-designed profile, rare achievements, or a creative bio.

How to increase chances:

Make an attractive profile (animated background, nice artwork showcase, unique theme).

Engage with the community so people see your profile.

2. Receive Awards on Community Content

You can post content in several areas and if others like it, they may award it:

Screenshots: Post beautiful, funny, or rare in-game moments.

Artwork: Animated or high-quality images (anime art, memes, or creative designs are popular).

Reviews: Funny or informative reviews often get many awards.

Guides: Helpful or unique guides (especially for popular games) get awarded.

Videos: Less common, but still possible.

3. Get Awards on Steam Discussions

Start a discussion thread in a popular game or the general Steam forums.

If your thread is funny, thought-provoking, or helpful, people may award it.

4. Receive Awards on Comments

If you leave clever, funny, or kind comments on other people’s profiles or artwork, they can award your comment.

5. Seasonal Events (Steam Sales & Festivals)

During Steam Summer Sale, Winter Sale, or The Steam Awards voting, there’s often a huge increase in awards because people get bonus Steam Points or are more active.

Some events give free Steam Points (from buying games, redeeming keys, or activity) that others may use to give awards.

6. Collaborations & Friend Networks

Friends may exchange awards with each other (especially in tight communities, Discord groups, or trading circles).

Some people gift awards as thanks for trades, help, or community contributions.

7. Rare: Virality & External Attention

If your content goes viral (Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, etc.) and links to your Steam content, you may get a surge of awards.

Originally posted by Elohymn:

Some events give free Steam Points (from buying games, redeeming keys, or activity) that others may use to give awards.

No events give free points.

You also do not get points for activating game keys.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Elohymn:

Some events give free Steam Points (from buying games, redeeming keys, or activity) that others may use to give awards.

No events give free points.

You also do not get points for activating game keys.

:nkCool:

Thats false. I activated REMATCH through a KEY and GOT 600 STEAM POINTS.

The event part may not be true, but I am not sure.

https://store.steampowered.com/points/howitworks#Title

you dont get points from activating keys. go look at your point history, it shows you when you received points and why you received them.

you either spend money to get points or someone gives you an award. steam does not get money from game keys, those are given for free to the game developers to sell so steam never sees any money nor knows how much a key was sold for.

Originally posted by Foki:

just asking for a friend

Go to Hollow Knight SilkSong forums and announce you're giving away 200 copies to people who give you awards..

Still can't believe people fell for that.

Originally posted by ᗩSᕼᑘᐺᗩ᙭:

Originally posted by Foki:

just asking for a friend

Go to Hollow Knight SilkSong forums and announce you're giving away 200 copies to people who give you awards..

Still can't believe people fell for that. :nobodydisapproving:

that was very stupid, i saw a clip of that and at that time their estimated earnings was approximately 10 million steam points

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

https://store.steampowered.com/points/howitworks#Title

you dont get points from activating keys. go look at your point history, it shows you when you received points and why you received them.

you either spend money to get points or someone gives you an award. steam does not get money from game keys, those are given for free to the game developers to sell so steam never sees any money nor knows how much a key was sold for.

It literally just doesn't show it there... nothing to say to you. YOU CAN GET STEAM POINTS FROM THE RIGHT KEYS.

Originally posted by Elohymn:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

No events give free points.

You also do not get points for activating game keys.

Thats false. I activated REMATCH through a KEY and GOT 600 STEAM POINTS.

The event part may not be true, but I am not sure.

No you didn't.

Originally posted by Elohymn:

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

https://store.steampowered.com/points/howitworks#Title

you dont get points from activating keys. go look at your point history, it shows you when you received points and why you received them.

you either spend money to get points or someone gives you an award. steam does not get money from game keys, those are given for free to the game developers to sell so steam never sees any money nor knows how much a key was sold for.

It literally just doesn't show it there... nothing to say to you. YOU CAN GET STEAM POINTS FROM THE RIGHT KEYS.

No you can not.

least brain dead argument in steam discussions

Easy-I see you own Dead by Daylight. Just go to their subforum and start a thread with any mild (make sure it’s extremely mild so you don’t get banhammered by the ridiculously overzealous mods) complaint about killers/tunneling/slugging. You’ll have a ton of jesters in no time.

Be very eloquent, be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, or ask for a localization. That about covers it.

easiest way to get steam awards is to go to any new release and just make a thread titled "WOKE". most sensible developers will rightly ban you but you might get a few clown awards before they delete the thread.

at least that seems to be how a lot of people like to farm awards.

Originally posted by KrakenGreywolf:

Easy-I see you own Dead by Daylight. Just go to their subforum and start a thread with any mild (make sure it’s extremely mild so you don’t get banhammered by the ridiculously overzealous mods) complaint about killers/tunneling/slugging. You’ll have a ton of jesters in no time.

xD looks like someone doesnt have a good experience