The Seasonal Badge.

All the badge requires is spending steam points, and you get those by spending money on the steam store. It does not require spending money from your credit/debit card, a gift card, or your wallet--unless you lack the required number of steam points. You get 100 points per dollar spent in the steam store. I believe that money spent on the community market does not grant points.

The Winter 2024 Badge Collection is up right now.

I intend to update this thread from time to time with the new badges. The available badge on the Steam Points Shop page updates during the Summer & Winter sales. When the next badge releases, this badge will be unavailable to purchase.

  • You can purchase all levels at one time or you can purchase them piecemeal. If you purchase one badge, and then later want to purchase a higher-level badge, you only pay the difference between the level that you have and the level you are purchasing. Eg: The level 40 badge requires 40,000 points. If you already have the level 10 badge, you only pay 30,000 additional points for a total of 40,000 points to get the level 40 badge.

  • Each level of this badge gives you 100 additional XP towards leveling up your steam account, up to a massive 4,000 XP for purchasing the Level 40 badge!


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1 year ago*

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Do you collect these badges?

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Yes
Level 1-5
Level 6-10
Level 11-15
Level 16-20
Level 21-25
Level 26-30
Level 31-35
Level 36-40
No
Sometimes
Potato

2024 Bump

4 months ago
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tough choice between some of the first 12 levels, but after that it's an easy skip this time around

4 months ago
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2, 7, 14, 23, and 30 are the nicest this time, I think.

3 months ago
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I went for level 5 this time round. I'm kinda disappointed in the badge this time round, like other times I've gone up into the 30s, even the 40 one at a certain point. I mean I do like that final snow flake but at the same time its a snow flake and not worth 35k extra

4 months ago
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The snowmen --even the ornaments-- are much nicer than the snowflakes this year.

3 months ago
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See I actually like the snowflake more. I mean the red riding hood snowman isnt to bad but its one of those things where if I went that high whats a few k more. The red panda is nice though I dont think I own one of them and I guess I can just save up for the 2 next year. Plus when I go back to look at emojis and backgrounds I will have some points for those which I did run out once

3 months ago
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Meh, I just go with badge I like art most since you still cant "downgrade" the art.
This year it was lvl 3 for me so thats a win.

4 months ago
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That is one really annoying aspect. What is I like level 8 and 10 equally but don't always want to showcase level 10? I wish steam would let you display whatever level you want of the levels you've purchased!

3 months ago
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There should def be "badge inventory" where you own ALL the badges. It would be bit filled with seasonal stuff, yes, but all games have 5+Foil only so it wouldnt be bigger than peoples card collection!

3 months ago
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Thanks for sharing! I didn't know that we could get XP through this XD so i just lvled my account enough to be able to use badges on my profile <3

4 months ago
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You're welcome, glad to help!

3 months ago
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Oh wow man, thank you for this. I completely forgot about this other badge that you can only get with points. Went for level 5 one since it is the cutest and it just pushed me to steam level 145 so double win!

3 months ago
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Congratulations!

3 months ago
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I wasn't aware this was a thing, and the whole concept seemed kinda silly; spend point for some pixel badge?
...but then I realized that I have 16000 points...so why not spend 1000 :-P

3 months ago
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This gives me "oblivion dlc" ptsd vibes. $10 for a badge, level 40 badge equates to $400 spent, 4x a year for each season, not counting all the other emotes, backgrounds, avatars, profile showcases they make. These badges are the worst model they've presented so far. Looking at new game releases I'm starting to think in a few years we wont even buy games anymore we'll just buy badges to buy badges to buy badges and the satisfaction will be some sort of gambling machine.

I liked the point shop as an opportunity to get backgrounds or emotes for games where they are way overpriced like $30 for a background or something. Point shop exclusive items I find toxic especially when they come with a $10 price tag to start. You can buy multiple games for that money.

3 months ago
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On the plus side, people give so many comment/review awards that the points stack up free, and there are only so many emotes to buy with said points. I'm almost always hovering around 150k points outside of twice a year when I grab the Steam Sale badges, where my total dips to like 110k.

3 months ago
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On the plus side, people give so many comment/review awards that the points stack up free

That's if you get any awards, though. :')

3 months ago
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True, lol. You gotta be on the spicy side just to be sure. :)

3 months ago
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But that requires writing reviews. (ಠ_ಠ) 🤠

3 months ago
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Yikes. That seems like a lot of work. :)

3 months ago
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I do write reviews sometimes lol, only award I ever got was from a friend who had points to spare.

3 months ago
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It's only 2 seasonal badges a year, but otherwise.... I don't totally disagree :)

3 months ago
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So cute, but so expensive... 😔

3 months ago
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I needed the level 9 badge, thanks for the headsup ^_^

3 months ago
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Yes, you did.

3 months ago
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So cute!!

3 months ago
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Just went with 2, as reminded me my passed bunny friend this year.

3 months ago
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