About Inventory.gift

A record of gifts in Steam inventories

Before May 2017, Steam allowed people to buy a game as a gift and keep it in their inventory instead of redeeming it immediately. These inventory gifts could be traded to another Steam user. Steam no longer creates them in the same way, but many older gifts remain in inventories.

Steam can still place a gift in your inventory when you buy a game today and schedule its delivery to the recipient. These gifts are untradable and can only be delivered to that recipient, but they are still observed and indexed by Inventory.gift.

Inventory.gift collects observations of these gifts and makes them searchable. It is a database of what has been seen in Steam inventories, not a part of Steam and not a marketplace. A gift shown here may have moved since it was recorded, and a visible owner is not necessarily offering it for sale or trade.

What the site contains

Gift records

Search by gift name to see known copies, known owners, and details recorded for that gift.

User inventories

Look up a Steam user to see the inventory information they have made visible through this site.

Listings and offers

Some users publish sale listings or buy offers. Those are separate advertisements, not a result of simply owning a gift.

How to read a gift record

Inventory.gift records inventory observations. A gift record can remain in the database after it has left someone's Steam inventory, so the last-observed time is important context.

A gift is not automatically for sale or trade. Only a clear sale listing or buy offer is an advertisement. Please treat every owner with courtesy and respect their choice not to deal.

Some owner identities are public, while others are visible only to eligible donors. Aggregate gift totals can include owners whose identity is not shown.

Userscript

Inventory.gift has a userscript you can install to automatically associate your gifts with their SubIDs here on the site. While you browse Steam, it can also show the name of unknown packages where available, the number of known owners for a gift, and its SubID.

View the code and learn more (opens in a new tab).

Questions and answers

Does a listed gift mean it is for sale or trade?

A result means Inventory.gift has recorded that gift in an owner's inventory. It does not mean the gift is still there, available for trade, or for sale. Check when it was last observed and contact owners respectfully.

Why do similar gifts have different details?

Steam gifts can have different packages, restrictions, and trade status. Inventory.gift keeps those variations separate where it knows them, so open the gift details before assuming that every copy is equivalent.

What is an unknown package?

Some older Steam gifts no longer have their normal package name in Steam's inventory data. Steam may show them as ‘Unknown package 12345’, where the number is the package identifier, also called the SubID. Inventory.gift uses historical SteamDB data to display the actual historical gift name when it can identify it. Visiting or searching for an unknown-package page redirects to that historical name. You can still see Steam's own name in the gift popup under ‘Steam inventory name’. An unknown-package label does not by itself mean that the gift is broken or invalid.

Can I sell my gifts here?

Yes. Your gifts never leave your Steam inventory: Inventory.gift simply checks what is there and lets you advertise a price in TF2 keys, Steam Gems, USD, or EUR. Sign in with Steam, make sure your Steam gift inventory is public, and open your profile on Inventory.gift. Use the refresh control there to request an inventory refresh; the request is queued, so it may take a little while before the gifts appear. Once your gifts are visible, open an individual gift's details to choose a unit and save a price. Leave the gift visible and available if you want that price to be shown as a sale listing. In Profile and gift settings, you can also save your complete Steam trade offer URL. A Send trade offer button can then appear on an active priced gift listing. Inventory.gift does not buy, hold, transfer, or process payment for your gifts; any trade happens directly through Steam.

Can I remove or hide my gifts?

Open your Inventory.gift profile after signing in with Steam. You can hide your entire inventory from other visitors or hide individual gifts. Hidden gifts remain visible only to you and are not revealed by donor access.

How current is the information?

Inventory.gift shows the latest successful inventory observation it has recorded, not a live view of Steam. A gift may have moved or changed since that observation. Check the last-observed time on the profile or gift record, and request a refresh after making your own public inventory available.

What do the gift statistics mean?

Known-copy and known-owner totals include the records Inventory.gift has collected. They are useful indicators, not a complete count of every Steam gift in existence, and they do not reveal hidden owners' identities.

Where can I get help?

Join the community through the Discord or Steam group links in the footer. For questions about donor access, see the donation page.