where do people buy their games to giveaway on SG?

my fav. place is wingamestore

It's questionable the validity of some of their keys, but for the most part if you buy keys from DIG and you get a dud, you can ask for a replacement, they are pretty good about replacing keys that don't work if you just submit a ticket.

GreenManGaming is another site that you can use.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/C0hpX/new-master-list-of-ongoing-steam-bundles

Use https://isthereanydeal.com/ or https://gg.deals/

Gamersgate, GreenManGaming, Gamesplanet to name a few others as official stores. I have tried to avoid the grey market sites.

I buy to 97% on:
Humble Bundle
Fanatical

2,5% on:
GreenManGaming
GamersGate

0,5% somewhere else (official stores).

The DIG store is NOT a "shop" i would buy from because i know they sell games from shady sources to say it nice.
Plus you have there a lot of problems with revoked keys

I use whatever legit site i find the game cheapest. I just try to avoid GreenManGaming because of some region locked keys and their system that makes it very difficult to tell the countries it's allowed in.
I also visit gg.deals if i want to give an unbundled game so i can find the best offer.
Regarding the grey market ones i only use cdkeys because i never had a problem and the one time i did it got resolved pretty quickly.

Steam , humble Bundle Fanatical , Gamivo

I usually use fanatical and greenmangaming. Fanatical si good for checking the key regions, gmg has good deals but you kinda have to search for the region information on some keys

In case you're not aware, Humble Swindle prohibits giving away games one buys on their store Many people do it and I personally have no knowledge of someone having their HB account closed without also reselling games over trading sites. But that's what their TOS and support say.

Check out isthereanydeal.com and look at their list of stores. Those are pretty much all reliable, in my experience.

i sometimes go to my local retailer and ask them if they give me games for much cheaper than normal. they usually do a heavy discount on games that are older but still great. thats also a very good way of getting your hands on AAA games.

Hey Wigglenose,
G2A, and sometimes websites like gamehag/keyjoker and what not.....

I get a lot from Fanatical, Humble Bundle (although not as much as I used to...they don't seem to have as many bundles these days), and Indiegala. I used to buy from Groupees for some funny trash games, but all they seem to sell any more is garbage chiptune or EDM music.

Note on Indiegala: always wait for the bundle you want to go on "happy hour" (which often happens when the bundle is nearing expiration). When that happens, check the little box during purchase and you'll get two bundles for the price of one.

I get some from DIG once in a while, but as Masafor said, be careful with them. The dude that runs the site is actually really rude and pretty shady. He's been knowingly selling keys that don't work as "in development/will be released someday" games, saying people like them for a +1 in their library and they'll eventually unlock...but I've pointed out to him personally that several of these games are from devs that have been permanently banned from Steam (so they'll never get released), and instead of thanking me and removing them, he just pointed out the site policy which states that the risk is 100% on the buyer to check on this stuff and ended the conversation. So you can get stuff from there, but be very careful and don't expect very good support, let alone any sense of customer service.

To my mind Steam, Fanatical & Humble are quiet enough for buying games. Never needed extra stores. But hey if you want to do like 1000 GAs in the near future you might need those "crappy"-bundles from all the "shops".

I personally use HRKgame [.] com as well. Not for giveaways but for my own use mostly. Can't really vouch for their credibility though. But Haven't really had problems with them - once the key was dupe, but they resent working one. I mostly find the best deals over there.

i use gg.deals to find the best deals. you can sync up your various wishlists (steam, gog, humble) and view a list that shows the cheapest prices from all the online retailers (and grey market sites if you're into that, though it's disabled by default).

The cheapest, but also a little bit time-consuming: Check the websites of developers for their official retailers and authorized distributors (you can also ask them via email). Then check out all of them and buy the games via credit card, if you have one.

Since I'm living in Austria, which is at the top end regarding prices on Steam, with price comparison you can save up to 30% on foreign retailers within the EU (for example Hungary, Poland and also scandinavian countries) and up to 50% with retailers from the US. Depending on your currency and the conversion rate you can even save more than 90%.

And on a side note: Grey market sites mostly also use the method above and then they sell them more expensive again. So in the end it's safer and cheaper for you if you check the retailers by yourself.
If you have friends around the world (as a gamer that would be nothing special) you can also ask them if they know some shops. Sometimes even local stores have online shops. And if you can't read anything on the websites, ask them if they could check it and buy it for you.

As a translator I'm lucky, so I have a few contacts in various countries 😆