Recruitment for a healthy WL is a bit of my past. =}

Welcome back, stranger! Good to hear from you!

Welcome back!

Grats on the new PC, may your FPS be high and your temperatures low!

Welcome back, Hashira! Losing access to your e-mail account must have been a harrowing experience.

I ended up on SG because I liked the idea of people giving away (not trading) their superfluous game keys. I enjoy sharing and giving, especially when there is a genuine feeling that others actually enjoy what they receive. Since there are a lot of bots or selfish/rude people in the public low-level GAs, I tend to do group or Whitelist GAs by now, throwing in the odd public GA (but usually with level requirement).

I found that this makes me more inclined to go on with GAs as I tend to get frustrated by some of the public winners (for example those who get annoyed when they don't receive the key instantly after the GA ended, yet fail to say thank you or mark the game as received in a timely manner; or, worse, those who claim the key and then never touch the game).

This is literally the only giveaway site I feel like I won't get scammed and the community seems genuine!

Like so many things on life, SG has good and bad parts. The bad? Winners not even saying thanks, or taking days to redeem the game and mark as activated despite being online everyday, the blacklisting out of nowhere, orphan keys ninja'd without a thanks, trolls and bigotism... I guess those things are in every community in one form or another.
The good? For the majority, SG is a good community where a big chunk of it put their tiny grain of sand to make an enjoyable beach. Events, puzzles, cake days, Dubnio's almost-daily comic strip on Positive Thread, SensualShakti's bundle charts, and many other things besides entering giveaways or creating trains (nowadays I mostly create trains).
Included the new friend you find now n then, which, despite me not talking too much in chat, is always valuable.
In short, my usual day in SG can be described as "I didn't win any game, but it was good nonetheless."

So I hope you enjoy being back!

I personally love SG only site that I visit more than once a day to be honest. Glad you've managed to recover your account and hope the new PC build goes fine, you know you can alwys ask for advice if you have problems here on the forums mate. Look forward to seeing you around👍

I think I discovered it because I wanted free games and an external page recommended it :D
but it is not just a page to give games and receive games. A beautiful community was created. and more than anything it was for the forums,
where you can talk about your interests or ask questions about anything. I like them a lot when they do puzzles or recommend games. I think that the forums are the best and they make a difference from other pages that you can only win games.

I can relate to losing an account you really cared of. So best of luck in this new one! Welcome back!

Personally, I joined SG because I bought my first PC that is dedicated to gaming. So, I wanted some games to try out but didn’t want to spend a lot. I was taking online classes and thought “I’m stuck at home al day and I have not much to do. I lose nothing if I enter some giveaways.” And that feeling of winning started to emerge. But then I realized that I was mostly winning games that were not as exciting to play as others in my Wishlist and all that stuff. So, I sacrificed odds and started joining only GAs of games that I really want to play.

In the path I have met some cool people, not that I can say I’ve talked to them a lot because I don’t spend much time in forums, but I can say there are nice people out there.

Well, forget the past and be a new Hashira!

Forget and forgive the past, please...

No one perfect. Everyone always making a mistake, intentionally or unintentionally. Forgive yourself for this time and be a new one that learnt from your mistaken :) Have a nice day new persona. :)

I'm here to just get rid of unwanted game keys essentially. Winning the occasional game is also nice.

Welcome back to the site!

I met this site because of a friend who was telling me that she got a particular game on steamgifts. My reaction of course was a total surprise... "Why would people give away games to strangers for free?". So I joined, of course, because of the free games. Over here, I participated in some threads once in a while, not really that frequent, but mostly in the ones I found interesting (music, movies and deals). One of the things that I most appreciate about the site is how the inform you about deals and bundles, because I had no idea about sites like Fanatical or Humble Bundle before joining here, and thankfully I am able to giveaway they keys that I won't use from bundles that still seem worth for me to buy. I usually ask friends first, though, "do you want this game?", "would you be interested in playing this?"; if nobody wants it, I give it here.

Also, most of the games from my wishlist (and probably some of my library) are games that I had no idea they existed before signing up here, so I appreciate that as well. And that's how I keep joining giveaways (winning some) and finding new games.

In a few words, really cool site :).

I got to know this website after discovering some giveaways from publishers or retailers (like Indiegala). There was a blog introducing SG, that was the first time I got to know here. Thought increasing the level would guarantee more chances to win games, started sharing little by little, mostly with games I wasn't interested in. Gaining the CV hasn't been easy, but now I feel like I'm just trying not to lose the level I have been achieving. Level 5, not sure if I can go higher, but anyway.

Losing something which one has been attaining for a while, that's difficult to reestablish the same kind of level from the very beginning. It's not easy at all to start again when one lost the save file of a game which the player has finished like more than 50%. For me it's disappointing and makes me hesitate to try again. But with the account being lost, you made it back and started building it! Astonishing, yeah.

Waiting for my new computer as well, it's positively thrilling to finally be able to play some of my wins and hoard! :D

Hi, welcome back to the gaming world. What could I say about SG, although my account is 7 years old, In reality, I'm more of a newcomer, being active only in the last year. At first, I really didn't give much attention to the forums and community overall, but I've come to recognize people in here, really enjoy puzzles and jigidis, although I'm awfully bad at them and I don't get anywhere most times. Have found a couple of discord servers with nice and pretty cool people and seen some drama unravel. And probably my favorite time on here was probably the Christmas events, although I haven't been lucky with any, they were really fun to keep count of and made a pretty monotone Hollidaies time (for me) a bit more exciting.

🎉🎉🎉

I've never been big on the whole "community" thing to be honest. 27 years of life, with 15 on the internet and I couldn't name one community where I could call it my own. They came and went, like the dust in the wind. Longest one I currently have is Facebook, but I use it only as a means of communication for my friend, and a place to catch the news from society. Not a home I can't abandon. Not much of a talker, I am. SG? I got here from a recommendation of a, let's just say a friend for now, as a place for Lootboy codes. I stay for that and the games, try to give back if possible with keys gotten from other channels. Games gotten for free no longer give me a sense of excitement like the old days. I remember downloading Left 4 Dead 2 when it was given by Valve not knowing you could keep it just by claiming; I thought I have to download and get that sucker open at least. I kept switching between the slow download indicator and the number of the clock, praying that it would be enough. Good times, young un. Now I look at those games in my library, and the first thing through my mind would be "will it be great this time? Or simply good? Please don't let it a waste of time." The child is still here, but he knows nothing can match the rose-tint lenses of nostalgia. I'm still grateful for the giveaway, of course, but it's just not the same anymore. Really, what was I talking about? Ah ha ha, nonsense my man, just nonsense. Rambling of an old soul in a young body. Nay, maybe a young soul trying to be old would be more fitting. 'Cause I have never walked the Earth as long and as far as my ancestors, not me. So many roads unseen, so many lives unlived. I am but a child with my experience, only feel old by the ravage of time.

HERE WE GO.
So I joined SG years ago, I was super skeptical about it because it sounded super fake? Like what, I just, enter a giveaway, costs nothing, and win free stuff? Sure. Sounds legit. I'll probably enter advertisement hell or get a bunch of viruses. I joined anyway with the sole intention of abandoning my account immediately after sating my curiosity, and.. found a great community that I never left for almost 6 years.
I've made a unrealistic amount of friends here, joined a bunch of groups (BLAEO is my all-time favorite, I was even a mod in Unlucky-7 for a good while.) and discovered some really great websites like Humblebundle and Bundlestars. (now Fanatical.) And somehow, my love for playing games grew. Discovering new stuff via recommendations, threads, friends, and giveaways, it's absolutely wild here.

I don't make a ton of WL giveaways because a lot are friends who've left the community and I didn't want to remove them, but I'm happy to add you as well. :)

I found out about SG recently and obviously came here looking for free stuff.
But what really hooked me is that there is an active forum :D It's like a blast from the past. Most of the people are sticking to messengers/twitter/reddit etc. these days so its rare.
It's just nice in here :D

Me coming to steamgifts was an accident.
After getting spoilt by epic freebies i wanted more leagl ways to get free good games. My search took me to reddit and from there through some comments i came to know about steamgifts. Came here first time and i decided not to join as the games that i saw on here in first few pages were not interesting.Also it was asking me for steam login , being sceptic i do not wanted to risk my account for few free unattractive games.
Later joined few discord communties and again saw the talks of steamgifts. But this time the game i wanted was hosted by discord community on steamgifts and i was forced to signup to participate in that. came for that game but was attracted by forum section which hosted many intresting event and good hidden GAs. was amazed by some puzzles though was unable to crack many of them. around that time soon saw christmas event was up and was very much fascinated by it. i got hang of steamgifts by using it significantly during christmas times and i beacme a regular here.
Also forum at times has lot of drama and it kept me entertained. deals section has got me some serious good games at very cheap rpices. came for freebies but got lot more from SG in form of entertainment , mind excercise, and of course few great wins.

I am here for a decade already. No matter how hard life hits me, this place stays the same, reminds me of good old times... My first giveaways, my first comments... Everything is here. I am here to make people happy and to make myself happy. Sadly very hard for me to reach LVL6, because of the monetary situation, but if I managed to reach LVL5 under these circumstances, one day I will reach level 6 for sure! That will make me so happy! More than any game ever won here. The only thing I blame myself for is that I let my depression stop me from playing these amazing games that I won. One day that will change, it must... Sadly it seems impossible to win wishlisted games for me... Usually I enter, win and then regret for not letting someone else win that game... That is when I just return to the community by giving away some random game. Thanks for taking time to read this and you are welcome for reading yours. ☺️✨

I found SteamGifts when I was searching for...Free Keys... but I didn't expect to win something till I really got a game and it becomes one of my favorites. But what got me more interested in this site is the community which is kind and helpful (any questions get answers in seconds)

I remember joining this group 8 years ago and meeting someone in the forums who lives in germany. We ended up becoming good friends and we gamed together some times. We even wanted to meet up at one point but it never worked out but we did send eachother birthday gifts!

I mean everyone likes games, but i actually joined because i dislike having games i'm certain i won't play- so having bought a humble bundle for a few specific titles, i wanted to offload the rest somewhere i thought people would appreciate them.
But i'm not going to pretend that winning games doesnt make my week :D

Bon retour