Alien swarm is used for "cheating" Steam for multiplayer games ;)
Don't know why an user with 40k games is using it as it owns almost all .. :-\
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Huh, didnt know this, maybe he used it a ton in the past
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what do you mean cheating steam for multiplayer games?
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LOL I didn't know about that, gemini explained me the trick! Crazy to think about this!
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That's not entirely true. I use the same technique to play Dark Souls, Prepare to Die edition. It's the only way to play online with friends. Some games with no online support, need external workarounds to work P2P, and sometimes people have to use Alien Swarm or Spacewar. It doesn't mean "cheating" or "pirated content".
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At least he's paying for his games while St4ck although reported to be rich scammed card traders for a few hundred thousand dollars.
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Tried to load his games tab...
This page isn’t working
steamcommunity.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
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It's funny that when I try to enter the games tab of a user with ~10000 games it takes a while but eventually loads, but with this one it errors out instantly. Steam knows there's no hope in loading all of that.
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I also reached 40k games. But on blacklist here on site 😂
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They're already approaching 41k, my guess is that they're aiming to also be the first to reach 50k... kinda scary to be honest, that's a backlog that can last multiple generations.
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I guess he's preparing enough content for a sub-light interstellar travel :)
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A century into the travel, two kids born and raised on board of the generational ship are talking and one of them asks the other what their hobbies are, in response they show the one asking a box full of SSD's that their great grandpa packed in before embarking on the mission "in these there's almost every video game from old Earth, most suck".
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Better store them on HDD's, SSD's start to lose their data after 20 or so years of not being given any power (the memory cells basically trap a charge for each bit). Same thing for all devices that use flash memory (eventually any sealed 3DS and Switch game carts will stop working too as a result).
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Please tell me my Nintendo 64 games that I have had stored away and not used in over 20 years are still okay .... PLEASE!!!!
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They should be fine as long as they're stored in a non-humid environment.
N64 uses ROM mask tech which has the binary actually etched into the silicon itself. The only way it's going to lose that data is if the silicon gets damaged, breaks down, or mold grows on the rom (sometimes this is called 'bit rot'). Disc rot is way more common.
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And yet here I was thinking that my library was too greedy and decided to stop buying games as much 💀
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Nah, you're still fine. Many of the people commenting in this thread tho, including myself, have long lost the plot and are just hoarding XD
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What's the point of including wishlist? Anyone can just add everything to their wishlist?
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O man what a Boi. I have like idk 1200+ in all my ps/xbox/pc combined. but 40K WHOAA
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Crazy how only 40k are profile visible games, but they're getting kinda close to 100k games apps in total (https://steam-tracker.com/ranking/apps)
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Top 10, Top 20, hell, Top 200 lists many well-known users of SG ^^
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him every day:
'hmm, nothing to play, need to buy new game'
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Just making a note. This news is from September. So probably he is already near 41k
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The scary part is that he got 747 more games since yesterday when he achieved the badge.
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he is only farming games and barely plays any of them
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Just crazy collector, now my 5,5k looks like nothing. >D
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And I thought my 747 games on steam was a bit too much lol
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I have about 2.5K games, and even if I played a new one every single day it'd take me over 7 years to try them all. This guy would probably have to play like a dozen new games a day, every day, to have even a remote chance of playing them all in his lifetime.
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There is competition here is another who crossed 40k games LOL. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198017975643/
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Everybody's got a hobby. Some make more sense than others. I suspect most of us here already have many more games in our backlog than we'll ever play, so maybe we shouldn't throw too many stones. I mean, some, but not too many.
While they are at it, they should totally buy a copy of my game, too, as it's very exclusive, only 40 copies ever sold on steam ;-0
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"In a terrifying milestone for game hoarding, and for the first time in Valve history, a Steam user has crossed the unholy threshold of 40,000 games owned to claim the rarest game collector badge available.
SteamDB rankings show that Steam user Sonix, or SonixLegend in full according to their public Steam profile URL, reached the 40,000 game threshold today, September 23, 2025, making them the first user to unlock the "Game Collector: 40,000+" Steam badge.
Sonix is something of a hidden legend among Steam obsessives, with records of their gargantuan collection going back years.
Their Steam record shows Sonix unlocked this 40k badge at 9:31 am, and this matches SteamDB data down to the second. In total, Sonix owns 40,029 games on Steam. That pile o' games sits alongside 22,136 DLCs owned and 26,936 games wishlisted.
Their favorite game? According to their Steam profile, it's Alien Swarm, a free multiplayer shooter released by Valve in 2010, clocking in at 551 hours played. All those games, and their favorite is free.
The Steam Ladder reports slightly different figures, bizarrely putting Sonix at second place with 44,228 games, but the official, straight-from-Valve badge milestones don't lie. All hail Sonix, overlord of Steam sales."
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/behold-the-first-steam-user-to-own-40-000-games-claim-the-biggest-hoarder-badge-valve-can-offer-and-build-the-pc-gaming-library-of-alexandria/
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