How do Steam prices compare to real life game shops/retailers where you live?

I bought HL2: Episodes for 2€ and SMB ULTRA Edition(that came with the best instructions manual I ever read) for 2.5€ in a retail store.
I think it was cheaper than in Steam.

Retailers always seem to be more expensive than steam or shops like Amazon. I could of gotten Shadow of Mordor for £49.99 from the shop or £37.00 from Amazon. That's for Xbox btw. But the PC games can be around £30-£40 whereas steam is a lot cheaper.

In portugal without discount normally retail as better or equal prices to steam, however steam has a LOT more discounts and those are much higher then our retailers. If you factor in trading it almost "stupid" to buy PC games at retail.

In Bulgaria used to be 2 times cheaper than steam but now its the same price though sometimes steam is cheaper.

this could be interesting

Don't carry many PC games here, not even Steam cards :P

Counter-Strike: Source

Steam: 18.99€

Physical copy: 29.99€

I live in Poland and for me games on Steam are really expensive, even with discounts. I almost always buy games on Muve.pl which has great sales. For example on last sale there was Saints Row The Third: The Full Package for 17,50 PLN (around 4,17€) when on Steam it costs 20€ (84 PLN). That's why I bought only 2 games on Steam although I have an account for four years.

The games on steam are about the same price as retailers near here, except for sale prices, steam sales are much better than retailers. Most retailers only cut their price a few dollars on premium things, not 50-80% like you find in most steam sales,

For Sweden the base price on release is usually a little bit cheaper than the "recommended" retail price. Some retail stores sell high-profile games rather cheap on release though, in order to attract customers. Once a game has been out for a while, the Steam price is usually higher than store price, outside of sales.

The prices for physical copies in my city are way more espensive than steam, and there aren't many places with (legal) PC games anyway.
I've seen somewhat fair prices for console games tho.

in Poland? Stores got games cheaper twice/triple than on Steam,but when on sales-Steam is cheaper

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Was in a computer game store for the first time in months and because of the steam regional pricing, to my surprise borderlands the pre sequel was 15 dollars (my country) cheaper there than on Steam! Civ beyond earth was a whole 5 dollars cheaper

But then I saw batman Arkham origins and it was 35 dollars more expensive than on steam xD

Here everything is expensive for me, Steam is my savior :)

Much, much cheaper. I think the guys at Best Buy were kind of confused when they saw me laughing at all the games they had going for two or three times the Steam price.

IRL almost every steam key is cheaper, but, steam do sales.