Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about SteamSets and its features.

Account

Common questions about account management and settings.
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  • There are a few ways:

    1. Search for your Steam name or custom URL on steamsets.com.
    2. Put your SteamID in the address bar, for example steamsets.com/profiles/76561198000000000.
    3. Add an "s" in front of steamcommunity.com in your Steam profile URL. The page opens on SteamSets.

    Your ranks update on their own as we refresh your Steam data.

Donations

Common questions about donations and billing.
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  • Patreon, our support platform, has no real one-time donations. Every pledge is a monthly subscription.

    To pay once:

    1. Go to patreon.com/steamsets.
    2. Pick a tier and amount.
    3. Pay. Patreon charges the first month right away.
    4. Open your Patreon settings and cancel the subscription. It will not renew.

    You pay once and keep the perks of that tier, such as roles and badges, for the rest of the month.

    If Patreon adds real one-time payments, we will switch to them.

General

General questions about SteamSets and its features.
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  • Compared to Steam Ladder or SteamDB, SteamSets has:

    • More leaderboards, including ones no other site has, such as boards per badge, per event and for groups.
    • Badge search and tagging, badge set prices and group search.
    • An interface that works on a phone as well as on a desktop.
    • No ads.
    • Frequent updates. Most of what we build comes from requests on our Discord.

    We are Steam collectors ourselves, and we build the site we wanted to have.

  • SteamSets reads public data from the official Steam Web API and shows profile stats, leaderboards, badges and groups from it.

    We refresh millions of profiles on a schedule. Private Steam profiles are listed too, with whatever Steam makes public for them. The parts Steam hides, such as games and playtime, stay empty until the profile is public again.

    You do not need an account to browse. Search for a profile, a group or a leaderboard and go.

  • Yes. SteamSets is free, has no ads, and puts no paywall in front of leaderboards, profiles or search.

    Server costs come from voluntary Patreon support. Supporters get perks such as roles and early access to new features.

  • SteamSets is a statistics and ranking site for Steam profiles.

    It has more leaderboards than any other Steam site, detailed profile pages, badge search and tagging, badge set prices and group rankings. The site is free, has no ads, and is paid for by the community through Patreon.

Leaderboards

Information regarding leaderboards and rankings.
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  • Leaderboards refresh from fresh Steam API data at least daily, and the popular ones more often.

    Ranks move whenever the data does: a new badge, more playtime, a new game in the library.

  • The SteamSets Score adds up points from your placements on the main leaderboards: level, games owned, badges, bans, points and awards. Only the top 1000 of each board count.

    Each leaderboard has a maximum number of points, M. Rank 1 gets all of M. Every rank after that gets 0.1% less, so the points for rank r are:

    Points=M×(1−0.001×(r−1))\text{Points} = M \times \left(1 - 0.001 \times (r - 1)\right)

    Some examples:

    • Rank 1: 100% of M
    • Rank 2: 99.9% of M
    • Rank 3: 99.8% of M
    • Rank 733: 26.8% of M

    The boards with the biggest impact on a profile have the largest M.

    LeaderboardMaximum points (M)
    Level1300
    Games Owned1005
    Foil Badges1000
    Normal Badges930
    Playtime500
    Awards Given300
    Awards Received300
    Points Given300
    Points Received300
    VAC Bans200
    Game Bans200

    Boards not in this table, such as Total Badges or Donations, give no points.

    Your score is the sum over every board where you place in the top 1000. If your games or playtime are private on Steam, those boards cannot count you, and your score drops by a lot.

Privacy

Common questions about data privacy and profile management.
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  • SteamSets sets only the cookies it needs to work: your session when you sign in, and your preferences.

    There are no ads, so there are no ad trackers, no tracking cookies and no analytics that sell data.

    We do keep basic, anonymous usage statistics to see which pages people use. They do not identify you.

    The Privacy Policy has the full list.

  • SteamSets does not sell, trade or share your personal data with third parties for marketing or anything else unrelated to running the site.

    The only parties that see any data are the providers we need to run the site, such as hosting and analytics, and they are bound to confidentiality.

    Everything shown on SteamSets is already public through Steam's API and your Steam privacy settings. The Privacy Policy covers processing, sharing and your rights in full.

  • Setting your Steam profile to private does not remove it from SteamSets. It only limits what we can fetch, so the profile stays listed with the data Steam still makes public.

    To hide your profile:

    • Sign in to SteamSets with your Steam account. Sign-in uses Steam's own OpenID page, and we never see your password.
    • Open your account settings and turn on the option to hide your profile.

    To leave for good, use "Opt out and remove me from SteamSets" in the same section. This hides your profile everywhere, stops all data collection and signs you out.

    Opt-out is self-service only. We do not act on opt-out requests sent by email, because we cannot verify who sent them. Sign in and use the button.

    The Privacy Policy has the details.

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