Deepest Steam Discounts Screensaver
The Deepest Steam Discounts screensaver ranks Steam's current front-page specials by discount depth rather than by the store's own ordering, showing the percentage off, the price now and the price before. It runs in the browser with nothing to install; press ESC to exit.
How the Deepest Steam Discounts screensaver works
The saver reads Steam's public featured-categories endpoint, refreshed through this site's pipeline.
No account and no key: the request goes straight from your browser, or from this site's own refreshed copy of the feed where the source does not allow browser access.
Values are drawn on a canvas that resizes with the window, so it works on a laptop or a wall display.
If the source is unreachable the saver says so on screen rather than showing stale numbers as though they were current.
A worked example
Each row is a game with a bar scaled to its discount percentage and the price beside it. The eighty-per-cent-off entry sorts to the top, which is the one worth looking at. Prices come out of the API as integer cents in the store's own currency, so the pipeline divides them down — rendered raw, a 5999 would read as six thousand dollars.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display without changing the data.
- Add it to a Multi-view grid to watch it alongside other live savers.
- Press ESC at any time to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Are these prices in my currency?
- They come back in the currency the store serves this site's pipeline, and the currency code is shown next to each price. Your own storefront may differ by region.
- Why sort by discount rather than by price?
- Because the store already sorts by its own promotional priorities. Sorting by depth of discount surfaces the genuinely unusual offers rather than whatever is being pushed.
- Is this real data?
- Yes. It comes from Steam's public featured-categories endpoint, refreshed through this site's pipeline. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.
- Does it cost anything or need an account?
- No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.