About
BuyOrPass
What we’re doing here, and how to read the numbers.
Mission
Game pricing is noisy. A title can launch at full price, hit deep discounts within months, and sit in bundles you never see if you only check one store. BuyOrPass exists to cut through that noise with a simple question: compared to its own history and reception, is this price defensible today?
We’re not here to replace your taste or tell you which games deserve your time. We focus on value for money in a way that’s transparent enough to argue with: you can see the verdict, the fair value line, and the current best offer, then decide for yourself.
If something looks wrong, it might be—data lags, regional quirks, and edge cases happen. We’d rather say that upfront than pretend the model is perfect.
FAQ
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BuyOrPass is a small reference site for PC games. We pull current storefront prices, compare them to a calculated “fair value” band, and label each title so you can see at a glance whether the asking price looks reasonable—without wading through trackers and forums yourself.
Fair value is not a prediction of what a game “should” cost everywhere. It blends a few signals we can measure consistently: the original launch price, the best historical low we have on record, how long the game has been out (which affects how low we expect legitimate sales to go), and broad Steam review sentiment. Those pieces are combined into a single number you can compare to today’s best price. It’s a heuristic, not financial advice.
They describe how the current best price lines up with that fair value. BUY means the price is at or below fair value—we’d generally be comfortable paying that. WAIT FOR DISCOUNT means you’re not wildly overpaying, but the price is still above our fair band, so a sale may be worth waiting for. PASS means the price is high enough relative to fair value that we’d skip it at that level unless you care more about playing immediately than about value.
Store prices and deal links are sourced from IsThereAnyDeal’s API, which aggregates offers from participating retailers. We also use Steam’s own store data for basics like release context and review counts. We don’t set store prices and we can’t guarantee every regional price or bundle is reflected perfectly.
The site is built to refresh on a schedule: new candidates are discovered once a day, and existing games get a price and metadata pass once a day after that. You may still see brief gaps if an API is slow or a game was just added—check back if something looks stale.