Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Is there an easy way to figure out which DLCs have you bought already?

Question

Assume you bought a game on steam and 7 out of 10 DLCs that are available for that game. When you go (in the steam application) to "LIBRARY" -> "game XY" -> "DLC", you get a list of all DLCs that are available for the game XY but none of the DLCs are marked as bought or not... (?!) At least I don't see any marks. If you click on a specific DLC though, you get "You already own XY", or the "Buy XY" depending on having/not having the DLC.

Is there an easier way to find out which DLCs you are missing than clicking to each DLC? Perhaps a place (that I haven't found yet) with a list of all the DLCs available for that game and some small icons that would tell you if you have that DLC or not?

I am asking because if a game has lots of DLCs, it is a bit tiresome to click and check all of them.

Answer

I have found that the easiest way to do this is to do it as follows:

  1. Go to the Steam Store page for the game in question. For the DLC, you should see a heading. If there are several items, click on the "See All" arrow in the lower right. steam 1

  2. Click the "Add all DLC to cart" button in the lower right. steam 2

  3. It will then automatically take you to the shopping cart checkout page. If you already own the piece of DLC in question, you will see "You already own this game" underneath the name of the DLC. In the example here, you can see that I own the Civilization and Scenario: Korea pack, but not the one underneath it, the Wonders of the Ancient World Scenario pack. enter image description here

Unfortunately, there's no way to mass remove items from your shopping cart, so you'll then have to click on each "Remove" link in order to remove it from your list. However, it's the easiest way I've found to see at a glance what DLC you have and don't have.

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