No, you cannot. A game purchased for yourself cannot be gifted to another Steam user in any way. The closest thing you can do to gifting is to share access to your Steam library with your friends.
Can you put Steam games in your inventory?
Yes! Games you buy as a gift can be stored in your gift inventory. From there, you get the choice to either gift them to someone via e-mail or to a Steam friend, or add them to your library. Simply choose the “Add to my game library …” option instead of “Send gift …” in your Steam inventory.
Can Steam games be transferred?
Short answer, yes! You can easily transfer Steam games to another computer, without having to redownload all the games again, using two methods actually. The one method of moving Steam games to a new PC is much faster than the other, but I will cover both in the tutorial, starting with the faster of the two.
How do I add a Steam gift to my inventory?
How to redeem Steam Gift
- Click on the link you received via email from the transaction.
- The link will take you to a screen with two options to Accept gift or Decline gift.
- Click on Accept gift.
- Choose to have the option added directly to your game library or your Steam gift inventory.
Can I refund gifted games on Steam?
A refund may be issued for any gift that was purchased within fourteen days and has been played less than two hours by the gift recipient. Once the refund has been verified by the gift recipient, please go to help.steampowered.com and create your refund request.
How do I send trade offers on Steam to non friends?
Here is how I do it: Go to ‘Inventory’ -> ‘Trade offers’ -> ‘Who can send me offers?’ Here you will find the following box contains a sharable URL. If you’re looking to use Steam to trade (instead of going inside TF2) then you will need to add them as friends.
How can I add a steam gift to my inventory?
: Steam How can I add a steam gift to my inventory? Someone was going to gift me a game but I figured I’d just get a game my friend wants and gift it to him since his birthday is coming up but the only option I get is to add it to my library. Any way I can just add it to my inventory?
Can you put games in your library on Steam?
Yep, those games are gifts. You can’t add games in your library to your inventory, nor can you display them on your profile, unless they’re gifts. You can’t. Apparantly steam changed the gift process so you can’t buy games and keep them in your inventory.
Why are you not able to store gifts on Steam?
The gifting process has had a bunch of friction in it for a while, and we want to make it easier for you to share the games you love with friends. This is a new change to the system. As of now you are not able to store gifts anymore. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this is the dumbest thing I’ve seen Valve do in a while.
How can I See my Steam gift recipients?
Your Steam Friends who already own this game will automatically be filtered out of the potential list of recipients. You can also visit your friend’s Steam Community profile and click the link to “View all games” to view your Friend’s list of owned games on Steam before purchasing them a gift.
