10 Ways to Game on a Low (or Zero) Budget

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If you believe what you see on social media, you may think of multi-thousand-dollar, bright RGB gaming-room setups as the only “real” gaming. Save your money, and use these tips to enjoy gaming for its own sake, without the frill.

We’ve discussed why you shouldn’t buy video games at launch before, but it boils down to paying the highest price for the worst version of a game for no good reason other than FOMO. Unless you absolutely must play a game at launch (e.g., because it’s multiplayer), you’re spending more money than you have to on games.

Physical video game sales still make up a significant chunk of the gaming market and one major advantage they have over digital games is that they can be resold. Plenty of those folks who buy their games full price at launch trade them in a few days or weeks later, which means you can snap up recent titles for big discounts. The older the games are, the cheaper they get, and you can get amazing used physical games for single-digit prices.

Digital gaming has given rise to digital sales. Popularized by deep discounts in infamous Steam Sales, it’s not unheard of for games to receive 90% discounts during certain times of the year. The best strategy to get good sale prices is to wishlist all the games you want, and then check your wishlist (and your wishlist only) for discounts when the time comes. This is also a great way to limit impulse buying, where you buy deeply discounted games only to never actually play them because you didn’t actually want them in the first place.

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You don’t need to buy specialist gaming hardware to enjoy video games. The smartphone or tablet you may already have likely has enough performance to play