Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Kinguin
- Live offers
- 27 offers · 14 stores
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Amazon has been handing out XCOM: Chimera Squad through Prime Gaming and Amazon Luna, and on 30 August GG.deals put up a last-chance notice about it. Nobody has published a firm cut-off date, so we are not going to invent one: work on the assumption that the window is closing. If you pay for Prime, go and claim it first. The rest of this will still be here in five minutes.
What interests us is what happened afterwards in the shops. Since those codes started circulating, the tactical spin-off of XCOM 2 has been selling for less than we have ever recorded for it, and the fall took a single day.
Where the cheapest copies are right now
We have 25 live offers spread over 13 stores. The three cheapest on the whole page are GOG codes, and not one of them is sold by GOG: €0.06 at Kinguin, €0.16 at Kinguin again, €0.18 at Gamivo.
The middle one deserves a second look. The address of that offer on the store's own site carries the words "valid until october", which tells you roughly how long the seller expects to be sitting on it.
Codes that cheap always raise the same question, and it is a fair one. The answer has more to do with Amazon than with the shops, and we get to it in a moment. First, here is what the stores are asking as you read this:
The day the floor gave way
Our tracker holds 2,663 price readings for this game, going back to April, when we started following it. For months the bottom of the page barely twitched: €2.00, €2.04, €2.02, round and round. On 20 July the cheapest offer was still €2.02.
The next day it was €0.06. It has been €0.06 every single day since, which makes it the lowest figure in everything we hold on this game.
Prices normally slide. They get shaved during a sale, they creep back up, a reseller undercuts another by ten cents. A drop of that size overnight, holding flat for weeks, is a different animal, and the calendar points straight at the giveaway.
Is Prime Gaming behind those six cents?
We cannot prove it and we will not pretend we can. What we can put on the table is three things we have checked ourselves: the giveaway hands out GOG codes, the three cheapest offers on the page are GOG codes being resold by third parties, and the collapse landed on one date instead of drifting down across a summer of discounts.
Treat that as a reasonable reading, not a confirmed fact. For your wallet it makes no difference either way.
If buying a six-cent code from a marketplace seller makes you uneasy, GOG sells the game itself for €3.48. That is the only GOG offer on the page that is not a resale, and it puts a shop with a support desk between you and the code.
What the Steam versions cost
Plenty of people want it on Steam, because that is where everything else they own already sits. The lowest asking price on our list belongs to Difmark Digital Keys at €0.34, and then there is a jump: K4G wants €1.58, Kinguin €1.79.
Above that, almost everything piles up just over two euros. G2A asks €2.03, Kinguin and Eneba both €2.04, Driffle and Eneba €2.07, Cdkeys Com €2.39 with two identical offers, G2A again €2.61, Gameboost €2.77, Gamivo €3.13, and one more G2A at €4.99. The names you know from the big sales sit well above all of that: GamesPlanet €7.75, Fanatical €8.55, Greenmangaming €9.99.
Those are the amounts each shop puts on the label, and a few of them take a bit more off with a coupon at checkout, so the offers further up can show a slightly lower number.
They also move during the day, so here is the live one: the cheapest for Steam right now is € (with coupon Gocdkeys) at Difmark Digital Keys. From the same page you can buy the XCOM: Chimera Squad key once you have compared them side by side.
One practical note. The GOG codes and the Steam ones are not interchangeable, so pick the platform before you pick the number. Paying €0.06 for a launcher you never open is not a bargain.
The format to stay away from
Four of the 25 offers are Steam Gift: €11.33 at G2A, €11.75 at Kinguin twice over, €13.99 at G2A. A gift is not a code you own. Another account buys the game and sends it to you as a present, you accept it, and the purchase stays tied to that account rather than to yours.
In money, that is between €8 and €13 more than the cheapest Steam key for exactly the same game. Sorting by price does not always make the format obvious, so read the small print before you pay.
Now the good news, and it is worth saying out loud. Not one of the 25 offers is a shared account. Every single one is redeemed on your own profile, in your own library, and the game stays there. On a title selling for cents that is far from guaranteed, and it means the €0.06 at the top is a genuine €0.06 rather than a login somebody else can take back.
Short version: claim it on Prime Gaming while the notice holds. If you arrive late, the Steam version from Difmark Digital Keys or €3.48 straight from GOG, and give the gift versions a wide berth. Waiting is the one move with nothing in it, because we have never once seen this game under €0.06.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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