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@SteamByFree: statistics and cleanliness index

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Grade A+ metrics look normal cleanliness index
data from 2026-10-23
Subscribers
120,347
Median views
10,232
ERR
8.5%
Posts sampled
40
Niche Video Games
Post language Russian
Channel age 7 years

Data from 2026-10-23 — 15 days old.

Assessment summary

The channel has been collecting Steam game discounts and giveaways for seven years: individual offers with prices in rubles, tenge, and hryvnias, genre-based sale roundups, and industry news — about eight posts a day, almost always with an image or a short video.

In reach it lags behind similar channels in the catalog: ERR 8.5% versus a median of 20.5%, meaning the share of readers is lower than that of similar channels, and reactions are almost three times lower (0.45% versus 1.55%). Over the past months, subscribers have decreased by 3.5 thousand, and in the feed over three weeks there have been five giveaways requiring a subscription, the latest on 20.10.2026: such contests bring people for a prize, not for discounts. Advertising here will collect around 10 thousand views per post with a base of 120 thousand — that is the real scale of placement.

About the channel

A channel about game discounts and giveaways: it posts individual Steam offers with prices in rubles, tenge, and hryvnias, sale roundups, and gaming industry news. It has been run for more than seven years, writes in Russian, and almost every post is an image or a short video with a caption.

In the catalog, @dragon_play and @ru2chvg sit next to it: both have a noticeably larger share of subscribers seeing a post (ERR 22.2% and 21.4% versus 8.5% here), and by subscriber count the channel is slightly smaller than @dragon_play. With @skladgames it is the opposite: that one is more than twice as large, but only 0.8% of its base sees a post.

What it publishes:

  • Game discounts: posts about individual titles — Control for 224 rubles, Tropico 6, Buckshot Roulette — with prices in three currencies and the end date of the promotion.
  • Sale roundups: dozens of games by category — co-op games, action games, strategies, all up to 250 rubles.
  • Industry news: BioWare's closure, a hint at Half-Life 3, patch 2.5 for Cyberpunk 2077, a demo festival on Steam.
  • Key giveaways: a contest for 50 FLYBRAIN LAB keys requiring a subscription.

Posts come out mainly during the day and evening Moscow time, 82% on weekdays. The channel occasionally forwards posts from other channels; by subscriber count it is in the top third of the “Video Games” niche. A reader should expect about eight short posts a day with an image, rare advertising, and forwards.

By subscribers, it ranks #23 of 91 channels in the Video Games niche of the catalog.

What grade A+ means

The metrics agree with each other: views and reactions are distributed as usual, and almost no signals lower the index.

Compared with similar channels

Compared with 30 Video Games catalog channels whose metrics look normal. They are a similar size: 45,794 to 306,841 subscribers.

ERR (reach) lower than 23 of 30
@SteamByFree 8.5%
similar channels median 20.8%
Reactions per 100 views lower than 24 of 29
@SteamByFree 0.45
similar channels median 1.79

This is not a niche norm: only catalog channels are included. A high ERR is not always a plus: if the other metrics do not support it, the index goes down.

Dynamics and anomalies

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Views by post

The latest 40 posts with views, from Oct 18 to Oct 23. The dashed line is the median (10,232).

06.3K13KOct 18: 11,411 viewsOct 18: 10,998 viewsOct 18: 8,937 viewsOct 18: 9,946 viewsOct 18: 10,719 viewsOct 18: 12,585 viewsOct 18: 11,935 viewsOct 19: 12,223 viewsOct 19: 11,918 viewsOct 19: 11,165 viewsOct 19: 10,058 viewsOct 19: 10,476 viewsOct 19: 11,375 viewsOct 19: 11,720 viewsOct 20: 11,423 viewsOct 20: 10,572 viewsOct 20: 9,656 viewsOct 20: 9,544 viewsOct 20: 9,746 viewsOct 20: 10,327 viewsOct 20: 12,302 viewsOct 20: 11,233 viewsOct 21: 11,397 viewsOct 21: 10,796 viewsOct 21: 10,138 viewsOct 21: 9,522 viewsOct 21: 9,558 viewsOct 21: 11,103 viewsOct 21: 11,194 viewsOct 22: 9,865 viewsOct 22: 9,132 viewsOct 22: 8,905 viewsOct 22: 8,551 viewsOct 22: 8,519 viewsOct 22: 8,335 viewsOct 22: 8,791 viewsOct 23: 7,540 viewsOct 23: 6,105 viewsOct 23: 5,801 viewsOct 23: 4,093 views Oct 18Oct 23
  • post views
  • 7 posts newer than one day and still gaining views
  • median 10,232

Maximum: 12,585 views. Data as of Oct 23.

What could not be calculated

View build-up not assessed: the channel posts often, and every post is newer than a week.

Cleanliness-index history

2 checks for this channel.

050100Oct 22: index 98, grade A+Oct 22Oct 23: index 98, grade A+Oct 23

Advertising outlook

Advertising placement: reasonable.

About 7,938–9,540 people will see your post in the first 48 hours.

Reach of advertising posts

Too few advertising posts to compare: 1. 1 more are too fresh.

Without an ad label: 2 posts.

Buy advertising

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Where to buy advertising

Affiliate links: we get a commission. It never affects the channel's score.

Questions about @SteamByFree

Is the channel clean? What does the purity index show?

The purity index is 98 out of 100, grade A+, level “metrics are normal.” The check found no signals that would lower the index.

How many people actually see the posts?

The median views are about 10.2 thousand with 120 thousand subscribers, which is ERR 8.5%. In most similar channels in the catalog, a larger share of the base sees a post.

Is it worth advertising here?

The check marked placement as justified. There are almost no advertising posts in the sample, so a separate reach for advertising posts was not calculated — the benchmark remains a median of about 10 thousand views.

How the assessment was produced

Data source
Public Telegram data: posts, views, reactions, and channel metadata.
Date or snapshot
2026-10-23
Sample
The latest 40 public posts available at check time.
Calculation method
TG Inspector calculates metrics from the saved snapshot and combines independent signals into a deterministic 0–100 cleanliness index.
Factual result
The @SteamByFree assessment dated 2026-10-23 uses 40 recent public posts. At that snapshot the channel had 120,347 subscribers, median post views were 10,232, ERR was 8.5%, and the cleanliness index was 98/100.
Limitations
This is a probabilistic assessment based on public data: it describes metrics, not the owner's actions, and is not a real-time measurement.

Full methodology and interpretation rules

This automated assessment is probabilistic: it describes the channel's public metrics, not its owner's actions. The index and grade are calculated from public data and are not changed on request. Channel owners can request removal of the page — t.me/obsessed_with_ai.