Top 5 Best Ways to Level Up Fast on Steam (Quickly lvl 10+)

How to Level Up Fast on Steam?

The fastest way you can level up on Steam is to craft badges. Each badge you craft will give you 100 experience points going to level up your Steam account. Normal badges can only be crafted up to a total of 5 times, meaning you can get a maximum of 500 EXP from a single badge!

Crafting badges is pretty simple and it's done by using sets of cards. The badges and cards themselves are from specific games after all. There are mainly 4 ways you can earn Steam game cards:

• Getting card drops for free by playing games that you've bought
• Getting card drops by paying money in free-to-play games
• Purchasing cards from the Steam market
• Trading for cards with other players

You can check the progress of your badges and game cards by opening the Steam client, hovering above your username on the top, and selecting "Badges". This is the menu where you can craft the badges too!

Before you jump into crafting badges, you should know how the Steam leveling system works. There is a set amount of experience you need to level up your account. To upgrade your Steam account to level 10 you'll need 1000 EXP, then to upgrade to level 20 you'll need 2000 EXP. This pattern continues, so to level up from 40 to level 50 you'll need 5000 EXP.

So since crafting badges is how you level up your Steam account fast which gives you perks like increasing your friend list, then getting Steam trading cards is what you should be focused on. There are badges that give you EXP based on other factors like how old is your account, but those badges won't help you out a ton. Now below you can see the best ways to get game cards and level up fast on Steam!

The Best Ways to Level Up a Steam Account Fast

Buy Trading Card Sets From Market to Craft Badges

The fastest way to upgrade badges from Steam is by directly purchasing trading cards from the Steam market. It's best to purchase cards that are already missing from a set for crafting a badge. You can see and buy the missing cards for making a badge by selecting it in the Badge menu of the Steam client, scrolling down, and clicking on "Search the Market" for the card you wish to buy.

You can also use other sites like the Steam Tools website to find cheap sets of cards for badges. There you can see the prices of card sets for lots of different games you can purchase! 

The sets of cards to purchase from the market and craft Steam badges are generally cheap, going as low as $0,04 per normal card. There are also foil cards which are just more expensive versions of the normal trading cards. If you wish to level up fast and cheaply, don't buy foil cards as they aren't any different in leveling up your Steam profile. 

Upgrade Big Steam Sales Badges

When there are big events happening, like their winter and summer Steam sales, there are new badges specific to the event. Crafting these Steam event badges can give you a ton of EXP since unlike previous badges they don't have a limit to how many times you can upgrade them!

You can get trading cards for Steam sales events by spending money and making purchases on Steam. This will grant you bonus Steam event cards in your inventory, which you can use to craft the badges and gain the needed experience.

The bright side of this method is that not only will you be crafting badges and leveling up, but you can also buy games safely through the sale you actually want and will play! But the only issue here is that once the Steam sales event ends, after 30 days the Steam event cards become untradable and unsellable.  

Trade Game Keys for Trading Cards With a Bot

Another efficient way of obtaining trading cards to level up in Steam is with game keys. These are the keys that are used to open up crates and loot boxes in other games. It's best recommended you trade keys from games like CS2 (CSGO) and TF2. 

One of these trading bots you can use is the Fragzone Bot which you'll have to add as a friend to your Steam profile. On the bot's profile, you can see all the guidelines on how to use it.

Make sure you purchase the game keys from the Steam marketplace and not from inside the games. That's because the keys bought in-game aren't tradable. Once you get a key, you can send the bot a message from the guidelines it has on its profile to trade keys for cards.

Craft Booster Packs Using Gems

On Steam, some game badges offer booster packs that contain around 3 trading cards. One way you can get booster packs in Steam is by buying them with gems. Then, you can use those cards to craft some badges and level up your Steam profile!

Gems can be obtained by turning items from your Steam inventory into them. This method of getting cards with booster packs works best if you have very valuable items that can be turned into a lot of gems.

You can turn items into gems directly from the Inventory section of your Steam client, and buy booster packs from the "Booster Pack Creator" section opened through the Badges menu. Another harder way you should know of getting booster packs is by pure chance by randomly opening Steam once you collect all the card drops from playing any games, even the best ones! 

Complete the Community Badge Tasks 

Lastly, we'll focus on a specific badge you can complete for EXP to level up - the Steam community badge. This badge will give you fast 500 EXP once it's completed, meaning it's a good start if you've just created a new account.

The community badge consists of easy 28 tasks you have to complete to get the full 500 experience. These are easy tasks that include adding your first friend, playing your first game, reviewing a game, making a trade, etc.

And those are the best and fastest Steam methods on how to level up fast! Steam has made the leveling system with paying in mind, but at least it's not very expensive. So what are you waiting for, go buy some cards, games, and DLCs to level up!