Card Farming

The Card Farming feature simulates playing games to earn trading cards that can be used to craft badges or can be sold on the Steam marketplace for real currency. Read the Steam Trading Card FAQ for more information.

You have two options for farming cards:

You must add your Steam Credentials in Settings > Card Farming before you can use the Card Farming feature

You can add multiple games to the card farming list

Steps

Card Farming List

Select Farm cards for games in the Card Farming list in Settings > Card Farming

Click in the sidebar

Click Edit List to open the edit list modal and click on games to add and remove them

Click Done and then Start Card Farming

All Games With Drops

Select Farm cards for all games with card drops remaining in Settings > Card Farming

Click in the sidebar

Click Start Card Farming

Additional Information

There is a three-hour wait before the first card drop for newer accounts, and accounts that have refunded a game recently.

Some games drop a card every half hour, but some only drop after 60, 90 or 120 minutes.

You can add as many games to your card farming list as you like, though SGI can only farm cards for a maximum of 32 games simultaneously as Steam imposes this limit.

Once a game has no card drops remaining it will be removed from the list and another game will start being farmed if there is one available.

While Card Farming is active, you may notice idle windows starting and stopping occasionally. This is because SGI uses the following method to farm cards as fast as possible:


Start idling each game for 5 minutes
Stop idling each games for 1 minute
Start idling each game for 15 seconds (this is where the first set of cards should drop)
Stop idling each games for 1 minute
Start idling each game for 30 minutes
Stop idling each games for 1 minute
Start idling each game for 15 seconds (this is where the next set of cards should drop)
Stop idling each game
-- REPEAT --