Calculators

Welcome to GeekyAlien's Calculators section — a set of small, focused tools for gaming enthusiasts who want a specific number, not a full article. This is deliberately different from our separate Tools section, which holds broader, universal utilities like a system requirements checker and a game comparison tool that work the same way across the whole catalog. Calculators are narrower: each one answers a single, specific question.

The largest group is the pricing calculators — six of them. The historical low calculator checks whether a game's current price matches the lowest ever recorded for it, and the subscription value calculator works out the cost per hour of a gaming subscription, with an optional comparison against buying specific games outright. Genre cost and tag cost calculators total up what it would cost to own every game in a genre or with a specific Steam tag at today's prices. The microtransaction real value calculator converts an in-game item's virtual-currency cost into real money, and the wishlist cost calculator adds up a list of game prices you type in yourself.

Five calculators cover competitive stats and combat: K/D & KDA ratio, win rate (with a reverse mode for how many more wins you'd need to hit a target), XP leveling speed, an ELO rating change calculator using the standard chess-derived Elo formula, and a DPS & time-to-kill calculator for working out damage per second and how fast a target goes down. None of these look anything up for you — they're pure arithmetic on the numbers you enter, so they work for any competitive game.

The drop rate & loot odds calculator stands alone as the section's probability tool — it works out your chance of at least one item drop across multiple attempts, or the reverse: how many attempts you'd need for a target confidence level, using standard binomial probability.

The backlog time calculator is the one time-based tool: list how long you expect each game in your backlog to take, and it adds up the total and works out how many weeks that means at your own weekly play time — you supply the hour estimates yourself, since no site tracks how long every game takes to finish.

The last group covers performance and input. The FPS vs monitor refresh rate calculator does the frame-timing math and shows how much rendered FPS goes to waste above your monitor's refresh rate without variable refresh rate technology. The mouse sensitivity converter is the section's one game-specific calculator — it converts sensitivity between five named games (CS:GO/Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, and Fortnite), plus a mode for adjusting sensitivity within a single game when only its field-of-view setting changes, and a third mode for working out eDPI (DPI × sensitivity), the standard number competitive players use to compare setups.

None of these need an account or sign-up. The pricing calculators reflect live, current catalog prices rather than a fixed snapshot; the rest are fully generic, computing only from numbers you type in yourself.