Steam Trading Cards are virtual trading cards that you can earn for free by playing certain games on the Steam platform. Each card features unique artwork from the developer of the corresponding game. You can sell these cards on the Steam Community Market, trade them with your friends, and turn them into badges to display on your Steam Community profile.

Steam Trading Cards have two main purposes:

Steam Wallet Cash allows you to purchase various in-game items in the Steam Community Marketplace and games in the regular Steam Store. Additional rewards come in the form of game badges that you can then display on your profile page.

There are a few ways to get Steam Cards, but the only way to get them for free is by playing games on Steam. If a game has Steam Card support, you’ll earn them simply by playing the game. Each game has a preset number of cards in its full set, and playing the game will give you about half of those cards.