i want to gift the game undertale with a steam key to someone. On another website, when you bought a steam key, an steam account gifted it to you. That was not what i wanted.

So the question again: do i get a steam key when i buy untertale for steam on this website?

You don't buy "Undertale" for Steam on this website, you buy "Undertale" for GOG on this website.
So, no - you don't get a Steam key, if you buy here - you get a GOG key.

Edit: if you want a Steam key - why don't you simply buy the game on Steam?

To oversimplify the answer:
this store is for people who want nothing to do with Steam, so you won't get any Steam keys from GOG. It's a bit confusing, but he wants to gift it, and perhaps he doesn't want his Steam account information to be connected to the gifted game, for whatever reason.
I don't think there's any way to buy gift codes from Steam without using your own account to do it?


Anyway, I would recommend buying a gift code from GOG, and giving that to somebody.
It would be a good way to spread some DRM-free game gifts.

If that's not an option, and I can understand why it wouldn't be, if the receiver wants to use Steam only, then go to Humble Store or Fanatical and buy the game from there.

You can keep your own Steam account unassociated with those purchases, and simply give the actual activating code to the person receiving the gift.

Fanatical doesn't sell keys for Undertale.
The only official sources for Undertale keys are listed here: https://undertale.com/

And I agree: if the OP wants a Steam key, but doesn't want to buy "directly from the source" (for whatever reasons), he would be well adviced to go there, click on the tab "PC" and then buy from Humble...that way he gets a key not connected to any existing account.

Buy it on Humble?

OP might be a bot. They asked the same question two hours ago in the German forum and got an answer within minutes. And yet this thread was made an hour later.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_de/bekomme_ich_wirklich_einen_steam_key

When you buy a Steam or GOG or any other store key for the game but instead you receive an access to account with that game on it - it's called "criminal activity" since stores forbade to sell or giveaway users' accounts to anyone else, and the worst thing is that after a while the original owner might easily took the account away with the help of tech support.

In other words you're buying "a promise" of a good will from a criminal. Never ever buy accounts from 3rd party websites.

You want the Undertale for your GOG account, buy it directly:
https://www.gog.com/game/undertale

for Steam, buy it directly:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/391540/Undertale/

Could be, but bots are not known to ask questions in multiple languages. I would go for troll or idiot.


btw, Cadaver747 answered with a easy, working solution (even provided links), mark it as such.

Part of me died when I saw that they had that support article. Then again, part of me dies whenever someone posts here asking about or complaining about not getting a steam key.

And what's interesting here is that their official support article is actually strictly speaking wrong.

"We are an independent platform, and none of our games can be redeemed elsewhere."
That's kind of correct, but there have been special cases that are exceptions to that.

From a no longer active Steam keys thread:
"ArmA II (now removed from GOG) could be redeemed on Steam using the serial key, go to its place in your library and then click on More -> Serial keys"

Yeah. But think of it from their perspective.

If you write an article that says something along the lines of "we may give steam keys that are redeemable on steam in very specific, special cases" or such.

How long until you get a bunch of forum posts, emails and other such contact methods from people asking for steam keys for their "special case"?

It's far easier to just say "We don't give out steam keys" than open the flood gates for people begging for steam keys.

I don't really see that as GoG selling a redeemable steam key.

It's more that when you buy the game give you a key that works for multiplayer, but (due to the way that steam works), you can redeem that as a key on steam. If it works the way I suspect it does, you redeem that key on steam and steam then gives you the game, but generates a new key for that game (which in a hilarious way, you could then redeem in turn on Steam and get yet another key). Needless to say, you're not supposed to do this.

I'm pretty sure I saw a youtube once where someone did this.