Steam hour booster in the cloud:
farm playtime and trading cards 24/7, PC off.

A Steam hour boost (playtime boost) raises the hours-on-record a game shows on your profile by keeping it running in the background. HourFarming does it from the cloud, so your PC stays off — Steam counts the time exactly as if the game were open on your desk.

Ours has a free tier: one Steam account, 3 games farming at once, and 100 farmed hours per month — no credit card. Paid plans lift the hour cap and add accounts and games, but the free tier is a working hour booster, not a trial that expires.

Yes — that is the point of a cloud hour booster. Your accounts sign into Steam from our servers, so hours keep climbing with your PC off, your laptop shut, or your phone the only thing you own. You only need a browser to add accounts and watch the panel.

Yes, on Starter and Fleet: it reads your badges page and farms the games that still have drops left one at a time — the way Steam actually hands them out — then falls back to your hours list when every set is done. The free tier idles for hours only; cards still drop from whatever it idles, just not scheduled.

Farming works exactly like leaving the game open on your PC — the account signs into Steam and reports itself in-game. Nothing is injected into any game and no game files are touched, so VAC has nothing to see. That said, inflating playtime isn’t something Valve endorses, and we can’t speak for their future policy — farm on accounts you’re comfortable with.

Not if you use QR sign-in: you approve the login in the Steam Mobile app and only a session token reaches us. If you add an account by password instead, it’s encrypted with AES-256-GCM before it’s stored and is only ever used to sign into Steam.

Just play. Steam tells the fleet you’re in a game on another device and that account pauses farming until you’re done. Hours from your real session count as normal.

When Steam asks for a code, a prompt appears in the panel and — if you allow notifications — on your desktop. Enter it once; after that the fleet reuses a refresh token and shouldn’t need to ask again.

Limited accounts farm up to 5 games instead of 32 (Steam’s restriction, not ours). If an account has a VAC ban, the panel asks once whether you want to proceed with it.

Any time, from the panel. Your fleet keeps farming until the end of the paid period, then drops back to the free tier — accounts and settings stay, nothing is deleted.