Trading & Steam Community Market

Trading in Bongo Cat runs through the Steam Community Market. Most items you unbox are Steam inventory items, so spare hats and skins can be listed and sold for Steam Wallet funds.

How it works

Chests drop tradable cosmetics that live in your Steam inventory, and the in-game menus link straight out to the Market and your inventory categories. That is the extent of trading today: direct player-to-player trades were removed by the developer in a 2025 update after bot accounts were caught farming thousands of items and funneling them to a single account for bulk sales. The Market itself was deliberately left untouched, and the developer has said direct trading could return if the bot problem is brought under control. Note that promotional reward items are usually not marketable at all.

Player tips

Check current Market prices before feeding rare duplicates into the Item Exchange — a Rare or Epic dupe might be worth more in wallet funds than as one step up the upgrade ladder. Promo and event items staying unmarketable also means they are the one category that can only be earned, never bought.