Renting video games was never something I considered. If I wanted to play a game, I bought it. I’ve been renting movies online for years, but for some reason I never tried renting games online. The price for video games just keeps getting higher and higher, making it difficult to keep buying every game I want to try. I also noticed that I have a large collection of games, many that I have never completed, or worse, never even played. Paying up to sixty dollars a piece for these games seems like such a waste.

The idea of renting games starts to make a lot of sense now. So I went ahead and setup up trial accounts with the top 3 online video game rental companies and gave it a try. I wish I had done this years ago, as I found out there are several benefits to renting video games online.

One of the best reasons for renting games is that you get to try out the game before spending a lot of money on it. There are so many games being released each month that it is not always easy to pick one or two games to buy. With renting, you can try them all, and if you find one you like, you can buy just that one. This can save you so much money if you are in the habit of buying a lot of games.

There are some video gamers that like to take a new game and play it from start to finish over several days. Once they’re done with the game, it just sits on the shelf collecting dust as they move on to the next game. For these type of players, renting video games can save them a ton of money. You could knock out 3 or 4 games a month for less than $20, compared to spending $150 to $200 or more buying the games. Even if you only rented and played one game a month, it is still cheaper to rent than to buy.

If you have ever looked for a game to rent in a store, then you know how terrible the selection is. No so with an online game rental service. They have thousands of games to chose from. Everything from time honored classics to the latest and greatest new released. Most services have games for all the popular console and handheld games.

Having the games delivered right to your mailbox is another plus. No more driving back and forth to rent and return video games. This might not be a problem if you have a rental store around the corner, but for many gamers, the closest place to rent video games is a 30 minute drive or longer.

It’s also nice not to have to return it by a certain date or face late fees. I can keep it as long as I want, return it when I’m ready, and get the next game in the mail in a day or two.

There’s no need to spend money on buying games when you can rent them for a small percentage of the cost. But do not look for Netflix game rentals, they only do DVD’s. There are several excellent services that rent video games online.