The Best Cheap TF2 Skins (Under $10)
Team Fortress 2 is such a funny game! Joining matches with plain default weapons is alright for beginners—for a short period. Then, it feels absolutely better to unleash your personal sense of style and join the general hilarious atmosphere—with awesome custom guns. Sure, you don’t have to spend your life savings on this. Check out this article for some examples of the best cheap skins in TF2.
Unlike other games on DMarket, such as CS2 and Rust, TF2 offers some pretty practical items, like Backpack Expander. But in general, the best cheap offers in Team Fortress 2 are strictly cosmetic skins. Still, they have a pretty tangible effect on the game’s atmosphere. May they bring you more wins and even more cheerful playing time!
Backpack Expander
- Type: Tool
- Class: All classes
- Starting price: $1.07
Add this item to your Team Fortress 2 backpack to add 100 new slots to it. Place whatever you want into them to maximize your inventory in the game. Buy even more TF2 Backpack Expanders to have up to 3,750 slots for free players and 4,000 slots for Premium accounts.
The practical usage of this TF2 item is the reason for its popularity. It’s a worthy investment for dedicated competitors.
The Expander itself looks like a pretty big backpack, with various objects attached to it: like arrows, and a bat. Four straps hold the TF2 backpack together. The appearance of the Backpack Expander in TF2 is not very important, as you just place it in an inventory slot.
Buy Backpack Expander on DMarket
Macabre Web Mk.II Pistol
- Type: Secondary Weapon
- Class: Scout and Engineer
- Starting price: $1.60
It’s a Pistol for TF2 Scouts and Engineers that is covered with the Macabre Web Mk.II Paint. Not only do you get a nice secondary weapon for your Team Fortress 2 character, but it also has a decent color finish.
Macabre Web Mk.II is a type of TF2 War Paint. The game has a vast collection of this cosmetic coverage. War Paint can be applied to various weapons to change their default look.
With Macabre Web Mk.II, you get a mix of purple stripes, dark areas, and a light green background. One of the patterns is filled with spider webs, which gives the name to this paint. The exact look depends on a randomly selected seed for each particular gun. TF2 Pistol is a nice choice as your secondary weapon. It features a decent shooting range and fire rate. The damage is rather low, so you need to land a few hits.
Buy Macabre Web Mk.II Pistol on DMarket
The Enforcer
- Type: Secondary Weapon
- Class: Spy
- Starting price: $0.02
If you are looking for the cheapest TF2 items, here is an offer especially for you! The Enforcer looks quite impressive in the game with its shiny metal and polished white handle. The price of this skin is barely worth even noting.
Like with other Team Fortress 2 items, The Enforcer changes the practical properties of the default secondary weapon, the Revolver.
If you purchase The Enforcer, your Spy will be able to deal 20% more damage than with the Revolver. To compensate for this, the developers made the firearm 20% slower and removed the possibility of Critical Hits.
The Revolver itself is a default secondary weapon for Spy, one of the Team Fortress 2 character classes. It’s an essential addition to Spy’s arsenal, as you need a ranged weapon for some situations: for example, if you can’t get close enough to stab with your knife.
Carpet Bomber Stickybomb Launcher
- Type: Secondary Weapon
- Class: Demoman
- Starting price: $1.43
This Team Fortress 2 skin has a colorful abstract design that totally changes the appearance of the military-like Stickybomb Launcher. The name is pretty scary, though, as it seemingly refers to the deadly type of bombing. Perhaps this is a hint at the efficiency of your weapon in TF2—no one can escape your stickybombs.
Carpet Bomber Stickybomb Launcher is part of the Concealed Killer Collection. This is strictly a cosmetic change for Demoman’s secondary weapon. The skin is of the Commando Grade level of rarity.
The Stickybomb Launcher itself is a modified version of the Grenade Launcher. The stickybombs attach to most surfaces on the game map, and you can manually detonate them at the best moment. Using this weapon for your Demoman requires a good understanding of tactics in a TF2 match.
Buy Carpet Bomber Stickybomb Launcher on DMarket
Detonator
- Type: Secondary Weapon
- Class: Pyro
- Starting price: $0.02
It’s another extremely cheap TF2 skin: Detonator is one of the best variations of Pyro’s Flare Gun. When you use this weapon, the fiery projectiles deal less damage than the default gun. However, it lives up to its name with the detonation possibility. When the projectiles are in the air, you can activate an explosion, so the area damaged becomes much wider.
As a TF2 item, Detonator adds extra details to the original look of Flare Gun but keeps the general style. Pyro still battles with a fancy orange gun, but it feels to be somewhat more filled with functional features.
Festivized Specialized Killstreak Medi Gun
- Type: Secondary Weapon
- Class: Medic
- Starting price: $0.00 - no offers on DMarket
The effect of using the Festivizer tool looks quite natural on the Medi Gun. It is totally worth celebrating when your teammates are healed from damage, and that’s exactly what this “weapon” does.
The Festivizer adds a string of Christmas lights to weapons in Team Fortress 2. The skin Festivized Specialized Killstreak Medi Gun comes already with it.
Moreover, if you buy this cheap TF2 item, you get the killstreak option as well. It counts how many allies have you healed with the device. This is the effect of using the Killstreak Kit on the Medi Gun. Your Medic will reach the next level of stylish perfection with such a skin in your TF2 inventory!
Buy Festivized Specialized Killstreak Medi Gun on DMarket
Genuine MK 50
- Type: Cosmetic hat
- Class: All classes
- Starting price: $2.23
Will your Team Fortress 2 character feel more comfortable and safe if they wear a space helmet during shooting matches? It won’t really protect them from anything, but the MK 50 helmet does look cool!
This item is pretty special, as it was introduced to TF2 around the special promo event for the game Alien: Isolation. Players who pre-ordered it got the MK 50 as a reward. Now, you can only buy this item from other players. Any TF2 character class is suitable for it.
The helmet is part of the MK 50 Compression suit from the Alien movies. You can find Genuine and standard versions of the MK 50—which are even cheaper TF2 skins.
The Powerjack
- Type: Melee
- Class: Pyro
- Starting price: $0.02
Your Pyro can replace the default Fire Axe with this automobile jack for the melee weapon slot. It can be fun to run around the TF2 maps with this thing and threaten to beat opponents hard.
The Powerjack brings more than just cosmetic changes. We’ve added it to our list of the best cheap skins in TF2 partially for its practical effects. If you earn a kill with The Powerjack, your Team Fortress 2 character restores 25 points of health. Another benefit is 15% higher movement speed. However, Pyro with The Powerjack becomes 20% more vulnerable to all sorts of damage.
The thing itself looks rather scrappy, but it adds an interesting mechanical touch to the TF2 aesthetics.
Strange Festivized Killstreak Revolver
- Type: Secondary Weapon
- Class: Spy
- Starting price: $1.82
Spy’s default Secondary Weapon gets three additional features with this build. If you buy the Strange Festivized Killstreak Revolver, you obtain two counters: killstreak and general kills. How many dead opponents can you leave behind without being killed yourself? The general number of kills you perform in Team Fortress 2 may impress your friends.
Also, the weapon is covered with Christmas lights, as if playing TF2 is always a celebration for you.
The Revolver itself is an essential weapon for Spy to be effective during ranged battles. This character class is not the easiest to play, so before you decide to go for Strange Festivized Killstreak Revolver, check out our TF2 beginner guide.
Buy The Strange Festivized Killstreak Revolver on DMarket
The Black Box
- Type: Primary Weapon
- Class: Soldier
- Starting price: $0.02
The default look of Soldier’s Rocket Launcher changes significantly with this TF2 item. You get a long, slim rectangular black box to shoot rockets from. The weapon is dark with a small addition of camouflage-like elements.
The practical effect of using The Black Box is healing Soldier for the damage dealt to his opponents. It is pretty helpful in intense matches and may allow you to be more reckless in Team Fortress 2 battles. However, the feature comes at a cost: you should reload The Black Box more frequently than the usual Rocket Launcher. This makes your character more vulnerable.
Like with other cheap TF2 items, you should consider your personal playing style and preferences before switching to The Black Box.
The collection of items in Team Fortress 2 is amazingly big, and most of these skins are pretty cheap on the market. Feel free to explore the offers on DMarket and choose whichever is the best specifically for you.
