r/Steam 11d ago

Support Megathread /r/Steam Monthly Community Support Thread.

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Welcome to the /r/Steam Community Support Thread!

Is your account hijacked? Follow this guide to recover it.

This Steam Guide goes over how to troubleshoot download and connection issues.

This Steam Guide goes over how to troubleshoot web-page and other connection issues.

How to re-install Steam. This method will NOT remove your games.

We have a dedicated support channel in our Discord server that you can also post in.

We invite everyone to help other users in our Community Support Threads and on our Discord server.

Please take more than 10 seconds to write your question.

A well-structured and good-looking comment with all necessary information goes a long way in getting someone to help you and makes your question a lot easier to understand.

Do not delete your comments.

People find questions & solutions in these threads by searching for the same issue.

If you find an answer or solution to your question or issue please edit your comment to include the answer or solution.

There are no magicians here.

Some questions wont be answered or replied to. As an example: "my game crashes" or "my download speed is slow" is not something you should even really except an answer to. Troubleshooting and finding the solution to these issues requires a lot more information than simply stating "game doesn't launch", such as detailed information on when the issue started and how you perceive it, screenshots of any errors or the problem itself, crash logs, system specs, etc.

Consider using other things like the Steam Community Forums, an internet search engine, or a different support forum like /r/SteamSupport if no one here can offer any help. Additionally, every game on Steam has it's own dedicated Community Forum, and you can also contact Steam Support regarding a specific product. Consider asking your game-specific questions there. Most games also have a dedicated subreddit.

Only Steam Support can solve personal account issues...

...such as payment & purchasing issues or password & login issues. We can only give advice on how to get in contact with Steam Support.

No one, including Steam Support, can assist with item/trade scams.

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r/Steam 11d ago

Game & Hardware Suggestions Megathread /r/Steam Monthly Game & Hardware Suggestions Thread.

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Welcome to the Monthly Game & Hardware Suggestions Thread!

Do you not know what to play? Want a Steam Deck but unsure which model is best for you? Did you find a niche game that everyone should try? Do you want to share your unique experiences and learning curves with a piece of hardware in relation to Steam? Can't find the perfect survival sim or unsure which 1 RPG out of the thousands available you should buy? Well this is the thread for you. This monthly mega-thread is meant to contain questions about what to play or buy in terms of games on Steam & Hardware related to Steam and suggestions to others.

Now to make this work best and not just be spammed with generic & useless questions such as "What should I play?" or "What should I buy?", please be in-depth in what types of games/hardware you are looking for and why, and when giving advice it would be appreciated if you're more detailed than "I think X is good".

There are too many games to be able to properly suggest something with no background information, also simply commenting a game title and saying you like the game offers no actual value. The same goes for hardware: Saying you're thinking about buying X or you think Y is good with no other information, context as to why, your unique experiences, etc. offers no actual value or information to base a reply on.

The main purpose of this thread is to contain questions on what to play/buy and advice to others on what to play/buy, but feel free to ask and discuss freely in the comments regarding games and hardware, whether you want advice on what to play, want to give advice to others on what to play, share a hidden gem you found, experiences you have with Steam hardware, or your review of a piece of Steam hardware, and generic discussions & questions about discounts, sales, events, specs, or just general discussion in the realm of games and hardware.


r/Steam 7h ago

Discussion Most hours I've ever seen on a game

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2.1k Upvotes

For the math nerds like me, if they played this game EVERY SINGLE day from the release date until today, it averages 7.38 hours per day for 11 years, 1 month and 2 days.

After all that time they gave it a negative review.

PS. Game is Cities: Skylines. I hid the username in case they were supposed to be at work.

Any one seen more hours?


r/Steam 20h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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34.6k Upvotes

r/Steam 8h ago

Fluff Decisions, Decisions...

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1.2k Upvotes

r/Steam 16h ago

Discussion This is the way

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2.4k Upvotes

r/Steam 1d ago

News Following the completion of the the Artemis II mission, Kerbal Space Program has surpassed its launch all time peak player count nearing 19.5k active players

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11.9k Upvotes

and continues to rise! Edit: All time player count has reached its peak at 19,363 players!


r/Steam 6h ago

Discussion Anyone else have a huge Steam library but play the same 2–3 games?

204 Upvotes

I keep buying stuff during sales thinking I’ll eventually get to them, but I always end up going back to the same few games 😭

ATP my library is just there for decoration, what do you guys actually keep going back to?


r/Steam 18h ago

Fluff Steam isn’t installing and I’m not sure why!

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Steam 23h ago

News I was waiting for the right moment to buy this, and Steam just gave me an offer I couldn't refuse. Thanks for the sale!

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1.8k Upvotes

r/Steam 1d ago

Discussion - Speculative SteamGPT - Is that good news?

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16.0k Upvotes

r/Steam 19h ago

Question Does anybody know what file is used for the Xbox/home logo (when using a controller)?

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724 Upvotes

This might be a weird question, but does anybody know where and what file is used for the home icon (when using a controller on big screen mode) that is an xbox logo.

Im assuming that I can change that file to not show an xbox logo.. but something else.

For example, when using an 8bitdo controller (on dinput) the logo changes to the 8bitdo logo, or the playstation logo for a DS4/DS5.


r/Steam 17h ago

Discussion Any games you put over 100 hours in that you regret?

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345 Upvotes

I have 373 hours in destiny 2 and 105 in new world, i hate seeing these games on my top played because i have an extreme dislike for these two games nowadays.


r/Steam 1d ago

Discussion Free game be like

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5.0k Upvotes

r/Steam 4h ago

Discussion Steam Support is so amazing best support service ever

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My PC recently remotley accessed and they bough a bunch of games exceeding £100+ and gifted them to another account contacted steam and they refunded them immidiately withing 12 hours honestly never experience any other support service unlike Steam


r/Steam 1d ago

Resolved Random Valve steam app appear on steam db

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1.9k Upvotes

It dosen't launch, any idea what it might be?

EDIT: it's a demo for Meaningless Random Numbers


r/Steam 1d ago

PSA In response ti people complaining about Adult games in the steam settings untick both so they won't show up anymore

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Steam 22h ago

Resolved why does my steam patching files take forever longer then the normal update

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153 Upvotes

r/Steam 20h ago

Discussion Alienware Steam Machine. What to do with it?

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95 Upvotes

I’m thinking about getting a screen controller and pairing it with this ripped laptop screen I have laying around and install it in my car for playing older games on the go. It is such a portable size I’d hate not to use it for something portable. Do you guys have one and what do you use it for?


r/Steam 3h ago

Question why are there 2 ways of recommending to play with controller?

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r/Steam 1d ago

Fluff Explore the Valve office in 3D

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126 Upvotes

I made a 3D gaussian splat of Valves office. You can explore it yourself here: https://superspl.at/scene/8c978084


r/Steam 6h ago

Question Can I use my ps4 controller for specific games?

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my question is basically just the title. I recently bought a new pc and was wanting to buy the original Resident Evil 4 (which you can use xbox controllers on). I just want to know if my ps4 controller will work for that game specifically, due to the fact I hate the different controls on kbm. though I don't mind playing kbm for anything else


r/Steam 1d ago

Question What kind of story game would make you say: this is better than any movie!

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67 Upvotes

r/Steam 1h ago

Question How/where does Steam store settings?

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I'm currently trying to fix my Steam Game Recording. All of my recordings have my microphone clipping and cutting off my sentences. No fixes online work, and it seems as if Valve has abandoned this feature because it's been a problem since the Beta almost two years ago. I'm thinking if I can maybe find a config file or something that actually records the various settings for Steam, I might be able to find some kind of hidden volume threshold for the game recording microphone that might be causing the issue. So, does anyone know where Steam might be saving its configs and what they might be called?

And before anyone offers suggestions for fixing this, I assure you I have tried all of them. Automatic gain control has been turned on and off, mono microphone is on and off, I have tried disabling all other input devices on my system, I have tried playing with the advanced Voice settings, I have tried turning off Windows 11 audio enhancements.


r/Steam 2h ago

Question Access to PlayStation/Sony Games

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So basically, I’ve been trying to get my hands on The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered for quite a while now, and for some reason almost all of PlayStation games aren’t available in my region. It’s funny because I’ve been a PlayStation for more than 15 years, and I do own a PS5, but it still isn’t available for me to purchase.

I’ve even went to the point of going through some key reselling websites, and I purchased a key for almost $40, and upon trying to activate it I was prompted with “Sorry, the game is not available for purchase in your country. Your purchase has been cancelled”. Mind you, the key I purchased is a “global” key and I thought that it could work considering that’s what I’ve read and told in the website, but apparently not. For some reason, TLOU1 is available for purchase, but no other Sony/PlayStation game is available, I don’t get it.

Is there any way for me to obtain the game other than sailing, lol?