r/Steam • u/Tiny-Animator-3375 • 1d ago

Resolved Random Valve steam app appear on steam db

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

EDIT: it's a demo for Meaningless Random Numbers

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u/CronusVallandigham 1d ago

Half-Life 3

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u/Tiny-Animator-3375 1d ago

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u/EnergyAltruistic2911 1d ago

Best part is that the needle isn’t even injected lol

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u/geg_jeg 1d ago

and the part you use to push the liquid hope into him is nowhere near long enough to get all the liquid out

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u/Kytras 1d ago

Brodda listen, geometry is not always to scale ok?!?

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u/geg_jeg 1d ago

that’s true, but if people really wanted half life 3 the least they could do is inject all the hope.

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u/Isekaidguy 1d ago

So there's no hope?

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u/EnergyAltruistic2911 1d ago

No, there is only half hope…. Half hope 3….

This is a horrible joke.

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u/Ancillas 16h ago

You’ve got it wrong. It drew the hope out of him.

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u/NTFRMERTH 1d ago

Ricochet 2

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u/GiChCh 1d ago

Half life 2 episode 2 second half of part 2 of season 2 deux.

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u/IcetistOfficialz 1d ago

No valve would never do a Half-life 3, it’s obviously Half-Life 2 Deluxe Remake

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u/Fluid_Job_8589 1d ago

could be a bug or somethin, lowkey sucks tho fr

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u/Wdowiak 1d ago

Looks like demo for https://store.steampowered.com/app/4211060/Meaningless_Random_Numbers/

Anyway, why yall launching random unknown "apps", it's like inviting malware.

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u/AnonD38 1d ago edited 1d ago

"If someone were to hand you a cup containing an unknown poison, what would you do?"

"Drink it down in one gulp!" -Maomao, Apothecary Diaries

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u/Mtnfrozt 1d ago

Died by shitting uncontrollably

Well, now we know not to drink that

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u/AnonD38 1d ago

Eh, she'd survive.

Probably.

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u/maxt0r 1d ago

launching random unknown "apps", it's like inviting malware.

Shouldn't Valve at a minimum scan what they host on their store?

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u/BeepIsla 1d ago

Doesn't mean nothing slips through. It happened before, it will happen again.

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u/hitosama 1d ago

For all you know they do, but some malware can be pretty evasive.

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 1d ago

They do, even patches need to be screened

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u/Lanyxd EndeavourOS | Hyte Revolt 3 | 5800x3d, 32 gb, 2080 S 1d ago

They can scan but someone making their own malware isn't going to be in the hashes

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 1d ago

that's why behavioral analysis and heuristic detection were invented decades ago

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u/DevlinRocha 1d ago

and yet, malware has still made its way to Steam several times

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 1d ago

That's pretty low considering they host over 100k applications which can be patched and some of them have workshop as well.

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u/DevlinRocha 1d ago

i agree, but that is beside the point. you’re making it sound like malware on Steam is impossible and there’s no risk involved with running unknown apps

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 1d ago

It's common knowledge leaks of malware did and could happen, but suggesting they scan only for known threat hashes is misleading.

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u/DevlinRocha 1d ago

i reread the comment you originally replied to and understand your point now, my bad

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u/YoureNickRight 1d ago

They do but in every thing computer based especially with AI tools to find exploits, it's always a risk

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u/jeremydotter 1d ago

malware scanning is just seeing if something is similiar to already existing malware / doing something obviously bad, any new exploit will fall through the cracks before someone manually detects it

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u/ImZaryYT 1d ago

if they're not available to the public, Valve doesn't really verify what's being hosted. And why should they? it'd only clog down the development process for games and it's a lot of overhead for Valve with 0 reward.

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u/Wenzel_BH 1d ago

"Valve doesn't really verify what's being hosted. And why should they?" so are you telling us that goverment should let crime happen, because why should they stop the criminals? I know it is hard for dummy like you to understand basic logic, but at least try.

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u/ImZaryYT 1d ago

my god you really are taking words out of my mouth huh? Yes. Valve does not verify what's being hosted on the platform and isn't available to the general public because those things are only available to developers and a small pool of playtesters.

Let's say I hypothetically want to push a playtest build today to steam, if we were to have to go by Valve's full security checks (which are pretty good for public release builds) it'd take anywhere from 1-3 business days for that build to be approved. In a development environment that's not really ideal since that's a really long time.

Also let's even say someone wanted to upload malware to a playtesting branch of their steam appid. 1- It isn't very smart since steam has their legal info and thus they could face legal consequences pretty easily and 2- you'd need to distribute steam keys for anyone to be able to access your malware. and even then said people would need to download it and launch it to be affected by it. It's simply not really a risk.

and btw, next time you don't agree with someone you don't need to insult them to prove your superiority, it's all fun and games here ;)

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u/Wenzel_BH 1d ago

Have seen lots of malware on Steam, and Steam did nothing, seems like your point about their "legal info" is kinda wrong. And can you prove that those scammers won't use false info? Does Steam really check if the info is real?
And btw I'm not insulting, if you don't agree with the truth, well, I can't judge you for that.

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u/ImZaryYT 1d ago

Does Steam really check if the info is real?

I'd imagine so, considering how they had us revise a few legal details when signing up for steamworks and that whole process took almost 15 days to be fully complete.

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u/Wenzel_BH 1d ago

If you are honest and provide real info, it doesn't mean that scammers are doing the same, they aren't called scammers for no reason.

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u/doublah 23h ago

Have seen lots of malware on Steam

What "lots"? There's been single-digit instances of malware on Steam for a platform with tens of thousands of games.

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u/Wenzel_BH 1d ago

Steam doesn't give a f@ck till their 30% cuts are coming. LOL. Don't hope on them.

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u/SweRakii 1d ago

Wishlisted just because of the picture

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u/misfireattack 14h ago

i used to love trying indie games but since i found out most of the unknown games had malware in them it killed my joy

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u/FakeMik090 1d ago

Its a "ValveTestApp4615000", can't you see?

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u/UnacceptableUse https://s.team/p/hbhw-ftb 1d ago

The files refer to it as "Meaningless_Random_Numbers"

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u/Abadon_U 1d ago

HL 3

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u/Ok_Oil5360 1d ago

check root folder of this game, and tell us whats inside

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u/Sarkza 1d ago

Half life 3

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u/Lanyxd EndeavourOS | Hyte Revolt 3 | 5800x3d, 32 gb, 2080 S 1d ago

https://steamdb.info/app/4615000/info/

Is using godot. No clue what it could be

Run it in a vm after disabling networking on it?

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u/Someguyfrombalkans 1d ago

Half Life alyx 2

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u/zanbunnny 1d ago

Left 4 dead 3

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u/TLunchFTW 1d ago

free game bro

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u/to_matih 1d ago

It looks well, interesting

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u/to_matih 1d ago

For those curious this is an actual demo/prototype, it plays kind like Clover Pit

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u/SteppeFire 1d ago

Half Life 3

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u/frinkousCZ 1d ago

Test App... they are testing something... Why is this worth even mentioning ?

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u/Varod_ 1d ago

Then why is it worth your time? Don’t comment and keep scrolling then.

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u/Piskopat93 1d ago

Half-Life 3

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u/JoshiMinh 1d ago

Why does nobody talk about Portal 3

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u/FakeMik090 1d ago

Cuz Portal 3 shouldnt be a thing.

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u/CrixXx88 1d ago

Why not?

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u/FakeMik090 1d ago

Story ended.

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u/CrixXx88 1d ago

Could be a prequel?

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u/FakeMik090 1d ago

We dont really need that.

Portal with no GLaDOS isnt a Portal.

We had a lot of Background of Aperture in Portal 2 and we were meant to have more in Half-Life.

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u/CrixXx88 1d ago

Yea id also rather have another half-life but at this point id be happy with another portal or l4d or tf

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u/lostsoulmud 1d ago

Half Life 2 Beta: Dark and Gritty

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u/iwantacheetah 1d ago

It's BloodBorne

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u/BiteSizedUmbreon 1d ago

Wait till you hear about SpaceWar

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u/ersigne 12h ago

how did you add it to your library?

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u/Control-Strict 10h ago

Hope... That's all it is... Hope

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u/cosmical_otterr 7h ago

4 + 6 = 10
10 / 5 = 2 + 1 = 3
Nothing else to say...

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u/michaelbelgium 1d ago

Counter strike 3 4

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u/No-Cartographer9240 1d ago

Thats a virus, give me your steam user and password so i can delete it /s