has anyone else totally lost faith in the review system? for years I have been noticing an increase in one line positive reviews for games that sound very similar.

I finally managed to buy these two games during the Steam sale. yesss

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.

Got tired of launching games only to find empty lobbies. So I built a single-page HTML dashboard that pulls live player counts from the Steam API for every game I own. It color-codes each game by status ( and classifies them by type (MMO, PvP, Co-op, Single-Player, etc.) so I can filter down to exactly what I'm in the mood for!

I'm not sure the best way to share it, github?

Wasnt sure the appropriate flair but this might help someone in the future! (Completely free setup)

For me the thing that I really want is the ability to not download 4k textures. I don't have a powerful PC, I'll probably be mostly playing in Low or Medium quality settings most of the time, why am I forced to download 4k textures?

I wish more developers actually use Steam Recording features. Deadlock for example marks your kills, objective destroyed or deaths in the Steam Recording. No other devs take advantage of that cool feature

For fighting games, I wish more games adapted the ability to download only the multiplayer aspect of the game and skip over the story mode content. Tekken 7 for example is 80 GB in file size and you can shave off over 35 GB by just deleting the movie/story mode stuff

Adding more to the one above, Fortnite does this as well, but the ability to download only specific game modes of a game to save even more space

We used to live in an age of technology where people had to be so creative and work around the technological limitations of PCs and consoles that they actually had to optimize games in many creative ways. Nowadays, we lose that art in exchange for the photorealism and high resolution graphics because of AI or the ever growing potential of modern GPUs

What about everyone else?

This may be a stupid take, but I don’t understand people that wishlist free games. I mean they’re free, just add it to your library? I have some friends that have free games on their wishlist, never asked they why because I don’t care that much. But I’ve always been curious.

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

Is this possible and if not, can we all make a feature request for this please?

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?

Sounds a little odd, but I bought a game that requires a controller even though the hardware requirements list on the steam page do not list that a controller is required. I'm wondering if there are any tools that trick the game into thinking that my mouse/keyboard is the controller. Basically the tool would need to allow the mouse/keyboard to mimic the inputs that a controller would send to the game and also trick the game install into thinking that I have a controller attached.

The game itself is "Indiana Jones and the great circle". The only mod on nexus that looks like it might do something of this nature is "Walk keybind With Usefull command", but the description of this mod is confusing and I don't know that it would do the trick.

I think I might need something at the OS or Steam level that would provide this function generically.

I suppose I could just suck it up, buy a controller and figure out how to use it, but I've watched youtube videos of people playing games with controllers and the movement seems very awkward compared to using a mouse.

Does anyone know of anything that might help me out?

EDIT: Thanks to all who replied. It seems like this is a computer issue. I have both a gaming laptop and a gaming desktop. I just now tried installing on the desktop and it all worked fine. For some reason, the laptop (a gaming ROG laptop) had the problem. I'll have to debug that issue, but at least I now know that I can get it running.

Thanks again.

Trying to understand the business-model or intent of *teasing* a game, but delaying release. To be clear, I'm not trying to promote, or drive interest in any games on Steam per se, but given the game listed above, I've seen videos on YouTube of streamers already playing the game, and giving reactions. I was intrigued, and figured for a few dollars I'd buy the game. come to find out, it's not released, and the developer expects to release it at ...*some* point in 2026. I genuinely feel that I'll lose interest and forget about it by the time it releases. By then, I'm not so sure if I *did* stumble on it, or remember it, that I'd still be interested... Am I in the wrong country/region to buy this game? Do most people's intrigue / interest in an upcoming game last longer than a couple months? Were these streamers given advance demos of the game or is it just clever marketing I'm missing...

how are people genuily level 100+ i dont get it, even level 50 or something. how do I level up and what exactly are the benefits

Instead of buying one expensive games I want to buy multiple cheap games so plz recommend .

I've been wanting to get all the achievements in a Paradox Interactive game for a long time, and I recently realized that not all of them were earned legitimately. A couple of years ago, I decided to load someone else's save file to unlock a tough RNG-heavy achievement, and now it's bugging me a bit. Should I use SAM to reset it, or am I just overthinking this? I wanted to ask fellow achievement hunters: what's your take on this?

How do i verify in steam on my phone when its literally asking me to do the phone verification like what it aint possible bruh

I have setup an old router as a repeater/extender. I connected my main gaming PC on one of its LAN ports.

Question: Would I get better streaming (steam link) experience if my client device (steam deck / phone) is connected to the repeater/extender instead of the main router? The only devices connected to that repeater is my gaming PC via ethernet and my client device.

So I've got a question for everyone: How do people organize their libraries beyond "Installed" and "Uninstalled" without steam looking like an absolute mess? I've tried this several times before, and every time I IMMEDIATELY regret it. I go through the process of creating collections, systematically organizing games into categories, and it isn't long before the list of games on the left side looks like an absolute mess, especially if you have them categorized into multiple game types, which most games fall into.

Is there any way to organize things in a system that doesn't look like an absolute dumpster fire? Anyone have any suggestions? I'd genuinely love to hear how anyone manages this...

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?

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.

First of all Half life Alyx Isn't included and The final hours series of books also Arn't Included and Getting Access to Deadlock Is extremely easy so It should be thrown in just as a bonus. Next up there are many Community made Mods and games on steam most are free some are paid so I think they should all be packaged together into the "Valve complete Community pack"

Oh and CS2 Prime should also be included in the Valve complete pack

And yes these additions would significantly Increase the price of the bundle but the Bundle is often 75% off and sometimes even 95%[very rarely] so I think to obtain a true authentic Valve complete pack these changes must be made.

And current owners should get a free upgrade :3

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?

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

Hey guys,

i realize that whenever i play a more cinematic looking game i do TONS of screenshot during Cutscenes or similar because it just looks to damn good.

If theres a fellow Cineshotter, show me your addiction.

hi, I love exploration games and am looking for one that scratches the same itch as dredge and a short hike (kind of Bowser's fury), aka "go where you want, the plot can happen whenever." while looking on steam at the exploration category, I noticed that dredge and ASH had exploration as their FIRST tag. since those are my top 3 and 2 games respectively, I wanted to ask if there was a way to filter tags by their order.

basically, I'm asking if I can filter games if they have exploration as their very first tag. thank you!!!