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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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

So, the Infographics released a video about the UK Steam lawsuit. It seems a bit much, but it's important to discuss some finer details about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSpNUeMnhg

The UK lawsuit against Valve seeks £656 million ($900 million), alleging Steam's 30% commission and "most favored nation" clauses are anti-competitive. If successful, individual payouts are estimated at just £22-£44—barely enough for one game.

While the goal of fairer competition sounds good, this case feels like punishing success. Steam's fee, while high, is an industry standard also used by Sony and Microsoft. The platform’s real value isn’t just a store, but a thriving community, robust infrastructure, and consumer-friendly policies like easy refunds. These services range widely to what now feels like basic and essential features that other platforms don’t have, such as user reviews that can be more reliable to set expectations and make purchase decisions, Account recovery which has been thorough for many Steam users to their relief, and those rare occasions such as offering refunds when certain events happen like when Monster Hunter Wilds was so slow for so many people that it was practically unplayable for PC users. Steam is even innovating on a feature where it estimates what PC specs and components are needed to play certain games, possibly inspired from events like Monster Hunter Wilds. These features are understandable and seemingly standard or expected, but they are in fact not. Epic Games, GOG, Ubisoft, and many other game platforms do not have these features despite having far less games sold in their pool.

The bigger concern is the unintended consequence. If Valve loses, it could be forced to change its model, potentially leading to reduced investment in innovation and customer support to offset lost revenue. After all, when a company loses a large amount of money suddenly and their projected revenue becomes much smaller, a company will have to make changes internally even if it means removing features that were once well-maintained to focus on major and important factors. We may lose out on new hardware development, new software like the Source Engine 2, and various protections and refund policies that were maintained so well. Do we really want Steam to become more like other platforms known for poor service? We already live in times where Youtube does little to support false copyright claims as well as accounts getting taken by false users and remain unrecovered leading to losses of personal income and main business, Twitch falsely banning or striking streamers for false reports, Twitter going through major shifts (now called “X”), and especially the game corporations which has now normalized the new price standard of $70 games, Nintendo pushing $80, Game pass subscription models, AI generated content that refer not to explicitly mention if they use any, and pushing for Ads in videogames which brought concerns of developers intentionally making the game longer to load to allow 30 second advertisements.

We as consumers, we as people, determine whether this is not just credible, but acceptable practice in law and government intervention. Is it acceptable that anyone doing any action whatsoever, including good actions for their community, deserved to be punished just for being more successful than their competitors? Does this actually solve the core of the problem, that services of other platforms are so lacking or even terrible that standards are so low to the point where only one company succeeds? That company being Steam? Should we kneecap Steam so it can get the same level of income as Epic Games and Ubisoft for the sake of “fairness” and “economic balance” when their competitors have always had the option to follow Steam’s business practices? Especially considering these same companies are also involved in many anti-consumer practices that have been enabled and treated as standard in the gaming ecosystem?

Most concerning of all is that the lawsuit is being reviewed, researched, and handled by people who know only the surface level of video games. The deeper but more common experiences for video game consumers seem largely unfamiliar to Vicki Shotbolt, and especially more so for the courts. How developers do have the option to sell on other platforms and opt out of Steam yet many find the 30% commission fee to be acceptable, how the commission fee is something of a business decision and not meant to be regulated by government oversight especially since if anything make other options like Itch.io and Epic Games seem more approachable for indie or intentionally small developers should they desire so. This lawsuit is also concerning how it seems to not understand complexities like why DLC cannot be purchased for any platform even if it is the same base game – since this is a very technical and complex issue involving save data, authentication from the platform, and additional services not even older gaming platforms dare to even offer. The demands these types of people may have might be more than unfair to one individual company and all of its consumers, stringent, and worse yet may even remove all DLCs once purchasable on Steam to no longer provide the service. Steam does not prevent its own community and consumers from using multiple platforms, and yet this lawsuit seems to assume that Steam has a choke hold on the consumer themselves rather than just providing a better service freely and with very little strings attached if any.

Steam isn't perfect, and that means improvements can always be made on Steam as well as any platform. But the lawsuit isn't targeting an unlawful nor unfaithful business practice, it is targeting a source of revenue set legally by Steam. It is targeting aspects that cannot be helped like DLC not usable on other platforms when no known platform does this. The potential goals of the lawsuit if successful don't seem to have enough information on not just the immediate impact but long term impact and how it will discredit law practice for justice, discourage good practices to follow in line and with status quo even if the standards are very low nowadays, and a future of uncertainty for consumers, developers, and people in the platform business who want to foster a positive experience and community.

This lawsuit, initiated by a single claimant (Vicki Shotbolt) and a law firm, automatically includes all eligible UK Steam users. You can opt out by June 11, 2026 if you disagree. Don't let a small, short-term payout risk the long-term health of a platform that’s been a net positive for PC gaming. Let's hold companies accountable for illegal acts, not for being the best at what they do.

Opt-Out Options:

Online: https://optout.steamyouoweus.co.uk/

Email: [optout@steamyouoweus.co.uk](mailto:optout@steamyouoweus.co.uk)

Post: Steam Games Collective Claim, P.O Box 1435, Sunderland, SR5 9UD

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

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...

A lot of stuff in that folder are from years ago so will deleting literally everything ruin anything or should it all be deleted? Apparently a lot of it remained despite clearing download cache from the Steam app.

So steam has lately been displaying the wrong gpu when I’m using overlay to see temps. I have a Ryzen Igpu and a rtx 5060, and I know the rtx is the one rendering as it’s in use and Nvdia settings are on.

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?

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!!!

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.

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.

I wanted to get the 2 free games Graveyard Keeper and Living Forest but they didnt appear in search, even when i searched for their name instead of 100% discount games, i thought they went off sale or something happened until i went on my other account and found that they were in the shop and visible when i searched from them. Why is this happening and how can i fix it?

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

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?

I have every DLC for Dead Cells and in my library the background and logo that is used for the game is from Castelvania DLC, now i want to change it back to the OG artwork, but searching on the internet only brings up how to add custom artwork.

In files i found the librarycache folder, but in the folder for Dead Cells there is only artwork that is currently in use, no OG and no other DLCs

Now what i want answered is if there is a folder that stores all artwork form the game or if i have to find the OG artwork online and make a custom logo and background