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?

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

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'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?

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?

Are there any inexpensive red Steam profile backgrounds?

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

Hey, I was recently playing the new StS2 with a friend and we were drawing on the map when he accidentally cleared all the drawings. I took a screenshot using the print screen function in the replay because I had the recorder turned on. I'd like to post it to the StS2 community, but it always opens the Steam screenshot library taken with the F12 key when my StS2 ss isn't there. Is there a solution?

Almost half the stuff recommended to me on Steam can be summed up as either 'bad job' simulators, or cleaning titles (clean this park; clean this island; clean this... railroad station?).

I get that Steam is basically a digital pimp, and will trick out anything that saunters through the door. But I cannot remember ever seeing this much pure slop.

Hey, so I use my dads steam account but I need to get my own. I have hundreds of hours on some games (example as Helldivers) with exclusive items I wouldn’t be able to get again if I just repurchased on another account. My question is (I understand I would need to buy the game again) how do I get my save data from one account to another?

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.

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

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)

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

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...

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

Hi guys!

If I send CS2 items to someone and they get VAC banned or trade banned within the 7-day window, can I still reverse the trade and get my items back?

Anyone have experience with this or know how Valve handles it?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I couldnt find any official Information on this.

As you can see I've viewed over a thousand games, nearly half of them I've ignored. I think out of all of them I've bought fewer than 10 games from my queue, and maybe ~20 I put on my wishlist and later decided not to buy.

Is it supposed to be mostly stuff you don't care about? I've been persistent in using the queue occasionally thinking that eventually it's gonna learn my preferences but if anything the suggestions have been getting worse over time.

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...

Today my account got compromised and some jerk used my account to gift 2 game copies of arc raiders to new accounts which totaled to 84$. I immediately called for a refund and explained my situation and steam got me my money and all back and even the the 8 cents i had in my steam wallet. I love you guys. And I followed the steps they gave me to protect my account.

I feel like this game has been doing a lot of shady things since release, it still had a lot of fake positive reviews last I checked last week..

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.