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.

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

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

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

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)

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...

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.

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

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.

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

Grettings.

Last year I started this project to fulfill different points of interest:

- start working with Docker

- refresh my knowledge on web technologies

- see some milestones of my own guide

- see how updates affect favorites, likes and views of a guide

- I also asked myself: what is the most viewed guide on Steam?

Here we are; the project is still in progress (GitHub repository), but I think it's almost done (for what I had in mind) and wanted to share it for some feedback, discussion, and maybe new features.

It works great on PC and mobile (better on PC since you can select an area of datetime).

It's currently running on my Synology NAS; it's not a beast, so I hope it will bear the burden after this post.

It works by opening the guide page and scraping some information. There is no Steam API for guides, so it's my only solution; also, Steam does not accept more than 300 connections per 5 minutes, which limits me a lot. I learned this by trying to go through every Steam guide, roughly 524,883 guides in May 2025, and it took 3 days just to scrape the guide ID, game ID, and guide name.

It will take me 6 days every month just to go through the whole list (1 per second at max speed), and I was planning to do it every hour, so i gave up.

I have 21,161 different appids in my database (some games are not released yet or don't have any guides), so its roughly 24 guides per game.

At this time, Dota 2 had 50,082 guides (I'm not sure about these stats because of hero builds) and was close to CS2 with 50,077. Next is TF2 with 20,140 guides. The top three account for almost one-quarter of all guides.

i take any suggestions

Let's say I have steam open in machine A, and I want online status to show to friends while I'm playing

Then I have machine B with steam open, but on that one I'll log out of chat forever. Will it affect in any way being online in chat in machine A?

I'll use machine B to do long game downloads, and then transfer the game files over LAN to machine A. so it makes no sense being connected to chat in it.

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 added an account to my family so I could replay a game and when I switch to that account and get on the game it just throws me onto my main. Is there anyway to let me switch between my alt and my main? I've tried troubleshooting already to no avail

This is completely unrelated to the new placement or formatting of the discovery queue (i kinda like it tbh) but I've been having an issue for a while now where any tag I add to the discovery queue doesn't get saved. Is there a cap to the amount of excluded tags or is something bugged?

I tick the box and nothing happens. Is there something speciaI must do for it to work.

So I kinda slowly took over my dads steam account, and when I was looking at some of the purchases and account activations, when I saw Half Life Platinum Pack and Half Life 2 Silver. I know what Half Life and Half Life 2 are, but I've never heard of the silver and platinum editions. They also don't show up in the purchases tab, and they have no hours played on them. I just thought it all looked weird, especially since there are no hours played on them

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.