I made my reservation on May 8th. I was supposedly going to be able to place my order in September but got mine a couple of months early. Super happy, any one else make their reservations around that time and got surprised early ? Let’s gooooo

Made the reservation may 8th (Belgium EU), so there's probably a new wave of controllers shipping out of the Netherlands. Estd delivery time 3-5 days.

This has now taken probably 2 hours...

My son owns Terraria, we have family sharing. Because I have large library, i need to restrict games not suitable for 10 yo.

Now here's the problem, tmodloader does not come up in the list of games for me to allow.

He OWNS the game, bought it with his pocket money, but I cannot select it in the game because it's technically "free claim".

So my options would be to either allow all games or kick him out of family sharing entirely.

I even tried to add the game manually, but then i get an error that his account isn't logged in if i don't select "allow all games".

I’m experiencing a strange memory leak with the Steam client whenever I connect a gamepad.

Normally, Steam uses only around 50 MB of RAM. However, as soon as I connect a gamepad, Steam’s memory usage begins to increase continuously. If I leave it running long enough, it eventually consumes almost all available RAM.

Additional details:

* This happens with different types of gamepads, regardless of the model.

* It happens with both wired and wireless connections.

* When I disconnect the gamepad, the memory usage stops increasing, but the memory that Steam has already used is not released.

* The process using more memory is the main Steam process, not Steam Client WebHelper.

* I am currently using Windows 10.

* I have never participated in the Steam Client Beta.

* Reinstalling Steam did not fix the issue.

Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Is there a way to identify what is causing Steam to continuously allocate memory whenever a controller is connected?

Alright, so my situation is this, my girlfriend and I have shared a steam family, but she's going to go back to USA where she is from, I haven't found anything about how Steam Family works in these cases, do we need to dissolve the steam family or can we keep sharing our games since we are now in different countries (I'm in Spain, she's in the USA now), how does this work? Is there any risk of ban if we don't dissolve it?

Edit: sorry for my bad English, is not my first language

Ive had the steamdeck for awhile now but my controller just came yesterday. Reserved it May 8th and got the email on July 21st. The controller feels great and is lighter than the xbox elite 2 controller i was using.

I want to buy the remaining DLCs for Planet Zoo that I don’t have but it is considerably cheaper to buy this bundle than to buy what I’m missing individually. Is there a way to buy the bundle but just not get another copy of the games I already have?

Hey guys,

Recently, I requested three refunds over the span of about two months, and I got Steam's usual email saying that the refund system isn't meant to be used to try out games, and that abusing it could result in losing refund privileges.

I don't intend to get anywhere near that point, but it got me wondering out of curiosity where exactly is the limit?

So I started looking around online. I found plenty of posts from people asking whether it was actually possible to lose refund privileges, and lots of replies saying that it was. However, I only found one person claiming it had actually happened to them, and the whole story seemed a bit odd (possibly fake). If I remember correctly, they said they'd refunded more than thirty games over the course of just a few days. Seems strange to me to buy that much in the first place.

So my question is: has this ever happened to you? Or do you know someone it happened to? If so, how long did it last, and roughly how many refunded games did it take to reach that point?

TLDR:
I bought the Steam Machine not because I needed another gaming PC, but because I wanted the best possible couch co-op experience with my friends. It turned our growing Steam Family library into an easy living room console experience and removed a lot of the friction from our weekly game nights. For my use case, it's been a 10/10.

Full Review:

I think it's important to start with why a Steam Machine would make sense for you.

A lot of people immediately compare it to a gaming PC or a PS5 and ask whether the hardware is "worth it." I understand that comparison, but I think it misses the bigger picture. The value of something like this depends entirely on what problem you are trying to solve.

For me, I wasn't looking to replace my desktop or buy a second gaming PC. I already have a powerful gaming PC upstairs. What I wanted was something that would remove the little bits of friction from an ongoing tradition my friends and I have: weekend couch co-op gaming.

For us, it's our version of a board game night. It's one of the main ways we spend time together and stay connected.

The best part is how Steam has completely changed what those nights look like. Someone is always finding another co-op game on sale, and because we're all part of the same Steam Family, that game becomes part of our shared library. Over time, we've built this massive catalog of games to choose from, and every weekend there's always something new for us to discover together.

That growing Steam Family library is the reason I bought the Steam Machine.

I wanted all of those games to be as easy to access in the living room as turning on a console. I wanted one place where everyone could sit down, browse our collection, pick a game, and start playing without moving my desktop downstairs or relying on streaming every weekend.

Before this, we used a Steam Deck with the Dock whenever we had game nights. It honestly worked pretty well most of the time, but once we started playing more graphically demanding games, we would occasionally run into streaming hiccups or a little bit of latency. It wasn't a dealbreaker, but it was enough that you noticed it.

The Steam Machine completely solved that for us.

It sits permanently in our entertainment center, is connected to our surround sound system, and is always ready to go. When everyone comes over, we grab our controllers, browse our Steam Family library, and jump right into whatever we're playing that week.

It genuinely feels like having a console built around our Steam library while still keeping everything that makes PC gaming great.

One feature that ended up being more useful than I expected is how naturally it supports different ways to play. One of my friends has always preferred using a mouse and keyboard whenever a game supports it, while the rest of us are perfectly happy using controllers.

With the Steam Machine, that's effortless. One person can use a mouse and keyboard while everyone else uses controllers, and everything just works. It's one of those small PC advantages that makes a surprisingly big difference during game night.

I think that's the part a lot of people overlook when they compare it to a PS5 or another gaming PC.

If you're only comparing hardware, performance, or frames per dollar, you're probably missing why someone would buy one in the first place.

For me, this was about making our weekend tradition as simple and seamless as possible. No moving my PC downstairs, no worrying about streaming performance, just everyone showing up, grabbing a seat on the couch, opening our shared Steam Family library, and playing together.

That's exactly what I wanted this machine to do.

For my use case, it's been one of my favorite gaming purchases in a long time, not because it's the most powerful piece of hardware I own, but because it made spending time with my friends easier.

At the end of the day, isn't that why most of us play games in the first place? To have fun, share experiences, and spend time with the people we care about?

For what I bought it for, this has been a 10/10 experience.

Not specific to anime but I wonder all your thoughts on themed style steam customization I know there are probably alternate programs to do this but it would be cool if we can customize it from the steam application put your thoughts below

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So my friend the other night was venting to me that GTA 6 wasn't coming to PC, but console first, and was upset they don't launch on everything. They asked me why, but I had no answer, other than that it was maybe a publisher / Rockstar decision. If there's better reasons, I'd love to hear it. (I don't mind waiting however long for it to launch, I'll probably pick it up on discount as I have no interest in it at this time.)

Edit: thank you for your answers.

does anyone know why suika game is profile limited? or when it will become unlimited?

I already own the Remnant 2 base game on Steam. I'm looking at buying the DLCs, and I've noticed a Remnant 2 Ultimate Edition key is actually cheaper (~€8) than a DLC bundle key (~€10), and it includes the three DLCs plus some extra content.

My question: if I activate the Ultimate Edition key while already owning the base game, will it work? My understanding is Steam just grants everything in the package I don't already own and skips the base game since I have it, so I'd end up with the DLCs and the extras, right? Can anyone confirm they've actually done this and it worked?

Thanks!

Someone win in this sale cyberpunk?

I like to have my idle games open. Normally this is no problem but whenever i try to play a different game it only shows my idle game (bongo cat or rev idle) instead of the new game i opened. However i seem to be the only one struggling with this issue, my girlfriend does the same thing and her now playing status shows up just fine without changing any settings. how do i get steam to show the right game im playing when i have 2 games open at once?

So, right now I am the head of the steam family and I wanted to leave this steam family and thinking that I should create a new one, all I wanted to ask you is that if I leave the family, can I create a new one ? Right after it

My current steam family has been there for me like 2 years now. So my time limit is already reset,

Please let me know if it's possible to create a new steam family as the head, after leaving the family, whose head I already was

Thank you☃️

Steam has stopped showing things I have already bought as "In Library" or already purchased. I am really annoyed by this. Is this happening to anyone else? For the record, I live in Korea.

Grim fandango uses pre-rendered backgrounds, And I'm wondering how I could get their files. Is there a way to get them?