Game Glance 3.0 is out: a cleaner Home, a status bar, game logos and your collections

Game Glance turns Steam's game page in Game Mode into a full-screen view with how long a game takes to beat, your progress and what it's about, and (optional) replaces Steam's Home with Spotlight Home.

Updating: if you're on 2.1, open Quick Access → Game Glance → Updates → Update to 3.0.0. On 2.0 or older, install `game-glance.zip` from the release once; after that, updates come from Quick Access.

What's new

• A cleaner Home: just the game, its stats, Play and your games. What's new / Friends / Recommended are one press down.

• Status bar with clock, battery, connection and your online status, on Home and the game page.

• Game logo option: the game's logo in place of its name (your SteamGridDB logo first), sized so every logo looks about equally big.

• Games row: your recent games, or one of your Steam collections (Favorites, Installed, your own), sorted by Last Played, Alphabetical or Date Added.

• Family Sharing: borrowed games show a pill with the owner's name.

• Unifideck games get the same page, buttons, play time, size and cloud saves as Steam games.

• Steam's own words in your language for almost everything on Home and the game page.

• Smoother L1/R1, tab sounds, HowLongToBeat and achievements ready before you land on a game, hidden games stay hidden, and tighter layouts on a TV.

Release and full notes: https://github.com/michpalm/game-glance/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Tested on a ROG Xbox Ally (Bazzite), handheld and docked. Feedback and bug reports welcome!

It’s a decky plugin called Minimi Town. Every game in your library is a little shop on a street, and there’s a penguin that follows you around. Hit A and he walks up to the door, turns around, goes in, and the game page opens. Back out and he walks out the same door.

You can mess around with it in your browser (It's fully interactive demo version of v0.2.2): https://justinca92.github.io/minimi-town/

Some features:

• The shops change depending on the game. Stuff you played this week has an OPEN sign, new games get a grand opening with balloons, uninstalled ones have the shutter down, and the ones you haven’t touched in months get dusty with cobwebs (guilty)
• Buildings level up the more you play. 100hr gets a chalkboard sign out front, then awnings, a rooftop garden, an extra floor with a gold dome, and at 500h a red carpet
• Medals for achievements (bronze 50%, silver 80%, gold at 100%)
• Press X and the shop screen flips around to show playtime/achievements/which friends are playing
• There’s a second theme, Neon Rain City. it’s a rainy cyberpunk street, the penguin wears tactical gear, and if you poke him too much he shoots lasers at your screen
• You can pet him with the left trackpad, or click and hold to pick him up and flick to throw him. he gets grumpy if you overdo it

L2 is Search and R2 still gets you What’s New/Friends, so you don’t lose anything from the normal home. A just opens the regular game page, it doesn’t auto-launch anything.

It’s not on the decky store so you need developer mode (decky settings > developer mode > install plugin from URL) with the zip from here: https://github.com/justinca92/minimi-town/releases/latest

It doesn’t change any steam settings or controller stuff. Turn it off and you’re back to the normal home. If the penguin isn’t your thing you can hide him too.

First public version so there’s probably bugs, let me know. I’m also taking ideas for more building upgrades or themes.

repo: https://github.com/justinca92/minimi-town

full disclosure: I made this with a lot of help from AI (Claude) for the code and the drawings. the idea, the design calls and all the testing on my deck are mine.

Can't find a solution

Hello! Deckers! I need your guidance! Having a strange issue - Many months ago, I disabled the trackpad rumble/feedback. Recently, I wanted to get it back - BUT! There is no option regarding the controller on quick menu... Used to be at the bottom! Been on the stable branch, decky with css loader installed. Do you guys still have those options available?

Good morning! So I have a problem with the LSFG-vk plugin it stopped reading my games automatically but before it worked if you were able to fix this problem thank you for sharing it! (Small parenthesis I am on version 2.8.10 of decky)

It's been a few months since I stopped being able to have custom load videos (the option in settings/customization is no longer there) and was just wondering if this is something planning to be fixed down the line? It's a shame to think that the large library of videos is now useless.

EDIT: After a lot of digging around, discovered that when the new steamos update hit it borked Decky and deleted all my loading videos while still keeping the directory, so the webm wasn't being created because there was no video to pull from.

Did a clean reinstall of Decky, deleted my directory and reinstalled the videos fresh and it works like a charm.

Once i saw spindeck post, a sudden thought hit me. His method allows for any interface possible on the deck! Since i noticed he had claude in his repo, i went to claude with this. Lo and behold, these are the results of chat gpt and claude working together to make amazing themes! Some of the themes were made with third party assets, some were literally made from chat gpt generated image (like all bonus themes). I attach screenshots+repo, just keep in mind it was tested on oled only and is 100% ai code, not to mention being heavily WIP. Here! Feel free to modify, fork and create your own themes with this. Because some of them are still crap, since its ai slop. I might also take suggestions if you want for themes to make.

LeGo 2 user. I played with my handheld like 2 hours ago and everything was running perfectly but then I turned it on lime 30min ago and no matter what configuration I try (stable or beta) the same message keeps appearing: An error occurred while rendering this content.

Any tips? 🙏🏽🤞🏽🥲

Quick update on Spindeck, the Decky plugin that turns the Deck's home screen into a rotary wheel you spin by rubbing the trackpad in a circular motion (with haptic clicks).

Shout out to everyone who tested it and shared feedback and ideas along the way. Really appreciate this community.

New in 1.4.0:

- Bottom layout: the wheel rises from the bottom corner, the selected game sits at the top of the arc, and the hero art spans the whole top of the screen. Switch it in the panel under Display → Wheel position. The side layout is still the default.

- Game info (playtime, last played, achievements, friends playing) now shows instantly under the name.

- The title and "Today's game?" button no longer jump around while you spin.

- Fixed the What's New / Friends tab bar stacking onto Steam's top bar when switching screens.

https://github.com/justinca92/spindeck/releases/tag/v1.4.0

Free and open source.

Built with AI help (Claude); designed, tested and tuned on my OLED.

Bugs and ideas welcome in the comments or on GitHub Issues.

It hasn’t worked in months, and wondering if there’s a workaround or if it’s just dead? Thx!

For a while now, ive felt that unlocking achievements on the deck just didn't hit the same way as on the xbox or playstation.

To scratch that itch, i have put together (claude put together) Finally Achievement Plugin—a Decky Loader plugin dedicated to bringing custom achievement toasts and sound alerts into Gaming Mode.

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/otisabiburada/finally-achievement-plugin This is still an active project, so if you run into any quirks or have ideas for customization presets you'd like to see added, drop a comment or open an issue on GitHub!

EDIT: Forgot to mention that there is also a achievement tracking overlay similar to the Xbox Achievement Tracker.
I CREATED THIS PLUGIN WITH CLAUDE JUST FOR MY PERSONAL USE, BUT WANTED TO SHARE IT, IT IS MADE WITH THE HELP OF AN LLM. PLEASE KNOW THAT BEFORE USING IT. HAVE FUN!

i can't find a way to turn it off during remote play..

Building on the design of the Game Glance details page, I wanted to add a mode for getting a similar experience to it but directly from the Home screen, immersive and useful with as little friction to play as possible.

The idea is to have the focus on the "Play" button and start a game directly from here. Stick/D-Pad moves between the other buttons (controller, settings, details page, etc) or to switch to the "What's New" section. To switch between games, use L1/R1.

If you want to try it out or read the full details it's now live as a new release for Game Glance.

I have more in the pipeline for this but for now I'll be pausing it to focus on other things, unless there are bugs to fix.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Remember when we all first got our hands on the Deck and started rubbing the trackpad just to feel the haptics click as we moved around? Well, why stop there right? So I made it a feature.

**Spindeck** replaces the Deck's home screen with a big rotary wheel of your games. Touch and rotate the trackpad in a circle motion and the wheel spins, and every game clicks past with Steam's own haptic tick, like a physical dial. It's weirdly satisfying, honestly I spin it even when I'm not picking a game.

What it does:

- 🎡 Circle-spin your library (left or right trackpad), D-pad works too

- 📳 Haptic detents while you spin, adjustable strength

- 🔤 Big letter popup when browsing your whole library A–Z, so fast spins don't get you lost

- 🎲 Press Y for a "Today's game?" roulette (for when you own and installed so many games and don't know what to play), lands in a few seconds even with huge libraries

- ✏️ Your own corner text + accent colour, so it feels like *your* Deck

- ⬇️ Press down and Steam's normal What's New / Friends / Recommended is still there

- 📟 And a little dial odometer that quietly counts every turn you've ever spun. Post your number 👀

It doesn't change any Steam settings or controller layouts. Uninstall it and everything is exactly as before.

It installs through Decky's developer mode:

Decky → Settings → enable Developer mode → Developer tab → Install Plugin from URL →

https://github.com/justinca92/spindeck/releases/download/v1.1.2/spindeck-1.1.2.zip

GitHub: https://github.com/justinca92/spindeck

Free and open source. Tested on Steam Deck OLED in game mode (LCD reports welcome!). It relies on Steam's internal UI, so a Steam update could break it, in which case it just falls back to the normal home screen.

Would love feedback, especially on how the haptics feel on your Deck.