I would’ve liked to have seen a timeline of periods as to when you played a game. Like it could be displayed in a bar like picture, that shows the time you’ve bought the game and every dot afterwards, details when you’ve played the game after that point up to the recent point of time.
To expand a little on this idea. The timeline could go by a month within a year. So, it’d be like you played a game at a point in 2024, on December. It doesn’t have to be specifically as to what time but if needed, either way works. It could show how many times too during that day on the month of and year of, you launched the game for.
Oh. So my issue is not listed by other people. Maybe meaning not many people have that issue. But I would really like better workshop options. The ability to make collections from all(!) your subscriptions, bigger collections, easier edit tools…
Separate archivable download of games, independent from the client.
I think seeing a steam frame in my hands would be nice
“Lowest price in 30 days before discount” like GOG has, or better, price history.
Global launch flags/options would be amazing on Linux
The ability to be able to set a game to “do not update”
I thought that was a feature.
Unfortunately not.
I can’t tell the intent on your comment, if you were joking that it was a feature to intentionally not do so disregard the rest of this post.
it is a feature if you never plan to launch it. but once it sees there an update available it won’t let you launch until you update it
You can select versions/channels (beta, 1.0, etc) decided by the devs but there is no other way afaik to avoid updating in online mode. Its especially annoying for modded games.
There is a console built into Steam that lets you downgrade games (among many other things) even when the developer doesn‘t offer older versions officially through the regular launcher. This is only for extreme cases were you really really just want to keep your mods or an update doesn‘t work on your machine because you will have to redownload the entire game. There are online tutorials that explain it and each version for each game has a unique ID that you need in order to download it. So there is always way but it‘s clear the platform doesn‘t really want you to use it or know about it.
It doesn’t even fit my use case. Sometimes you don’t have a lot of time to play so the last thing you want is to sit there and wait while the game updates. Let me play when I have the time and I’ll let the game update when I don’t have the time.
The “my library” page for a game should show the game description, screenshots, etc like the store page. I downloaded this on sale 3 years ago, or it’s owned by someone in my family but I’ve never seen it, etc. In any case, I need more info, don’t assume I know this game.
In the library section there is a button to go to the store page though… even when that page is hidden
I use this all the time, but it certainly could use a little less friction.
A simple filter for games with AI disclosures. It’s not too much to ask.
I wanted it before, but now that it means a bonus Tim-Sweeney-bursting-a-forehead-vein, I’d prefer it’s their top priority.
- AI disclosure in the yellow section, like they do with DRM and EULAs
- Broken out AI disclosure, i.e. did they use AI generated images, dialogue, code?
- If a game has an arbitration section than it should be labeled in the yellow section
- The community button, and other buttons, should be in relatively the same place regardless of platform
- A search function to search the text of a page, would be very useful for EULA combing
- For search to allow the exclusion of games with DRM, EULAs, and/or AI
- To disable alerts from my wishlist for games that are not fully out, i.e. stop telling me an early access title is on sale.
- List the early access date and the full release date if it left early access
- There are recent reviews and all reviews, should separate out early access too
- Give a way to earn random card packs instead of forcing us to trade and spend more money
Probably other issues too, but I can’t think of anything else at the moment
Being able to launch games without being forced to update it when online. Reasons I want this is for purposes of mods to stay on an older version, or went content is removed or replaced like with Alan Wake.
You can pretty much always downgrade games with the built-in console in Steam but it‘s a little finicky and a last resort kind if thing.
This is my request to. I want to be able to mark “do not update” because of mods.
Fallout London is great. Making sure you never accidentally launch it directly is a pain. You can change permissions so steam can’t write them, but that really more effort than I should have to do.
Sort library by recent updates.
I would love the removal of the timed DRM on it. Like I understand they need some form of DRM on it but, the fact that you need to go online after so long in offline mode is annoying. Like I obviously own the game as I was able to install it with my account ID on it, and it knows I own the game as its able to flag in the program that the game is valid for offline use… so why have that use expire.
How often do you have to go online to activate it?
Or how long can you stay offline?
An illustrated play history would be great. You can see some of it on your annual Steam Replay, so it seems they’re already tracking the necessary information.
I wish Steam told you what workshop items it just updated were.
You have to manually go into the workshop and go to your list and then sort by last updated to see what just updated or was changed.
The download window ‘can’ but only if you highlight it ‘while’ its downloading. If its done, it won’t tell you what mod it was.
Ridiculous when you have a game like RimWorld with 200+ mods.
My total amount of money spent, my total amount of money saved by buying on sale, and my average percent savings overall and graphed over time.
You can do that with SteamDB.
Cool
total spent exists
