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.
A “never update” option for games.
Also I hope they never remove small mode.
Ability to easily see if a game if DRM free or not.
Also, Steam OS on my Steam Deck, still has a few annoying bugs which makes it less stable than a Playstation (not talking about inside the games)
On the Steam Deck they could stop disabling the search function on the “discussions” (game forums) tab.
Separate archivable download of games, independent from the client.
“Lowest price in 30 days before discount” like GOG has, or better, price history.
I think seeing a steam frame in my hands would be nice
The ability to be able to set a game to “do not update”
in the meantime you can move the game out of the steam library folder and that will generally stop it from being steam managed for updates and dlc downloads, but yes that is one area where GOG is ahead of steam
I thought that was a feature.
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.
No, I totally agree. They should always let the user decide if they want the update or not. This was just a tip for desperate users because apparently even older patches are still available on Steam‘s servers when the game doesn‘t officially support alternate patches.
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
If you can decide not to receive (potentially) security updates, you can double click an executable
Yeah, this method will work if the game you are playing is using Steam only as a distributor, but if they’re using steam DRM, it will launch Steam and then refuse to open because it needs to update.
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…
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.
Game title: praxels. Category: uncategorised. I wonder what this is? Click. Useless generic banner photo with the text “praxels” in a fancy font. Click the (i) button. Description: praxels is an rpg game that just left early access! Click store page. Store page takes 8 seconds to load. Video starts playing, showing no gameplay footage at all. Scroll down. Parse the 12 paragraphs of text to try and decipher WTF this game even is. Give up eventually
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.
Global launch flags/options would be amazing on Linux
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.
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.
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.
Sort library by recent updates.
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.
