r/Steam 12h ago

Game & Hardware Suggestions Megathread /r/Steam Monthly Game & Hardware Suggestions Thread.

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Welcome to the Monthly Game & Hardware Suggestions Thread!

This monthly mega-thread is meant to contain advice, questions, suggestions & generic discussion on what to play or buy in terms of Games & Hardware.

Do you not know what to play? Want a Steam Deck or Steam Machine but unsure which model is best for you? Did you find a niche game that everyone should try? Wondering what GPU you should upgrade to or unsure about the specs of a computer? Do you want to share your unique experiences and learning curves with a piece of hardware? Can't find the perfect survival sim or unsure which 1 RPG out of the thousands available you should buy? Well this is the thread for you.

Now to make this work best and not just be spammed with generic & useless questions such as "What should I play?" or "What should I buy?", please be in-depth in what types of games/hardware you are looking for and why, and when giving advice it would be appreciated if you're more detailed than "I think X is good".

There are too many games to be able to properly suggest something with no background information, also simply commenting a game title and saying you like the game offers no actual value. The same goes for hardware: Saying you're thinking about buying X or you think Y is good with no other information, context as to why, your unique experiences, etc. offers no actual value or information to base a reply on.

Feel free to ask and discuss freely in the comments regarding games and hardware, whether you want advice on what to play, want to give advice to others on what to play, share a hidden gem you found, experiences you have with Steam hardware, or your review of a piece of Steam hardware. Generic discussions & questions about discounts, sales, events, specs is allowed as well. This is not meant to be a restrictive thread within the designated topics that this thread is for, however it is not a support thread nor is it the place to promote any blogs or curator pages or anything else, subreddit rules still apply.

Previous Megathreads.


r/Steam 39m ago

News Steam Client Update: September 1st

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r/Steam 51m ago

Question How to stop steam from downloading workshop files you already have

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So now I have a new issue after i chose to "repair library" in my storage settings, steam wants to re-download all 140 gbs of workshop content for a game, even though I already have all of it installed, my drives are all too small to just switch the game folder to another drive. Would clearing download cache do anything in this situation?


r/Steam 3h ago

Question Websites for custom game backgrounds?

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Does anyone have a site where you can get custom backgrounds for your games?

Example of a custom background im talking about (Made this in loadout.tf)
What the background IS

r/Steam 4h ago

Question Heya guys, does anyone else have this problem?

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I've got a new oled and now I'm using the option to hide my taskbar, the problem is that steam in fullscreen almost always doesn't actually cover the screen fully at the bottom and has this little sliver of the actual background wallpaper seen. I', not even sure it's seen on the screenshot I made, but it is there. So is there someone else with an oled who's met with this and resolved it?


r/Steam 4h ago

Fluff I am iether the chosen one or i have powers

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When not looking at my monitor when downloading something on steam, it goes slower.
When looking at my monitor when downloading something on steam, it goes faster.


r/Steam 4h ago

PSA Frustrating situation with charges

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I really don’t like steams transaction system. They use a different merchant for reversals instead of just letting the banks know to cancel the pending transaction. Also what is with the weird way of updating billing addresses. Does each game control the billing address or does steam handle it? Just seems really really weird.

Also steam, please don’t say it’s “the bank placing a hold“ … It’s you as its own merchant. I recommend never to use their site and to only use retail gift cards.


r/Steam 4h ago

Question How can I buy DLC without owning the game?

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I play Outlast using the Steam Family app and I wanted to buy the DLC, but a message is preventing me. How can I buy it?


r/Steam 7h ago

Question Steam input/bindings issue

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The problem I'm having is that any very short inputs that are bound to LMB or RMB (in my case, tapping RT for an extremely short time (such as to spam it)), seem to result in the mouse click being held down indefinitely until I press it again. Does anyone know of an option/way to fix this?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was hoping someone here knows a lot about the steam input options.

*I'm using an Xbox controller if it matters.

Edit: I've found an option in RT full pull-->settings to add a Fire End Delay. This (obviously) makes an input end after you let go, which has fixed my issue since it can stop the input from being able to be short enough to have the issue. I set the fire end delay to ~35ms, and it seems to have stopped it.
There might be a better solution, but nothing that I can think of, short of changing how steam input works, would fix it.


r/Steam 7h ago

Discussion i think my witcher 3 got upgraded to complete edition

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i bought this game for 179rs which is about 4 dollars and i know i didn't bought any dlc pack which comes with complete edition.


r/Steam 8h ago

Discussion Treat Game as "running on Steam Deck" option on Windows?

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Hi all. For anyone that owns a steam deck or steam OS device there is a setting that is called "Treat Game as running on a steam deck"

When enabled it adds an on screen keyboard that pops up automatically when a controller presses on a text box area. It makes it extremely easy to navigate certain games without a keyboard and mouse.

This setting is on my Steam Machine and Steam deck, but I was wondering if there is a way to enable this on Steam in Windows or other operating systems? Is this found in Windows Steam Big Picture mode? Or is there a launch code I can add?


r/Steam 8h ago

Question I just missed my steam controller reservation. How do I avoid this in the future?

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I had the steam controller reserved since May, and the website said that I would not be getting the confirmation until December, but I ended up getting the email August 18th and I did not see it until today. I had email notifications on, but I did not receive a notification at all and now I have lost the reservation. Are there any other ways for me to make sure I am notified about the email for next time?


r/Steam 9h ago

Question Any news on Steam Machine fulfillments/progress?

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Just wondering if there was anything new? Reading the comments earlier in the year it would seem that the hefty price would have discouraged folks from buying, but not hearing anything about the fulfillment makes me think there is still a decent desire for the SM?


r/Steam 9h ago

PSA PvE Survival Crafting Fest 2026: Official Trailer

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r/Steam 9h ago

Question is steam inventory helper safe?

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i've got a bunch of items i wanna put on the market but apparently the extention is a spyware


r/Steam 9h ago

Question Ubisoft is removing Linux support on For Honor after 10 years since it's Launch. Because it's affecting my main platform, would I be able to refund it? I paid 60 bucks for it

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I've been greeted with the news that Ubisoft is completely taking away my ability to play For Honor on September 10th on my favorite console. I'm more of a casual player and haven't made any purchases outside of the game itself, so I see no reason to really keep this game any longer. Am I able to refund it in this scenario?


r/Steam 9h ago

Question Sd on steam deck

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Hi everyone, my Steam Deck is no longer reading the SD card, so I can't play the installed games (the save files should be safe, though). What should I do? What's the problem?


r/Steam 10h ago

Discussion Cannot buy bundle, because I own one item

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Even though the bundle is cheaper!

I’d like to get myself RDR1 after completing RDR2. Well, the shop is selling the bundle RDR1+RDR2 for about 40€, the single game RDR1 for 50€.
However, I cannot buy the bundle because I already own RDR2. According to Steam Support there is no chance to buy the bundle or even delete my version of RDR2.

Am I loosing my mind or can someone make sense of it??


r/Steam 10h ago

Discussion Do you care about reviews with, say, 1000+ hours in the game that have maximum 70 hours of content?

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r/Steam 12h ago

Error / Bug Very kind of Steam to graciously donate so many Portal 2 hours to me

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Randomly checked my Steam Profile and found i had mysteriously accumulated 113.5 hours on Portal 2, while on my recently played section i only had 24 (my actual playtime). I didnt leave the game open as i had played 2 games afterwards, and i havent even turned on my computer in a few days. This has happened to me with a few other games before, but never this much.


r/Steam 12h ago

Question Issues with deck

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Hi all,

Can anyone help out, my sons Steamdeck is doing this (see video) and we can’t get past that can’t do power button and three dots how do we fix it


r/Steam 12h ago

Discussion Why are Steam review comment sections cesspools?

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Whenever I see an insightful negative review that wasn't AI generated and criticizes the game's flaws the comments are sure to be filled with rabid fanboys/kids spamming ''skill issue'', ''ass take'', etc.

Why doesn't Valve remove these low-effort braindead comments that add absolutely nothing to the discussion?


r/Steam 12h ago

Discussion Please add “WASD” or “ZQSD” to the names of your controller configurations.

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Once again today, I used Valve’s supposedly magical system designed to make different controllers easy to use on Steam.
Steam Input. However, when SteamOS’s KDE desktop environment is configured to use an AZERTY keyboard, layouts based on a QWERTY keyboard become practically unusable.

The controls are assigned according to a QWERTY layout even though the system is using AZERTY. As a result, the controller does not move properly to the left or right, some buttons are swapped, and so on.

This issue does not seem to occur in SteamOS Gaming Mode. However, I have not changed the keyboard language there, so that still needs to be confirmed.

If you create a controller layout based on a particular keyboard layout, please simply add “WASD,” “ZQSD,” “BÉPO,” etc. to its name. It would make everything much clearer.

I just wasted 10 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with Dead Rising 2 while using WildSam “Steam Rising 2 Ver 2.0” layout, which appeared to be recommended for my Steam Controller.

A little more clarity in this area would really help.