I love these events from steam man, I also love horror/terror. So this event is AWESOME for me, but I'm curious about what other people are going to buy/give a try in this fest.

For me, I'm thinking about Signalis and Monthwashing, I've heard a lot of good things about those two, so I'm excited to try them!

Edit: I’m sorry guys, I was so excited to the event that I forgot about THE BACKLOG lol

The Steam Next Fest just ended, and it's the first time I've ended up disappointed because I couldn't find the good games among so much shovelware, AI slop, or low-effort asset flips games.

So while we wait for Steam to fix this problem with their events, I wanted to ask you... What strategy do you use to find the best games, or the hidden gems, in each Steam Next Fest?

Do you use the filters? The charts? Do you go looking in the sections that Steam recommends?

We all saw what happened at the next fest there are tooo many ai slops gonna release in the next days

Some of them using ai snd it's obvious asf

I couldn't find any reporting tool so how do we report ai usage and not disclose

I bought Castlevania Belmont's curse recently and have been loving it, I've already logged over 16 hours, and I was thinking about upgrading to the Midnight edition so I could look at the art book because the game is genuinely gorgeous. So I go to the steam page, ready to give Konami my money and I realize, there is no upgrade option. I was so ready to buy an upgrade to a game I genuinely really enjoy and yet Konami, for no reason at all, decided that what you buy is what you get. I would either have to re-buy the whole game as the midnight edition, or try to beg steam support to let me refund (despite my 16.5 hours) the game so I could re-buy it just to get an art book. I think it's ridiculously unfriendly to the consumer to not have an upgrade pack after you buy a game. I don't know how feasible it would be to code an upgrade pack as dlc, but you're literally throwing away money to not have one.

Does anyone know how to disable bug picture mode screensavers? Ive gone through all source files and the customization section and there is no option for me to conpletely disable steam screensavers. I play on a rog ally x so when the screensaver turns on it stops my downloads as its best to not have background downloading on for performance and its just like bro why the fuck is this feature here🤦 i guess if anyone has any suggestions im open to them. Thanks.

I connected my phone to my PC today just to see if valve had made any progress with steam link recently and it is still an absolute nightmare to use the UI. The touchscreen mouse emulator is essentially worthless and the touchscreen controller emulator is not much better.

I can see this being a really useful tool, not just for game streaming but for desktop control if they can figure this out. Its not really realistic to expect adults to carry game controllers around with their phones in most situations so I really hope they do some UI work

I am interested in what other people think ... is this a feature you would like to see developed?

So my game is currently 20% off in all currencies, but depending on how I refresh the page, Steam randomly shows a different discount percentage (11% in this case). The weird part is that the final discounted price is still correct, so the math makes absolutely no sense.

It's pretty frustrating because the whole point of a discount is to encourage people to buy a game for a good price, and there's a big difference between seeing 11% and 20% off.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Or is it just PLN acting weird?

I'm Japanese and not very good at English, so this was translated using a website. I'm sorry if it's hard to read.

I just turned 16 and have been making games using Godot.

I’m getting pretty close to finishing one, so I thought I’d release it on Steam soon. But it seems I need to register as a developer to do that.

While it’s apparently not against the rules for minors to do so, I haven’t seen many reports online of people actually being able to register, and I’ve never seen any Japanese people do it, so I’m wondering if it might be illegal in Japan.

My parents are willing to help if I ask, but I’d rather get it done now if possible—it’ll be a hassle to register on my own later and transfer the game over.

There’s a lot I don’t know about this, so I’d really appreciate some advice!

Thanks for reading this far.

absolutely PERFECT game for it too, beamng is one of my favorite games if not my favorite.

What is the top of your oldest added in your wishlist and why haven't you bought it?

So i was planing to buy this game in winter sale at the end of this year,since almost every games has a lot of discount. So i decide to add it in my to-buy list before i checkout in upcoming winter sale.

BUT!

As for this sale the Scream Fest 5 just started,i decide to check for something that catch my eyes.
And i ended up checking this game and saw this free DLC. I've read the description that this is rewind of free halloween cosmetics so i decide to get it but i can't because i didn't own the game yet.

My question is...

Can i still get this DLC after halloween? Or i have to buy it immediately to get this?

(Because i was still in savings for a big games buying dump in later winter sale.)

PS.I've checked but the deadline is said in 2022 so i really confused.

Will you help fellow child of night please?

So a lot of horror games have discounts and I wanted to pick up silent hill f and fatal frame, both of them are on discount but they have a developer bundle for both games together but that one is more expensive than if I were to buy the 2 games separately...

Does this still need to be adjusted cause the sale is recent or is it there a rule or something with steam discounts where bundles aren't affected? Obviously I can just buy the 2 separately and its still a good price but you'd think the bundle would be on discount to be even cheaper

I was more of a PC guy, cause at the time, i just liked the power and how much i could do on the PC. Like playing a game on one screen and having a guide or Spotify on the second screen

After i got Steam Deck, i mostly played games that are platform games like Rivals of Aether or Gravity Circuit.

But then i just started messing around with the Steam Deck and good god. The stuff you can do is nuts, especially when you compare it to other handhelds like Switch.

It may not be a big thing, but i really appreciate the freedom what we can do with the Stean Deck, like changing covers of games (first pic), changing boot up intros (second pic), modding games like on PC and such.

It's just so good i love it

Quick question? How can you prevent your game from being stolen/copied? Like when you announce it or release a demo of your game as an indie developer or big studio?

(For example the needle in haystack game that has been copied on steam and copied on roblox)

I tried downgrading hogwarts legacy, but while i was downloading the depot for it i realized i didn't need to for what I was trying to do, but all I could think of to stop the download was closing steam. However, the 70gb it needed is still being taken up and I can't for the life of me figure out where it is, I deleted my entire depotcache folder but that only had like 20gb total and even WizTree can't find where the data is. Hogwarts legacy is uninstalled on steam as well, any help would be greatly appreciated

Has anyone made a site or compiled a list of games single or multiplayer that have events for halloween or christmas..frankly any holidays. I always feel like i miss out on some of the special events. Right now i see tavern keeper has one and ill play that. I might have to reinstall graveyard keeper as well.

This is not the gamer's fault of course, but as a dev I constantly receive messages on discord that start like: "Hey I found your game and really love the concept. Here are two things I like that I (or genAI) probably reworded from the page description. What are you currently working on?"

Then it's a string along for two or three messages and finally they casually mention that could help with marketing or art or whatever. It's the string along that bothers me, because I wasted time to respond.

So most of the time I stopped responding or immediately have to mention that I'm not buying anything. However, I would hate to lose out on talking to an actual fan of the game because of this.

And if my 500 wishlist game receives so many of these messages, I cannot imagine what an actually popular game gets.

i like grinding achievements and i dislike that with the new achievement UI spoilered achievements were basically hidden in the lowest part of the page. is there any way to get the old sorting method back?

If I take and insert my disk with authorized Steam into another computer, will the authorization on the new PC be lost?

Via the Steam Community:

Steam Input

• Added support for GameInput v4

Remote Play

• Start streaming faster when connecting to a local computer
• Fixed the "..." button on the Steam Controller not being passed through to the remote side

Linux

• Fixed a crash when resuming from suspend

Big Picture Mode

• Updated the styling of the chat tab to better convey focus states
• Game invites from friends now have a dedicated widget in the chat window above the text entry, instead of having to navigate to the exact message in the chat history window. Individual invites from friends in a group also show in the group chat window instead of having to navigate to the individual friend's 1-1 chat tab to accept.
• Improved the group chat layout and fixed areas where gamepad navigation could get stuck
• Friend chat message notifications will now be rolled up rather than sending one 2 second notification per message
• Plumbed the per-friend voice chat levels to the friend context menu in BPM