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.

Despite the overwhelming amount of garbage, I still managed to find quite a few little indies to keep tabs on and see how they go post-release. These were some of mine

Dreadmoor

Ravenous Greed

VAL'TY -

Birds of Impalatism

Kopernicus: Incremental Suffering

Baby Lemonade

TETRIC

JOHN GLEEP

Clown Around

Death of the Brain

Heroll: IF

Share what stood out for you

EDIT: There's no obligation for you to say you didn't find any games in a thread asking what games people found. If you didn't actually engage with NextFest, then this discussion isn't for you

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

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)

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

It has been a while I am trying to find the origin of my steam avatar profile picture, and yet I have no clue of where it belongs. The only info I remember of it was it being recommended as a default steam profile picture a long while ago.

I remember there was other profile pictures with the same style (probably from the same game). I did not have luck on reverse search it on Google.

The only similar image i have found of it was a korean post about a wolf called "Clyde".

"Clyde lives on the Rogue Road, but he is actually the youngest son of a Double Downtown Mafia family. He is intelligent but physically weak, so he does not participate in family events except for major occasions. He commutes to a respectable job located in Rich Gold City. After accidentally meeting and becoming friends with Freda and Scavi at a party, he finds himself in a subtle love triangle."

The fact that both are nearly identical suggests that I’m getting somewhere, but I’m still far from a lead or an answer.

I did a similar post about 2 years ago that did not have any comments, so i hope this time i get a clue or answer.

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

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.

Wanted to play Overcooked 2 with my niece. She is in my Family Sharing.
When I invited her for "Remote Play Together", Family Sharing blocks and lock the game as I have already ran the game (host).

But removing her from Family Sharing Group, I am able to invite her and play together with Remote Play Together.

It seems like Family Sharing is intercepting and blocking the Remote Play Together access.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Edit: All user in Family is an adult account. no parental issue.

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

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?

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.

I've got 17 players, 31 wishlists... but only 1 player who wishlisted. Ouch!

What about you? Make me dream!

Whenever I create a new action set the vertical menus duplicate when I try to change them to use the same virtual menus the Virtual menu gets duplicated

One of my friends profile has multiple game collector showcases but when I try to purchase it, Steam only let's me buy 1. How do I get more like this?

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

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?

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?

Trying to custom my OpenMW steam page (even if i know i'm never going to launch it from steam), and i was wondering, where can i find theese files ?

thanks

I had no idea so many of my favourites have a mobile version until today. Games such as Balatro, Dave the Diver, Slay The Spire, Cloverpit, etc. have all been ported to mobile on their respective platforms

It would be great if there was a browser plugin or steam client plugin that lets you know if a game has a mobile version, either from its steam store or directly from your library

Hi, I’ve always had this question floating around in my head: If the Steam app (launcher) has complete access to people’s game libraries, why doesn’t Steam provide an opt-in option to share precompiled shaders and upload them to a central server? Players could then download and install these shaders along with the game, rather than having to compile them on every machine for every driver version.

I mean, Steam already plans to show performance metrics for each game by comparing a player’s PC specs with those of a similar machine on which the game has already been tested.