For a huge portion of PC gamers, Steam might as well be the de facto home of gaming on the platform. If you’re playing on a Steam Deck, you can double that sentiment. So a big update to the Steam program is a pretty big deal all on its own. And today’s update is big. Like, so big it needs to watch out for menacingly floating icebergs–seriously huge.
There are dozens of fixes and tweaks in the official update log, but I’m going to focus on the ones that jumped out at me.
- A new Customization tab allows you to set a custom sort name. This is a big deal for people who have huge collections and want to organize them. For example, you can set the cumbersome title for “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition” to just “Skyrim,” so it appears under “S” in the list like your brain says it should.
- This menu also lets you set a custom cover, wide cover, background, and logo. You can set the game cover to a screenshot of the custom character you spent 100 hours and a dozen different mods on. Yeah, I see you, weirdos.
- New accessibility settings in desktop mode, including high contrast, reduced motion, and UI scaling. My tired eyeballs would say “thank you” if they could say anything (they can’t, they’re eyeballs).
- The in-game performance monitor is back with a tweak that should be more accurate than Task Manager.
- You now get a notification for when trades are reversed via Trade Protection (still limited to Counter-Strike, so far as I know).
- You can filter by “private games” in the dynamic collections or filtered app views.
- New improvements and fixes for various controllers, notably new analog joystick, trackpad, and D-pad options, and button icons for 8BitDo controllers.
- Steam store pages are now wider and better formatted for widescreen monitors.
The update is live now for the main Steam channel, no need to hunt for a beta. It might already be applied in your system, so go check it out.