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Mine is probably the Liberty City Minute achievement for Grand Theft Auto IV. I think technically you have 30 hours to beat the main storyline but I managed to power through and beat the entire game in one sitting.

Achievements were only added in after an update a couple years ago (when they removed the dated Games For Windows Live DRM that made the game pretty much impossible to play without modding) so it's technically not the rarest for the game. The achievements for getting the highscore in QUB3D and flying underneath the bridges are even more rare but I'd argue they're easier to get.

What Steam achievement are you most proud of?

Is there one that took a lot of time to get? Did you have a good time with friends? Was it an achievement you struggled to get on other platforms when you were younger?

Regardless I'd be interested to hear about it.

So I guess all you Homestar Runner fans have something there. Played it last night, short, but I had fun with it.

🐈 Stray, 25% OFF 🐈

Cat game is on sale again at @steam . Explore the sprawling urban landscape from a feline perspective. It's still one of the highest discounts this game has seen yet.

🔗https://isthereanydeal.com/game/stray/info/

I dont honestly expect you to see this, but it was fun enough I thought I say something in a public space.

If you're a tuskan raider who was working with a gal doing belly flops and holding a big gun, that was me. I didn't think touching the world stone would change the map and make alchemist inaccessible, and I was hoping if we made a point to go back and intentionally die that the other guy in your game would see what was up.

I'm usually a solo player, and very rarely a mic player so I enjoyed the chance to hang out in a low pressure, no mic environment. I just wanted to mess around with my big ol engineer gun and enjoy big dakka. Thanks for putting up with me being actually incompetent, it was a good time :)

For #IndieThursday tip of week 32/2023 we picked

#30XX by Batterystaple Games

Get it now during version 1.0 sale (20% off) on @steam
🔗https://isthereanydeal.com/game/iii0xx/info/
#IndieDevs #gamedev #indiegame

🍲 Touhou Mystia's Izakaya, 35% OFF 🍲

Time for another Touhou hijack. This time it's this cooking action/sim! It's liked by a lot of people even if they're not particularly into Touhou. I highly recommend it. Very unique game.

It's 35% off on @steam :
🔗https://store.steampowered.com/app/1584090/Touhou_Mystias_Izakaya/

The guys that made Solasta are looking for some input. It's a short survey but could be helpful in shaping whatever comes next.

Hey there everyone!

I hope you've all had a good weekend - I know many of you are very likely still lost in the world of Forgotten Realms right now (at least I was), living your best life as~~ a horny bard~~ an honest adventurer.

We'll be closing our Future Game Survey at the end of the week, so if you want to give us your preferences on what our next game should have please make sure you don't miss it.

apparently -vgui doesnt work anymore, Just launches me into new steam, but half broken. and pure new steam runs like crap, and its ugly to boot.

yes I've already tried toggling Smooth Scroll/GPU & Hardware acceleration, etc, etc. Doesnt change a thing.

So I dont suppose anyone knows of anything like vgui that'll make steam not use this horrible mobile app looking new version?

There's a problem with Steam Cloud, when I try to manually delete the saves that don't even appear in the save list in the Early Access for Baldur's Gate 3, they keep on being restored from Steam Cloud even though I deleted them. But, they don't appear in the game's save menu so I can't delete them at all! What do I do to delete those saves for eternity and not just until I launch the game again?

Larian Studios say I am to delete all Early Access saves from the game in order to prevent problems when the game is fully released, but I can't do it because the saves can't be deleted in game - they no longer appear in the game menu.

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

The app I want to launch is Borderless Gaming. I don't play games that require it very often. So, I don't want to have to set it to launch when the PC starts. I found via this article that the way to launch steam apps via command line would be like this: steam://run/, so I came up with: steam://run/388080.

Adding steam://run/388080 %COMMAND% to the launch options of the game launched Borderless Gaming and then the game looked like it was going to open but it just crashed. Am I missing something?

edit: I am on Windows by the way.

A Plague Tale Bundle is not on sale and expensive than both of the games combined

I've had a weird issue with Steam lately.

Whenever I go to download a game on my pc, it will download fine, but I will lose internet for everything else on my network until the download is complete or I stop the download.

At first I thought this might be an issue with my ISP, but this doesn't happen when downloading a game from my Steamdeck.

Anyone have any fixes for this?

Here is a speedtest if this helps at all: https://www.speedtest.net/result/15012239449

to use it, install Tampermonkey, or another userscript manager, and click here to open a prompt to install.

Repo: https://github.com/zulc22/collectionhelper/

I used to be able to use my joystick buttons on a lot of games but now steam won't detect them. Windows detects the buttons but steam won't. Is there any way around this?

I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them. Also sorry about repost for people who already saw this but I had to migrate to a different instance since I couldn’t create new posts with the previous one.

This post is from 2021-11-17.

Anyone have any experience playing over Steam Link on wifi?

It seems like no matter what I do, the performance is really shitty. Both the host and the client are in line of sight of the router, and I can get 500+ mbps and my latency seems good, but the performance is garbage. As soon as I go wired, I can get great performance at 100mbps or less.

Is there a good way to mitigate this? Am I doing something wrong?

My partner and I are sharing our libraries with each other on both the Steam Deck and our desktop PCs, but the list of actually borrowed games constitutes only a fraction of our complete libraries. I would expect all (non-F2P) games to show up under either borrowed or excluded.

From searching around, it seems to be a recurring problem for various people, and it either spontaneously fixes itself or after deauthorising and reauthorising (some reporting they had to clear Steam's cache - which is the only thing I haven't tried yet because that would be a massive inconvenience). But I'm not finding a lot of solutions or answers to what the deal is.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Edit: it looks as if the listed "borrowed" games are only those that have been actually played at some point, so it's possible the list isn't meant to be exhaustive. Doesn't explain the missing majority of games however.

Edit 2: I don't know if it was always the problem, but I just realised I had "show only ready to play games" selected, which obviously excludes all uninstalled games. I noticed because I tried downloading a game through the other account to see if that changed anything, and indeed it showed up. Mystery solved, hopefully.

(In a petty attempt at salvaging some dignity I want to add that I've had the problem of shared games not showing up before and I could swear this was not the problem...)