10 Steam Features You Should Be Using
Steam is the most popular store and multiplayer platform for PC games, and it’s packed with features to make your gaming experience better. Here are ten Steam features you should be using that you might not have noticed.
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It can be difficult to tell which games are taking up the most storage in your library, which is why Steam has a somewhat-hidden Storage Manager feature. You can open it by navigating to your Steam settings, then Downloads > Steam Library Folders.
Storage Manager lists all your installed games and their total size, along with a graph at the top showing how much space remains on your drives. Steam even breaks down the size of games between the base title and any downloadable content (DLCs). There are checkboxes on each game for uninstalling them or moving them to another library folder.
The one catch is that Steam can’t track all files created by installed games, especially if they save some data outside Steam’s library folder. Many games on Windows save files in the “My Games” folder in the Documents directory, which Steam can’t easily track. For example, Fallout 76 saves screenshots and configuration files to that location instead of Steam.
Some Steam games have beta update programs, which you can opt into to try new features and changes before they are fully ready. Right-click on any game in your library, then go to Properties > Betas. If there is a beta program available, it will be listed in the dropdown menu.
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