SteamEdit is a small tool for editing some information about your game collection in Steam. You can only change information stored locally – changes you make will not be visible elsewhere.
Turn this:
Into this:
The following modifications are currently possible:
For more details, see the How to use section.
The latest version can be downloaded here. Simply unzip it to a destination of your choosing. You can move it any time, by default everything it needs will be put in the same place.
SteamEdit requires a Windows PC, with .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
SteamEdit contains an auto-updater, and by default will check for updates each time you run it.
-- is found of the SteamEdit command line, everything
after it will be ignored by SteamEdit and instead passed through when launching Steam.
In the main SteamEdit window, you can see a drop-down list of all known games (and other things), and select one to edit. An entry is bolded if it has been modified. It will have a strikethrough if it has been hidden. Three icons on the right side of the list can give more details.
You can also use the PgUp and PgDown keys at any time to switch between apps in the app list.
To the right of the app list, there are several buttons to toggle which types of things should be shown in the game list.
* Don’t really know what this is, but stuff shows up under it, so I’ve included the filter.
** There shouldn’t generally be anything under Unknown, but if something has a type that I don’t know of, it would go here.
You can change the game’s Name, which is what Steam will show in the games list and the game information panel.
You can also change the game’s Sort As, which Steam will use when putting the games list in order. If the Sort As appears in grey, then there is nothing specific set, and it will use the game’s Name instead.
Each game has a ‘controller support’ setting, which is used in Big Picture mode, for the ‘Control Supported’ filter. Set to ‘full’ to make the game show up in that filter.
Setting this to ‘full’ also seems to disable the “Controller Configuration Required” prompt that appears with some games.
This allows a batch operation over all known games (and other things), to change controller support from one value to another. Use with care, it can end up changing a lot games!
When ‘Hidden’ is checked, and ‘Enable “Hidden”’ is enabled in the settings, the game will be modified in a way that will prevent Steam from showing it. This is largely a legacy feature, from before Steam had built-in support for hiding games, but may still be useful to give a second layer of hiding.
When ‘Completed’ is checked, and ‘Enable “Completed”’ is enabled in the settings, the game’s name will have a checkmark appended on it, which can give an immediate indicator whether you have finished the game or not. Again, this is initially from before Steam’s Category support, but may still be useful.
The Revert button will put the game back to its original state, removing any modifications you have made.
After making changes to your games, the Save button will both save a mods.dat file for SteamEdit (to remember what changes you’ve made), as well as apply the changes to Steam’s appinfo.vdf file. You will need to restart Steam in order for any changes to be visible.
Same as Save, except it will also restart Steam if needed, to make the changes appear there.
The Launch Editor is an experimental feature allowing you to change the launch menus that come up in some games (or even add one if you want).
If there is only a single item in the list, then Steam will not show any menu, and will run whatever is in the “Executable” field on play.
When there are multiple items, Steam will show a launch menu on play, instead of going directly into the game. The first button’s label is fixed and cannot be changed. Any other button can be customized.
The ‘Copy’ button allows you to copy a launch item from another game into the current one. This may be useful for being able to run multiple games from a single one.
You can delete any items you don’t want. If you delete all but the first, then Steam will no longer show the menu.
SteamEdit has two modes which allow it to run quickly without showing the main window, to simply re-apply the changes you have already made (in case Steam refreshes some game). These are easiest to access through a Windows Shortcut, but could also be done in a batch script, or some other method of running an application with additional commandline arguments.
autofix-autofix to the commandline, as shown below, SteamEdit will silently apply your changes to Steam’s data. If Steam is running, and there were changes that need to be applied, then SteamEdit will restart it, so that the changes can be fully applied. If Steam is not running, the changes are simply made. If there were no changes required (all your changes are already applied), then nothing happens.
forcestart-autofix and -forcestart on the commandline, as below, SteamEdit will apply your changes, and ensure Steam is running afterwards. If Steam is already running, and there are changes to be applied, it will be restarted. If Steam is running, and there are no changes to be applied, Steam will be opened and brought to focus (similar to launching a Steam shortcut while it’s running). If Steam is not running, whether changes need to be applied or not, it will be started. This could be used as a shortcut for opening Steam, ensuring that your library is in the shape you want it in.
silent-silent will operate as before, but will start Steam in “silent” mode, where it will run in the background without showing the main window. This can be useful as a startup task when Windows boots up, or something.When using SteamEdit to launch Steam, you may wish to pass along additional arguments to Steam. In order to make this possible, without adding every possible argument into SteamEdit, it supports a simple method to pass through any command line arguments you wish. Simply add -- to the SteamEdit command line, and then anything appearing after that will be ignored by SteamEdit and used only when launching Steam.
For example:
If SteamEdit launches Steam in this setup, Steam will run with its dev console available.
SteamEdit is semi-actively developed by Tim Green. If you would like to request a new feature, or report a bug, please send an email to tim@tg-software.com.
I can’t promise to follow up on everything, but I’ll try to take things into account when introducing new things.