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The process is straightforward from there. Now open the Steam client and head to Games > Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library. This article was originally published July 2016, and has been updated for Steam's 15-year anniversary.Steam still won’t keep the rogue title up to date or save your game to Steam Cloud, but adding non-Steam games to your library lets your friends see when you’re playing the game, and unlocks the Steam overlay feature ( Shift + Tab), including full screenshot and in-game chat functionality. The Steam of the future will likely look very different, just as today's Steam is hard to recognize in the Counter-Strike updating system that spawned it.

Valve is adding discovery features-including new developer and Curator hub pages-to keep pace, and will probably continue to do so as the library grows and grows. The library has already become massive as a result of Steam Greenlight and Steam Direct, but from here on out, it should become even more massive as well as more diverse.

It feels like Steam is now at a new starting point. And while not all of its hardware plans panned out, Valve has continued to push VR hardware and software, growing the VR section of Steam from a tiny seed into a major part of the store. Though it's slow going, Steam also has a growing video section, and while initially somewhat controversial, its non-game software section has become a normal part of the store. Meanwhile, Steam Machines pretty much failed, but Valve hasn't given up on Linux, with a recent Steam Play update making more games available on the open source OS, including Valve's SteamOS distribution.

Valve has also pushed harder into the livestreaming space, including developer streams on game pages, and soft-launching (opens in new tab), which c ould become a Twitch competitor (opens in new tab) in the coming years. We're just beginning to see what this might mean for Steam's future library. Steam Greenlight is gone, replaced now with Steam Direct which allows anyone to submit a game to the store, no community approval required.Īnd thanks to Steam's latest policy change, just about any game at all (so long as it isn't illegal or a 'troll') is allowed to appear on the platform, with new filtering tools in place so that users can choose to avoid or not avoid adult content. Steam doesn't look intensely different today than it did last year or the year before that, but boy is it.