Wait till you discover windows ui. Fucking backup tool having advanced options that display 2 of the 3 options and you have to click more to see the third option. and then you realize the advanced options are the basic options. Absolute clown os.

i know im silly for this but this is part of steam’s charm for me. i like that it just feels genuine like steam isn’t trying to lull you with all the tried and true marketing and UI best practices. it feels very practical, like using old windows 9X UIs.

As someone with crazy UI old, steam is not at the top of my list of problematic programs (Looking at everything epic has made. Seriously opening unreal engine is like a flashbang of what does this button even do?)

But honestly, steam is easy to understand, the worst page is scrolling though games with its weird scrolling mechanic in the categories section.

Wow. This comments section reads like 50 various versions of Colin Robinson, all swarming on this very post. Every single one of them finding a way to be more pedantic or curmudgeonly than the other.

Counterpoint: I can identify which part of the UI most of those come from. This level of variety between various UI functions is actually good. I don’t want the interface tabs or the settings tabs to be confused with tabs in the store, even though they are all tabs. I don’t want buttons to all look the same, especially not the huge purchase button. But even accepting that as an outlier I want some buttons to be clearly part of the steam UI and some as part of the site page I am on, so I don’t get confused.

Bring back steam skins.

Me mad.

Miraculously still better than GOG Galaxy…

There’s also some stupid UX choices that show they simply don’t give a fuck. On the Steam Deck when you want to update something and you don’t have enough space it simply says “not enough free space”. What use is that to me? Tell me how much you need!

And i hope it never changes. It works. Don’t touch it!

I click library. I am taken to downloads. Silly me.

Your lack of sorting makes it look worse than it is.

Just looking at the buttons, they clearly have design documents, green is only used on buttons dealing with money.

Blue buttons primarily deals with social interactions or midrange store tasks

Grey buttons are for the local client

I have never noticed this. Shows how the average consumer doesn’t really care about consistent design languages.

Given Valve’s history of taking play testing really seriously, I wonder if this is something they’ve realized through user testing?

Lol, must be a headache for the devs maintaining it, but from the end user perspective it is way more pleasant of an experience than epic, origin, gog, ubi and whatever else is out there.

I prefer it to most ui these days, tbh. Everything is either hypergeometric and boring, or forces mobile website design into desktop use for no good reason.

The only thing it lacks to me, is a menu to navigate to the game’s wine prefix. They already have one for the installation files, now they just need to add one for the prefix too