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Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

We offer a catalog of PC, Mac, and Linux games, many of which support Steam Play so you can buy once and play anywhere, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer so you can play with all your friends, no matter where they log in

What's New:

General

• Fix URL bar displaying on HTTPS pages when ‘Display Steam URL’ setting is disabled. Steam URL bar will now respect the setting unless on a page with a security issue in which case it will always show to display the error.
• Fix steamwebhelper crash causes when requests are unexpectedly canceled.

Library

• Allow creating shelves for shared libraries.
• Disable screenshot slideshow in app hovers if Low Bandwidth or Low Performance mode is enabled.
• Fix some cases where mismatched header images were cached for some games.
• Fix duplicated game activity items from sometimes appearing.
• Allow Family Sharing of tools.
• Fix new categories created in small mode or Big Picture mode not being properly saved when switching to normal mode.
• Fix recently played but disallowed by Family View games not appearing in the Recent Games shelf (or the MRU jump list) when Family View is enabled at startup.
• Fix rendering of steam award images in news updates.

Remote Play Together

• Hosting on Windows and Linux automatically starts a Steam Voice chat with invited players when available. Invited Friends can optionally join and accept the voice chat in a single click.
• Players in the session are visible to all players for adjusting Steam Voice Chat mic volumes.
• All players’ status is now updated to show that they are playing the game together in the Friends List.
• Fixed host not being able to adjust the last player's input settings in some cases.
• More players fit in the vertical scrolling area.
• When a Remote Play Together session is already running, trying to invite a different friend to a different game allows the host to easily end the existing stream.
• Game volume and fullscreen/windowed preferences are remembered across sessions for the client.
• Family Sharing can now be used in conjunction with Remote Play Together.

Linux

• Update steam runtime and container runtime (0.20191119.3): improved graphics drivers diagnostics.
• Implement a workaround for filesystems with failing 32 bit statfs64 calls (free disk space checks).
• steam runtime 0.20191210.1: gnutls update to support Proton, further improvements to steam-runtime-system-info.

Previous release notes:

• Fixed an issue where the overlay could become stuck on top of the game in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Library

• Added "Expand all" and "Collapse all" options to context menus for collections in the games list
• Added a filter option to split family shared games in the game list into sections by owner
• Fixed non-Steam game shortcut icons not displaying when set from an .exe file
• Fixed status in playbar showing "downloading" while unpacking a preloaded game
• Brought back Small Mode library view and updated to work with Steam Collections and the new Steam Library
• Added a library setting to hide game icons in the Steam Library’s left column game list
• Fixed download progress bar and status wrapping to a second line on game pages on smaller windows
• Compressed game page links bar to one line on smaller Steam windows
• Post-game summary, game review reminder and other dynamic content on game pages will now fill only one column on wider Steam windows
• Fix playtime not updating in play bar on game exit
• Fix incorrect number of achievements sometimes being displayed in achievements section
• Fixed occasional crashes caused when uninstalling games
• Fixed Steam client crash after exiting some AutoCloud-enabled games
• Fixed a case where game icons would sometimes not properly be downloaded and used for the game's desktop shortcut when installing a game. For for previously installed games affected by the problem, validating game contents and recreating the shortcuts should fix the issue.

General

• Fixed several causes of steamwebhelper crashes
• Fixed possible client crash when there are more pending gifts than installed games
• Fixed an issue where the language drop down in the per-game settings page could be blank for uninstalled games
• Installation support for STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
• Fixed a cause of black library/store/friends windows in the client or overlay
• Fixed intermittent client crash on startup
• Fixed intermittent steamwebhelper crash
• Fixed web based views in the client rendering with artifacts if you have the latest NVIDIA drivers and have turned on Global Image Sharpening

Windows

• Removed auto-creation of Documents/Downloads directory.

Linux

• Updated vaapi decoding to libva2 compatibility
• Fixes to free disk space checks to address issues with some NFS mounts
• Fixed Steam Input F12 binding
• Fix "Help > System Information" not producing container runtime information in some cases

Remote Play

• Fixed game audio being silent when reconnecting to a running game
• Fixed rare crash when the stream stops

Steam Input

• Fix issue where adding an action set would prevent creating an action set layer until selecting a new action set