Steam Store

Resources

Third-party Resources

SteamDB
- tracks depot changes, price history, everything steam
gg.deals
- tracks game deals for steam, steam key stores and other platforms
IsThereAnyDeal
- similar to gg.deals except it does not support key seller tracking
SteamGifts
- giveaway Steam keys or take part in giveaways
SteamTradeMatcher
- one-to-one trading of items on Steam
ArchiSteamFarm
- useful bot written in C# to farm trading cards for owned games that can be sold
SteamGridDB
- custom video game assets for games available and not available on Steam
ProtonDB
- community-sourced Linux and Steam Deck compatibility tracker

Steam Client

Accessing the Console

Use the following URIs on a browser or a file manager to open GUI client with the console:
- steam://nav/console
- steam://open/console
  - will not work if the Steam client is running in the background
The -console flag can be used with the client executable
Alternatively, SteamCMD, a command-line only version of the Steam client, can be used

Downloading Older Depots

Download a single depot (used to download older versions of applications/games):

download_depot <appid> <depotid> [<target manifestid>] [<delta manifestid>][<depot flags filter>]

SteamDB can be used to find the required argument values.

Steam Deck

Official Website

Third-party Software

Decky Plugin Loader
- Source: GitHub / SteamDeckHomebrew
- Installer: decky_installer.desktop

Console-like Youtube in Gaming Mode

Using Chromium's undocumented command-line options, the user agent can be changed to PlayStation's, Xbox's or Tizen's (Samsung's TV OS) and the application can be launched in full screen by using the --kiosk flag. The following XDG Desktop Configuration, for example, can be used and added as a non-Steam game while in Desktop mode for access in gaming mode

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=YouTube TV
GenericName=Online Video Platform
Comment=An online video-sharing, social media platform
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=master --arch=x86_64 --file-forwarding org.chromium.Chrome @@ %F @@ --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Xbox; Xbox Series X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.82 Safari/537.36 Edge/20.02' --kiosk 'https://www.youtube.com/tv'
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/plain;
# $XDG_PATH contains the paths used to fetch icons, extensions for supported formats are optional Icon=com.youtube.tv

Firefox can also be used however the supported command-line options are limited
The URL for the TV user interface is https://www.youtube.com/tv
Without the user agent change, the above URL is inaccessible and will redirect you to the desktop version of the website
Adblockers like uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus (both tested) do not remove ads even if they work with the desktop version
Choosing an Xbox user agent is recommended as button prompts match the Steam Deck's ABXY button layout

The Electron framework can be used to build a wrapper for the URL

This is the preferable method as it supports exiting from within the application, while browsers only support manual termination from the Steam menu.
Sample code for the electron app (assuming you can build linux binaries for the target platform):

  // sample code to get started
  const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');
  app
    .whenReady()
    .then(() => {
      const win = new BrowserWindow({
        backgroundColor: '#2e2c29',
        kiosk: true,
      });
      win.maximize();
      win.loadURL('https://youtube.com/tv');
      win.webContents.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Xbox; Xbox Series X) '
      + 'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
      + 'Chrome/48.0.2564.82 Safari/537.36 Edge/20.02';
    })
    .catch(() => { });

Miscellaneous

When using a dock or a hub to connect to an external display, ensure the display supports the refresh rate set on the device; some TVs and some monitors only support refresh rates that are multiples of 30Hz