PC Gamer: 2022 saw launcher bloat turn from a minor annoyance into a genuine problem

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  • BoilR

    Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library (by PhilipK)

    • There's a few more extra hoops to jump through, but I've gotten 90% of booty I've trawled up from the bottom of the sea working just by adding the .exe as a steam shortcut, telling it to use proton, and optionally using BoilR to automate inserting the game art for the sorta-big-picture-mode the deck uses for the library.

  • SteamCMD-Commands-List

    SteamCMD Commands List

    • by the way, if you want to see what else you can do in the console, there's a list of commands [here](https://github.com/dgibbs64/SteamCMD-Commands-List/blob/main/steamcmd_commands.txt)

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  • steamdb.info-issues

    🚱 Issue tracker for the SteamDB website

    • Go on https://steamdb.info and look up the game. Write down the app ID somewhere. (in the URL)

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