Hard Drive Transfers: Snake Needs Your Guidance

synkr0nized · 12-14-2014, 01:08 PM

Even if they don't have Steam codes, you can create shortcuts in Steam so that the Steam overlay will be present and your friends will see that you are in the game. I do that for several games (e.g. things from Blizzard, ArenaNet, some older games I have) so that I can still chat on Steam easily and folks can see I may be busy.

You do it from the Library screen -- click "Add a Game" at the bottom-left and then select "Add a Non-Steam Game". It will let you put a shortcut to the game that can be placed into whatever category or section of your library you want (if you use tags and the like in your Steam library), and it will use whatever name/abbreviation you give for the shortcut to report "<player> is in Non-Steam Game <game name>".

12-14-2014, 01:08 PM	#21
synkr0nized synk-ism Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: throughout the Wired Posts: 6,857	I like this feature. Even if they don't have Steam codes, you can create shortcuts in Steam so that the Steam overlay will be present and your friends will see that you are in the game. I do that for several games (e.g. things from Blizzard, ArenaNet, some older games I have) so that I can still chat on Steam easily and folks can see I may be busy. You do it from the Library screen -- click "Add a Game" at the bottom-left and then select "Add a Non-Steam Game". It will let you put a shortcut to the game that can be placed into whatever category or section of your library you want (if you use tags and the like in your Steam library), and it will use whatever name/abbreviation you give for the shortcut to report "<player> is in Non-Steam Game <game name>". __________________ Find love.