Steam games disappeared

Hello, Please complete the steps below to refresh your configuration files for Steam: Exit Steam. If asked to allow this website to open a program, please click 'Allow' or 'OK' When prompted by Steam to reset your configuration, please click 'OK' to confirm. Once done, login to Steam and re-test the issue.

I hope it will help someone to save some nerves and time in the future. Last edited by texxx74 ; 30 Oct, am. Showing 1 - 15 of 16 comments.

Hi, 5 games were missing from my library, i've tried everything reset, steam repair It works for me. Thank you very much. This should help restore your library. Please complete the steps below to refresh your configuration files for Steam: Exit Steam. If you have multiple installation folders for games doing this process will remove them.

You will need to add the folders again in Steam so that your games will appear as installed. In order to add the folders please do the following: 1. Open Steam 2. Navigate to the 'Downloads' tab 4. Click the 'Steam Library Folders' button 5. Click on 'Add Library Folder' and add the directory that contains your games 6. Click 'OK' 7. Restart Steam. Step 2. Find the lost game name on the left panel, such as Dota 2, right-click on it and select "Properties".

Step 3. Wait for the verifying process to finish, then you can open your beloved game and play it on Steam again. Applies to: Steam games appear uninstalled when Steam no longer recognizes the installation files.

As long as the game folders are still in the right location, when you try to launch a game, Steam will redownload the game for you. You can follow the below path to check if the game folders are in the proper location on your PC:. If the game folder is in the Steam file location, you can relaunch the game to redownload it on your Steam. Or you can follow the steps below to add alternative installation libraries or folders to Steam:. Step 1. Click "Add Library Folder" to select the folder with your installed games.

Wait for the adding process to finish, your installed games that appeared uninstalled will show up in your Steam Library. And you can play games again. If this doesn't work, try the following tips provided by a Steam player to make Steam game show up in Steam again:. Move everything from the original steam folder to a new folder, rename the original empty parent folder into a library folder.

Move everything from the new folder back to the library folder and restart the client. The ClientRegistry. Once you reset the file, Steam will reset various settings to default, making missing games show up in Steam and work again. Open your Steam installation folder by right-clicking on the Steam shortcut on your Desktop and selecting "Open file location". Locate the ClientRegistry. Change the ClientRegistry. Applies to: Restore lost or missing Steam game files, such as game installation files, or recordings, screenshots.

Usually, when Steam fails to read or recognize your game files, there might be something wrong with the files in the Steam file location. You may manually check the location of the Steam game files to find out whether those game files are there or apply EaseUS file recovery to fully scan and restore all lost game files. Where to find the Steam game files in PC? Here is the location that you can follow to check if the game files are there:. C is the DriveLetter of the volume where Steam is installed onto.

Steam is the directory where Steam is installed into. If the files were not there, you may need to re-download the game files or follow the next tip to recover the lost Steam game files. Reliable file recovery software like EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can find the lost Steam game files, including game videos, screenshot on your PC by fully scanning your computer hard drive. All Windows systems including Windows 10 are supported. Choose the location where data loss happened, be it a hard disk drive, external disk, USB, or SD card, then click "Scan".

You can click Filter to display only the file types you want while scanning. After choosing the data, click "Recover" and choose a location on another drive to save the files. You can choose a safe location to save found Steam game files and then move the found game files back to the original Steam Game file location.

After this, you can restart the Steam client to make your games playable again. If you've tried or found lost Steam Game files, but it turned out that it still fails to work. Something similar happened in February, when publisher Insel Games attempted to 'encourage' employees to post positive reviews of its game Wild Buster.

When Valve got wind of it, they pulled the game from Steam. House Party, an Early Access game from , quickly rose to popularity before it was suddenly yanked from the Steam store. That was due to complaints of 'pornography' in the game being sent to Valve, though that's as vague and hard to define as the term 'sexual content. House Party isn't the only game targeted with complaints about 'pornography'—several anime-style games, such as HuniePot and the visual novel Mutiny!!

The tricky thing is that these guidelines are confusing and inconsistent , and it's not clear why these specific games are the subject of complaints, while others that feature sex or nudity aren't. As with a few other examples above, this doesn't mean it'll vanish from your Steam library if you own it, but you'll be unable to purchase the older version once the remaster arrives. The original version of Skyrim won't come up in a search of Steam, just the other versions VR and the Special Edition.

It is, however, still there. It appears Bethesda is just hiding it, hoping newcomers will buy the Special Edition instead. Batman: Arkham Knight is maybe the most well-known example: after launching on PC, the port was widely criticized by due to performance issues, after which publisher Warner Bros. Five Nights at Freddy's World creator Scott Cawthon withdrew his own game from Steam as well, stating he wasn't satisfied with the ratings and reviews it was receiving and apologizing for its state at the time of release.

He even offered refunds to Steam users, no matter when it had been purchased or for how long it had been played. In September of , Valve removed games from Steam , all from the same single developer.

These games appeared to simply have been added in order to mine Steam trading cards for profit. Another developer, the creator of Active Shooter, was removed from Steam for similar reasons. We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve. Lots of games aren't good, but they usually stick around anyway. Not all, however. Afro Samurai 2 was taken off Steam by its makers, and future episodes canceled, because "The game was a failure," according to general manager of developer Versus Evil Steve Escalante.

Fair enough. I know Early Access is a gamble, but I enjoyed the game and was willing to be patient as it slowly wound its way through development. Until, eventually, it simply didn't. Issues arose between members of the team, the money ran out, and the developer removed the game from Steam. He is still, however, working to complete it, judging from recent posts on the game's community page. This is the first and only example—at least I hope—but worth noting to round out the list.

As a general rule: don't ever threaten to kill anyone, ever. And not just because it may get your game removed from Steam. Because, like, it's a criminal act and a shitty thing to do. Paranautical Activity was taken off Steam in October of after a member of the development team made death threats to Gabe Newell. The developer responsible resigned, then rejoined the studio, then sold the rights to another distribution company, and the game re-arrived on Steam. I began this article with 's Prey, and I hoped by the time I finished I'd have found the reason Prey is no longer on Steam.