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How to hide Windows only games in the Steam Store (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by joneskind@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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Hello everyone,

I would like to hide games that only support Windows, as I'll never buy any of those games.

Is there a simple way to do that? I found a checkbox in my account settings but it doesn't seem to have much effects.

Thank you very much and happy gaming

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Go to

Store >> Menu >> Your store >> Preferences >> Platform Preferences >> deselect Windows

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I did that already, but keep getting ads for games like Icarus that don't even support the Steam Deck via Proton

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In that case you should check https://store.steampowered.com/linux on browser, or go to Store >> Categories >> SteamOS+Linux.

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your advice.

I didn’t manage to hide Windows only everywhere but I found a turnaround by using the “Category” tab.

Not as efficient as I wanted it to be, but at least I got the information I want

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No problem!

Well, at least that one works. Though gotta remind this: There are games in Linux category and they suppose to work as a native game however a handful of games don't work at all due to their one time Linux port by another studio. Usually using Proton fix this issue but this is not something you want so take this as an advice and check the game on ProtonDB and see if the native version of the game you wanna buy works correctly. Also there are many cases of games that using Proton runs better than their native version.