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[kungfuian]

Steam has slowly become my primary gaming platform, and like all Steam gamers my backlog has grown quite large. For me, both when buying new games, and when looking through those I own, the need for a HLTB (how long to beat) tag has never been more needed.

Just like price, genre, and reviews, knowing how long a game takes to finish matters, especially for people like me with limited time. It's one of the first questions I ask myself before purchasing a new game or starting something new in my library. Sure you can usually find it somewhere in the reviews or you can leave Steam to check websites like HLTB, but that's a pain in the ass. Adding this info directly as a tag would save a ton of time, improve discovery, and help people buy and play the games that fit their schedule.

Aside from being on the Steam store, individual game page, and as a searchable tag, a second feature that seems glaringly missing form Steam is some kind of enhanced library view, so we can scroll through all the games in our libraries with select tags next to them (Genre, HLTB, Rating, etc).

Any reason why Steam doesn't institute something like this? It's my most wished for feature and I wonder why it hasn't been implemented.

 

[Dacvak]

Sure, it'd be nice. But in the meantime, it's certainly not difficult to google "[game name] hltb"

I usually do it with any game I'm considering buying.

 

[mèx]

Augmented Steam

Free browser extension that improves browsing and shopping experience for Steam

augmentedsteam.com

This should do the trick... on a browser at least. It shows a lot of info, including HLTB.

EDIT: For the Steam Deck, you can use Decky Loader.

 

[MrRibeye]

I suggest you email Tim Sweeney about it

 

[jshackles]

Augmented Steam

Free browser extension that improves browsing and shopping experience for Steam

augmentedsteam.com

This should do the trick... on a browser at least. It shows a lot of info, including HLTB.

Came here to also shill the updated version of my browser extension

 

[Brakum]

Im sure this exists on the setamdeck where you can just install plugins on steam. It's fucking great.

 

[Three]

Steam has slowly become my primary gaming platform, and like all Steam gamers my backlog has grown quite large. For me, both when buying new games, and when looking through those I own, the need for a HLTB (how long to beat) tag has never been more needed.

Just like price, genre, and reviews, knowing how long a game takes to finish matters, especially for people like me with limited time. It's one of the first questions I ask myself before purchasing a new game or starting something new in my library. Sure you can usually find it somewhere in the reviews or you can leave Steam to check websites like HLTB, but that's a pain in the ass. Adding this info directly as a tag would save a ton of time, improve discovery, and help people buy and play the games that fit their schedule.

Aside from being on the Steam store, individual game page, and as a searchable tag, a second feature that seems glaringly missing form Steam is some kind of enhanced library view, so we can scroll through all the games in our libraries with select tags next to them (Genre, HLTB, Rating, etc).

Any reason why Steam doesn't institute something like this? It's my most wished for feature and I wonder why it hasn't been implemented.

This would be a nice feature. My recommendation is to install Playnite which gives you far more options in terms of viewing your library. It has a HLTB extension too but I don't know if it works on the steam store search. The other option is to use tampermonkey with the steam store site to automatically pull and display HLTB information while you're browsing the store.

 

[kungfuian]

Augmented Steam

Free browser extension that improves browsing and shopping experience for Steam

augmentedsteam.com

This should do the trick... on a browser at least. It shows a lot of info, including HLTB.

EDIT: For the Steam Deck, you can use Decky Loader.

That thing broke Steam immediately. Was unable to see many games on my Wishlist, poor loading and refusing to load pages, etc. etc. Uninstalled and had to change password.

 

[IFireflyl]

That thing broke Steam immediately. Was unable to see many games on my Wishlist, poor loading and refusing to load pages, etc. etc. Uninstalled and had to change password.

EDIT: I don't use Augmented Steam, but I went ahead and got it for my browser (Brave) just to see if the extension really is a nightmare. It installed and works with absolutely no issues. I have no idea what you're on about.

 

[RoboFu]

No that's dumb. You don't need to beat something in one sitting. And Length does not determine how good a game is. If you don't have time ( like me ). Just play it when you can. A good game that last you 6-12 months is awesome.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I don't like being told how long a game is, it makes me pay attention to it while playing.

 

[kungfuian]

EDIT: I don't use Augmented Steam, but I went ahead and got it for my browser (Brave) just to see if the extension really is a nightmare. It installed and works with absolutely no issues. I have no idea what you're on about.

I have no idea why it didn't work, only that it didn't work. Maybe something I don't know about my browser settings? Not trying to give you a hard time, I do appreciate the recommendation.

 

[kungfuian]

This would be a nice feature. My recommendation is to install Playnite which gives you far more options in terms of viewing your library. It has a HLTB extension too but I don't know if it works on the steam store search. The other option is to use tampermonkey with the steam store site to automatically pull and display HLTB information while you're browsing the store.

OK I'll check those out. Appreciate it.

 

[kungfuian]

No that's dumb. You don't need to beat something in one sitting. And Length does not determine how good a game is. If you don't have time ( like me ). Just play it when you can. A good game that last you 6-12 months is awesome.

This has nothing to do with perceived value (although this is a valid argument for some) or trying to play a game in one sitting. At least not for me. And yes a game that can last me 6-12 months is awesome, although when I jump in a game sometime I want something shorter. I like to know what I'm going into time commitment wise.

 

[Loomy]

Oh man, that would be nice. But Steam has a lot of QoL problems it needs to address that I would put above that.

 

[Wildebeest]

They probably don't want to add something that could make steam take minutes to load for people with big complicated game libraries.

 

[Kataploom]

Decky is your friend

 

[Magic Carpet]

I'm surprised it wasn't done the day after Xbox implemented it.
Seems like something a user would want but a developer would hate to have an actual metric to gauge price vs time.
What Remains of Edith Finch can be completed in only 2 hours? What a rip off, fraud scam.
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Look at all these great overwhelming positive reviews I'm going to check this out. Man, that game was great and I was able to complete it in an afternoon!.

 

[nikos]

This would be great. I'm always checking that site as well as PCGamingWiki for ultrawide support, FPS caps etc.

 

[Labadal]

I have augmented Steam installed, and it works flawlessly. I don't have it foe HLTB, though.