Narod.SteamGameFinder 2.0.0

Narod's Steam Game Finder

A C# library compatible back to Windows 7 (.NET 3.5 edition) & modern .NET platforms (.NET 8.0 edition), which finds Steam and Games.

Summary

This library allows you to check if Steam is installed, the Steam install path, the Steam library paths, and locate game install directories.

Which edition should I use?

You should really use the .NET 8.0 version (SteamGameFinder2) unless you require legacy support with pre-Windows 10 operating systems.

The .NET 8.0 version will also work much better on macOS & Linux platforms, as well as being more secure and performant on Windows 10 & 11 systems.

With that said, the two versions operate identically with the same feature set and very similar codebase. They are also both maintained at present.

Usage

Code examples in C#

• Download the latest release from the releases tab, or find on Nuget (Narod.SteamGameFinder)
  • (Only required if downloaded from releases) Add a reference of the library in your project. (Project → Add Reference... → Browse → Browse...)
• Import in to your program

using Narod.SteamGameFinder;

• Create instance of SteamGameLocator

SteamGameLocator steamGameLocator = new SteamGameLocator();

• Check if Steam is installed

bool isSteamInstalled = steamGameLocator.getIsSteamInstalled();

• Get Steam Install path

string steamInstallDir = steamGameLocator.getSteamInstallLocation();

• Get Steam Library folders

List<string> paths = steamGameLocator.getSteamLibraryLocations();

• Get Steam Game Install Path

string steamGameInstallDir = steamGameLocator.getGameInfoByFolder("SteamGameFolderName").steamGameLocation

• Get Steam Game Install Path by ID

string steamGameIDInstallDir = steamGameLocator.getGameInfoByID("0000").steamGameLocation

Limitations

If you use getGameInfoByFolder, you can only search for Steam games by their installed folder name. For example, the game 'Cities: Skylines' is installed to 'Cities_Skylines':

string citiesSkylinesInstallDir = steamGameLocator.getGameInfoByFolder("Cities_Skylines").steamGameLocation

You can use Steam Game IDs to make this easier to locate. Steam Game name searching may be added later, but it's much slower than the currently added operations.

Further Help

You can find the 'TestApp' solution in this repository which has an example of how to use the library.

Helping

If you find any bugs, please report it as an issue.

I would also appreciate any extra functionality, feel free to open a PR request.