- Valve’s Steam consumer simply obtained quite a few fixes and consumer interface additions in a brand new replace
- User interface additions embrace textual content scaling, a excessive distinction mode, and canopy artwork customization
- Fans are taking to social media to reward Valve CEO, Gabe Newell
Valve is continuous the expansion of its PC recreation launcher, Steam, not solely through updates for its SteamOS working system, benefiting Steam Deck and different handheld gaming PC customers, but in addition for the Steam consumer in its entirety with a brand new long-awaited replace.
As reported by our good associates at GamesRadar+, Valve has launched a Steam consumer replace that sees important modifications to its consumer interface (UI) through new accessibility and customization choices, together with a number of fixes you could find within the patch notes.
Users now have access to a UI scale to adjust text to small or large sizes, a high contrast mode for better text clarity against a darker background, a reduced motion setting, and a new customization tab to change the cover art and logo of each game.
The latter has technically been available already via a right mouse click on the background cover of a game, but Valve has gone out of its way to expand this with a dedicated tab.
For handheld gamers like myself, it’s very similar to a Decky Loader plugin for SteamOS customers, generally known as SteamGridDB (out there through GitHub, which permits customers to switch default covers with a plethora of others, however this new replace pushed by Valve requires guide change through private downloaded information.
Users have already taken to Reddit to sing praises for Valve’s CEO, Gabe Newell, and that does not come as a shock contemplating the nice grace Newell and Valve have earned from followers – and more and more so, because the daybreak of the Steam Deck.
Analysis: the Steam consumer on desktops and SteamOS on handhelds simply retains getting higher and higher
Without a shadow of a doubt, SteamOS is among the finest facets of PC gaming, particularly for the Steam Deck and handheld gaming PCs, and Valve is repeatedly displaying that with quite a few updates to the Steam consumer.
I’m not going to get into why I do not like Microsoft’s Windows 11 for the umpteenth time, but the simple fact is that (in multiple games), SteamOS is the better offering in terms of game performance, specifically on handheld gaming PCs.
With tools like Decky Loader allowing the community to introduce great add-ons to improve the overall experience, SteamOS’s growth in terms of popularity is quite rapid and it’s great to see that Valve is trying to improve its Steam client with UI updates like this for all PC gamers and not just for Steam Deck users.
I’m very curious to see how much more Valve can add to the client, to further set it apart from other game launchers like Epic Games, and I’m willing to bet that it’s only going to get better from here.