Hey guys, welcome back to another tutorial video dusty here today.
I'm going to be showing you guys how to add non steam games to
your steam library. So as you can see here, I've logged into steam.
I am over at my library here, the second tab,
and you can see a list of all of my games here on the left, as well as the, uh,
the visual interpretation on the right here in order to add a non steam game.
There's a couple of ways you can go about doing this. Uh,
the first and best of which is to go down to the lower left-hand corner,
to where you see the add a game button. And it has a plus symbol here,
go to add a game and then go to add a non steam game.
Or if you don't see that button go up here to the upper left hand corner and go
to games and then add a non steam game to my library. So again,
at a non steam game, and then once you do that,
it's going to then search your computer for applications or things that they
think could be games. Uh, and we can add other things other than games.
So you might could add Microsoft Excel or Microsoft office, uh,
all of that here to your steam library and do everything under one
launcher. If that's what you want to do.
So once the add a game option gets done,
kind of searching your computer for applications and games,
go and find the game that you want to add. So in this case,
I'm going to add world of Warcraft. I'm going to put a check by that there.
And then what I'm going to do is go to add selected programs. Now,
if you don't see the non steam game that you're wanting to add,
sometimes it gets a little tricky like games that are installed from the Epic
launcher.
Sometimes don't pop up here also games that are installed on external hard
drives or other hard drives than your main C drive. Sometimes don't pop up.
So you may have to go to browse and then once you're here,
go and find the launcher or the, uh, dot exe file, uh,
for that application or game. And you should be good to go.
But as you can see here,
I put a check Mark by the game that I want to add to my library and then go to
add selected programs. And you can add more than one, if you would like now,
as you can see, world of Warcraft has now been added to my steam launcher.
Now it doesn't look that good, obviously because it's not native to steam,
but now I have that green play button like I normally would.
And then if I go back to my library here, go back to home.
You can see now down here under all games,
world of Warcraft does come up in the visual interpretation section here.
So if I select that there and then hit the green play button,
it will launch battle.net, which is in turn, how you launch world of Warcraft.
Uh, and then it will load up and launch the game as it normally would.
As you can see here,
I'm going to close out of that because I don't want to do that.
If you want to change the name of that game, if it doesn't show, uh,
just the game name and it shows some weird title,
you can right click on that game and then go to properties.
And then under properties, you can see here, our target and destinations,
all that good stuff. We can go right here and DoubleClick,
and we can change the name of that if we want to, uh,
I'm not going to do that for the purposes of this video. Also, lastly,
if you want to change how this screen looks just to make it look a little
better, you can right click right here where the banner is.
So you can right click and then go to set custom background.
And then if you have an image that you want to use for that background,
you can choose that here. As you can see,
I've added an image that I've downloaded off the internet to kind of adjust and
make it look a little better. And then if you want to change the icon over here,
that shows up in the list view, you can just right, click again,
go to properties. And then right here where you see the game icon,
which for this game worked out perfectly, you can just select that game icon,
find the actual JPEG or PNG image that you want to use,
and then replace that there as well.
So that's it about adding non steam games to a steam? It's something that again,
if you want to keep everything under one launcher,
it is a great way of doing that. If you have any questions,
please put those down in the comment section below.
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And I will see you guys in the next video.