The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Improved startup performance for users with large libraries that include non-Steam games.

In-Game Overlay

• Adjusted Performance Monitor GPU Utilization measurement on Windows+NVIDIA GPUs to closer match some other tools. This will again shift the number to match task manager less, but match some other tools measurements more closely. The percentage you see will not change in many games, but may now show higher utilization in some games. We will update our Performance Monitor FAQ with more detail on the nuances of this measurement after this update gets some testing.

Linux

• Fixed system display scale not applying in overlay.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed a case where per-game performance profiles would fail to activate.

• Improved startup performance for users with large libraries that include non-Steam games.

Desktop Mode

• Fixed system display scale not applying in overlay.

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed power and clock limits sometimes getting reset after sleep

• Fixed a case where WiFi would fail to connect after sleep

• Improved battery charge time estimation

Accessibility

• Enabled multi-language support for the screen reader. The screen reader will default to the language configured under Settings->General.

  • The screen reader language may also be manually configured under Settings->Accessibility

Audio

• Fixed volume jumping to 100% upon removing 3.5mm headphones

• Fixed USB audio devices not being automatically switched to when connected

• Removed non-functional "Pro Audio" profile setting in desktop mode, which would disable audio until deselected

• Fixed audio glitches in Ori and the Will of the Wisps

• Fixed audio distortion with the Steam Deck microphone in game recordings

Non-Deck

• Fixed grip buttons after sleep on the original Asus ROG Ally

• Improved support for the Lenovo Legion Go when using controllers detached in FPS mode

• Added support for updated Legion Go Controller Firmware

Misc

• Fixes for security advisories CVE-2025-55188, CVE-2025-6021, CVE-2025-6170, CVE-2025-49794, CVE-2025-49795, CVE-2025-49796, CVE-2025-6395, CVE-2025-32989, CVE-2025-32988, CVE-2025-32990, CVE-2024-23337, CVE-2024-53427, CVE-2025-48060, CVE-2025-49014, CVE-2025-8067, CVE-2025-8067, CVE-2025-7425, and GHSA-f946-j5j2-4w5m

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Improved performance profile switching time.

Desktop Mode

• Fixed logo positioning tool allowing drag outside of the bounds of the background image and fixed hitching animation.

• Made layout and functionality improvements to the soundtrack player and soundtrack browser in the desktop overlay.

• Removed a setting from Music settings that wasn't hooked up to anything.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed logo positioning tool allowing drag outside of the bounds of the background image and fixed hitching animation.

• Made layout and functionality improvements to the soundtrack player and soundtrack browser in the desktop overlay.

• Removed a setting from Music settings that wasn't hooked up to anything.

macOS

• Fixed regression causing Big Picture Mode to display at incorrect resolution when full screen.

• [p]Fixed an issue where player sounds would not visualize correctly on the minimap.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a crash when changing sound devices.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a case where sounds would play incorrectly as players move through water.[/p][/*]
• [p]Fixed a case where viewmodel motion due to view angle changes misbehaved at certain frame rates.[/p][/*]

• [p]Minor fixes to the Loadout UI layout on certain resolutions.[/p][/*]
• [p]Trade-protected and rental items now allow "Unfavorite for CT" action.[/p][/*]

• [p]Various grenade and player clipping fixes.[/p][/*]

• [p]Various grenade and player clipping fixes.[/p][/*]

• [p]Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)[/p][/*]

• [p]Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)[/p][/*]

• [p]Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)[/p][/*]

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed an issue where selection would be lost when navigating back out of app details and other screens.

• Added the percentage of the transfer remaining to the Steam Cloud upload/download text in the library.

Desktop Mode

• Fixed Steam Deck compatibility and controller compatibility dropdowns in collection filter edit pane not updating if their corresponding filter was removed from the top bar.

Steam Input

• Re-enabled rumble for the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller. Users should update the dongle to the latest firmware.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed Steam Deck compatibility and controller compatibility dropdowns in collection filter edit pane not updating if their corresponding filter was removed from the top bar.

In-Game Overlay

• Fixed mouse input being offset when using the overlay in some games that render with a back buffer sized differently than the window. This impacted a small number of games in specific "fullscreen windowed" rendering modes where you can choose a non-native display resolution rather than common fullscreen, windowed, or borderless windowed modes.

Big Picture Mode

• Fixed an issue where selection would be lost when navigating back out of app details and other screens.

• Added the percentage of the transfer remaining to the Steam Cloud upload/download text in the library.

Steam Input

• Speculative fix for rare crash when using gyro modes.

• Re-enabled rumble for the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller. Users should update the dongle to the latest firmware.

• Stability improvements when using multi-command input binds.
• Fixed issue where Jonathan Young music kit would loop incorrectly.

• Restored some grenade lineup visuals.
• Misc clipping fixes.

• Fixed issues with the classic knife's inspect animations.
• Fixed the deploy for the Stiletto knife.
• Fixed the deploy for the Butterfly knife.
• Updated Talon knife inspect while 'fidgeting' to be more responsive.
• Adjusted Flip knife animation when inspecting immediately after deploying.
• Adjusted Bayonet knife animation when inspecting immediately after deploying.

• Fixed a performance regression when creating bullet impact effects.
• View angle velocity now affects spectator target viewmodels the same way it affects local player viewmodels.
• Fixed a case where looping weapon inspects weren't networking to spectators.
• Fixed a bug where matchmaking was avoiding servers playing the nighttime version of Ancient.
• Removed legacy sprite-based shell casing fallback particle effects.
• Fixed case where overlapping smoke clouds would prematurely extinguish molotov fire.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

Steam Input

• Disabled rumble when using the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller connected via the dongle

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed game downloads not starting if user is subscribed to a controller configuration that is not available anymore

Steam Input

• Disabled rumble when using the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller connected via the dongle

Remote Play

• Fixed showing the pairing dialog on Linux when the monitor is turned off

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed custom logo images for non-Steam games sometimes not appearing.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed custom logo images for non-Steam games sometimes not appearing.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed a failure to enable bluetooth via Settings->Bluetooth if it was previously disabled in Desktop Mode.

• Fixed an issue where newly created accounts would show an empty library even after games had been added.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed an issue where newly created accounts would show an empty library even after games had been added.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed a steam crash/UI restart when the SteamOS Manager service restarts.

• Fixed an issue where screenshots from no longer installed Source mods could cause an error when filtering the "Screenshots and Recordings" page

Steam Input

• The Steam/Guide buttons on controllers will now toggle the visibility of the desktop overlay

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed an issue where screenshots from no longer installed Source mods could cause an error when filtering the "Screenshots and Recordings" page

Steam Input

• The Steam/Guide buttons on controllers will now toggle the visibility of the desktop overlay

• Reverted "house" roof decorations near CT spawn.
• Restored the ability to wallbang the plywood in "cave".
• Various changes to the daytime soundscape.
• Fixed items getting stuck behind the rubble pile on T side of B.
• Player clipping adjustments.

• Player clipping adjustments.

• More Ancient and Shoots source content is now available for community map makers in maps/editor/zoo/ancient_zoo.vmap.

• Fixed knife slashes applying a 'dry' attack decal on wet surfaces.
• Fixed a case where clients would mispredict shots if the attack button was held across round respawn.
• Fixed a case where the viewmodel would stick to the camera when cl_lock_camera was set.
• Fixed a case where fullscreen windowed mode wasn't offering resolutions with extreme aspect ratios.
• Fixed a case where fullscreen windowed mode wasn't actually stretching to fill the screen.
• Fixed a case where relative mouse motion was incorrect on Linux.
• Various stability improvements.

With today's update, the Review Score shown to you for some games will be calculated from the reviews written in your language. This is part of our ongoing effort to ensure that Steam User Reviews are helping customers make informed decisions when considering the purchase of a new game. Read on for the details behind this change.

We launched Steam User Reviews almost twelve years ago to give customers a way to tell each other what they thought about a game, and whether they recommended it or not. A short time later we introduced the concept of a Review Score, which is a simple categorization based on the percentage of positive reviews. It is basically a signal of how happy the overall community around a game was with their purchase, and a useful tool for potential customers to predict their happiness with that game as well.

Steam's growth since then into an even larger global presence means customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game. There are a variety of reasons this may happen for a particular game, including translation issues, cultural references, poor network connections, and many others; things that the Overall Review Scores haven't been able to capture until now. Calculating a language-specific review score means that we can better distill the sentiment of these different groups of customers, and in doing so, better serve potential customers that belong to those groups.

When there are enough reviews written in a particular language, Steam will calculate a review score for that language. The Review Score displayed to users will be based on their primary language. What this means is that some languages may show more positive review scores, while others may show more negative ones, for the same game.

This change impacts games that have more than 2,000 publicly visible reviews, and with at least 200 written reviews in at least one language. We purposely made these thresholds higher than the 10 reviews required to calculate the Overall Review Score; this is because we wanted to be pretty confident in the language-specific score before showing it to users.

For games where Steam has generated language-specific review scores, you'll see this on the game's store page:

If you want to dig deeper into what's going on, you can click the "See language breakdown" link to see a more detailed view by language and what Review Score those customers will see.

We realize that whenever we make changes to User Reviews, we're inviting some scrutiny into our motivations for making those changes. Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us, so we've erred on the side of being as transparent as possible. To that end, we've built many features in User Reviews that can be enabled or disabled, letting you access the raw reviews in many different ways.

At the same time, we want User Reviews to be useful to customers from the very start, without them having to twiddle with the many knobs the system has--this is the primary reason why the new language-specific review score system is turned on by default. If you want to go back to seeing the Overall Review Score based on all user reviews, ignoring your language, you can change that setting here in your Store preferences.

As always, we learn from your feedback, so please feel free to leave a comment below.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed logo images sometimes flashing at the wrong position for games that have custom logo positions set.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed regression launching games requiring user elevation on Windows.

• Fixed logo images sometimes flashing at the wrong position for games that have custom logo positions set.

• Added nighttime versions.
• Refreshed all ancient materials to use latest CS2 shaders.
• Added new blending options for ancient materials including wetness and moss.
• Added "ancient_zoo.vmap" with all assets and blending examples for mapmakers.

• Deluge Music Kit Box is now available for purchase in standard and StatTrak versions.
• New Limited Time Item, the M4A1-S | Solitude, is now available in The Armory.

• Sawed-off shotgun deploy modified and fixed shell penetration on reload.
• Improved deploy +quick inspect animations for all knives.
• Improved deploy +quick inspect animations for the AK, Galil, AUG, PP-Bizon.
• Improved deploy animations for the AWP, M4A4, M4A1-S.
• Improved animations for legacy SSG08 models.
• Removed the deploy inspect delay for most weapons.
• Fixed XM1014 blocking crosshair during reload.

• Rendering performance improvements across most maps.
• Rendering resolution and aspect ratio can now be changed in fullscreen windowed mode.
• fps_max can no longer be changed while connected to a server.
• Fixed a case where certain weapons could be fired sooner after a re-deploy.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed Steam client failing to reload or showing dialogs unexpectedly after a render process crash.

Desktop Mode

• Fixed scaling of on-screen keyboard when accessibility display scaling is enabled.

• Fixed notifications and find-in-page popups intermittently failing to close or focus.

Remote Play

• Fixed the Steam+X shortcut to bring up the on-screen keyboard while streaming

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

Note: This update was re-released to fix a macOS issue causing some games to launch with the wrong process architecture. It was later re-released to rollback a GPU utilization monitoring change that needs more testing.

General

• Fixed scaling of desktop on-screen keyboard when accessibility display scaling is enabled.

• Fixed notifications and find-in-page popups intermittently failing to close or focus.

Remote Play

• Fixed the guide button bringing Steam to the foreground while streaming from another computer

macOS

• Fixed some games not launching properly on Apple Silicon machines.

Linux

• Fixed Steam client failing to reload or showing dialogs unexpectedly after a render process crash.

Store

• Game pages in the Steam store are now wider, making better use of available space on larger monitors. For more details, please see: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/532106189043925405

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fix an issue with crash dump reporting

Steam Input

• Fix a case where Xbox and Playstation controllers could be duplicated when Steam Input is enabled

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

Linux

• Fix an issue with crash dump reporting

Steam Input

• Fix a case where Xbox and Playstation controllers could be duplicated when Steam Input is enabled

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

Desktop Mode

• Performance Monitor now supports CPU temperature.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

In-Game Overlay

• Performance Monitor now supports CPU temperature on Windows and Linux, on Windows this requires a kernel mode driver, and there is an optional to disable if you don't want that. The driver is only installed and running when Performance Monitor is visible at full CPU detail levels and only if you don't disable the drive in the In-Game settings.

• Fixed mouse input being offset on macOS when running certain games on high dpi displays.

• Fixed game overview window failing to load if there is an issue loading data for popular or favorite guides.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Improved robustness of collection storage

In-Game Overlay

• Fixed regression causing Monster Hunter Wilds (possibly other games) to crash on startup with In-Game Overlay enabled

• Fixed cursor not showing in focused input fields