[RESOLVED] Removed games still appearing in library

[SabreCat]

Hey folks,

I've been doing a konmari-style purge of my Steam library, using the Support options to permanently remove a bunch of stuff from my account. This has worked great for most games that came under my crosshairs, but five games are now stuck in a weird state. They

1. are not installed
2. are not available on Family Share
3. do not provide the "remove permanently" option on the Support page
4. ...but they still appear in the Library list.

Those games are

Dota 2
Dota 2 Test
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
SteamWorld Heist

Is there any way I can get rid of these things?

[Xpliciit]

F2P games stay in your library when you purchase ingame content or DLC. That might explain Dota 2 i have no idea about the rest.

[Shadow Slayer]

Put then m into the hidden folder? Right click, add to hidden.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

did you purchase the orange box bundle?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by SabreCat:

Hey folks,

I've been doing a konmari-style purge of my Steam library, using the Support options to permanently remove a bunch of stuff from my account. This has worked great for most games that came under my crosshairs, but five games are now stuck in a weird state. They

1. are not installed
2. are not available on Family Share
3. do not provide the "remove permanently" option on the Support page
4. ...but they still appear in the Library list.

Those games are

Dota 2
Dota 2 Test
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
SteamWorld Heist

Is there any way I can get rid of these things?

Do you have them installed? Removing the games from your account will not uninstall the games from your local system. You have to right click the game and uninstall it from there separately.

[SabreCat]

@Xplicit: I don't think I've ever so much as launched DotA 2, much less bought DLC for it.

@Shadow Slayer: Yeah, they are in my Hidden list. I'm purging stuff even from there. :3

@cSg|mc-Hotsauce: I think I got Half-Life Complete? That does prompt an interesting theory, though--it might be I have licenses for these games from multiple bundles at once. So I deregister one bundle, leaving it in a weird contradictory state where it's both flagged as "removed via dereg of this bundle" and as "owned via this other bundle"?

@Spawn of Totoro: I stated in point #1 that they're not installed. :\ Looks like I might've been mistaken that Dota 2 Test isn't in Family Share tho, hmm.

[SabreCat]

Figured it out! SteamWorld Heist apparently just needed another restart of the Steam client to get rid of it. And the others I had to remove Category tags from, and they went away. Nice! Sorry to have wasted y'all's time.

[Xpliciit]

Originally posted by SabreCat:

Figured it out! SteamWorld Heist apparently just needed another restart of the Steam client to get rid of it. And the others I had to remove Category tags from, and they went away. Nice! Sorry to have wasted y'all's time.

No this is good information for future reference im glad you worked it out :D