Steam library games not appearing.

[Towelie]

I have had multiple steam games free and paid from the past and they have all been uninstalled at one random point in time. I decided to get them back one random day and alot of them are not appearing in my library. So far only 2 of the paid games I have previously had installed have shown up in the library, which were just recently installed of course. They are playable and so are the ones that appear in my desktop instead of the steam library. All of them appear in my desktop but I still need access to them in my library to change the settings and whatnot. Can anyone help me with this? I've looked the problem up on google and I can't seem to fix it that way.

[Phantom]

https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/

Do the missing games show up on that page?

If not, then you're most likely on the wrong user account, so pay attention to your account name.

[Towelie]

Yeah I'll use "People Playground" as an example. It shows up there, as well as my desktop. But it does not appear in my library folder. This is also the only account I've ever had on here.

[MarvinTheRobot]

My Library home just shows dots like it's loading.

[MarvinTheRobot]

I fixed it by clicking Steam > Exit then restarting Steam.

[ViniZoo uu aa]

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[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Nyve:

Yeah I'll use "People Playground" as an example. It shows up there, as well as my desktop. But it does not appear in my library folder. This is also the only account I've ever had on here.

Games Are Missing from my Library

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5168-EUIA-6643

[Towelie]

I've tried all of these. I wanted to make sure it was still doing it so I reinstalled "Garry's Mod" and again, it did not appear in my steam library. It appeared in my desktop.

[Kesac]

May be an easy fix....

Above the library, there should be a dropdown. Is "Games" checked in that dropdown, and is there no filters set?

[Towelie]

Well the "Library" drop down only has Home, Collections, and Downloads. above library however has "Games". Library home says I have "2 Games" with the Games checkbox checked.

[The Giving One]

Steam installs the games to wherever your library folder is, and the .acf files are the key. If you have the steamapps folder on your desktop for some reason, that is where Steam will install the games if you only have the one library.

The .acf files are the key, found in that steamapps folder. Wherever those .acf files are, that is where Steam sees your games as installed.

Sorry, as I see now you were saying "library folder" and not "library", hence my mistake above.

[Towelie]

Is there a way I can send images through this? I think it'd be easier to understand if you saw my problem through that way.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Nyve:

Is there a way I can send images through this? I think it'd be easier to understand if you saw my problem through that way.

Should be able to take screeshots of what you want and upload them to a hosting site such as imgur or gyazo and then post the links to them here.

Don't post your account name by accident, if in any of the shots for some reason.

EDIT.. I will kindly bow out for now, as I clearly am not being helpful and/or misunderstanding the issue. Will check back tomorrow to see if you found a solution. Sorry for not understanding.

[Towelie]

Alright lemme do that.

[Towelie]

https://imgur.com/9KXBbgo
https://imgur.com/wPRUEC4
https://imgur.com/Xw8zH9o
So the first one is what my library home page says.
The second one is the games that I didn't uninstall. As you can see Garry's mod and People Playground don't show up in my library.
As for the third one that is the message I get when i try to "add a library folder".
All of the games shown were only recently installed.
Dead by Daylight isn't even on my desktop. Its on my library page.

[xarvn]

On the top left click "View" and select "Hidden Games." Does that show any of the games that were missing from the library?