Linux - Game files do not exist

[TheMoxyFoxy]

Hello everyone,

I am running steam on Linux (Pop!_OS 20.04) and am running into a weird issue... The game files don't exist. At all. Yet Steam can somehow see them. I created a folder under `/home/[username]/Games` and set it as the default. I downloaded a game there. Game wouldn't run and the integrity of the files was fine.

Decided to look in the game files to see what was happening using Nautilus and... there is nothing. Checked by doing `ls`. Nothing. `ls -A`. Nothing. Checked the disk size of the directory using `du -sh Games` (under `/home/[username]`. Only 4kb of meta data for the directory. Not the game size.

Thought maybe something went wrong and it saved to the default Steam install folder (`/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam`) even though it says in the Steam Library Folders that it's saved in the right place. The `Steam` folder doesn't exist. Even though it says two other games are installed there...

What is going on? Any suggestions?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Try posting here.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/

[TheMoxyFoxy]

Thank you Dr. Shadows, but I managed to figure it out! It seems that, for some reason, it created its own `Games` directory. I believe this is some oddity with flatpak or Pop!_Shop. Regardless, if anyone else sees this post, try checking: `~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam`