How to know hidden games titles in wishlist?

[Lyric]

Hi,

I was looking for a game title I was sure to have on my wishlist, except I cannot find it, and I noticed I have 4 missing/hidden titles on my wishlist.
Is there some way to see the full wishlist list with the hidden games? I looked in big picture mode, but I only see the same wishlist with the 4 missing titles.
If the games have been removed from Steam, I am hoping I could still find them somewhere else like itch.io.

Thanks for your answer.

[Carolynne]

A kind fellow made a guide regarding removing hidden wishlisted/followed games but also to view what these games were.

You can view them in this guide:

Remove hidden items from your Steam wishlist! (Outdated - 20/11/2024) 

A Guide for Steam

By: The HopelessGamer™

This is a tool designed to automatically find and remove hidden items from your wishlist! Steam updated the Wishlist on the 20/11/2024 and have resolved the bug that this guide was providing a solution to fixing.

It's under the fourth section; How many unlisted games are on your wishlist?

Just make sure you don't clear out the hidden games before you check what these are, naturally!

[SaturnMeteor]

I tried the steam calculator page several ways and it just won't work ever. I really want to know what are the hidden games in my wishlist. What should I do ?

[Lyric]

Originally posted by Hezdretchguvevallhartu:

I tried the steam calculator page several ways and it just won't work ever. I really want to know what are the hidden games in my wishlist. What should I do ?

The tool doesnt work if your profile is private. You have to change it to public for it to work, at least as long as you are using the tool. You can go back to private afterwards.

[SaturnMeteor]

I tried that too but it didn't work, I talked with a friend about it and he said something like it might has a relation to the location as like it could not be working in France, I don't know. I'm not sure at all. There are things that work with code lines but I don't feel confident enough to try this way.

[Lyric]

If you just want to know what are your hidden games, you just have to follow those instructions:

This website will give you the appid for each unlisted game on your wishlist:
Steam Wishlist Calculator[www.SteamWishlistCalculator.com]

How to find unlisted games on the website:
Calculate your wishlist > Click "Export wishlist" > Click "Unlisted" > Games will be displayed as both links and text.

No need to use any code lines for that. The scripts given are used to remove the unlisted games.

You just need to have your profile as well as your games list to be public. It takes less than a minute.

[SaturnMeteor]

Well, summer time and high traffic are not helping at all I think. My wishlist goes private even for myself sometimes. It really doesn't want to work properly. Like REALLY not. I don't know why. I did try with several things like my ID number or the whislist URL after I set my profile public as all I found about it was that I had to set it to this, but it never worked.

[Lyric]

Maybe you have too many games on your wishlist. I have 180 games on it and it works fine when I switch to public.

[SaturnMeteor]

I have quite a lot indeed. 452 with the hidden games.

[Lyric]

It is not that many. Sorry, but I have no idea why it is not working. Could also be a firewall or antivirus blocking issue. Sorry I cannot help you more. Maybe try again later after the sale is over.

[SaturnMeteor]

I have not been using firewalls or antiviruses for a long while so I don't know. maybe it's windows default firewalls if so. I really don't know. Yea I think waiting for sales to finish could help a bit maybe.

[Marinaru]

Originally posted by Nene:

If you just want to know what are your hidden games, you just have to follow those instructions:

This website will give you the appid for each unlisted game on your wishlist:
Steam Wishlist Calculator[www.SteamWishlistCalculator.com]

How to find unlisted games on the website:
Calculate your wishlist > Click "Export wishlist" > Click "Unlisted" > Games will be displayed as both links and text.

No need to use any code lines for that. The scripts given are used to remove the unlisted games.

You just need to have your profile as well as your games list to be public. It takes less than a minute.

I am trying to access this website and it won't let me. Is it down?

[Carolynne]

Originally posted by Hezdretchguvevallhartu:

Well, summer time and high traffic are not helping at all I think. My wishlist goes private even for myself sometimes. It really doesn't want to work properly. Like REALLY not. I don't know why. I did try with several things like my ID number or the whislist URL after I set my profile public as all I found about it was that I had to set it to this, but it never worked.

When Steam servers are overloaded it may take time for it to register a profile edit, change your profile and game details to public and leave it like that for few minutes and then try the calculator.

Your firewall shouldn't intervene it, neither should the amount of games in wishlist.
Often people who use these calculators tend to have games in thousands on their wishlist.

Originally posted by Marinaru:

I am trying to access this website and it won't let me. Is it down?

The site works fine, I'm also able to view your wishlist through it myself.
It shows you have 1,171 items on your wishlist whereas 14 of them are hidden.

What happens when you attempt to click the link[www.steamwishlistcalculator.com], does it give you an error message of some sort or simply redirect you back at Steam community homepage?

Also here is a direct link[www.steamwishlistcalculator.com] to your wishlist.

[Marinaru]

Originally posted by Carolynne:

Originally posted by Hezdretchguvevallhartu:

Well, summer time and high traffic are not helping at all I think. My wishlist goes private even for myself sometimes. It really doesn't want to work properly. Like REALLY not. I don't know why. I did try with several things like my ID number or the whislist URL after I set my profile public as all I found about it was that I had to set it to this, but it never worked.

When Steam servers are overloaded it may take time for it to register a profile edit, change your profile and game details to public and leave it like that for few minutes and then try the calculator.

Your firewall shouldn't intervene it, neither should the amount of games in wishlist.
Often people who use these calculators tend to have games in thousands on their wishlist.

Originally posted by Marinaru:

I am trying to access this website and it won't let me. Is it down?

The site works fine, I'm also able to view your wishlist through it myself.
It shows you have 1,171 items on your wishlist whereas 14 of them are hidden.

What happens when you attempt to click the link[www.steamwishlistcalculator.com], does it give you an error message of some sort or simply redirect you back at Steam community homepage?

Also here is a direct link[www.steamwishlistcalculator.com] to your wishlist.

gives error www.steamwishlistcalculator.com took too long to respond or stuck at loading.
I used the script once and it removed 40 items from my wishlist. 2nd time I run the script it finds 13 more items. How come they weren't found in the 1st run?
I hope the automatic script doesn't remove active games as well, as I have some important games which I want to buy one day.
Just found out it removed some active games from my wishlist: euro truck simulator 2, rimworld and the witcher 3. It did remove some unlisted games as well, indeed, but this automatic script isn't 100% reliable.
So apparently the wishlist bug affects LISTED games as well. Beware!
Can you give me the list of appids of the unlisted items in my wishlist? I cant access the website.

[Carolynne]

Originally posted by Marinaru:

gives error www.steamwishlistcalculator.com took too long to respond or stuck at loading.

This sounds like it's struggling to load the communication between the site and the Steam servers, this may be due to internet connection.

Originally posted by Marinaru:

I used the script once and it removed 40 items from my wishlist. 2nd time I run the script it finds 13 more items. How come they weren't found in the 1st run?

Originally posted by Marinaru:

Just found out it removed some active games from my wishlist: euro truck simulator 2, rimworld and the witcher 3. It did remove some unlisted games as well, indeed, but this automatic script isn't 100% reliable.
So apparently the wishlist bug affects LISTED games as well. Beware!

Now this one is interesting, it does appear that the calculator is struggling to calculate your wishlist properly. The site and its features were created before various Steam site, client and UI changes were made, there might have been a change in how Valve decide to script these app IDs that the calculator is misinterpreting.

I ran your wishlist on that site again and this time it said you have 1,164 games on wishlist and 15 items are unlisted. Which brings us to your last question;

Originally posted by Marinaru:

Can you give me the list of appids of the unlisted items in my wishlist? I cant access the website.

This is most confusing for me, all 15 unlisted items are available on Steam, I'm not sure why it's marked as unlisted by the calculator.

I tried on some random people's wishlist and all of them are showing unlisted games accurately.
But nevertheless those are the app ID's to the games the calculator claims are unlisted on your wishlist:

48700 Mount & Blade Warband

230190 War for the Overworld

230410 Warframe

546230 Xenus 2. White gold.

252490 Rust

275850 No Man's Sky

331600 One Piece Pirate Warriors 3

333950 Medieval Engineers

340050 Survivalist

342910 Vantage: Primitive Survival Game

346110 ARK: Survival Evolved

350110 TransOcean 2: Rivals

2566200 Humanoid

2566340 Gedonia 2

2574760 Party Pirates


I'm not nearly as tech savvy as The HopelessGamer™, who was the bright mind that developed that calculator. He might be able to explain more why this is happening to you.



Edit;

I'm starting to see a pattern.

I'm speculating that the reason why this is happening is that Steam wishlist used to load and show all games, and the calculator could scan through them all at once.

But now Steam wishlist (same with library) only load a certain number of games at a time and loads them consecutively to not suffocate the bandwidth, and I think the calculator doesn't work like that, so whenever games are added, the unlisted games gets pushed down and in its slots other games takes over which gets misread.

[Marinaru]

Originally posted by Carolynne:

Originally posted by Marinaru:

gives error www.steamwishlistcalculator.com took too long to respond or stuck at loading.

This sounds like it's struggling to load the communication between the site and the Steam servers, this may be due to internet connection.

Originally posted by Marinaru:

I used the script once and it removed 40 items from my wishlist. 2nd time I run the script it finds 13 more items. How come they weren't found in the 1st run?

Originally posted by Marinaru:

Just found out it removed some active games from my wishlist: euro truck simulator 2, rimworld and the witcher 3. It did remove some unlisted games as well, indeed, but this automatic script isn't 100% reliable.
So apparently the wishlist bug affects LISTED games as well. Beware!

Now this one is interesting, it does appear that the calculator is struggling to calculate your wishlist properly. The site and its features were created before various Steam site, client and UI changes were made, there might have been a change in how Valve decide to script these app IDs that the calculator is misinterpreting.

I ran your wishlist on that site again and this time it said you have 1,164 games on wishlist and 15 items are unlisted. Which brings us to your last question;

Originally posted by Marinaru:

Can you give me the list of appids of the unlisted items in my wishlist? I cant access the website.

This is most confusing for me, all 15 unlisted items are available on Steam, I'm not sure why it's marked as unlisted by the calculator.

I tried on some random people's wishlist and all of them are showing unlisted games accurately.
But nevertheless those are the app ID's to the games the calculator claims are unlisted on your wishlist:

48700 Mount & Blade Warband

230190 War for the Overworld

230410 Warframe

546230 Xenus 2. White gold.

252490 Rust

275850 No Man's Sky

331600 One Piece Pirate Warriors 3

333950 Medieval Engineers

340050 Survivalist

342910 Vantage: Primitive Survival Game

346110 ARK: Survival Evolved

350110 TransOcean 2: Rivals

2566200 Humanoid

2566340 Gedonia 2

2574760 Party Pirates


I'm not nearly as tech savvy as The HopelessGamer™, who was the bright mind that developed that calculator. He might be able to explain more why this is happening to you.

Thank you very much.
It keeps doing to me. After each script run, the wishlist "produces" additional hidden games. I would stop now, as I'm losing my wishlist gradually. In the previous wishlist before the current one, I ran the script again and lost 20 games which I don't know anything about. Some of them might be good games that I wanted to buy and play one day.
@Carollyne can you DM me?