Filter "Adult Only" Games in Steam Library?

[Gay Lord]

Is there a way to filter games specifically marked as "adult only" in your library? Right now I can only seem to filter them down to two tags: Sexual Content/Nudity, but that still leaves me with a ton of M-rated games to look through.

[Lithurge]

I don't believe there is. Steam doesn't seem to treat adult only as a tag but as a theme. Now if you could apply the theme search from the store to your library that would do the trick, but you can't.

You can apply your own tags for a game on the store page, but I don't know if they work for filtering the library. Or if it has to be one that's been officially 'approved' by Valve as a general tag.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

It's odd in a way, since they have to be separate in the store, and in the community (for the AO filters). So they do have an invisible tag or marker somewhere.

Would be nice if you could use to sort the library...

[Gay Lord]

Yeah that's what I thought. Since they are already marked differently on the store that there'd be a way to narrow them down (or filter them out) in yohr library. Hopefully they add that as a feature someday?

[Lithurge]

You could always post it in the suggestions/ideas forum, They do seem to take ideas from there (the ability to make games private and the recent change to family share for example). But I wouldn't hold your breath as it can take a long time.

You'll probably attract a lot of 'it won't happen because' answers but I'd ignore them as they said the same about the two examples I gave.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:

It's odd in a way, since they have to be separate in the store, and in the community (for the AO filters). So they do have an invisible tag or marker somewhere.

There is no invisible tag or marker.

It's a bit difficult for me to find examples because Steam censors these games away from me, but take a look at this one: https://steamdb.info/app/1004240/info/

(I just typed "Hentai" into the search field, picked a random result, and checked that it's blocked on the German store)

If you go to the bottom of the "Additional Info" box, you'll find the "Content Descriptors" -- this is what's used for the "adult" handling. Tags really aren't used for anything; they are a user-thing.

And while I usually refer to loranzostanco for some more advanced library filters, they don't seem to include the "Content Descriptors" either...

Possible content descriptiors (may not be complete; haven't updated this in a while):

enum EContentDescriptorID {
        k_EContentDescriptor_NudityOrSexualContent = 1;
        k_EContentDescriptor_FrequentViolenceOrGore = 2;
        k_EContentDescriptor_AdultOnlySexualContent = 3;
        k_EContentDescriptor_GratuitousSexualContent = 4;
        k_EContentDescriptor_AnyMatureContent = 5;
}

[Gay Lord]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

You could always post it in the suggestions/ideas forum, They do seem to take ideas from there (the ability to make games private and the recent change to family share for example). But I wouldn't hold your breath as it can take a long time.

You'll probably attract a lot of 'it won't happen because' answers but I'd ignore them as they said the same about the two examples I gave.

Will do, thank you!

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:

It's odd in a way, since they have to be separate in the store, and in the community (for the AO filters). So they do have an invisible tag or marker somewhere.

There is no invisible tag or marker.

It's a bit difficult for me to find examples because Steam censors these games away from me, but take a look at this one: https://steamdb.info/app/1004240/info/

(I just typed "Hentai" into the search field, picked a random result, and checked that it's blocked on the German store)

If you go to the bottom of the "Additional Info" box, you'll find the "Content Descriptors" -- this is what's used for the "adult" handling. Tags really aren't used for anything; they are a user-thing.

And while I usually refer to loranzostanco for some more advanced library filters, they don't seem to include the "Content Descriptors" either...

Possible content descriptiors (may not be complete; haven't updated this in a while):

enum EContentDescriptorID {
        k_EContentDescriptor_NudityOrSexualContent = 1;
        k_EContentDescriptor_FrequentViolenceOrGore = 2;
        k_EContentDescriptor_AdultOnlySexualContent = 3;
        k_EContentDescriptor_GratuitousSexualContent = 4;
        k_EContentDescriptor_AnyMatureContent = 5;
}

So the descriptors ARE there? I have no idea how to go about it but the fact those descriptors are there, would that make it easier to implement a toggle in the library to do so?

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Gay Lord:

So the descriptors ARE there? I have no idea how to go about it but the fact those descriptors are there, would that make it easier to implement a toggle in the library to do so?

Yes, Not for you, though -- for whoever is doing the Steam client at Valve.

I'll be using it on *my* bot/client as well, but that obviously does nothing with the Steam client.

[stogle]

SteamDB can filter on these content descriptors if you are signed in. Try

https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=549&operator=1&keyvalue=3

Then click "Show Only Owned".

[Gay Lord]

Originally posted by stogle:

SteamDB can filter on these content descriptors if you are signed in. Try

https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=549&operator=1&keyvalue=3

Then click "Show Only Owned".

That's a great workaround thank you!!