Uninstalling Steam games from the Control Panel doesn't delete their local content?

[himmatsj]

I was surprised really, that uninstalling Steam games via the Control Panel doesn't outright delete their folders, and hence the game files are still on your PC (by game files, I mean all the 20GB for XCOM EW, for example).

Is this something new, or has been the case always?

[dianephipps]

I was to stream when I went to uninstall stream from the control panel it was still there on my pc and I did not notice it until a few weeks later I went to instal stream it said that stream couldn't
install because the folder was full. its very difficult for me to try and understand and to back up my games well that's even harder to understand . wish they would make it easier.
diane.

[himmatsj]

Anyone?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's rare, but it happens with some titles. Happened to me when I uninstalled Counter-Strike Source and Day of Defeat Source.

All I can is whenever you remove/uninstall something, check the places where it had files and then ensure they are gone after the uninstall has finished, to fully ensure what you want ridden from your system has actually been deleted. Such as folders the game will often use, like

..\SteamApps\Common\GameName
C:\Users\Public\Documents\
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\

Also in many cases, if the game was a "Special", "Deluxe", "Collectors" edition that contained extra content, such as art book pdf, music soundtrack, etc. Those files are often left behind when game is uninstalled.

In the future, instead of Uninstalling a Steam game via Programs and Features listing, simply open Steam Client, go to your games listing Library and right click a game title and click Delete Local Content. That should fully uninstall and remove the entire game from your system properly.

[himmatsj]

Happened to me for Xcom EW, Deus Ex and Missing Link DLC. Not try for any other game.

[MW4EVER]

if it happens just delete the game from the steam folder... no big deal...

[Tyiarrą Marie 🌺]

I just uninstalled Steam from my PC - in doing so it has deleted the Steam folder; I went into my documents and into roaming folder and those steam folders are also gone. Now I went to uninstall another program using my PC Control panel and I have 30+GB of Steam games showing up and cannot find where they would be stored. When I click to uninstall it seems to take an hr for each little one because I dont think they can find the proper files to actually uninstall because I uninstalled Steam. [Windows 10]