Alluring Steam Backgrounds

Ever growing showcase of the meticulously selected Steam backgrounds from a wide range of games.

‎‎Introduction

The choice of selected backgrounds was based on personal preference and quality. This showcase will be continuously updated with new finds and suggestions, so don't be shy to share your thoughts.

Abstract

Name: Access Point ┃ Game: Transistor ┃ Link
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Name: Nightmare ┃ Game: Niko: Through The Dream ┃ Link
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Name: ShaoJun ┃ Game: Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China ┃ Link
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Name: Solo Nobre High Rise ┃ Game: Brigador ┃ Link
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Name: Dancing In The Dark ┃ Game: AIPD - Artificial Intelligence Police Department ┃ Link
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Name: Pool Nation Background 3 ┃ Game: Pool Nation ┃ Link

Action

Name: Action Poster ┃ Game: Clandestine ┃ Link
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Name: SURVARIUM - SOOTHSAYER ┃ Game: Survarium ┃ Link
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Name: Turning Point ┃ Game: Tomb Raider ┃ Link
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Name: Guarded ┃ Game: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ┃ Link
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Name: Wolf ┃ Game: PAYDAY 2 ┃ Link
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Name: The Crew ┃ Game: PAYDAY 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Ash ┃ Game: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege ┃ Link
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Name: Mute ┃ Game: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege ┃ Link

Anime

Name: Hail to the Queen! ┃ Game: Coffin of Ashes ┃ Link
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Name: Crystal of Memories ┃ Game: Coffin of Ashes ┃ Link
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Name: The Polar Laboratory - dark - ┃ Game: Malus Code ┃ Link
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Name: The Polar Laboratory - light - ┃ Game: Malus Code ┃ Link
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Name: Yae & Suzukake ┃ Game: Malus Code ┃ Link
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Name: Packoy Party ┃ Game: Ne no Kami - The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto ┃ Link
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Name: Hannah - Store Manager ┃ Game: Negligee ┃ Link
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Name: Jasmin - Applicant ┃ Game: Negligee ┃ Link
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Name: Gochi-Show Profile Background 4 ┃ Game: Gochi-Show! ┃ Link
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Name: Swimwear ┃ Game: Summer Fling ┃ Link
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Name: Bikini's ┃ Game: Summer Fling ┃ Link
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Name: High School Girls ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle ┃ Link
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Name: School Girls ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle ┃ Link
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Name: Idols ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle ┃ Link
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Name: Cat Sakurai Sisters ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle ┃ Link
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Name: SchoolUniform1 ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition ┃ Link
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Name: SchoolUniform2 ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition ┃ Link
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Name: SchoolUniform3 ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition ┃ Link
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Name: CheerleaderUniform ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Leotard ┃ Game: Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Shantae & Risky Boots ┃ Game: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse ┃ Link
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Name: Summer Shantae & Risky Boots ┃ Game: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse ┃ Link
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Name: Changing Room Shock ┃ Game: Highschool Romance ┃ Link
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Name: Congratulations ┃ Game: True Love ～Confide to the Maple～ ┃ Link

City

Name: Cloudbank ┃ Game: Transistor ┃ Link‎‎‎‎
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Name: The Overseer ┃ Game: Neon Chrome ┃ Link
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Name: Concept Art ┃ Game: BioShock 2 Remastered ┃ Link
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Name: Shelter's Evacuation Station ┃ Game: Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition ┃ Link
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Name: The Fallen Angel ┃ Game: Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition ┃ Link

Fantasy

Name: Echoes in the Darkness ┃ Game: Tormentum - Dark Sorrow ┃ Link
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Name: Streumonic ┃ Game: E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy ┃ Link
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Name: Family ┃ Game: E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy ┃ Link
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Name: White Queen vs. Black Queen ┃ Game: Battle vs Chess ┃ Link
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Name: Companions ┃ Game: Dragon's Prophet (EU) ┃ Link
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Name: Title Monsters ┃ Game: Nightbanes ┃ Link
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Name: Все Герои ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Shandra Manaya ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Elin and Popori ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Castanic and Aman ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Argons ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Vengeful Spirit ┃ Game: Dota 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Dragon ┃ Game: Dota 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Liliana Vess ┃ Game: Magic Duels ┃ Link
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Name: Vietnam ┃ Game: Magicka ┃ Link

Nature

Name: Forest ┃ Game: Spirits ┃ Link
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‎‎‎‎Name: Catacomb Background ┃ Game: Dream ┃ Link
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Name: Dream of a Garden ┃ Game: Dream ┃ Link
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Name: Dusk ┃ Game: BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Dawn ┃ Game: BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Daydream ┃ Game: BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Hive Room ┃ Game: Natural Selection 2 ┃ Link
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Name: The Wilderness ┃ Game: Sanctum 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Brown’s Shack ┃ Game: Marble Duel ┃ Link
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Name: Swamp ┃ Game: Marble Duel ┃ Link
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Name: Outland Jungle ┃ Game: Outland ┃ Link
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Name: Orclands ┃ Game: The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav ┃ Link
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Name: Forest ┃ Game: InFlux ┃ Link
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Name: Dino Horde ┃ Game: ORION: Prelude ┃ Link
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Name: Clifftops ┃ Game: PONCHO ┃ Link

Scary

Name: Drowning ┃ Game: Dead Island ┃ Link
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Name: Titan's Realm ┃ Game: DOOM ┃ Link
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Name: Priests ┃ Game: Niffelheim ┃ Link
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Name: Telur, The God ┃ Game: Sacred Almanac Traces of Greed ┃ Link
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Name: Clots ┃ Game: Killing Floor 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Zombie Horde ┃ Game: Dead Rising ┃ Link
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Name: Staring Into Darkness ┃ Game: Dead Rising 3 ┃ Link
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Name: Talimar The Black ┃ Game: Shadowgate ┃ Link
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Name: Linda's Demise ┃ Game: DreadOut ┃ Link
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Name: The Chase ┃ Game: DreadOut ┃ Link
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Name: Light & Heavy ┃ Game: Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies ┃ Link
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Name: Face-Off ┃ Game: Dispatcher ┃ Link
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Name: Holy zombies! ┃ Game: Trapped Dead ┃ Link
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Name: Herd ┃ Game: Trapped Dead ┃ Link
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Name: Odallus: The Dark Call ┃ Game: Odallus: The Dark Call ┃ Link
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‎Name: Skulls ┃ Game: Rock 'N' Roll Defense ┃ Link
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Name: Wounded World ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Bad Looking Dudes ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Dragons ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Eldritch ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Lepotitsa ┃ Game: Resident Evil 6 / Biohazard 6 ┃ Link
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Name: Ultra Meat Man ┃ Game: Super Meat Boy ┃ Link
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Name: The Cyborg Midwives ┃ Game: System Shock 2 ┃ Link

Sci-Fi

Name: SHODAN ┃ Game: System Shock 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Confrontation ┃ Game: System Shock 2 ┃ Link
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Name: Terminal Standoff ┃ Game: Perpetuum ┃ Link
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Name: Lady Z ┃ Game: Shadowrun Returns ┃ Link
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Name: Sparks ┃ Game: Dirty Bomb ┃ Link
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Name: Proxy ┃ Game: Dirty Bomb ┃ Link
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Name: Dark Queen ┃ Game: Star Conflict ┃ Link
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Name: Gordon & Alyx 2 ┃ Game: Half-Life 2 ┃ Link

Sexy

Name: Castanica ┃ Game: TERA ┃ Link
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Name: Crucia ┃ Game: RIFT ┃ Link
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Name: Linda & Siska ┃ Game: DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark ┃ Link
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Name: Lady & Trish ┃ Game: Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Revelations - Femme Fatale ┃ Game: Resident Evil Revelations ┃ Link
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Name: Choi Ji Yoon & Natasha ┃ Game: Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies ┃ Link
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Name: Bodyguard ┃ Game: Neon Chrome ┃ Link
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Name: Viola And Kiki DeWynter ┃ Game: Saints Row: The Third ┃ Link
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Name: Shaundi ┃ Game: Saints Row: The Third ┃ Link
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Name: Kinzie and Shaundi ┃ Game: Saints Row IV ┃ Link
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Name: Invasion ┃ Game: Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Poster Girl ┃ Game: Jagged Alliance Flashback ┃ Link
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Name: Floating Mya ┃ Game: Catmouth Island ┃ Link

Space

Name: Clear Skies ┃ Game: Sirius Online ┃ Link
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Name: Caldari State ┃ Game: EVE Online ┃ Link
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Name: EVE Online: Odyssey ┃ Game: EVE Online ┃ Link
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Name: Wormhole Exploration ┃ Game: EVE Online ┃ Link
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Name: Hive Horizon ┃ Game: Starion Tactics ┃ Link
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Name: Concept Art #4 ┃ Game: Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut ┃ Link
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Name: Space 1 ┃ Game: Defy Gravity ┃ Link
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Name: Nebula Y ┃ Game: Optika ┃ Link
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Name: Planet Ocean ┃ Game: Switch Galaxy Ultra ┃ Link
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Name: Planet Impact ┃ Game: Switch Galaxy Ultra ┃ Link
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Name: ASTEROIDS ┃ Game: Starlaxis Supernova Edition ┃ Link
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Name: BROKEN PLANET ┃ Game: Starlaxis Supernova Edition ┃ Link
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Name: Arkhona ┃ Game: Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade ┃ Link
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Name: Heart Nebula ┃ Game: Star Horizon ┃ Link
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Name: Dark Side ┃ Game: BossConstructor ┃ Link
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Name: Asteroids ┃ Game: Space Rangers: Quest ┃ Link
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Name: Nebula ┃ Game: Space Rangers: Quest ┃ Link
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Name: Nebulae ┃ Game: Space Rangers HD: A War Apart ┃ Link
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Name: Purple Sky ┃ Game: Space Rangers HD: A War Apart ┃ Link

Miscellaneous

Name: Hindsight ┃ Game: Life Is Strange ┃ Link
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Name: Melee Weapons ┃ Game: Last Survivor ┃ Link
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Name: Lutefisk Shrine ┃ Game: Dungeons of Dredmor ┃ Link
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Name: Hartman ┃ Game: INFRA ┃ Link
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Name: Summer Getaway Map ┃ Game: Steam Summer Getaway ┃ Link
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Name: Colt M1911 ┃ Game: World of Guns: Gun Disassembly ┃ Link
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Name: Colt M1911 Background ┃ Game: World of Guns: Gun Disassembly ┃ Link
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Name: Four Kings Casino: The Kings Court ┃ Game: The Four Kings Casino and Slots ┃ Link
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Name: Doodles ┃ Game: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth ┃ Link

Background Preview Sites

Sites below facilitate a ‎‎‎‎preview of any Steam background before use/purchase. They also have many other very useful features worth trying out.
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Name: Steamcard Exchange ┃ Link[www.steamcardexchange.net]
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Name: Steam Design ┃ Link[steam.design]
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Name: Cyber Daemon ┃ Link[www.cyberdaemon.org]

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Please be sure to and this guide at the top.

[Lord Rian]

Good day
I really like what you did here.
Would you be able to do something similar on https://steamcommunity.com/groups/WallTraders

which is a group that was originally designed for wallpapers and this might be more fitting to be linked there (even as just a discussion topic) compared to only being linked to dota?

[Caroline]

[Ƒіɡһтѕріт]

You forgot these:
Nya: https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/581860-Nya
Nya2: https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/581860-Nya2
Laura: https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/596200-Laura%20%28Profile%20Background%29
Cindy: https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/596200-Cindy%20%28Profile%20Background%29

[MΛGПΣ₸Λ]

bruh thats a man in drag lmao

[SiLMaRioN]

классная страничка

[Daxank]

@Poobah Gorg : The thing is, they're all 1080p backgrounds, so you can actually just use them as desktop backgrounds as much as profile backgrounds. That's why many devs make real backgrounds instead of backgrounds with something on the right and something on the left

[Poobah Gorg]

What amazes me is how many of the artists and devs/publishers (even Steam!) don't know that almost nobody but the owner ever sees the MIDDLE of a background. Focus on the right side and the left, because that's all anyone but the owner is ever likely to see.

[✪Velty]

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[fux]

metro 2033 has great post apocalyptic backgrounds and they are cheap. I love the ''black station'' one (you can find it in my inv if you dont want to search it)

[marshi.exe]