How to Download Older Versions of a Steam Game

This guide allows you to access and download older versions of a Steam game. This guide is also in russian.

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Introduction

This guide allows you to access and download older versions of a Steam game. This is made possible because SteamDB keeps track of updates to all games, so as long as the version you want was available after the game has been publicly released, this should work.

Credit for this guide goes to Reddit user /u/GMMan_BZFlag

Step 1

Go to SteamDB[steamdb.info] and search for the game you want.

Step 2

Click on the app ID of the game you're looking for. This will take you to it's details page.

Step 3

On the left of the screen you'll see a menu. Navigate to "Depots", and then click on the depot ID of the one you'd like to download.



Clicking your chosen depot ID will take you to a new page.

Step 4

Now click on the "Manifests" tab.



Look at the list and find the version that you want to download. Record it's manifest ID.

Step 5

Open the Steam console by copy pasting this code into your browser's URL:

steam://nav/console

Press enter. A launch application should pop up. Select the Steam client and open the link.



This will open the Steam console in your Steam client.

Step 6

The syntax to the "download_depot" command is as follows:

download_depot <appid> <depotid> [<target manifestid>] [<delta manifestid>] [<depot flags filter>] : download a single depot

You only need to worry about the first three arguments to it. Type the command, then the app ID, depot ID, and the manifest ID of the depot version you want.

Step 7

Wait for Steam to download the depot. You won't see any indication of progress, but you can tell it's downloading by looking at the network usage on your downloads page. The download can pause/resume if your connection goes out, but won't if you restart the client.

Step 8

After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.

Step 9

Go to the original game's installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder.

Step 10

You may have to rename the game's EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently. You can find the current EXE name by going to the game's SteamDB page and clicking on the Configuration tab.

Finished!

You should now be able to launch the old version through Steam!

Note: Game updates will make a mess of things, so if you want to stay on the same version, you should make a copy of the files so you don't have to download them again after Steam's done trying to update.

Russian Translation

Russian Translation

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1181423311

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[chris6]

I get CAPIJobRequestUserStats - Server response failed 2 when i try to download an older version of a game i have

[1x1x1x1]

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[Deatheye]

im getting Depot download failed : missing license for depots 13873785 even tough I have the game that is No Mans Sky. im trying to get an older version before the starbase update. any iedas?

[Elden Sick]

i'm get acess deny error

[DrPepperMan]

oh my gyatts

[DrPepperMan]

can we get the full banner image please and thank you

[Superstar]

bro what is with the banner

[Internet user]

You can use a symlink if your primary drive is full. Seems to work for me on W11.

[BaKen]

how do i change the download depot locaiton my c drive is full....

[Maniac]

@Gorrilla drip I suspect the only way to change where steam puts the downloads, things other than installed games, is to move the steam install location alltogether.