I know of only one site outside of GOG that know of your GOG collection: deals.gg . Maybe the fanatical browser extension does it also, but I'm not sure.
And I know of zero sites that do it for epic, origin or uplay.
There might be some that I don't know, but the point remains that your GOG/Epic/Origin/etc library is unknown of the rest of internet. If there are so few website/applications where you can see all the games you own on steam and gog (except deals.gg, and GOG galaxy, which probably took a big effort from GOG), there is a reason. Maybe the API are bad, or the way to cross references the games is hard (games with the same name in GOG and Steam might be different games).
You will also discover that the problem of which games you own on Steam is not solved appropriately in SG.
EDIT: ok according to the other post, there is at least one site that seems to do it (but is in maintenance when I tried it), it's still not an easy solution
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Yeah, it is annoying that there isn't an easier way to handle this. I appreciate your help nonetheless! Have a 💙 as a reward for answering so quickly, since I didn't include any gibs =P
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UWPHook will add all of your Win 10/Xbox PC games to your Steam library.
https://github.com/BrianLima/UWPHook
SteamGridDB Manager will add all of your Epic, Origin, GOG.com, and Uplay games to your Steam library.
https://www.steamgriddb.com/manager
These won't hide your games in anyway. you still need to go to individual store pages and click on Ignore -> played on another platform to remove them from Steam's algorythms.
Of course, they will still show up here on SG, so the final step is to install this userscript:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/y9vVm/userscript-steam-web-integration-previously-steam-store-game-owned-checker
Then you will see a mark on SG, and elsewhere with links to Steam store pages, showing whether you already own the game on Steam, or have it marked as "Ignored" (i.e. on another platform in our case.)
e.g.:
https://i.imgur.com/liMcS7X.png
I can see that I already own this game, but not on Steam. Then, if I want more detail, I click on the link to the store page where I have put a note (via Augmented Steam iir) that shows I got it on itch.io (when it was a free giveaway).
https://i.imgur.com/Jr8TVnU.png
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Interesting; I wish there were a simpler way to handle things but I appreciate knowing that it is at least possible.
I think I might be misunderstanding how the userscript works though; shouldn't simply having the games marked as ignored in the steam store be sufficient for the script? Why the first step of importing the other libraries? Or is that just a quick way of knowing which games you own elsewhere?
Regardless, thank you! I really appreciate the help and the fast response. Have a 💙
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I think I might be misunderstanding how the userscript works though; shouldn't simply having the games marked as ignored in the steam store be sufficient for the script?
That's correct. I like to see and launch all of my games directly from Steam though.
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isthereanydeal.com supports linking profiles from both Steam and GOG, and can actually link more than one account if you'd like to keep track of multiples or even family shared libraries (profiles must be public at the time of sync). If you pair that with the "Augmented Steam" extension it will actually tell you on Steam store pages if a game is part of your collection or not.
It takes some initial setup, but after that it's automatic and all you have to do is check the game's store page.
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Yes, I use isthereanydeals and I think I've got my GOG library linked (or I did at one point); that's not a bad solution. I admit, I've never taken much to Augmented Steam because I almost exclusively use the Steam Client rather than a web browser. However, it would likely solve the problem for SG since I usually follow the link to check out a game's steam page to see if I am interested in entering a particular giveaway. Certainly something to consider!
Thanks for your input =D
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That's kind of funny since I almost exclusively use the web browser for everything other than my library. Mostly because I'm a tab whore and the steam client doesn't do so well with that.
Whichever method you choose I hope it works out for you :)
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Haha, that is completely fair. I always have a million tabs open too, for my regular web browsing (multiple windows with multiple tabs if we're being completely honest); Steam is the one thing where I really don't feel the need.
Thanks!
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The way I've done it is by using ESGST to add a custom tag to each game I own on a non-steam platform. It didn't take too long by searching my entire library in GOG whenever I was interested in a giveaway.
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Yeah, I thought of doing something like that but it was a little more time intensive than what I was hoping for. It's comparable to hiding giveaways individually. But thanks for the input regardless!
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Other people have already offered you technical methods of resolving your issue. For myself, I still do it the old-fashioned way. When I see a game I am interested in, I check my libraries to see if I already own it.
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You opt for the lengthiest and most repetitive method, I see =P I am a far lazier person. I just want my computer to shout "No! Bad!" if I try to enter something I shouldn't ;-)
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Lengthiest, maybe. Repetitive, not so much for me. I am pretty good about remembering which games I already own, so I only have to check once in a long while. And the fact that I enter very few giveaways also helps.
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So, I recently noticed that I was capable of entering giveaways for a game which I already own. At first, I simply assumed it was one of the numerous flaws with the Steam API and was going to leave messages on the giveaways warning the creators that people who already owned the game were capable of entering. Before I did so, I realized that what actually happened was that I owned and played this game on GOG rather than Steam, so SG obviously wasn't registering that I owned it.
Now, my current problem with this particular game is easily solved by simply hiding all giveaways for that game. But I am afraid that games in my GOG backlog--ones that looked interesting enough for me to buy, but that I haven't actually played enough to remember immediately that I own them-- might be given away here and I might enter such giveaways without realizing that I already own the game. Even if that isn't against SG rules, I would obviously not want to be awarded a second copy of a game I already own and deprive someone else of the opportunity to play it.
My question is thus: is there any way for me to sync my other games libraries with SG somehow other than manually going and hiding each game individually? Whether this is via SG officially or though a browser extension like ESGST doesn't matter to me. Thanks for you help (and sorry if this has been asked before; I tried searching through archived posts and didn't find anything that answered this question)!
(Sorry, no gibs here, just my gratitude)
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