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steam-tui

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Rust TUI client for steamcmd

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# Steam TUI
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## About
Just a simple TUI client for `steamcmd`. Allows for the graphical launching,
updating, and downloading of steam games through a simple terminal client.
Methodology informed by [steam-cli](https://github.com/berenm/steam-cli).

> [!NOTE]
> Steam no longer has a backend only mode. This client has become more limited,
> but still potenitally useful for those who don't want to use the steam client.

## Usage

Login with `steamcmd` first to cache your credentials (don't trust some random app with your passwords):
```bash
steamcmd
# Steam> login <user>
# Steam> quit
```
Launch the binary `steam-tui`, and rejoice :tada:. Help is in the client.

Unable to launch games? Pressing space will start a steam client and will let
you launch games that need steam libraries or have some sort of DRM.

> [!WARNING]
> ## Still unable to launch games?
>
> You are not alone, but gaming on linux is getting better. You can define a
> custom script to launch a specific game by creating
> `$STEAM_TUI_SCRIPT_DIR/<game id>.sh`, steam TUI will pass in the file it
> thinks should be run, but you can ignore this and just do whatever.
> This reduces steam-tui to more of a launcher, but it's better than nothing.

## Features not in the help

It's like an Easter egg for reading documentation!

### Favourites
Pressing `f` will toggle favourites on a game, pressing `F` will filter favourite games.

### Hiding games
Pressing `H` will hide the selected game. Hidden games are recorded in `~/.config/steam-tui/config.json`.

### Showing other things (like demos)
You can enable (or hide by exclusion) `Game` `DLC` `Driver` `Applications` `Config` `Demo` `Tool` `Unknown`, by changing the `allowed_games` field in the config.

## Requirements

[`steamcmd`](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/steam#SteamCMD) is required to
launch steam-tui, as `steam-tui` is essentially just a graphical wrapper for
this program. `wine` usage will be attempted if a native Linux game is not
found.

## Why ?
~Because why not? Also, the Steam client seems to break on my Arch build. I have
a GT 610, and barely anything graphical works- this is a nice work around.~

**Update**, I got rid of the 610 (let's go 1660), but moved to NixOS and
Wayland and the steam client still doesn't work lol.

## Contributing

At this point, I am very much done with the project. I only really play
[Kerbal](https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/) and [5 Dimensional Chess with
Multiverse Time Travel](https://www.5dchesswithmultiversetimetravel.com/), so
additional work on this project is moot. If you [buy me a
coffee](https://github.com/sponsors/dmadisetti), I'd be happy to sink some more
time into this.

### Sponsors

Thank you to those who have heeded my call for more coffee!

- @abowen @KDanisme @jharlan-hash (sponsored major update 0.3.0)
 - @MathiasSven (sponsored minor update 0.2.1)
 - @vaelund (sponsored major update 0.2.0)

## Missing Features

- Better handling for Proton games
- Filter for only showing installed games

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