Here’s what the brand new Steam library appears to be like like

At GDC this week, Valve lastly confirmed off the newly reworked Steam library, one of many largest chunks of the long-awaited Steam UI redesign – although it doesn’t bear a variety of resemblance to these previous leaks. The new library seems to supply all of the performance of the previous one, but it surely now does a greater job of exhibiting which games have lately been up to date, what your mates are enjoying, and provides you extra methods to kind and search by way of the games you personal.

You’ll now see latest games on the prime of the web page, in addition to which of your mates are at present enjoying them. An additional mates exercise panel on the correct will present extra element on what games your mates are enjoying – and which mates are in-game. Below that, you’ll see games which have lately been up to date, together with temporary blurbs on what these updates entail.

Then you’ll be able to see your full assortment, however even right here there are modifications. You can now take benefits of the tagging system used within the Steam retailer to look by way of your games, and now you can kind your library by extra assorted sorts of classes, like achievements earned.

Individual game pages are additionally altering, and although acquainted abstract bits like playtime, achievement stats, and bought content material are nonetheless out there at a look, they’re now extra conveniently seen across the sides of the web page.

The earlier information part is getting revised as a choice of latest updates and occasions – the latter of which ties into the brand new occasion system Valve is implementing for builders to advertise their in-game occasions.

Then the web page finishes out with a brand new exercise part that exhibits associated content material from your mates like screenshots and achievements, just like what you may see on a contemporary console front-end.

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Valve hasn’t put a date on this subsequent step of the UI redesign simply but, however given the implementation of the occasion system – which is due for open beta in a “couple months” – it’s probably this launch should come a while after that.