Steam Game Idler
I've just released an program called Steam Game Idler (SGI) which allows you to idle any game in your Steam library without actually opening the game, allowing you to boost your playtime as well as farm cards.
While this isn't a new concept and apps like this have been around for years, those apps are clunky, outdated, and focus mainly on card farming - while SGI focuses mainly on idling games to boost playtime and cards are just a bi-product.
Other apps also generally make it pretty hard to pick and choose which games you want to idle, meaning you need to rely on running apps with arguments, or creating .bat scripts. SGI solves that problem. All you need to do it click one or more games from your games list and you immediately start idling those games.
Probably the best part is that SGI is completely open source on GitHub so you're welcome to clone, inspect, and modify the code as you like. This also means that the repo is open to Pull Requests if you have any features or improvements you'd like added.
Features
- You only need to use your Steam username or ID64. No password, token, or any other account information is required like other apps
- Fully open source on GitHub - https://github.com/ProbablyRaging/steam-game-idler
- A less clunky and more modern UI over other apps
- Sort games by name, playtime, recent
- Create your own favorited games list
- Search by game name
- ..more to come
If you have any questions, feel free to drop them below and I'll answer them as I can. Or reach out to me on Discord (probablyraging).
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