Steam doesn’t recognize installed game

steamwarhammer-total-war

I have an issue. I've been playing Total War Warhammer just fine and today when i "launched" the game the install window popped up. In short steam doesn't recognize this game. Just this game, my other games are fine. I even launched Total War Shogun 2 which is from the same company and i had no issue.

What i have tried so far:

  • The files of the game are still there were i left them
  • Deleting the download cache (failed)
  • Placing the Total War Warhammer file in another location and have
    steam search that folder for possible games (failed)
  • There is no option for me to verify the integrity of cache since
    steam doesn't see the game as an installed game

I don't know what else there is to do beside having to reinstall 30GB+ of files.

Best Answer

Matter solved, it's as Ravturned said. I had to "reinstall" it. What I did was go with the steps of the reinstallation.

  • Install the game.
  • Picked the folder (for the installation process) where my actual game located
  • Steam checked if there were any files of the game in that location
  • It found them, SOLVED