In Steam you can organise the games in your library by creating categories and adding the games to them:
However, there appears to be no option to rename these. How can I do this?
Best Answer
One way you can do this is to move all the games to a newly created category and delete the old one (A category is deleted when no games are inside of it). You can do this by:
Select all the games in the category:
Control click on all the ones you want
Shift click the top and the bottom one
Right click on the selected games
From the list select "Set Categories..."
In the new window create the new category
Add the games to the new category and remove them from the old one
Another way to do this is to change the settings file. Before altering this file make sure to close and exit steam. The file is located where steam is installed, in my case it is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
From this root it is located at:
root\userdata\<userid>\7\remote\sharedconfig.vdf
Where <userid> corresponds to the users library you want to update. Open this file in notepad, or better yet notepad++. You then need to find and replace all examples of the category surrounded by quotes.
For example, if I wanted to rename the category Want to play to Meh I'd find on "Want to play" and replace with "Meh".
Once you've made all the relevant changes to the file, save it and open steam again.
Select the game from the search function that shows up
Select the option: I want to permanently remove this game from my account.
Select the option: Ok, remove the listed games from my account permanently.
Repeat as many times as you have games you'd like to get rid of.
You can browse over your entire library and choose which software you'd like to permanently get rid of. But note, once you have removed a game from your library, it's gone permanently, so if later down the road you'd like it back you'll have to purchase it again.
You'll also need to watch out for some other issues. The thread linked above has noted that if the game is part of a bundle (HumbleBundle, etc.), removing one game from a "package" may require you to remove all the games from that specific bundle.
Best Answer
One way you can do this is to move all the games to a newly created category and delete the old one (A category is deleted when no games are inside of it). You can do this by:
Another way to do this is to change the settings file. Before altering this file make sure to close and exit steam. The file is located where steam is installed, in my case it is:
From this root it is located at:
Where
<userid>
corresponds to the users library you want to update. Open this file in notepad, or better yet notepad++. You then need to find and replace all examples of the category surrounded by quotes.For example, if I wanted to rename the category
Want to play
toMeh
I'd find on"Want to play"
and replace with"Meh"
.Once you've made all the relevant changes to the file, save it and open steam again.