Hypothetical scenario that made me ask this question: Suppose I somehow get a viral tweet on Twitter. Some people who get a tweet like that use a reply to promote their own content like Twitch, Youtube, Soundcloud, a game they're working on, a charity they support. I don't have any of those things. However, I do have a Steam wish list with around 30-40 games. If I were to link my wish list, how easy would it be for someone to gift me a game from that list as an impulse buy? Could they just do it like that? Would I first need to accept their friend request before they can buy it? Do we need to be friends for a short period first? Is there another rule that we both need to fulfill?
Steam – If a non-friend comes across the Steam Wishlist, how easily can they gift me one of the games
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You want to go to view your wishlist: (yours is here)
(not my wishlist)
While viewing your wishlist, you will notice the "Added on" line below the title. At the end of this line, there is a remove link. Use this remove link to remove an item from your wishlist.
Do note that you need to be logged in to be able to remove iitems from your wishlist.
I believe that simply deleting the shortcuts file, which is <steam installation dir>/config/shortcuts.vdf, should do it, but I haven't tried it myself so I suggest backing it up first. I don't believe it should do any harm in any case.
Another surefire way is to remove Steam and re-install it, but even if you back up all the game data locally first and then reload it, the whole process will take longer than just removing all the links one by one.
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Best Answer
When purchasing a game for someone, you can only gift it to someone who is on your friends list. However, should you have a game in your Steam inventory - pretty rare nowadays - you can send that gift to anyone at all, just by knowing their email address. Once they accept the gift, you and that person will be added to each other's friends lists.