Organize: Sort and Create Shortcuts to Steam Games

Steam is, today, the best digital gaming platform for PC that we can find. In this store we will find practically any game that we want. In addition, we will have access to an impressive community of players with whom to play or share all kinds of opinions. Although other alternatives are being born, such as the Epic Store, Steam is still by far the best. But there are some basic things that Steam makes us much more complicated as they should be, such as, for example, being able to have our games at hand .

Steam allows us to access our games, from the library, in several ways. For example, we can exploit the list of purchased games (something impractical) until we find the one we want. We can also use the search engine to find the game we want in the list, or show only the games that we have installed.

Organize: Sort and Create Shortcuts to Steam Games

However, this platform hides some more tricks that, together with the operating system, will allow us to have all our games much more at hand.

Place games by hand on Steam

Steam offers us a series of options and “tricks” thanks to which we can have all our games more organized and more at hand.

Add them to favorites

The list of Steam games has a section, hidden by default, called “Favorites”. In it we will be able to put all the games that we want to have more at hand. In this way, instead of having to look for them from different sides, we can always have them in that section, even when they are not installed.

To add any game to the favorites menu, what we must do is click with the right button on it, in the list of program games, and choose the option ” Add to favorites “. And repeat the process with all the games that we want to be within this category.

Añadir juego a favorito en Steam

We already have all the games we want as favorites. From now on, these will appear at the top of the list of games, so we can always have them at hand. Installed games will appear with the letters in white, while those that are not installed will appear in gray.

Juegos favoritos en Steam

At any time we can remove any game from this list. For example, if we spend it. To do this, we simply right-click and choose the “Remove from favorites” option.

Quitar juego de favorito en Steam

The game will disappear from this list, and it will be mixed with all the others.

Create game shelves

Another way to organize our games is through the “shelves”. This concept is intended to be similar to how we organize physical games in our home. But they are wasting space. The shelves are located on the right side of the window

The above “Favorites” list, for example, can be a bookshelf. But we can also create other shelves to organize our games more efficiently.

Estanterías de juegos en Steam

To create a new shelf, or collection, what we must do is click on the game with the right button, and choose the option “Add to> New collection “.

Crear nueva colección de juegos en Steam

We will write the name of the new collection and that’s it. We already have a new shelf with the game we have added. But we can add all the games we want to that shelf. To do this, we simply have to right-click on the ones we want, and choose “Add to” and choose the collection, or shelf, that we want.

When we have all the shelves we want, and the games placed on them, we can add the ones we want to the main interface.

Cambiar estanterías de Steam

Create shortcuts and pin games in Windows 10

With these two tricks we can have our games more at hand. But we still depend on the “Steam” client for this. Therefore, if what we want is to have them more at hand from Windows itself, it is necessary to resort to other little tricks.

Create desktop shortcut of any Steam game

When we install a game for the first time, it gives us the option to choose whether or not we want to create a shortcut to that game on the desktop . But, if we already have the game installed, the thing is not so simple, although it is possible. To do this, what we must do is locate the game for which we want to create a shortcut within the Steam library, click on it with the right button, and choose the option Manage> Create shortcut on the desktop.

Añadir acceso directo a juego en el escritorio

The shortcut to the game will automatically appear on the Windows desktop.

Pin a game to the taskbar

The desktop shortcut allows us to have the game there, with its icon, etc. But since everything works through Steam, there are things that we cannot do with the shortcut, such as adding it to the start menu, or pinning it to the taskbar .

To do this, what we must do is go directly to the main executable of the game. To do this, from Steam, we click with the right mouse button on the game that we want to bring to this start menu, and choose the option “Manage> View local files”.

Explorar carpeta de juego en Steam

A new browser window will appear, with the folder of the game in question. What we have to do now is look for the main executable .exe of the game, and drag it to the task bar of our PC. Ready, we already have the game added to this taskbar, and it will always be at hand for when we need it.

Juego anclado en la barra de tareas de Windows 10

Add the Steam game to the start menu

And what about the Windows 10 start menu? Another way to have our games handy is to anchor them in the space to the right of the beginning, like a Live Tile. And this is also done using the executable .exe that we have seen in the previous point.

From the game folder, we will locate its executable (the .exe), and right-click on it. In the context menu we choose the option ” Anchor to start “.

Anclar juego al menú inicio de Windows

From now on, our game will appear in this start menu as one more program, as a Live Tile.

Juego anclado en el menú inicio de Windows 10

As we can see, there are many ways to have our Steam games neat and organized. We just have to choose the option that we like the most.