The disappearing act performed by the physical retail games world has left us wanting some core functionality back -- like throwing away unwanted things. Steam support will delete games from an account at the request of the user, but that requires an awful lot of effort, especially because it's Steam support.
Steam's most recent client beta update finally adds an option for hiding unwanted items. "Hide this game in my library" will be the newest available option upon updating to the beta client; the option can be found from the existing "Set Categories" menu. Hidden games will be visible removed from the Steam library, but can be accessed by enabling the hidden filter.
Other updates for this client include:
Steam Client
- Updated desktop user interface styles, simplifying common controls and navigation elements, and neutralizing overall color palette to align with Steam web pages and Big Picture mode.
- Don't delay content updates for games set to high priority.
- Fixed crash if you clicked on a game on the downloads page or clicked the details option in the games grid view.
Library
- Add "Hide this game in my library" functionality, accessible from the Set Categories menu. Games that are hidden will not show up in library filters except for a new filter called "Hidden", which will only appear once at least one game is marked as hidden. Hidden games are still available for play and will still appear on the user's profile.
- Synchronize selection between main window library views and Small Mode.
- Fix game details panel scrolling to the top during game download/update.
- Fix crash when switching from downloads or grid view to details view.
In-Home Streaming
- Added hardware accelerated decoding for Mac OS X 10.9 and newer.
- Implemented periodic refresh to help repair screen smearing issue with NVIDIA hardware accelerated encoding.
- Fixed race condition that could cause streaming connections to fail to connect with a timeout notification.
Windows
- Removed a noisy log message from GameOverlayRenderer.log.
Mac OS X
- Fixed web views not restarting if the underlying helper app crashed.
- Steve "Lelldorianx" Burke.