- Valves Steam -Client just received several corrections and user -boundary additions in a new update
- Additions for UIs Includes Text Scale, A High Contrast Mode and Cover -Art Facing
- Fans take to social media to praise Valve CEO, Gabe Newell
Valve continues the growth of his PC spamager, Steam, not only through updates to his Steamos operating system, which benefits Steam Deck and other handheld game PC users, but also to the Steam client in its entirety with a new long-awaited update.
As reported by our good friends at GamesRadar+, Valve has released a Steam Client update that sees significant changes in its user interface (UI) via new accessibility and adaptation options along with several corrections you can find in the patch notes.
Users now have access to a UI scale to adjust text to small or large sizes, a high contrast condition for better text clarity on a darker background, a reduced movement setting and a new adaptation tab to change the coverage and logo of each game.
The latter has technically been available already via a right mouse click on the background cover in a game, but Valve has gone out of its way of expanding this with a dedicated tab.
For handheld players like myself, it looks very similar to a decky loader plugin for Steamos users, known as Steamgriddb (available via GitHub, which allows users to replace standard covers with an abundance of others, but this new update is pushed by the valve requires manual change via personal downloaded files.
Users have already taken to Reddit for singing praise for Valve’s CEO, Gabe Newell, and it does not come as a surprise considering the good grace that Newell and Valve have earned from fans – and increasingly it since the dawn of the steam deck.
Analysis: The Steam client on desktops and steamos on handhelds just gets better and better
Without a shadow of doubt, Steamos is one of the best aspects of PC games, specifically for Steam Deck and handheld games -PCs, and the valve continuously shows it with several updates to the Steam client.
I don’t want to get into why I don’t like Microsoft’s Windows 11 for the impossible time, but the simple fact is that (in multiple games) Steamos is the better offer in terms of game performance, specifically on handheld games -PCs.
With tools like Decky Loader that allow society to introduce good additions to improve overall experience, Steamo’s growth in popularity is pretty fast, and it’s great to see that the valve is trying to improve its Steam client with UI updates like this to this all PC players and not just for users of Steam Deck.
I am very curious to see how much more valve can add the client to separate it further from other game slides like Epic Games, and I am willing to bet that it will only get better from here.
