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The Steam Autumn Sale is fast approaching, with an entire week filled with tens of thousands of discounts! From November 22nd at 10am PST (UTC -8) until November 29th at 10am PST (UTC -8), browse through every genre imaginable to grab games on sale for the perfect additions to your Steam library.

In fact, while you’re there, pick up a title or two for the lovely folks on your holiday shopping list! Not only can you gift specific games, we also have digital gift cards up for grabs.

[h2]Steam Award Nominations Start Nov 22[/h2]
The Steam Autumn Sale is also the time to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the Steam Awards, in 11 different categories (including a brand new category for games you love playing on portable devices):

• Game of the Year
  
• VR Game of the Year
  
• NEW: Best Game on the Go
  
• Labor of Love
  
• Better with Friends
  
• Most Innovative Gameplay
  
• Outstanding Story-Rich Game
  
• Best Game You Suck At (no offense)
  
• Outstanding Visual Style
  
• Best Soundtrack
  
• Sit Back and Relax
  

There are a couple of ways you'll be able to nominate games for the Steam Awards: do it directly from each game's store page or the event post from the developers of the titles you like, or head to the Steam Awards Nomination page (via the Steam homepage).

You can even earn a badge for nominating in a single category, and level up from there with each additional category up to 11.

Get ready to stock up on games for you and those special (or non-special, no judgment) people in your life during the Steam Autumn Sale: November 22nd at 10am PST to November 29th at 10am PST! The sale will be live on this url: store.steampowered.com. See you soon!

Note: This update was re-released to fix a browser crash on Linux.

New Big Picture Mode

• Updated Big Picture is now available for testing. You can read more about it in this blog post. Modify your Steam client shortcut and add -gamepadui on the command-line to automatically start Steam in the new Big Picture Mode. Alternatively, pass -newbigpicture to start in Desktop mode and have access to the new Big Picture Mode at any time.
  

General

• Reduced client startup times for users with large game libraries
  
• Fixed issue where launching a game would take longer to start if there was no network connection
  
• Fixed VR flags not showing up in app details for some games
  
• Center the popup controller configurator window when viewing controller layout
  
• Fixed circular download progress indicator being broken in game entry list
  
• Fixed downloads page crashing when starting in offline mode
  
• Downloads page now properly responds to online/offline status
  
• Updated “Steam News” popup dialog (again)
  

Sign In

• Fix a case where if the sign-in UI had cached credentials which had become invalid, it could get stuck and not accept valid credentials thereafter
  
• Fixed an input focus bug requiring an initial click on the sign in UI before you could type your username or password
  
• Fixed issues with dragging or closing the sign in window, and related display scaling issues, on computers with nonstandard desktop scaling
  
• Fixed an edge case in handling of invalid cached credentials affecting reauthentication
  
• Fixed issue with sign in refresh UI when the user had already signed in once during the current session.
  

Steam Input

• Gyro Enabling: The "Touch" option is now available to controllers which do not have capacitive touch sensors - Moving joysticks out of their deadzone now counts as a "Touch".
  
• All controller types can each now optionally choose to use a Nintendo-style layout. This flips the A and B button and X and Y button universally in Steam and in games.
  
• The Xbox extended features driver has been updated for Windows 11
  
• Fixed hang when the Amazon Luna controller rumbles on macOS
  
• Fixed issue with the touch binding in As Mouse mode releasing before the end of a swipe
  

Remote Play

• Fixed occasional long hitches during Windows desktop capture
  
• Fixed glyphs for third party Nintendo controllers while streaming
  

SteamVR

• Fixed issue that caused some OpenXR app images to not appear properly in SteamVR
  

For players that speak Indonesian, Slovak, Malay, Arabic, Hebrew, Serbian, Hindi, and any other language currently supported by Windows, it's now possible to easily find the games that are available in your language. You can now pick from a much expanded list when indicating your language preferences on Steam, and when searching for games.


[h2]Set Your Language Preferences To Find The Right Games[/h2]
(Edit your language preferences here)
Setting your Steam language preferences will impact what languages content appears in and make it more likely that games in these languages are recommended to you and appear in discovery features across the Steam store. Your languages will also appear more prominently in search and on game store pages.

You can select a primary language and any number of secondary languages.

• Primary Language will determine what language the Steam user interface is presented in, along with content across the Steam store and community such as game descriptions and user generated content.
  
• Secondary Languages will allow you to see content in these languages such as store page descriptions and user reviews if not available in your primary language.
  
• Additional Game Content Languages are not supported for Steam UI, store page descriptions, or user content, but will help you find games with content available in your languages.
  

[h2]Search And Filter By Your Languages[/h2]
Your language preferences impact the information that is available at a glance on game store pages and in the various filter options throughout Steam.

Game Store Pages: Your selected languages will automatically appear first on game store pages if that game supports the language. Additionally, if you are looking at a game that doesn’t support any of your selected languages, there will be a prominent note communicating that fact.

Search & Filters: Your selected languages will appear first as options to use in areas of Steam that offer filtering. This means you can quickly select one or more language to find just the games that are available in those languages if you wish. As an example, here is a search for games that support Indonesian language: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&supportedlang=indonesian



[h2]Languages Are A Factor In Steam Discovery Features[/h2]
Games available in your languages are more likely to appear in discovery features such as the Steam Discovery Queue and in recommendations on the homepage of Steam.


[h2]Background[/h2]
Starting a few weeks ago, we made it possible for developers to tag their games with this expanded set of languages. In the time since, we've seen over 500 games add indication of support for one of these new languages.

Of course this is just the beginning, as more developers make use of these new tools to indicate support that may already be available in games, as well as when releasing new games.

You can edit your language preferences here and search for games by language by visiting the store search page and selecting languages from the right-hand set of filters.

We are preparing to update Big Picture mode with the new interface we designed for Steam Deck, and today we’re making it available for testing. This update has been a long time coming, and we’re very excited to start gathering community feedback.



This controller-first interface was designed for Steam Deck in handheld and docked mode, and is perfect for all the scenarios Big Picture mode currently handles. The updated Big Picture mode includes features like:

• New Home Screen, where you can continue playing recent games, and see what’s new with the games in your library.
  
• New Universal Search, that searches across Library, Store, and your friends
  
• New controller configurator, designed for ease-of-use of picking, adjusting, or creating custom controller configurations
  
• Optimized Steam Store for controller navigation
  
• Updated in-game overlay, with access to achievements and guides
  • Press Steam / Guide / PS button while in game
• New system menu, for quick navigation to different parts of the interface
  • Access this with the Steam / Guide / PS button
• New quick access menu, for access to notifications, friends list, quick settings, and more.
  • Access this with Steam / Guide / PS button + A

The team is still polishing rough edges - but the interface is at a point where we’re ready to gather community feedback. If you’d like to help test, please:

• Opt into the Steam Client beta
• Edit your Steam launch shortcut with the following launch parameter: -gamepadui
  
  

If you’re up for helping us test the updated Big Picture, please provide feedback at the Big Picture forums. Thank you!

Continuing our monthly series, we're happy to unveil Steam's Top Releases for the month of September. As always, we look at every release for the month, highlighting the Top 20 games and Top 5 DLC releases based on their first two weeks of revenue. We also highlight the top 5 free-to-play games, ranked by the number of unique players they acquired after launch.

The Top Releases of September 2022

[h3]Don't be scared[/h3]
With the Steam Scream Fest underway, Steam is currently haunted with ghastly updates and spooky characters of all kinds. If that's all a bit too frightening, we're happy to showcase September's Top Releases, which provided a wholesome amount games with cozy, colorful and cute themes. After a successful journey through Early Access, Temtem made its 1.0 debut with an abundance of colorful characters and comfy fun for everyone. Filling the Early Access void, Slime Rancher 2 arrived five years after Monomi Park introduced fans to this revolutionarily cute slime-wrangling universe. Check out the full cast of cozy content on this month's Top Releases.

[h3]A DLC Paradox?[/h3]
For several months now, we've featured the Top DLC releases with each month's latest list. September brought something unprecedented in this category, as each of the Top DLCs for the month were published by Paradox Interactive. It's amazing to see games from 2013 (Europa Universalis IV) and 2015 (Cities: Skylines) continuing to release popular content all these years later. Paradox's domination of September's Top DLC releases dovetailed nicely with their triumphant in-person return to the annual PDXCON in Stockholm.

[h3]New Devs[/h3]
Finally, we'd like to congratulate the teams that are releasing a product on Steam for the very first time. A big welcome and congrats go out to these development teams on their successful Steam debuts.

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If you're curious about previous months, head over to our new Steam Charts overview page.