How to remove any non-steam game from the library

I had the brilliant idea of adding Excel and PowerPoint to my library as non-steam games (yup...). At some point, I wanted to remove them. However, surprise, surprise, the "Right Click / Manage / Remove non-Steam game from your library" option was gone. In fact, the only option I got from Right Click was "Launch", "Add to Category" and "Properties".

So I spent a couple of minutes looking around and the best solution I was able to find was a way to remove all non-steam games from the library. This didn't work for me, since I only wanted to remove those two and keep the rest.

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Best Answer

Non-Steam Shortcuts are saved to the file .../steam/userdata/{user ID #}/config/shortcuts.vdf. It is a binary VDF (Valve Data Format), and so is hard to modify without using code to read/write the file, or a hex editor if you're okay with that. There's some unofficial documentation which could simplify using a hex editor though.

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How do I remove a custom game from Steam?

the savegames of your "non-steam" game version are probably in appdata/roaming/steam. the game has been on sale multiple times and is worth every cent. come on, dude.

Where are non Steam games saved?

You can add non-Steam games to your Steam library, but you won't have access to achievements, trading cards, or any of the social features normally attached to Steam games. It's simply a way to launch games from the Steam interface.

Can you transfer non Steam games to Steam?

You can go to Add or Remove Programs on your computer, find the game you want to remove, and click Uninstall. However, this will open the Steam client and you will be prompted with a screen prompting you to delete game files from your computer.

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