Steam Mobile Reviews

Steam only just barely manages to do even the most basic functions. Some of the UI is extremely unstable and will frequently bug out and make navigating it impossible. The prime example being the this app points shop, where if you scroll too fast, it hard crashes Steam . And if you even open some of the pages on that section it will start randomly opening previews of things like profile backgrounds out of nowhere. It’s over sensitive, it considers every touch a full tap, so touching to scroll will open whatever you touch.
It’s possible to drag your finger across some text that’s supposed to be tappable and it will select it and highlight it like any other text. You cannot get this to go away either without moving to different pages.
Overall very displeased, I only download this every now and then to check prices on some games, and every time I’m reminded that really I should just use the mobile website through a web browser instead.
This is a good example of an app that’s drastically inferior to the website, but for some reason some stuff requires Steam . The this app guard mobile Authenticator is the only way to manage selling game items without having to wait 15 days while the item is on hold, and that would be fine if Steam actually functioned.

I recently changed into my new iPhone and I have also changed my old phone number to a new phone number ever since I moved to another state to live there. Since I can’t confirm any trades on my new iPhone, they instructed me to disable the authenticator on my old iPhone and enable it on my new iPhone, which I did. HOWEVER, 1 big issue I have is that they never “warn you” what happens when you disable or enable a this app guard authenticator. They place a whopping fat 15 DAYS of not being able to trade with anyone and use the community market at all. During that time I had made great offers with a person on Discord and because of this I have to apologize to him due to the 15 days of trade ban. My BIG issue here is 15 days is waaaaay too long to not be able to do anything. If Valve’s excuse is to prevent Hackers that accessed your this app account and start trading your items to theirs or something like that, shouldn’t 1-3 days be more than sufficient for the actual owner of the this app account to respond, remove those trades, change password and security instead of 15 WHOPPING DAYS? As long as they don’t change that 15 days hold/ban I am keeping Steam at a 1 Star, I wish I could rate it a lot lower, and I HOPEFULLY WISH they read through the comments, criticism and reviews and improve on one of the major flaws of their trade/ authenticator system.

Writing here because it’s somehow the only way to voice my issues with this platform. I don’t use this app, but my partner does. I wanted to gift him an e-gift card for his bday, but discovered this app doesn’t have a “check out as guest” type option. As a result, I created an account. I then found out I couldn’t send the e-gift card until he and I were friends. But I couldn’t add him as a friend until I had spent at least $5 or loaded $5 to my wallet. Since I was going to get him a $100 gift card, I just loaded that to my account/wallet, then added him as a friend. The next stupid rule this app sprung on me was that I could not gift him anything until we had been friends for at least 3 days, and now I’m seeing I may not even be able to send an e-gift card with the money I loaded into my “this app wallet”??? So that $100 I just loaded to my account might just be a waste? It’s 2022, and this app needs to get with the times. None of the Reddit threads I’ve seen supporting this archaic approach make sense to me. It’s so common to be able to send an e-gift card for virtual or physical products on sites that you yourself are not a user of, but the receiver is. It’s non-sensical to me that this app/Valve won’t allow this… It’s like they’re asking to not make money? It makes me glad that I myself don’t use/support this platform myself.

If you’ve seen the previous reviews, you already know the this app app is pretty mediocre. While it does execute most of the features of the this app website on desktop, it doesn’t do so enough to justify using Steam instead of the web version on your phone. Only get Steam if you want an authenticator and are willing to deal with the UI and frequent glitching. I’ve tested out purchases, store pages, and community browsing. Steam crashes on the new “this app points” page when you look at animated backgrounds, and sometimes randomly crashes while browsing communities. Purchases are relatively painless, even with the clunky UI.
Overall, I’m giving Steam 3 stars for its built-in authenticator feature, which you don’t need to navigate a bunch of menus to get to, and its passable store and community features. The profile management is also on point with no hiccups. The this app app has a LOT of room for improvement, and I encourage Valve to give more attention to this application, as it hasn’t come close to the degree of quality I expect from them.

It is convenient to have a way of checking the this app store from your phone and the mobile authentication is a helpful feature, but that is where the positives end.

Despite being an app made for accessing the store on mobile devices, it’s easy to see that they put little to no effort into converting the store for mobile use. Navigation is difficult, often words and buttons are too small to use (you end up clicking things you never meant to click because the screen is too crowded). Steam is ALWAYS crashing and lags like nobody’s business. I have used Steam for a few years and have yet to see any significant changes to performance or design, so I’m not sure if Valve is even maintaining it. In fact the only reason I’m writing a review at all is because I’m hoping someone will take these low reviews into consideration and make some real changes to Steam that improve performance and ease of use. The one thing I can say is when you’re using Steam you can tell it’s this app you’re on; the interface is so similar, but again that’s not exactly a good thing when you optimize something for mobile use. I really hope they focus on a more mobile friendly design in the future.

Don’t get me wrong by the review, I love playing on this app. But the fact that trading cannot be done without having Steam is infuriating. For those that don’t know, trading, unless you have Steam, takes about 2 weeks for items to arrive for both parties. That’s pretty outrageous. But Steam itself is incredibly Non-user friendly. Buttons taking multiple clicks just to work, strange layout, that sort of thing. But trading can be one of the worst things to deal with. It would be so much better if it didn’t force you to log into Steam to confirm a trade for 1 item. Plus there’s signing people out for no apparent reason, which forces them to reset the this app security, which then forces you back into trading holding, for a much shorter time, but you still have to wait. They decide that just signing in at points restarts the this app security. It’s just a pain to use. Please valve, fix Steam. First thing should be to make Steam more user friendly. Then focus on more specialized areas, like fixing trading, something like that. Either that or revamp the trading system to make it less of a hassle to deal with. Just a few suggestions but as the title implies, it needs plenty of fixes

There are a whole bunch of problems with Steam. The this app Guard is absolutely horrendous, especially since you cant sign back in with the guard on via email confirmation and it HAS to be by your phone number. This ended up locking us out of our own account and having to contact this app to get it back. Another thing is when we don’t have troublesome this app Guard on and when i put up a sale on MY OWN ACCOUNT. I can’t confirm my sale to the market because of not having the Guard on. DESPITE BEING LOGGED IN ON MY OWN ACCOUNT THAT IM MAKING A SALE ON!! which makes absolutely no sense. theres another problems and thats with the chats on Steam . I dont get notifications from the application when someone messages me and thats bothersome when i get onto the PC of this app and someone messaged a good few hours before. Another thing which is a nitpick but for a reason. on our computer whenever we open this app the application logs us out every time we close Steam or restart the computer. This..would be fine...if my games wouldn't have been uninstalled when i get logged back into this app.

I really hope Steam gets fixing but i really don't have faith that it will improve anytime soon.

This is a good functional app which I've been using since it's release. Once you get used to the somewhat clunky GUI, it's very good at tracking the store sale of the day as well as the big sales, and your library. I don't use it for any other deeper functions or communicating with friends or anything else, so I don't know whether all the additional features work. I did try remotely installing a game after purchase, and I know for a fact my pc was turned on and had this app running...but the game install request simply did not queue up in the Downloads area on the PC. That's first world software problem though... the store purchases work fine and quickly, which is the important part.

My only suggestion I have is to please please please add 'swipe back' browsing gestures. It's annoying that the back button must still be used while browsing the store all this time later as iPhone processing power effectively doubles each year. We don't need pinch turn or any other fancy gestures which no one uses...we need reliable 'swipe back' though.

Steam is good, it is a little klunky. I really liked the mobile authentication. The problem I have with Steam is this app itself. One of the worst companies out there. I have had my account for 5 years and have 20+ games on it with over 2,500 hours total play time, and I can’t use mobile authentication anymore. For some reason, when I got a new phone and wanted to use mobile authentication on my new phone, it would not let me. I was locked out of my account for 5 days and unable to play any this app games. So I messaged this app Support about the problem and their solution? Permanently remove my phone number that has been attached to my this app account for 5 years. I also can’t use my phone number on any other accounts. I can’t use mobile authentication to log in, my account feels less secure, but then again, in the first place I only played games with friends and never shared my password to anyone. Why feel the need to permanently remove my phone number from my account or any account. In conclusion, for a company who wants people to play their games and use their software, they sure do an awful lot to keep people from doing that.

Steam allows you to do the majority of the things that you'd want to do when interacting with friends or the store (and a few other things). But the clunky UI has only felt worse and worse over time due to a complete lack of updates over the last few years. Yes, it's not *that* different from the mobile version of the store, but it's even fallen behind that in some ways (why does reviewing my wishlist require so many steps?! The mobile site has a button for it in the main menu!). Reviewing one's library (I say reviewing because there's no ability to manage/categorize your games at all <- major gripe) is a huge pain, and has more than once driven me to not even bother using Steam , favoring instead to just wait to check something until I'm back at my desktop.

I want to expect better (in so far as the user experience is concerned) from Valve, but perhaps that's no longer reasonable, given how things have been trending over the last several years.

Steam in general is good! I love it in every way. I could do a rant against the haters using all my knowledge. There is one thing.... it’s not much of a problem. I would like to see it fixed though because, I don’t think it would take very long to fix. Changing your profile pick is impossible. You’ll click “Edit Profile”, then you can edit it. However, when you go down to change your profile pick, it says “Choose/Pick File” and “Upload File” next to that. You could go to google/a search web, save an image, but if you go and click choose file, nothing happens. Nothing pops up or anything. It’s not a super big problem, but I wow old like to see it fixed. Anyways, this is a really good app in general! I would rate this 4 stars but since the small problem I stated was well, small, I give Steam a big fat 5 stars! Hope you fix this small problem! If you can’t, I guess that’s ok. -Willow aka djbroomstick

I downloaded Steam 3 days ago to remove the automatic hold for items listed on the this app market. Download went well, app worked great, once I attempted to setup the mobile Authenticator I pressed the "back" option on the upper tab because the codes weren't loading (don't do this) and once I tried to go back it wouldn't let me because I had already authorized a device. So I de
-authorize all my devices through the this app computer application, sign out of the mobile app and sign back in and sign up for this app guard. I log into Steam again and it's working this time, however I realize I'm now blocked for 15 days FOR EVERYTHING ON THE this app MARKET! Reading on the this app help page there is no way around this 15 day hold. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!

Please give more specific instructions about de-authorizing devices and the consequences of doing so and remove the "back" (>) tab on the mobile guard section as to not lock yourself out. 15 days because I reauthorized the same device is crazy. Please explain the codes automatically appear on your device and you don't have to de-authorize to get these codes. Please explain how and what the codes are and when you enter them.

The this app app is pretty good overall, maybe a bit annoying sometimes, but it work well. Except for one thing: I accidentally turned off the authenticator, and then I re activated it. No big deal, right? Well, now, I have to wait 15 DAYS to be able to sell things again. I can understand having to do that when you first connect your account to Steam , but, if you run into my situation, it can be quite a hassle if you want to sell some things. I can understand that Valve wants to make things more secure, but the way they've designed this, it is extremely annoying. Aside from this flaw, it's a pretty good app. Again, just make sure you don't turn off your authenticator on accident, or you'll be screaming at your mobile device!

It’s clunky, it’s hard to find things, I use an iPhone X and it doesn’t fit my screen size, videos don’t play and it crashes. I also noticed that they haven’t updated Steam in over a year. How disappointing. I also use big picture and it’s UI with its bugs feels abandoned as well. Edit: They fixed the videos and Steam now fills the screen, +1 star. Now that I seem to have the basics I realize I can’t share a product page through iMessenge or even get a copied link, forcing me to go back to Safari anyway so I can copy a URL. Edit: They fixed the share button. Outside of the branding be out of date (blue vs grey) and the navigation being completely different than the website (where is my wishlist?) it’s basically as functional as the website. I can’t que games to download on my PC or anything fancy, but at least we have the basics functional again.

Basically, all I wanted to do was to sell the useless cards that have accumulated in my this app inventory. So, I pick an item I want to sell, click about four buttons to confirm that I want to sell it, and then have to log in to my email to confirm that I want to sell some card for 5 cents. Job done, right? Well, no. Now the 5 cent card is on hold, and to "remove the need for placing a market item on hold," this app tells me I should use the Mobile Authenticator. What's that? Well, it's the mobile app. So, I download Steam , authenticate IT through my email, search online for where the "Mobile Authenticator" is in Steam (the name in Steam is "this app Guard," not "Mobile Authenticator") and the items are STILL on hold. Apparently I have to keep Steam on my phone for 7 days before I have the privilege of selling a useless 5 cent card. No thanks. I am done with this. Maybe just let me sell this useless junk in the this app program on my computer? I have no need for a this app app taking up space on my phone. I'm going to think twice before buying anything on this app thanks to this customer service experience.

I usually don't bother reviewing unless an app does something exceptional or horrendous. Steam, while not the most polished, definitely does not deserve the rating it has. I look at the reviews, and the bad ones, half are due to self-admitted user error, half are about someone bemoaning the need for account security. I got Steam and used it to make an account and look up, scrutinize, and then purchase a game before I even had this app on my computer. I have had no issues with it from that starting point or ever since.

I am downloading this again on a spare device due to some technical difficulties not related to Steam , and am appalled that its rating is so low solely because people lacking the ability to navigate an app or because they want less security for their account. Complain to this app support or the forms, don't rate a workable app poorly due to your own incompetence.

Like most PC gamers, this app is indispensable to my life. However, Steam needs a lot of work. For far too long it has been plagued by the lack of a proper ‘back’ button, which means that when you are simply browsing the store and navigating through pages, the back button just relaunches the last page you were on, rather than returning you to your place. This is aggravating when flipping through sale items or DLC content, and it’s effectively just like browsing the store through a browser window. The UI is also slow and just not polished enough in general. It seems odd for such a wealthy company to have such a poorly implemented app, which has shown little improvement over the years.

Other features work well for the most part, like chatting with friends and this app Guard. The biggest downside for me is the store experience, which is in need of a major overhaul. Hopefully some day soon we will see an improvement to the in-app store experience.

Unfortunately, Steam needs some serious updating. Currently, it does not fit the screen size of hardly any modern phone, on the iPhone X it is especially obnoxious having an app the size of an iPhone 5 screen. In addition, the major bugs I have found are:
1.) An odd glitch where switching between apps causes it to flash the messages and keyboard when sending or receiving.
2.) A bug where after switching back to Steam it duplicates messages sent.
3.) Especially since the latest iOS and on the iPhone X, chat is offline for a good 2-7 seconds upon opening or sometimes switching back to it or turning the device out of sleep.
4.) A very frequent bug where it says the other user is typing while they are not. To fix this, you have to go back to the friends list, refresh, and then go back; sometimes that doesn’t even work. Also sometimes tells other users you are typing when you are not.
5.) Not necessarily a bug but definitely something that should be changed: when you switch apps even for one second, it sets your this app status to away. For anyone talking to someone else on Steam from the computer client, it’s obnoxious. It should definitely wait at least 3-4 minutes for people who have background refresh on.
6.) You cannot change your this app profile picture because Steam will not prompt iOS for photos.

Please fix Steam . It’s been over a year since the last update.

For all of the people complaining about how you need to download the mobile authenticator, heres why: hacking. If your account were to get hijacked by a hacker, would you want all of your precious CSGO skins to be stolen? No. With the email authenticator, the hackers can steal your skins and verify it, as they only need to go onto chrome or yandex to long into your email and confirm everything. Would you truly want the skins which caused you to have stage 4 of skin insanity to disappear from you? No. Stop complaining and just get the thing. Its even faster than email because you only have to click two buttons, but on email you have to wait, and wait longer, and still wait, and then finally the email pops up. And then it glitches. Just get it.

Steam isn’t for people who want to do everything this app related on their phone. Steam is obviously for people who want to manage this app in a way outside of their pc. This is a secondary way to access this app and is not meant to be used as a primary way to navigate this app. Don’t expect Steam to do everything and more of what this app does on your desktop, because that isn’t what a was made for. That being said it does a great job at doing what it’s supposed to do. I great way to ACCESS you account and VIEW what your account tells you. If you want to buy a game for your computer go to the actual this app application. If you don’t have a this app account what are you doin here. Go make one on your computer where you are going to play the actual games.

It provides the most barebones feature of being able to provide 2 factor authentication for your account and to check sales. Every single other function of Steam is unbearable and in many cases unusable. Try to search a game and you’re given a wrapper of the desktop webpage search, which is hilariously clumsy when you have to use your fingers on a mobile app. Every other company has figured this out but Valve, with their billions, haven’t hired someone to design a proper search page within Steam .

I currently have 3 notifications in the this app app, which will apparently never go away unless I uninstall it. One is for a missed message, but no matter how many times you read that message or reply to that person or refresh, that notification is there, forever. I also have 2 comments on a review I left, but for Steam to load it it is to go through the login process again for some reason, which has never given me anything but “Failed to communicate with the server.” And this is how it’s been for years. Steam looks and works the exact same way it did when I first downloaded it in 2014. I’ve given up expecting Valve to invest any tiny amount of time in making Steam remotely usable for anything but tracking sales and for login authentication.