How to fully uninstall games from Steam

 Steam has a massive library of games, with many great ones and some not-so-great ones. If you’re a serious gamer, your Steam library can quickly fill up and start to become cluttered. You also give up on precious storage space if you keep a game on your PC that you don’t play anymore. If you want to remove a game from Steam, here’s how to fully uninstall it.

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To uninstall a game from Steam, open your Steam library and click the game. Click the gear icon on the game listing in the right pane, click Manage, and click Uninstall. To permanently remove a game from your Steam library, you can use Steam Support, found in the Help menu on the top menu bar.

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How to uninstall Steam games

The best way to uninstall Steam games is through Steam itself. You can go through the Apps and Features menu in Windows settings to uninstall a Steam game, but it opens up Steam anyway.

Open Steam and click Library in the upper navigation bar. Your games will be listed in the left pane. Click the game you want to uninstall. In the right pane, click the Manage button, which looks like a gear icon located at the right end of the Play button and game stats, right below the game banner. Click Manage in the drop-down menu, and click Uninstall.