You can add non-Steam games to the steam game launcher!

by Jason Preston on September 17, 2007

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choosemenu.pngThis is sweet. 90% of the time I go to play a game, I’m doing it through the Steam launcher, not through the Start Menu or even the Vista games folder (good idea, but still a bit clunky).

It turns out that you can add non-steam games (I just added EVE Online, C&C General, and Dawn of War - one of which technically I could have bought on Steam) to the games list. If you’re in your small games window and you click on the Games menu, you’ll see the option to “Add a non-Steam game to My Games list…”

And if you click on that, it brings up a self-populating list of what looks like every executable that Steam can find:

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