Augmented Steam is a browser extension that improves the Steam browsing and shopping experience. It's available free for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. The project is an open-source fork of Enhanced Steam, which is now defunct—consider Augmented Steam the spiritual successor.

Augmented Steam has many great features, tweaking the Steam Store in a myriad of ways: listing historical pricing, highlighting wishlist games in search results, adding more filters when browsing, and much more. We're going to detail all the ways Augmented Steam can improve your Steam experience.

How to Download and Configure Augmented Steam

To get the browser plugin, go to the Augmented Steam website, which lists the relevant download pages for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. You'll also find links to the Discord community and GitHub project.

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Once installed, you can open Augmented Steam's settings from your browser's plugin page. Here you can enable or disable any of the features, meaning you can customize the Augmented Steam experience exactly to your liking. Many of the features come with granular settings; for example, you can choose which stores to gather pricing information from.

Note that Augmented Steam only works when browsing the Steam Store in your browser, rather than through the Steam client..

1. See Historical Pricing

steam historical price info

Steam (and PC gaming in general) is all about the sales. Games regularly get discounted. If you're willing to be patient and not buy a game the day it comes out, you can benefit from some mega savings.

But how do you know if the deal is actually worthwhile? A game might be half price now, but maybe it was even cheaper a few months ago. Augmented Steam shows the game's historical low directly on the store page, so you can assess how much of a deal you're truly getting.

Augmented Steam also lists the current lowest price across a variety of game stores, not just Steam. It might be more cost-effective to buy a game's Steam key from another discount online video game store, rather than buying from Steam directly.

2. Prominent DRM Warnings

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Some games sold through Steam use always-on DRM, meaning you must maintain a constant connection to the internet so that your authenticity can be verified. Others use third-party launchers like Ubisoft Connect or Origin.

While Steam does notify you of DRM or third-party launchers as standard, it's tucked down the page on the right-hand side. With Augmented Steam, the information appears boldly near the buy button, ensuring you're fully aware of any DRM requirements before purchase.

3. Additional Search Filters

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Trying to find that perfect game? While Steam's search has improved over the years, thanks to initiates from its Steam Labs project, Augmented Steam makes it even better by adding more filters.

This includes the ability to hide games already in your cart, games which are in Early Access, those that have an overall negative rating, and more. Considering Steam has thousands upon thousands of games for sale, you'll be thankful for as much filtering as possible.

4. Color-Coded Game Highlighting

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To make the Steam Store easier to browse at a glance, Augmented Steam introduces color-coded game highlighting. Based on the settings you choose, it can highlight games you own, on your wishlist, you have a coupon for, you have a gift copy for, and more. You can customize what gets highlighted and the color. This color-coding applies on every page, like lists, search results, and product overviews.

This is especially useful when browsing a game's DLC because you can immediately see what you already own and what you want. Augmented Steam also adds the ability to add all the unowned DLC to your cart in a single click, rather than navigating through individual DLC pages.

5. Skip Mature Content Age Verification

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One of the most annoying aspects of the Steam Store is that it regularly asks for your birthdate to ensure you're over 18 years old, whenever you try to access a product flagged as mature. It's silly because you can literally enter any date more than 18 years ago. But the worst part is that it doesn't keep track of your response, so you have to enter your date of birth every time.

Happily, Augmented Steam overcomes this annoyance. It has a feature which automatically fills out a suitable date of birth and takes you to the product page without you needing to click anything. It's a great time saver.

6. Quickly Sell Inventory Items

augmented steam trading card selling

You earn Steam trading cards and other inventory items through playing games or buying them on the marketplace. When it comes to selling your inventory on the Steam Market, it's fair to say the experience is less than ideal.

Auctioning off individual trading cards is a time-consuming process; it usually involves checking the current market price, listing just below that, approving the listing, and repeating. Wouldn't it be great if you could do all that with a single click?

Thanks to Augmented Steam, you can. It adds a button to your inventory that let you quickly place the item on the marketplace. In the plugin's settings, you can customize the default modifier; how high or low you list compared to the cheapest equivalent listing currently on the market. It also adds an "Instant Sell" button, if there's a buy order listed on the marketplace.

7. Fully Customizable Product Pages

augmented steam additional game info

You can never have enough information about a game. With Augmented Steam, you can add lots of additional data sources to a product page like the OpenCritic score, SteamSpy player data, and HowLongToBeat game length. You can also disable live broadcasts, view YouTube gameplay videos, see support information, and much more.

This customization also applies to user profiles, which places links to services like SteamRep, SteamDB, and SteamTrades. On top of that, you can even choose a custom profile background visible to everyone else using Augmented Steam.

Enhance Your Steam Experience

Augmented Steam is one of the best ways to enhance your Steam experience; once you install it, you'll wonder how you ever used Steam without it. But it's not the only way to get more from Steam. There are other services like IsThereAnyDeal to find bargains and Depressurizer to organize your game collection that you should check out.