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| Original author(s) | Jason Shackles, Dan C., Ben Williams |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2012 |
| Platform | Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge (planned) |
| License | GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3) |
| Website | www |
Enhanced Steam is a free, open-source browser extension that adds additional information to Steam's website. The extension is primarily focused on aggregating information about games provided by the service and placing them on the store page.
Features
editEnhanced Steam shows the following information to users.
Early Access banner
editEnhanced Steam shows games that in Steam's Early Access program with a light blue banner on the game's banner logo.
Product ownership/wishlisted highlighting
editEnhanced Steam shows products purchased by highlighting them in dark green, by default. Enhanced Steam will highlight any wishlisted games with light blue highlighting by default. This is done, providing the user is logged in.
Regional prices
editEnhanced Steam shows the price of the game in other regions it is sold in, by default via a tooltip on a globe icon next to the price. The default region prices provided to the user are in US Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Russian Rubli, Brazilian Reais, Australian Dollars and Japanese Yen.
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
editEnhanced Steam shows any third-party DRM the game has such as Denuvo, Games for Windows Live, uPlay, Rockstar Social Club, SecuROM and Tages in a large red warning box.
Concurrent player statistics
editEnhanced Steam shows the amount of concurrent players the game currently has, along with its peak amount that day and the historically largest record using data provided by SteamCharts.com.
Performance survey
editEnhanced Steam shows a performance survey with feedback on the game's framerate, maximum resolution and the option to alter graphics options. There is also a graph showing the performance result per GPU manufacturer including NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
Critical reception
editEnhanced Steam has been mentioned by many tech publications including Lifehacker, PC World, Kotaku, PC Gamer and MakeUseOf[1].
License
editEnhanced Steam is free, open-source software released under the GNU General Public License v3. Users can support Enhanced Steam's development with donations via PayPal and Patreon.[2]
References
edit- ^ Chris Hoffman (November 6, 2013). "6 Ways Enhanced Steam Makes Valve's Steam Store Even Better". MakeUseOf.
- ^ "Jason Shackles is creating Enhanced Steam". Patreon.
External links
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