My Steam library (probably) looks better than yours

I don’t mean to brag, but my Steam library is looking pretty good these days. No, it’s not the number of games I own, my Steam level showing how much money I’ve throw into the digital void, or a string of Counter-Strike 2 skins that I hold like securities. My Steam library looks good because I spent just a little bit of time tweaking the artwork for games that I have installed.

You might already know that Steam allows you to set custom artwork for your games. Hover over any game in your library, right-click, and follow Manage > Set custom artwork to apply just about anything to the grid, hero, and icon images of your Steam library. Even with a few dozen games — most PC gamers I know have a library in the hundreds — it could take you hours doing this for every game in your library as you hunt down artwork, organize it on your PC, and set it within Steam.

There is a better a way that’s not only much faster but also a lot easier. And it’s called SGDBoop.

Boop your artwork

If you own a Steam Deck and have experimented with emulation, you’ve probably heard of SteamGridDB. If you haven’t, let me introduce you. It’s a library of custom assets for games with hundreds of thousands of grids, hero images, logos, and icons for both Steam and non-Steam games and applications. In addition to the original assets for a game, SteamGridDB takes community submissions for custom artwork, and there are a ton of options — particularly for popular games like Elden Ring.

I’ve used SteamGridDB in the past, but mainly for adding custom artwork to non-Steam apps. I used it to add artwork to games I was emulating, as well as artwork for games I owned on other platforms like Diablo IV and Alan Wake 2. I knew I could download artwork for other games and set everything up manually, but that was too much of a hassle to even consider. Then, I discovered SGDBoop.

SGDBoop is an application built by the SteamGridDB