For the longest time, you could uninstall a Steam game from your machine, but—no matter how regrettable the purchase—it’d remain in your library, cluttering up your precious game hoard. With Steam libraries growing into the hundreds and thousands, this became a problem.
Finally, after years and years, Valve has added the option to permanently delete Steam games. To be clear, this is not a refund, but rather an option to remove games you’ve had laying around for ages, that you simply can’t see yourself having a use for ever, ever, ever again.
The process is relatively simple: go to Steam’s support site, sign in, search for a game you own, and then choose the “I want to permanently remove this game from my account” option. Valve also notes that games you delete will not be automatically uninstalled from your machine, so you should take care of that beforehand—or else you’ll have to dig through files to remove the rusty old needle from your haystack.
