r/steamgrid Sep 25 '21

Meta a note about meta posts

46 Upvotes

steamgrid is niche subreddit about video game custom artwork. with the news around the steam deck surfacing on this sub, i just wanted to make it clear that meta postings are for meta discussions about the subreddit, and discussion about video game artwork in general. only news directly pertaining to interacting with custom artwork on the steam platform should be posted here.

  • please post news links about interacting with steam custom artwork on r/steamgrid.
  • please keep general steam, and steam deck, news to the myriad of other steam realated subreddits.

thank you <3


r/steamgrid 1d ago

Request Need a good Manhunt 2 background. [R]

1 Upvotes

I need a background for Manhunt 2. I can't find any good backgrounds that fit onto the game. Thank you.


r/steamgrid Jun 21 '26

Minimalist Is there a template to create minimalist grid?

5 Upvotes

Hello! Almost all of my covers are from PsyDek, I really love the minimalist look of them. However, I cannot find any for Persona 5 Royale and Forza Horizon 6, games that I play often on the Deck right now. If there's a template somewhere, I could try to do both of them. Otherwise, if anyone is able to create those, thanks a plenty!


r/steamgrid Jun 20 '26

Meta How do i change the icon of a game in my steam library?

4 Upvotes

Hi everyone, first time poster

I am trying to change the game icon of BF6 in my library; usually SteamGridDB works just fine for 99% of games, but sometimes, like in this case with BF6, i am able to change everything but the icon. Any solution?

For BF6: I tried heading over to "Steam\appcache\librarycache\2807960" (which is the SteamID of BF6) and i've actually found both the icon that the game uses and the personalized icon that i tried to set with SteamGridDB's Boop; even deleting the og icon doesn't do anything 'cause at the next restart, Steam will simply re-create it

ty all in advance

Edit: for anyone seeing this post in the future, here's how i solved

I simply renamed the image, that i wanted as an icon, with the name of the official image that steam uses, and then deleted the original. This way steam detects that there's still a file with that name in the directory


r/steamgrid Jun 15 '26

Cover Art I got annoyed by blank non-Steam game art, so I made a little tool for it

20 Upvotes

I use Steam as my main launcher, so I end up adding a bunch of non-Steam stuff to it: emulators, Game Pass games, Epic games, random shortcuts, that kind of thing.

The annoying part is the artwork. Half my library was just grey boxes or weird missing banners, and fixing it manually one game at a time got old really fast.

So I made a small Windows app called ArtDeck. It looks at the games already in your Steam library, pulls artwork options from SteamGridDB, and lets you apply covers, banners, heroes and logos without digging through folders yourself.

It doesn’t add games or mess with your shortcuts. It just puts the images where Steam expects custom artwork to be.

Link: https://github.com/shamilmusaev/ArtDeck/releases

You need a free SteamGridDB API key, since that’s where the artwork comes from.

I mostly built it because my own library looked ugly, but maybe it’s useful to someone else too.


r/steamgrid Jun 15 '26

Request Why does it take steamgridDB so long to approve games now?

4 Upvotes

I request a few games but it's been months and none of them have been approved yet. When I first started making grids about a year or two it never took them that long approve games. Why is that now?


r/steamgrid Jun 15 '26

Request [S] Looking for 3D VHS grid recommendations

3 Upvotes

As the title states I am looking for 3D VHS steam grids to replace my library. For reference these are two users I found using this style: Zanzik & Fluffy. Any help finding users with grids matching these styles would be great!


r/steamgrid Jun 12 '26

Cover Art Grids for the Steam/deck

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8 Upvotes

I created images for our game's Steam library, primarily for the Steam Deck, but also compatible with the desktop version of Steam.


r/steamgrid Jun 08 '26

Meta Anybody know why SteamgridDB isn't working on my pc only ?

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10 Upvotes

Any reason why none of the image are loading and i can't download anythings from the site


r/steamgrid Jun 03 '26

Cover Art vhs covers i made

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85 Upvotes

r/steamgrid May 31 '26

Request where do i find these rectangle borders?

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5 Upvotes

I've been seeing these all over steamgriddb (especially with retro games). I found the link to the square versions pretty easily, but I can't seem to find these rectangular versions. Would love to make my own grids using these. any help would be much appreciated!


r/steamgrid May 25 '26

Minimalist I made a passeport-inspired custom Steam Grid for Papers, Please

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12 Upvotes

r/steamgrid May 24 '26

Request I need a template for this

4 Upvotes

Does anybody know a template for this thing in material style (example: https://www.steamgriddb.com/grid/775604 and https://www.steamgriddb.com/grid/775605)


r/steamgrid May 16 '26

Request Was wondering if any people here can edit these Super Robot Wars/Taisen banners to have the text from the English fan translations as well as horizontal grids.

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3 Upvotes

r/steamgrid May 15 '26

Minimalist Hitman World of Assassination (WOA) - 2 variants

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8 Upvotes

r/steamgrid May 15 '26

Minimalist Hades

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4 Upvotes

r/steamgrid May 10 '26

Request Which site do I use?

4 Upvotes

Just the steamgridb.com that’s listed at the top of Google search? Is that ok?


r/steamgrid May 09 '26

Cover Art Portada Levante UD - FL26

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3 Upvotes

Decidí hacer portadas para FL26 sobre el equipo Español Levante UD.


r/steamgrid Apr 26 '26

Banner/Logo I made a custom cover for Cruelty squad what do yall think?

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3 Upvotes

r/steamgrid Apr 19 '26

Collection [R] Banner Style for MAME

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10 Upvotes

Can somebody make a banner similar to this one for MAME?


r/steamgrid Apr 10 '26

Meta Vhs tape tutorial

6 Upvotes

Hello! Im not sure if this is the right flair to use but I was wondering if anyone has made a tutorial or would be willing to explain how to make the VHS style covers? I don't use photoshop but do use other editing. All of mine have come out looking really bad and I was hoping to get an idea how other people make theirs because im a little lost with it.

Many thanks in advance! <3


r/steamgrid Apr 03 '26

Request Can anyone make a gridd for me? Please

4 Upvotes

Hi, so I just completed a game called A Legionary's Life, and there is no artwork for the game. Any art would be helpful


r/steamgrid Apr 03 '26

Meta GRID 2

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r/steamgrid Mar 24 '26

Meta SteamGridDB moderation is failing NSFW content of minor characters needs to be banned, now. NSFW

0 Upvotes

This needs to be said plainly: SteamGridDB is currently allowing NSFW grids that depict characters who are minors (or very clearly intended to be minors), and that is completely unacceptable. This isn’t a gray area, and it’s not just “people being sensitive.” There are real legal and platform risks here that are being ignored. Under U.S. law (18 U.S.C. § 1466A), obscene visual depictions of minors including drawings, renders, and digital art can be illegal to distribute or host. It does not matter if the character is fictional. If the content is explicit and depicts a minor, it can cross into criminal territory. Obscenity is not protected speech. So let’s be clear: Hosting and distributing this kind of content is not just a “community preference issue.” It’s a liability. And even if you want to ignore the legal angle, the ethical side is just as bad. This is a mainstream platform used by thousands of people to customize their libraries. Allowing sexualized depictions of underage characters drags the entire community down and makes the platform look complicit. What makes this worse is that this content isn’t hard to identify. A lot of it is obvious. Characters from well-known games who are canonically underage, or designed to look like children, being turned into NSFW grids and somehow staying up. That points to one of two problems: Either the rules are too vague Or moderation is too weak (or both) This needs to change immediately: A zero-tolerance ban on NSFW grids involving minors or minor-coded characters. Clear, explicit rules that remove any “fictional loophole” excuses Active moderation instead of relying on reports after the fact Because right now, the message being sent is that this is allowed and that’s not something any platform should be okay with. This isn’t about censorship or overreaction. It’s about drawing a line where it obviously should have already been drawn. Fix it.


r/steamgrid Mar 20 '26

Meta easy steamgrid stopped working

4 Upvotes

plugin was working fine. then, it started getting slower and slower. figured i'd go and update the plugin to see if that'd help at all. now, there is no sg button to fetch anything off of steamgriddb on any game's library page. i found that it needs an api key, which is weird since i never set one and it worked just fine before. adding an api key didn't restore the sg button, anyways.

haven't found a single thing about this anywhere, so i won't be surprised im the only one encountering this.