Let’s fix that.īefore we actually start swapping in artwork, however, we need to outline what exactly you need for the different customization options. That’s annoying because the whole point of Big Picture is to easily see your games, but with the generic icons you only know which game is which by selecting the generic icon to see the title. Black & White isn’t a Steam title and doesn’t have custom art like all the other games, it just has a generic Steam logo. That’s the situation we ran into with Black & White there is an icon file in the installation folder but it’s not embedded in the executable, so we get the ultra generic icon see in the screen shot above.īig Picture view isn’t any better. Non-Steam games get generic artwork in Big Picture view, and the icon of the executable for the game in Detailed/Grid view (if the game executable doesn’t have an embedded icon file, you get a generic icon there, too). Even though we have our game in the Steam client now, it’s not very pretty. We don’t know about you, but we love a well organized and appointed collection. Customizing Your Non-Steam Games with Icons and Grid View/Big Picture Artwork At this point all the applications you added are now in Steam (albeit without icons or cover art of any sort). exe can go into it.Īfter you’ve selected the items you want to add, click “Add Selected Programs”. Ultimately, the non-Steam game function is essentially just a shortcut menu/dashboard so any. You could also add in gaming benchmark tools you use or emulators that you load up to play other games with.

Remember, what you add doesn’t need to be a stand alone game.

Although we’re only selecting one game for the tutorial, you can select as many games/apps as you want during this step and bulk add them all at once. A new window will open and you’ll see a list of your games (as well as other applications).įor this tutorial we’re adding Black & White, a fun little 2001-era title from Lionhead Studios that isn’t available on Steam (but that we manually installed). Select “Add a Non-Steam Game” from the popup menu. Depending on which tab/view style you’re in, your background may not look like ours in the screenshot below but the link still be there (we’re in Library -> Grid View). Look for the “+ Add a Game” link in the lower left hand corner of the screen.

Add custom icon android studio