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Add Steam Status Decky

Displays real-time Steam service status, player counts, and service health directly on Steam Deck, game mode.

Features:

  • Steam service status monitoring, informing user if steam is down, using a dedicated API gateway.

    • Service outage detection and notifications
    • Regional server status
    • API gateway caching => no errors in case API gateway is down.
    • This is polling the API gateway every 5 minutes, user has the option to refresh manually once (he/she can refresh again after 30 seconds, but the API gateway will rate limit.) and to decrease the polling interval.

  • Player count tracking with 48-hour history.

    • in case there is a problem, it will be visible in amount users who are online.

  • Trending (steam deck) games display

    • Shows the top 5 trending games on Steam , clickable. Only games running on steamdeck/Linux will be shown. [based on protondb]

  • Options to disable/enable:

    • History (by default it will show a warning in the plugin if there was an outage last hour)
    • Trending games
    • Notifications (no notification if steam service is down)

  • Documentation & translations available in almost all steam languages. (only in plugin)

    • Note: This was done using Google translate. So they will need to be updated in the future.

Personal testing notes

  • Of course, it's difficult to test steam service outages. For this reason added outage simulations on the API gateway, which simulates an outage/recovery.

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Developer

  • I am the original author or an authorized maintainer of this plugin.
  • I have abided by the licenses of the libraries I am utilizing, including attaching license notices where appropriate.

Plugin

  • I have verified that my plugin works properly on the Stable and Beta update channels of SteamOS.
  • I have verified my plugin is unique or provides more/alternative functionality to a plugin already on the store.

Backend

  • No: I am using a custom backend other than Python.
  • No: I am using a tool or software from a 3rd party FOSS project that does not have it's dependencies statically linked.
  • No: I am using a custom binary that has all of it's dependencies statically linked.

Community

  • I have tested and left feedback on two other pull requests for new or updating plugins.
  • I have commented links to my testing report in this PR.

Testing

  • Tested by a third party on SteamOS Stable or Beta update channel.

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Add Steam Status plugin
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  Displays real-time Steam service status, player counts, and service health directly on Steam Deck.

  Features:
  - Real-time Steam service status monitoring
  - Player count tracking with 24-hour history
  - Service outage detection and notifications
  - Regional server status
  - Trending games display
  - Network diagnostics tools

  Repository: https://github.com/bschelst/steamstatus-decky
  Version: 1.2.3
@bschelst bschelst requested a review from a team as a code owner January 12, 2026 23:51
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bschelst commented Jan 12, 2026

Plugin test reports:
#922 (comment)
#946 (comment)

@github-actions github-actions bot added the plugin-addition Adding a plugin to the Plugin Store label Jan 13, 2026
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Couldn't fully review, but I caught a couple potentially large issues:

  • You seem to be on an outdated commit. Is this intentional?
  • You can't include your own update system that bypasses Decky's plugin store system on a Decky plugin store entry. Please remove all references to this custom update system.

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