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How To Manually Delete A Game On Steam Deck

How to manually delete a game on Steam Deck when it won’t remove from the uninstall menu.

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This might be an obvious one, but do you know how to delete a game from your Steam Deck if it won’t remove after uninstalling?

The offending title for me was Bloons. Each time I tried to uninstall, it’d show an old school dialog box and freeze.

Hammering the buttons didn’t help as each time I pressed the Steam button, it’d switch back to the same screen.

A Reddit search suggests deleting it manually in desktop mode, but how do you access desktop mode? Nobody explains how to, and after owning a Steam Deck since launch, I’d never needed to.

Here’s how.

Hold down the power button and select Switch to desktop (yes, it’s that simple). The Steam Deck will reboot into a desktop mode.

Using the right trackpad, double-click on the Steam icon and manually uninstall from your library.

It’s that easy, but perhaps not that obvious.

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