https://automaton-media.com/en/news/installing-two-steam-games-with-the-same-name-can-cause-the-other-to-get-overwritten-users-report/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:23:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/installing-two-steam-games-with-the-same-name-can-cause-the-other-to-get-overwritten-users-report/#comment-7015 Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:23:28 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=54771#comment-7015 I only one hear this first time and mostly not so much playing steam games.

]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/installing-two-steam-games-with-the-same-name-can-cause-the-other-to-get-overwritten-users-report/#comment-7013 Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:45:09 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=54771#comment-7013 More specifically steam puts games within the ‘steam prefix’ under steamapps/common/gamedir (where gamedir is whatever game directory the game developer set, which is usually the game name.). I would expect the easiest fix to be steam checking on game submission and requesting to change your directory name (even by 1 character) if another game already uses it.

]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/installing-two-steam-games-with-the-same-name-can-cause-the-other-to-get-overwritten-users-report/#comment-7012 Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:34:10 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=54771#comment-7012 On Linux the pfx is inside a subfolder that uses steam id. Yet another thing Linux got right first.

]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/installing-two-steam-games-with-the-same-name-can-cause-the-other-to-get-overwritten-users-report/#comment-7009 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:52:13 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=54771#comment-7009 “Water found in the ocean” I feel like this is kind of a given. Why do you think you can’t have two different text files in the same directory.

]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/installing-two-steam-games-with-the-same-name-can-cause-the-other-to-get-overwritten-users-report/#comment-7003 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:42:59 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=54771#comment-7003 I reported this to Steam years ago, due to Steam breaking when I had two games both named “Aleph” installed. AFAIK they never did anything to fix it.

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