This is Steam's new design, according to a leak

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Reworked library and game pages.

Steam Database has revealed images of what is supposedly a work-in-progress version of Steam's ongoing interface redesign. SteamDB said the pictures were "leaked through an update to the Chinese CS:GO launcher".

If they're legitimate, then it's certainly an upgrade on the current client—it's sleeker, and should be easier to navigate. I especially like how each game gets an icon in your library list on the left of your screen, as in other launchers. Update: These icons are already in the current version of Steam, but they're turned off by default. If you want to turn them on, click the plus sign at the top of your games list. 

SteamDB also showed off a new hover effect for trading cards that makes them pop out of the page when you mouse over them. Its Twitter account continues to tweet out snippets of the design, so keep an eye on it if you want to find out more.

We know that a new design is due this year, alongside other changes to discoverability and chat that Valve outlined in January. If you're interested, you can see how Steam's design has changed over the past 15 years here.

Samuel Horti
Samuel Horti

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.