Where to Find the Screenshot Folder in Steam?

Screenshots are an integral part of any videogame for a lot of gamers. They are the way you create memories, remind yourself of important things, or even share the experience with those you love! And though Steam has been notoriously helpful with the screenshot system, and is actively incorporating new ways to share your experience with friends via the Steam Recording Beta, Valve made a bit of an oopsie in this update.

For those who don't know, the Steam Recording Beta is now live for people to test out, and it gives you the opportunity to set the game to record what you're doing with different integrations, all built in-client for your convenience. Long gone are the days of using OBS and trying to understand how to get the scene to work properly, as instead, Steam's in-house solution gives you the opportunity to do it like that, common resolutions or not!

The problem, however, is that this system also broke the beloved "Open Folder" in the Screenshot section, where users used to be able to go to and find the dedicated folder. If you want to find the screenshots you took within the files, you're going to need to go the long way: finding the folder yourself. Here's everything you need to know!

 

First things first, you're going to need to find your Steam folder on your PC! There's an easy way to do this if you don't know where you installed it (I know it's a common issue). To use this method, you're going to need a shortcut to Steam on your Desktop. Once you do have one, right-click it and select "Properties", which will take you to a small window. In the "Shortcut" section (it should default to this), select the button in the bottom-right of the window called "Open File Location". This is where your Steam is installed, and we'll proceed from here.

Now, it's time to find your account. In this same folder, head over to the userdata folder, which will have a host of all of the accounts that you've logged into on this PC. For most, this should be relatively empty, though if you have a lot of them, the best way to find out which one is yours is to find your User ID. Doing this is simple: head over to the Steam client once again, and in the top-right, find the "Friends" dropdown menu and select "Add a Friend...".

This menu has your Friend Code, which you use to send to friends to bypass a lot of the troubles of searching for friends through profiles. Your Friend Code is also your User ID, which is a nifty trick to know when you need to find a screenshot within an account, especially for large households. Now that you have this code, go to the folder that is the same as your Friend Code, and you've made it to your Steam account!

...\userdata\<USER ID>

Next up is another dauntingly long list of folders and numbers, but this next step is actuallyquite easy. Instead of focusing on any of those folders, just click the 760 and then within that folder, click remote.Honestly, I'm not sure what this actually is, but it's useful that it's a simple step in an otherwise quite convoluted process.

...\userdata\<USER ID>\760\remote

Now, this is all of the games you've played and taken a screenshot in. Though it's a bunch of numbers, this coincides with their individual App ID number, so it's quite simple to find, too. Find the game you want to get the screenshot from and go to the Store Page from Steam, and you should look at the URL that you get from this. In my case, I was looking for KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-, so I'm going to use this as an example. The link is the following:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2552430/KINGDOM_HEARTS_HD_1525_ReMIX/

The App ID that you are going to need is the one that follows /app/ and before the game name. In this case, the one I'm looking for is 2552430. Once you have this, go back to the folder and select the one that corresponds to that App ID, which will be the game that you've been looking for, and go into the screenshots folder of that specific title. This is how it should look in your File Explorer:

...\userdata\<USER ID>\760\remote\<APP ID>\screenshots\

Once here, you'll find all of your screenshots! You can export, move them, edit them, and do as you please — it's a longer process than using the dedicated button that we used to have, but until Valve fixes that issue, this is the only option we have.