Where is the Steam screen­shots folder located?

When you’re on Steam, taking screen­shots is easy, but finding them isn’t. After you have snapped an un­for­get­table setting or a tri­umphant victory, your screen­shot is stored deep within the program’s folders. We’ll show you two different ways you can locate your screen­shots and how to change the location of where they are saved.

How do you take a screen­shot in Steam?

Stream is one of the most popular platforms for down­load­ing and playing the latest video games. There are times when you may want to remember a par­tic­u­lar scene from a game by taking a screen­shot. Luckily Steam already offers this function, so you don’t need to rely on any ad­di­tion­al screen­shot tools.

To take a screen­shot in Steam, simply press [F12]. Steam will display a small no­ti­fic­a­tion letting you know that the screen­shot has been saved. Finding the screen­shot later, however, isn’t quite as easy. We’ll show you two methods for finding Steam screen­shots.

Option 1: open screen­shots in the Steam app

The simplest way to open screen­shots is to use the Steam app. You can also find the folder they’re saved in on your computer. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Go to the menu in the top left and click View followed by Screen­shots.
2. A window called Screen­shot uploader will appear.
3. In the Screen­shot loader, select the game where you took the screen­shot from the Show option at the top.
4. Then click on Show on disk. The location of all the screen­shots belonging to this game will now be displayed.

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Option 2: find your Steam screen­shots folder on your computer

The second way to find your Steam screen­shots folder is from where they are stored on your computer. If you have the standard Steam settings active, screen­shots will be saved in a subfolder of your Steam program folder. This folder is easy to access.

To find the screen­shots on a Windows PC, provided Steam is installed on a standard path, open File Explorer (pre­vi­ously Windows Explorer) and enter the following location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata

You will then see a folder of all the Steam users on the computer. The folders will be named using a com­bin­a­tion of char­ac­ters. These are the unique Steam IDs of the users. Open the folder with your Steam ID followed by the folder ‘760’ and ‘remote’. This folder contains other sub­folders for the different games in which you have taken screen­shots. The different com­bin­a­tions of char­ac­ters in this folder are different game IDs. Open the folder of the game you want and then the ‘screen­shots’ folder.

If you are using Steam for macOS and have taken screen­shots on a Mac, you can use a similar process to find the location where they are saved. The general Steam folder can be found under Users > (Your username) > Library > App support > Steam. Once you have located it, you can repeat the steps above to go from Steam ID to the Game ID and finally to the screen­shots folder.

How to change the location of screen­shots in Steam

If you want an easier way to regularly access your screen­shots, you can change where they are saved on your computer using the Steam app. Here’s how:

1. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click Steam followed by Settings.
2. In the window that has just opened, click on In-Game.
3. On the right, you will find settings for your screen­shots. Click on Screen­shot folder and choose a new folder to save your screen­shots to.
4. Tick the box next to Save an un­com­pressed copy and click OK.

Your screen­shots will now be saved in the folder you have selected.

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You can also choose your own keyboard shortcut for taking screen­shots. The default shortcut is [F12]. To designate a different keyboard shortcut, enter the com­bin­a­tion/key you would like to use in the Screen­shot shortcut keys field.