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Steam (read-only) MCP Server

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Steam (read-only) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 419 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 29 Jul 2026.

Read-only Steam: friends, games, achievements, sales, plus game recommendations and co-op nights.

Installs per day peak 256 · avg 76 · -40% w/w
a month agotoday
419
Installs / week
pypi · steam-mcp
5
Stars
0 open issues
29 Jul 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Steam (read-only) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add steam-mcp -- uvx steam-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "steam-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "steam-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.steam-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["steam-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "steam-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "steam-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "steam-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "steam-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: STEAM_API_KEY (Steam Web API key (optional, free at https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey). 15 tools work without it — store, games, reviews, prices, deals, player counts, achievement rarity. A key adds the account tools: library, playtime, friends, achievements, wishlist, inventory.), STEAM_USER (Optional. Your own Steam vanity name, SteamID64, or profile URL, so the account tools default to you when you omit a steamid. Public profile name, not a secret.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Steam (read-only) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Steam (read-only)?
Steam (read-only) runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package steam-mcp was installed 419 times last week.
How do I connect Steam (read-only)?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls steam-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Steam (read-only)?
The pypi package steam-mcp was installed 419 times in the last week. Week over week that is -40%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Steam (read-only) open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python and 5 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.