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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. 352 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 24 Sep 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 321 · avg 86 · -49% w/w
a month agotoday
352
Installs / week
pypi · steam-mcp
8
Stars
0 open issues
24 Sep 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
—
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": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "steam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.steam-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["steam-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "steam-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "steam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "steam-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "steam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: STEAM_API_KEY (Steam Web API key (optional, free at https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey). 19 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), STEAM_MCP_TOOLS (Optional. Which tools to load: 'all' (default, 41 tools), 'essentials' (15 tools, a much smaller context footprint), or 'essentials,get_inventory' to add tools by name).

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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 352 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 in the form 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 352 times in the last week. Week over week that is -49%. 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 8 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.