Find Steam ID - Here's how

This practical tip shows you how to find out your ID in Steam and connect directly to other players.

Find out Steam ID via console

You can find out your Steam ID in two different ways. Either via the console directly in Steam or via a text document that saves your connections.

1. Connect to a server, for example from CS: GO.
2. Call up the console with the [^] key.
3. Now enter "status" (without quotation marks) and confirm with [Enter].
4. Your Steam ID is also in the line with your Steam account name. This usually starts with a zero (e.g. 0: X: XXXXXX).

Read out Steam ID via text document

1. First, open the directory where Steam was installed. By default it is: "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Steam".
2. In the Steam directory, open the "logs" folder.
3. Open Steam.
4. Open the "connection_log" text document in the "logs" folder.
5. Scroll down here until you get to the current date. Here you look for the entry "SetSteamID ([U: 1: XXXXXXXX])".
6. Replace the "U" with a "0". Otherwise, the number sequences in the square brackets represent your Steam ID. So here is the 0: 1: XXXXXXXX.

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