Launch steam games on user PC

[Kieran]

I was playing around with href's in HTML and realized that I can use "steam://rungameid/" to launch games when you click. Chrome will ask if you want to trust that BUT teamspeak doesn't. That means you can just poke somebody with (without the dots) [.url=steam://rungameid/GameIdGoesHere]Lol look at that vid bro[/url.] and the game with the ID will open if they have it installed. Otherwise it'll take them to the store page of the game. It's fun to troll people with it xD
For example, if you poke somebody with "[.url=steam://rungameid/273350]Text[/url.]" (without the dots) it'll look like this.

But when they click it, it will launch the game "Evolve Stage 2". To make it look more legit you can use an actual link as text like this

[url=steam://rungameid/273350]https://youtu.be/Osb9ojt96mA[/url]

Thanks @baisiK
You can find the game ID by going on the steam store page of the game. Then right click and Copy Page URL.

In this example you'll get http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/ and when you check the numbers at the end you'll realize that these are the same numbers as in the poke URL. So just cut the numbers out and put them after steam://rungameid/


Idk if somebody else already posted that here but I didnt have time to look anymore sorry xD

 

[Kieran]

There is also a ts3server:// thingy that you can use the same to make people join other TS server. I'll make a tutorial about that too if you want and nobody else did that

 

[Derp]

It would be funny if it automatically started to download the game if the user didn't have it on his library. Wondering if someone could try it :3

Good find btw

 

[dedmen]

Tried on R4P3 devs.. couldnt trick them.. They are too intelligent.. ^^

 

[Kieran]

It would be funny if it automatically started to download the game if the user didn't have it on his library. Wondering if someone could try it :3

Good find btw

I don't think that's possible xD Then you'd have to make a program that does all that I guess. But it would be funny indeed xD

Thanks

 

[Kieran]

Tried on R4P3 devs.. couldnt trick them.. They are too intelligent.. ^^

Haha yea I always copy the Link of the text and see what it is too xD

 

[ehthe]

Or you know just hover it and look in the lower left corner.

 

[Kieran]

Or you know just hover it and look in the lower left corner.

Uh... I don't know what you mean

 

[Norvik]

You should try to let it look like it would be an actual link instead of just having a text which redirects you to an unknown page.

[url=steam://rungameid/273350]https://youtu.be/Osb9ojt96mA[/url]

This will look way more legit.

 

[Kieran]

You should try to let it look like it would be an actual link instead of just having a text which redirects you to an unknown page.

[url=steam://rungameid/273350]https://youtu.be/Osb9ojt96mA[/url]

This will look way more legit.

Oh yea I forgot that thanks ^^