Steam gets a small notification easter egg after UI update
Steam is full of little easter eggs, here's one of them.
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Valve recently introduced a fancy new UI update for the Steam client, now it looks more modern and up-to-date. But it seems Valve has hidden at least one little easter egg within the Steam Client on the PC, though it is unknown how many. Steam gets a small notification easter egg after the UI update.
In case you missed it, you can read our article on the massive Steam UI overhaul, to get yourself up to speed.
The Steam Notification Easter Egg
This easter egg was brought to our attention by a user on Reddit. u/Dunkelheit_ posted in the r/steam subreddit about this new Steam notification easter egg.
The easter egg involves the Steam logo being displayed across three notifications, or achievements, if you manage to get three achievements simultaneously. This is exactly what makes this an easter egg and not just a plain old feature, because when do you ever earn three Steam Achievements at once?
Probably once, the first time you beat a game on the hardest difficulty, as that usually rewards a handful of achievements. Here is an example we conjured using SAM, the Steam Achievement Manager.
As you can see, it’s pretty vague and the image is fairly small, but there is a Steam Logo spanning across three of the achievements. However, sometimes this does not display as intended, and can lead to some comically mismatched logos:
It’s easter eggs like this that really help to breathe life into platforms such as Steam. fun little integrations allow users to really enjoy their experience on the platform, and not have it just serve its purpose as a game platform and nothing more.
Are there any other Steam Easter Eggs?
We hope so! Whilst we haven’t personally found any additional easter eggs, we’re sure there are some more dotted around somewhere. We would absolutely class this as an easter egg, due to the rarity of getting three achievements or notifications at once.
Fun fact, 3 achievements is the maximum Steam will show before waiting for them to clear to show more. This is probably why the number of achievements was set to 3 for this Steam Achievement Easter Egg.
