Best exporter(s) for Steam?

Hello everyone,

I'm currently putting my new game on Steam for testing.

When exporting with Webview2, I've been reported that the Steam overlay is unavailable. I've found a blog post here stating that this will not change for technical reasons: construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/trying-show-steam-overlay-1861

As not having the Steam overlay is quite problematic, I've now changed to NWjs, but noticed it is now deprecated.

Also, with NWjs I have a big problem which has been reported by multiple users: when alt-tabbing, the windows are duplicated. Like if there were 5, 6 or more windows of the game open, but there's actually only one.

So I'm wondering 2 things:

1) What's the best exporter for Steam. Is there one that works flawlessly (no bug, overlay, achievements, etc.)?

2) If it is NWjs, how do you get around that window duplication when alt-tabbing bug? I didn't find any information on this, while it seems very obvious and problematic.

Thanks for your help! :)

I would recommend using WebView2 as NW.js is in the process of being phased out.

I'm afraid however there's not much we can do about the in-game overlay - the current status of that is described in the Steamworks plugin documentation. The more people who ask Valve to support it the better. However when the in-game overlay is not supported Steam has fallbacks, such as showing the actual Steam window over the game, instead of rendering it inline, so hopefully that's not too bad.

Thank you very much for the reply and the link to the Steamworks plugin documentation, Ashley . If NW.js is about to get phased out, I'll 100% move on with WebWiew2.

From what I've seen, shift-tab simply doesn't do anything when used in my game. I'll check if there are any fallbacks which allows to access the content of the overlay.

Thanks!