# Augmented Steam

> Augments your Steam Experience

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/augmented-steam](https://chrome-stats.com/d/augmented-steam)

## Overview

- **ID:** `augmented-steam`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** IsThereAnyDeal
- **Category:** shopping,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 62,867
- **Weekly downloads:** 639
- **Rating:** 4.64 / 5 (548 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.8.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-18
- **First published:** 2019-01-30
- **Size:** 16 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/augmented-steam/)
- **Website:** [https://augmentedsteam.com/](https://augmentedsteam.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/augmented-steam/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/augmented-steam/privacy/)

## Description

**Augmented Steam** is a powerful browser extension designed to enhance your experience on the Steam platform. Developed by IsThereAnyDeal, it provides a wealth of features including detailed price tracking across authorized stores, highlighting owned, wishlisted, or ignored games, and advanced search filters such as review scores and Early Access.

This extension offers customization options like custom profile backgrounds visible to Augmented Steam users, instant inventory item selling, note-taking for games, and the ability to hide irrelevant content for a cleaner interface. Additional utilities include quick batch actions, automatic age gate skipping for NSFW content, and comprehensive sort and filter options for market, achievements, and friends lists. Augmented Steam is the spiritual successor to the now discontinued Enhanced Steam, delivering extensive tools to maximize your Steam browsing and purchasing experience.

## Rankings

- #285 — Overall
- #3 — Shopping
- #8 — Games & Entertainment
- #1 — steam
- #2 — team
- #3 — menu

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `webRequest`

### Host permissions

- `*://*.steampowered.com/*`
- `*://steamcommunity.com/*`
- `*://*.isthereanydeal.com/`

### Content script matches

- `store.steampowered.com`
- `steamcommunity.com`
- `*.steampowered.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

As per user reviews, Augmented Steam is praised for consolidating price data, external data integration, and enhancing the Steam store experience with highlights and summaries. It is often described as essential for frequent Steam users. However, a large portion of feedback centers on the AI features (VaporLens) added recently, with many calling them intrusive and undesirable when enabled by default, though they can be disabled. Despite the controversy, many users still find the extension extremely useful.

### Pros

- Consolidates price data and external sources (SteamDB, ITAD, HowLongToBeat, Isthereanydeal) into Steam store pages for easy comparisons.
- Includes highlighting features and instant price summaries to speed up shopping.
- Widely regarded as essential for frequent Steam users; described as hard to live without or an absolute must-have.
- Adds ProtonDB status info, useful for Linux/Steam Deck users when checking compatibility.
- Offers AI-generated review summaries as an optional feature to skim reviews quickly.

### Cons

- AI features (VaporLens / review summaries) are added by default and widely criticized as garbage or useless.
- AI features and SteamPeek disproportionately clutter the UI, taking up a large portion of the screen.
- Many users feel AI should be opt-in/disabled by default and threaten to switch to alternatives; some reviews express not recommending the extension due to AI.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/augmented-steam)