DECK SHELVES
Your Steam Deck Home Screen. Your Way.
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Your Steam Deck
Home Screen.
Your Way.

Deck Shelves lets you build custom shelves from your collections, library tabs, or filters. Add decoration cards, smart shelves, and wishlist/store rows — all from a built-in editor in Quick Access. No desktop mode, no config files.

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Steam Deck Deck Shelves home screen with custom shelves and hero artwork

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Built for Steam Deck

Seamless integration via Quick Access.

No Desktop Mode

Everything works directly on your Deck.

Built-in Editor

Configure every shelf from Quick Access.

Cross-Platform

Works on SteamOS, Linux and Windows.

Powerful Features

Advanced Filters

Filter by playtime, genre, achievements, status, size, friends, tags and much more with AND/OR logic.

Multiple Sources

Combine collections, tabs, wishlist and store into a single shelf via Union or Intersection.

Configurable Shortcuts

Remap or disable the gamepad buttons for hide, highlight, quick-launch, Quick Search and Side Navigation.

Decoration Cards

Pin text, banners, URL shortcuts or gaps — with your own chosen art that can act as the shelf hero.

Smart Shelves

30+ heuristic shelves like Deck Picks or Never Played that appear automatically when relevant.

Profiles & Backup

Save, switch, export and import your setups. Includes a Default profile to reset anytime.

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See It in Action

Scroll through the gallery — click any screenshot to view it full-size.

Analytics & Suggestions

See how you use your shelves with real charts and get smart suggestions to improve your setup.

Usage statisticsActivity, most-used shelves and library breakdown.
Smart suggestionsGet new shelf ideas and clean up unused ones.

Make It Yours

Personalize each shelf with logos, descriptions and layouts that fit your style.

Custom banners & iconsAdd logos, icons or descriptions and place them anywhere.
Online rowsWishlist and store shelves with discount badges.

Find & Navigate Faster

Quick Search helps you find any game instantly and Side Navigation keeps you one swipe away.

Quick SearchJump to any game in seconds.
Side NavigationSwitch between shelves easily and quickly.

Built to be extended

Other plugins can register custom shelf sources, filters, sorts, smart shelves and statistics through the public @deck-shelves/api (v4).

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v3.0.2

What's New

Latest release · July 10, 2026

Release notes Older releases
  • Snapshots — automatic backups of your settings

    Deck Shelves keeps a rolling history (one a day, plus any you save yourself).

  • New power-user tools (Settings → Advanced)

    Clear caches, read a copyable System information summary, and turn on Developer mode for an on-home debug overlay and the plugin log.

  • Adjustable description text size

    A slider scales the shelf description text from 100 % to 200 %, globally or per shelf.

  • More charts in the Statistics tab

Installation

Deck Shelves runs on top of Decky Loader. Install it from the Decky Store, or grab the latest release and add it manually.

From Decky Store

The easiest way — once installed, Deck Shelves updates on a click of a button whenever a new version is available in the store.

  1. Install Decky Loader on your Steam Deck.
  2. Open the Decky Store and search for Deck Shelves.
  3. Install and restart Steam if prompted — future updates land on their own.

Manual installation

Install the latest build directly from GitHub Releases.

  1. Download the latest deck-shelves-v*.zip from the Releases page.
  2. In game mode, go to Decky Developer → Install from zip file.
  3. Select the zip, confirm, and restart Steam if prompted.
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