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Automate Steam card farming, playtime boosting and achievement unlocking across your library. A free Steam idler for Windows and Linux.
Let the card farming engine work through the remaining drops on many games at once, then sell the cards or craft badges. Auto-farming starts in the background without a manual trigger.
Skip it if you only care about a handful of games and are happy to play them normally.
Queue games and let the unlocker pace itself with random delays, set a schedule, or import another user's unlock timings. Use the manager when you want to edit a single achievement or stat.
Skip it if you want to earn every achievement by playing.
Manage farming, idling and free game claims for multiple accounts at once, with per-account online status in Steam Sign-in mode.
Skip it if you have a single account and only need one feature, where a smaller single-purpose tool may be enough.
Getting the most out of a big Steam library means repeating the same chores. Card drops have to be farmed game by game, playtime hours need games kept running, and achievements take manual play or a separate tool. Existing utilities tend to cover one job each, so you juggle several apps with different sign-in methods and settings. Steam Game Idler puts card farming, idling, achievement unlocking and inventory selling into one app, so the repetitive work runs in the background while you do something else.
Farms the trading card drops left in your library with a two-phase engine that speeds up drops. Farm up to 32 games at once, blacklist or whitelist games, skip titles still inside Steam's refund window, and start farming automatically in the background.
The unlocker works through a game queue with random, human-like delays and optional schedules. The manager lets you unlock or lock any achievement, edit numeric stats, see Protected, IncrementOnly and Hidden flags, and apply all changes in one go.
Idle up to 32 games at once to build playtime hours, or pick games to idle automatically whenever the app launches. Task scheduling can start another feature when one finishes.
Browse your Steam inventory and list items on the Community Market without opening a browser. It can sell duplicates in one click, auto-price from live order data with min and max limits, account for marketplace fees, and cancel all listings at once.
Get notified when a game goes free on Steam and claim it in one click, or turn on auto-redeem for signed-in accounts. Manage several Steam accounts at the same time, signing in by QR code, username and password, or a locally logged-in account.
No paid products are linked to Steam Game Idler yet, so this section compares it with the tools its own README names: ArchiSteamFarm, Steam Achievement Manager and Idle Master. The comparison draws only on what the SGI repository and website state about SGI itself, not on detailed feature checks of the other tools.
SGI describes itself as an all-in-one alternative to ArchiSteamFarm. Its card farming runs inside a desktop app with a visual interface, a two-phase engine, blacklists and whitelists, and up to 32 games at once. It also adds an inventory manager, free game alerts and an achievement unlocker, which keeps the whole job in one window.
The SGI achievement manager covers the same ground a manual achievement tool does: unlock or lock any achievement for a game you own, edit numeric stats, and see which entries are Protected, IncrementOnly or Hidden. It adds an automatic unlocker with random, human-like delays and optional schedules, so you can queue games instead of clicking through each one.
For playtime and card idling, SGI offers a playtime booster, an automatic idler that starts chosen games on launch, and task scheduling that chains one feature after another. It runs on Windows and Linux.
SGI uses the Elastic License 2.0, which allows broad use and modification but forbids offering it as a hosted service. Check each tool's own license if that distinction matters for your use.
Yes, the app is free to download and use for Windows and Linux. The documentation does label at least one setting, a custom idling status, as a Pro Gamer tier feature, so check the docs for tier-specific options.
It uses the Elastic License 2.0, a source-available license rather than an OSI open source license. You may use, copy, distribute and modify it for any purpose, including internal commercial use. You may not offer it to third parties as a hosted or managed service, and you may not modify, disable or circumvent license key functionality.
Windows and Linux. On Windows you can use the installer or the portable zip, and Linux has its own install guide. The README also describes building it yourself on either platform.
Card farming, playtime boosting and the achievement unlocker each support up to 32 games at the same time.
The project positions itself as an all-in-one alternative to ArchiSteamFarm, Steam Achievement Manager and Idle Master, combining card farming, achievement management and idling in one app.
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