Best Ways To Uninstall Steam And Steam Games On Mac

Summary: If you're looking for ways to uninstall Steam and Steam games on your Mac, you've just come to the right place. In the article, we'll teach you how to completely remove Steam and Steam games from your Mac.

Steam promotes itself as the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games, offering over 30,000 titles spanning AAA, indie, and everything in between. While the games on Steam are diverse and feature-rich, they have one major drawback: they can consume significant storage space.

If Steam is taking up too much space on your Mac, or if Steam isn’t opening or working properly, uninstalling it might be necessary.

Keep reading to learn how to safely and permanently remove Steam and its games from your Mac.

Table Of Contents

1. How to Manually Uninstall Steam and Steam Games on Mac
2. How to Quickly and Completely Uninstall Steam and Steam Games on Mac
3. How to Delete Steam Games on Mac with Steam Library
4. How to Delete Steam Games on Mac without Steam
5. Bonus: How to Remove Steam Games from Launchpad

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How to Manually Uninstall Steam and Steam Games on Mac

If you no longer need Steam or any Steam games, follow the steps below to delete it completely from your Mac.

1. Quit Steam and all its processes with Activity Monitor.

   

2. Open Finder > Applications.
3. Locate the Steam application or the Steam games you want to uninstall, then drag them to the Trash.

   

4. On the Finder window, press Shift + Command + G.
5. Type in: ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/ and press Return.

   

6. To remove all Steam data from your Mac, delete the entire Steam folder.

NoteIf you don't want to lose any game data: delete all files and folders in /Steam EXCEPT FOR the /SteamApps folder.

7. Right-click the Trash and choose Empty Trash.

How to Quickly and Completely Uninstall Steam and Steam Games on Mac

There is an easy and fast way to delete Steam and Steam games on Mac, and that is to use BuhoCleaner, one of the best app removers for Mac. You can use it not only to uninstall the applications you don't want but also to remove all the leftovers from uninstalled programs. Here's what you need to do.

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1. Download, install, and launch BuhoCleaner.
2. Click App Uninstall, and you will find all the apps you installed.
3. Find the Steam and Steam Games you want to uninstall, then click Remove.

How to Delete Steam Games on Mac with Steam Library

If you just want to remove unwanted Steam games, you can remove them with your Steam account.

1. Launch the Steam app.
2. Click the Library option, and you can find all your downloaded games in All.

3. Select the game you want to remove, right-click it, hover your mouse over Manage, and choose Uninstall.

4. Confirm the prompt that appears, and the game will be removed permanently.

noteThe game you uninstalled will remain in your Games Library. If you want to play it again, you will need to re-download all of its content.

How to Delete Steam Games on Mac without Steam

Is there a way to uninstall Steam games if you already have the Steam app deleted from your Mac? The answer is yes. Here are the steps:

1. Open Finder and press Shift + Command + G keys.
2. Type in: ~/Library/Application Support/Steam and press the Return button.
3. Find the folder named steamapps and delete it entirely.

Bonus: How to Remove Steam Games from Launchpad

If you've uninstalled a Steam game on your Mac but its icon is still in your Launchpad, you need to manually delete the game's shortcut.

1. Open Launchpad.
2. Find the game icon, then drag it to your Dock.
3. Right-click on the game icon and select Options > Show in Finder.
4. Drag the game icon in Finder to your Trash.
5. Empty your Trash.
6. If necessary, relaunch Launchpad by executing the command rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; killall Dock in Terminal.

Bottom Line

Now that you have learned how to completely uninstall Steam and Steam games on your Mac in different ways, go ahead and choose a method you like to try.

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