Steam Alerts
Alerts for every game you follow. Game news. Game news is typically announced within a few minutes.
Arclo watches a game and posts an announcement when something new appears. The engine, the message editor, the filter rules and the behavior options are the same on every platform. See Social Alerts for those. This page covers what is specific to Steam.
Adding a game
- Steam game
- Paste the store page URL or the numeric app id. For example:
730 or a store page URL. - Channel
- Where the alert is posted. A forum channel makes each alert its own thread.
What it announces
| Event | On by default |
|---|---|
| Game news | Yes |
This platform emits one kind of event, so the event-type block is hidden on its page.
How fast
Game news is typically announced within a few minutes.
Placeholders
| Placeholder | Becomes |
|---|---|
{game} | The game's name |
{title} | The news post's headline |
{description} | A short excerpt of the content |
{url} | Link to the news post |
{creator_avatar} | Creator avatar URL |
{thumbnail} | Preview image URL |
{platform} | The platform's name |
Filter fields
The fields a filter rule on this platform can match against:
- Title or description (
text) - Title (
title) - Description (
description) - Link URL (
url)
See also
Still stuck? Ask in the support server: somebody there has almost certainly configured this before.