steam-hour-booster

Farm your in-game hours on Steam

• You can farm hours for multiple games on multiple accounts at once.
• Accounts with Steam Guard enabled are supported.
• Uses node-steam-user library.

_{This software is not affiliated with Valve Corporation or Steam.}

Table of contents

• Requirements
• Usage
• Configuration
• Environment variables
• Docker
• FAQ

Requirements

• Bun (or Docker)

Usage

Install dependencies:

bun install

Run:

bun .

Steam Guard

If your accounts have Steam Guard enabled, you will be prompted to enter Steam Guard code for each account. Once logged in, a refresh token will be stored and used to automatically log in to your accounts in the future.

Run in the background

To take full advantage of this program, you most likely want to run it on a machine that is always running.
I recommend using Docker to achieve this, but you are free to use your own solution.

Before running in the background, make sure to run it once normally to be able to enter your Steam Guard codes (if needed).

Configuration

Configuration consists of a JSON file containing a list of accounts to farm hours on.

Copy the default configuration:

cp config-example.json config.json

Edit the configuration file to your liking.

Example configuration:

[
    {
        "username": "foo",
        "password": "bar",
        "games": [730]
    }
]

You can add as many accounts as you want.

The games array contains the IDs of the games you want to farm hours for. Game IDs can be found on SteamDB.
I believe the maximum amount of games you can play at once on a single account is 32.

You can also add "online": true to make the account appear online & in-game while farming hours. This is disabled by default.

Environment variables

You can provide a .env file to configure environment variables. You probably won't need to modify these.

Copy the template:

cp .env.template .env

Name	Description	Default value
CONFIG_PATH	Path to the config file	./config.json
STEAM_DATA_DIRECTORY	Path to the directory where Steam will store it's data	./steam-data
TOKEN_STORAGE_DIRECTORY	Path to the directory where Steam refresh tokens will be stored, used for remembering sessions	./tokens

Docker

For Docker usage, see here.

FAQ

Can I get banned?

People have been using these kinds of "hour boosters" for years, without issues.
Don't take my word for it though, use at your own risk.