This guide is for those who already have a customized Steam profile but are looking to improve it even more to achieve an exceptional Steam profile that is admired by the community and inspires others to do the same. This means you would already at least have an artwork and some other showcases.

If you are completely new to Steam profile decoration, this might be too advanced for you. You can add some showcases and test around with your profile for a while before you come back to try these out.

I only cover the most important showcases that are being used for Steam profile decoration so showcases such as game reviews are not being mentioned in this guide, but those can be used nonetheless, as long as they suit your theme.

Note: this guide will be constantly updated with new information so if you have any recommendations, leave them in the comment section below.

The following guide contains some of the best profiles users have on Steam. Each of them can be considered an absolute masterpiece and have inspired many others to improve their profile. You can use those as a benchmark for your own profile and find inspiration. They cover a wide variety of different themes and aspects so you should have no problem finding something for you.

Best Steam Profiles 

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Από: ElitɘtѳN

ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴜʀᴘᴏsᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪs ɢᴜɪᴅᴇ ɪs ᴛᴏ sʜᴏᴡᴄᴀsᴇ ᴀ ᴠᴀʀɪᴇᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴀᴍᴀᴢɪɴɢ ᴘʀᴏғɪʟᴇs ᴏɴ sᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴛᴏ ʜᴇʟᴘ ʏᴏᴜ ғɪɴᴅ ɪɴsᴘɪʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴs ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴏᴡɴ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ᴏʀ ᴘʀᴏғɪʟᴇ.

The first step to an exceptional profile is deciding on a theme. This should be done carefully as all the next steps will be based on this. Some users might struggle to find a specific theme. In this case, you can decide on a primary color instead. If you want to have a really advanced profile, you can combine your theme with your primary color, or even have a secondary color.

Having a theme is really important for an exceptional profile. Otherwise your profile will just be a bunch of random showcases that are not related to each other. Once you have decided on your theme, make sure EVERY showcase in your profile stays in conjunction to the theme you chose. This will add consistency and order to your profile and it will not just be a random collection of showcases anymore.

The top section of your profile is very important. It is one of the first things that Steam users notice when they open your profile, so you should put a lot of time in doing this section.


The most important and eye catching part is your profile picture or avatar. It is seen very often; in games, every time you write a comment somewhere etc. Choosing a picture for that is crucial. If you have a character in your avatar, I suggest that the image you chose is a render, and you crop the background out and align it with the Steam background you use in your profile. This will make your avatar look more clean and professional. I have used one of my previous avatars as an example. It is aligned with the background which makes it look like that it is linked with the artwork and profile background.



















You can also make something more unique. Treat it the same way as your artwork showcase (just not animated of course) and edit it before uploading it to your profile. A lot of users who like to have a clean and simple profile like to change the background of their avatar to the same color as the top part of a Steam profile and add their logo in there.
Gawrone has improved on that. He added the first part of his name in his avatar while keeping the second part of his name as his alias to create a simple, yet very unique profile picture.


Azu took a very similar approach. She did not only add her logo, but also added a fox character render in a special shape to complement her logo. On the right side of her avatar she has added 3 dots which act as a bullet point for her bibliography. This is truly a special avatar that also matches the avatar of Kaila which is the same just mirrored and the color slightly changed to match the profile.




Once you have finished with your profile picture, the next section is your biography right below your alias or location. This should serve as an introduction or summary of your profile. You can talk about your profile or yourself there or just state some rules, but you should think carefully of what you write there because it is one of the first impressions you give other users before they decide to scroll down more. This can also often be the deciding factor whether other users continue to check out your profile or not. Get creative and make sure it matches your theme.



Having a higher level on Steam means you have spend more money and time into your profile. The higher your level is, the more showcases you can display in your profile so this is very important if you want to decorate your profile. You can also impress others, if your Steam level color matches your profile or theme.


If you need help to find suitable badges to display on your profile, you can check this guide out. It has a huge variety of different badges sorted out for you and it will save you a lot of time to find badges that will match your profiles theme.

Collection of Steam Badges 

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The purpose of this guide is to showcase a variety of themed badges to help you find the right badges for your Steam profile. Fixed by Vault Girl on 12 Sept 2018.

Primary Badge - Your primary badge should be chosen carefully and it should not be in the last 4 badges or your badge showcase. This will be the most important badge you own as it will be displayed at the top of your profile, and it is the only badge, where the name of it will be visible next to it. This badge should be chosen either to match your profiles theme or color, or to match your alias.



A great example is this badge, that matches Gatekeepers alias, and is similar to his skull logo. The only downside is that it is not blue which would make it the perfect badge for his profile.


Badge Set - The latest 4 badges that an user acquires will be shown on the right side of the first showcase and this cannot be changed. The order of which they are shown is the order in which you have acquired them starting from left to right. Keep in mind that if you acquire a special badge that your badge set will also be updated which can mess it up. An example would be you buy a new game or activate one on Steam, your game collector badge will update itself and ruin your badge set. One way to prevent this is to get the badge set last, when everything else on your profile is finished or to acquire enough games so that the game collector badge is in the same color as your profile´s primary color.








The following guide contains some badge set examples that you can use for your profile.

Badge Sets for Profiles 

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Showing you the best badge sets for your profile.

Badge Showcase - This showcase is usually used by users that have a lot of showcases so they can afford to have this displayed on their profile. I suggest that this be treated the same as the badge set. Old sets that have been used in the past can be displayed here. Do not display 1 badge multiple times here as it is a waste of this showcase (exceptions can be made in special cases, e.g. displaying a badge twice if you are trying to spell out a word). I also suggest not to display a badge here that is already in the badge set or the primary badge. Otherwise, this showcase would be wasted as you display the same thing multiple times.

The primary group chosen on the side of your profile should be adding to your theme. Some people create a special group just so they can display it there. However, the 2 groups below the primary group cannot be chosen. They are sorted by date created so it is much harder to have them complement your theme, especially if your theme is something really rare or less popular. Nontheless, there are some users who have managed to use those to add to their theme. One example would be Tilt who has a green themed profile, which is complemented by the three groups all with green avatars as seen below.

An artwork or a screenshot is often the very first thing an user sees when they visit your profile. This is due to the fact that it is often the first and most important showcase of a profile. It should match your theme and the background should also be implemented and aligned with your artwork. Most users prefer a long artwork but this does not really matter as long as it is done well. The side artwork should also be animated and the animations of both the main artwork and the side artwork(s) should be aligned.

If you do not know how to make your own artwork, you can hire a designer to do it for you. The following guide consists of the best artworks I have personally seen on Steam.

Best Steam Artworks 

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Από: ElitɘtѳN

This guide will feature only the best artworks from Collection of Steam Artworks.

If you do not know what you want in your artwork, I suggest you to check this guide out that has a huge variety of different artworks from many different sections and styles. It can give you inspirations and ideas for your own artwork.

Collection of Steam Artworks 

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Από: ElitɘtѳN

The purpose of this guide is to showcase a variety of artworks on Steam to help you find inspirations for your own artwork or profile.

You should treat this showcase the same as your artwork showcase and you can even implement your background with it. Having an unique workshop showcase that complements your theme makes a profile look so much better and special because not many users utilize it. Many users use one of Azu´s free workshop templates which often are not part of a profiles theme. Although those look very nice and clean, to have an exceptional profile you will need to create your own workshop showcase. You can get very creative with your workshop showcase and I think it is the best showcase available on a Steam profile.

This is one of the biggest and important showcases of a Steam profile. What most users fail to do is to match this showcase with their theme. This can be done in various ways. Special fonts can be used to complement a profiles theme. Special tricks can be used here such as centering your showcases. If you do not know how to center text on Steam, I suggest you check out this guide. I personally think that this is the hardest showcase to get done correctly. The following is an example of a clean and nicely done custom info box showcase.




An emoticon art displayed in the custom info box or in the items up for trade showcase can add more to a persons profile. However, just displaying your alias using emoticons is only average. The emoticon art you create should be within your theme and displaying your alias is cliche as it fits your profile in general, not your current profile's theme. If you struggle to create a special emoticon art, you can just do your alias, which is not ideal, but still better than nothing. However, you can do both as the items up for trade showcase can be used as a second custom info box showcase. A perfect example of suitable emoticon art is IceMooni´s , which fits perfectly with his profiles Gambling / Gaming theme.


If you don´t know how to create an emoticon art you can check out gawrone. He makes emoticon art on order and is very good. Be sure to check him out if you want an awesome art.

Do not create guides that are pointless and with no content so just you can display it on your profile.

If you want to utilise your guide showcases, make sure you actually have guides to display, otherwise do not use it. When people click on them and see nothing or useless content, it is pretentious, annoying and makes a bad impression. You can maybe create some guides to display if you have utilised all the other showcases already but do not use the guide showcases unless you actually have content to display.

Once you have finished adding all the showcases, you need to check for consistency. All the showcases should be used in a way that adds to your profiles theme and do not use two similar showcases to display the same thing, e.g. the profile picture. It is often displayed as a group avatar, a guide avatar, or in a workshop showcase. If you do this, the showcases will be wasted as a different showcase can be used to add something new to the profile.


Different showcases can be used in conjunction with each other to create something that only one showcase cannot as displayed by who has combined his items up for trade and item showcase to display the words "Dead and Alive" which would have been too long to be displayed in one showcase.

The following is an extreme example of having everything in the correct place and perfectly consistent as displayed by the lines.



Azu has not only perfectly centered her custom info box, but it is aligned with her biography and artworks to create a complete perfectly aligned profile where nothing is out of place and every showcase is consistent and complement with each other which are often very subtle, e.g. the reverse three crosses (meaning = anti-Christian symbol) in her artworks and the "Χ Ξ Σ" (meaning = 666) in her alias.

Once you reach this point, it means that you have used all your showcases to add to your profile and theme so what else can you do? Is it even possible to improve your profile even more when there are no showcases left to use? The answer is yes. Now, you have to show that you are really interested into your profiles theme as everything from now on depends on you. Each addition now depends on your theme and there are no guidelines or help. Great examples of users adding to their theme are shown below.

Auron has changed his name to match his new profiles theme. The name Auron sounds like it is from a fantasy world which matches his fantasy themed profile very well.

Dark Necron´s group count is always constant at 666 groups, even if he joins new groups on a daily basis, to keep it line with his profiles hell theme.



Mesh had a very similar approach to Dark Necron and kept his level at 666 for a very long time, but unfortunatly I think he accidently leveled up to 667.

Aevoa designed his own Steam background and is one of the few persons with a custom designed background including his own logo. The background color was chosen carefully, so when it overlays with Steam, the new color formed after the overlay is the same as the sidebars appearing in the background with his logo. He has been able to do all this by working with a Steam game developer who agreed to upload this background as part of his game (Important Note: this game developer has hence used Aevoa´s reputation to SCAM many Steam users by promising them custom backgrounds as well and lying to them, which all have been confirmed by Aevoa himself, so do not talk to the game developer about getting a custom background. I will not hold any responsibility if you get scammed).

If you have any questions regarding ANY artwork or profile related problems, I suggest you check out the following guide. It should contain a guide with the answer to any of your questions as long as it is artwork or profile related. You can use those to improve further on your Steam profile.

List of Guides for Your Steam Profile 

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Από: Aevoa

A list of all the guides that are related to Steam profiles. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ https://i.imgur.com/3UaE3C3.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/5QMXrut.png

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