To add friends on Steam using a friend code, follow these steps: Open the Steam app. Login to your account if you have not logged in already. On Steam window, select the Friends tab on the upper left.

Steam users on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 can quickly and easily find and use Steam Friend Codes to add friends and play multiplayer games together as ‘parties’.

I downloaded the Steam client the other day to try out Alien Swarm with some friends. Had no problems with the install or the download of Steam or the game but I cannot add friends and can't ...

To do so, open the Steam client on your PC, click the “Friends” tab, and then click “Add a Friend” from the drop-down menu.

Search for people through it, and click on Add as Friend if you want to be friends with them. This is how you can find users through the Community tab on Steam.

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Steam now enables you to play local-multiplayer games with your friends online even if they don't own the game. Remote Play Together is available now.

Honestly, steam search seems to just be pretty badly designed / implemented. It really should not be this hard to add a friend, and given the incredible amount of posts about this, I'm not an anomaly.