Almost 20 years ago, I’ve got a steam account already. Somehow, I’ve lost the account-name, but I still see it in the friend list of my brother.
I’m quite certain to still know the password, but I cannot remember the account-name. Any way of recovering it?
Do you still have access to your email address?
If so, reset your password. They will send you a mail with your username in it.
To add on to this, early steam accounts used your email address as the login name. So definitely try using that.
This is a good idea. Sadly, I don’t have access to the email from twenty years ago, this makes it even harder.
You don’t necessarily need access to the mail itself, if you know the password :)
Yes, this I understood. But there was the question from the original commenter @domi@lemmy.secnd.me which I tried to aim the second half at. I’ll try to login with old email adresses :-)
Previous nicknames on profile page? Maybe it’s something similar. Also, notifications and checks from steam to your email. You can trigger a new one with a cheap gift if you still has access to that address.
No access to my twenty year old mailadress anymore… :-(
If you haven’t tried yet: paste your steamid on here https://steamdb.info/calculator/
Maybe it shows your account name.
Edit:
Also: if you by any chance redeemed a game by using a old cdkey and you still have it you could try the account recovering system.
I got my hacked account back this way.
MVP for reacting on this old thread.
I tried the calculator to no appeal. Sadly, as I’ve moved eight times (no exaggeration) since I’ve last used the account, I’ve thrown out all cds :-(
Go to the profile and look at the url, should be the very end of it.
Only the ID is shown.