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How To Fix Steam Wishlist Wrong Counter
By AKIRA
If you have a wrong steam wishlist counter displayed, and over 1K games were added to your list. you have no idea which one was the 'invisible game' here, also you don't want to empty your wishlist to just get a correct number. But you still have some kind of OCD.

Here is how to locate the 'invisible games' in your wishlist, remove it/them, and get a correct counter.
   
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17 Mar, 2021 @ 12:50pm
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Guide Index
Overview
#1 Export Your Wishlist Games' AppId. 
#2 Sort Your Wishlists and Locate the 'Invisible Game'. 
#3 Remove the 'Invisible Game'. 
#4 Extra Content. 
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#1 Export Your Wishlist Games' AppId.
  • 1. Adding Augmented Steam to your browser.

    To complete this, you need to download Augmented Steam[augmentedsteam.com] first.

    Just open the link it will automatically detect your browser.

    Currently supports Google[chrome.google.com], Firefox[addons.mozilla.org], and Edge[microsoftedge.microsoft.com].

    Skipping this if you already installed the extension. Mostly people should have it already.
  • 2. Export your current wishlist.

    After installing the extension, go to your wishlist. You should see an 'EXPORT WISHLIST' button.



    Click it, and entering '%appid%,' in the filter text box. And download it to your disk.





















    You will find a txt file named 'wishlist' in your download folder.



  • 3. Export your full wishlist.

    Go to THIS page, you should find a series of numbers after ' "rgWishlist": '. These are all your wishlist games' appid.








    Selecting and copying all the text between the brackets, pasting it to a txt file named whatever you want.
#2 Sort Your Wishlists and Locate the 'Invisible Game'.
  • 1. Copying your full wishlist appids to a numbers sorter, I was using THIS[onlinenumbertools.com] one. Changing the number separators to ','.






    After this you should see a series of sorted numbers at the right of the web page.

    Whatever you are using ascending or descending, just keeping the same.
  • 2.Copying sorted appids and pasting to an excel file.












    You can see it was sorted in order, and the number of rows matched the counter.



  • 3. Doing the same things to you current wishlist appids.

    Pasting sorted appids to the column next to you full wishlist column.

    Now you will have two colums of sorted appids.













    Apparently the missing row was the 'invisible game' in my wishlist.

    We can locate it easily by finding where the row began to mismatch.










    It was the game '1102280' in my case.

    And we can finally try to remove it from our wishlist.
#3 Remove the 'Invisible Game'.
  • 1. Removing the 'invisible game'.

    Through the previous steps we have located the 'invisible game' in our wishlist.

    And what to do is removing it using the console commands below:

    $J.post( g_strWishlistBaseURL + 'remove/', { 'appid' : 0, 'sessionid' : g_sessionID });

    Replacing the '0' by the appid you located before, mine was '1102280'.

    it will be like this:

    $J.post( g_strWishlistBaseURL + 'remove/', { 'appid' : 1102280, 'sessionid' : g_sessionID });

    Stayed in your wishlist page. And press 'F12' to open the console, paste the code in it and press 'Enter'.

    Refresh your wishlist page, and the counter will now be correct.



#4 Extra Content.
Why this was happening?
As far as we know, this will happened in three cases.
  • 1. New version of the game released on Steam. Old one was no longer visible.

    Usually when a game released Definitive/GOTY/Ultimate..Edition.
    Like Metro 2033, when released Metro 2033 Redux the old one was invisible in Steam store and wishlist.










  • 2. Region lock.

    Before the game was released, there was no region lock. You can add it to your wishlist in store page. When released there was a region lock. The game was invisible to you.










  • 3. The game was removed from steam.

    Whether it was removed by VALVE for againsting the rules, or by the developers for project abandoned or shifted to another store, and so on.





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˚□˚ ˚□˚ ˚□˚ ˚□˚ 21 Oct, 2024 @ 12:46pm 
I found with Augmented Steam, there's a button for HIDDEN APPS, looking under stats at the top of the WL. This allows removal without most of the steps :lunar2019deadpanpig: