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?

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Go to the profile and look at the url, should be the very end of it.

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Very early profiles don’t always have this and only show the long steam ID.

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Damn, that was my only idea. :(

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Only the ID is shown.

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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.

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No access to my twenty year old mailadress anymore… :-(

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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.

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To add on to this, early steam accounts used your email address as the login name. So definitely try using that.

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This is a good idea. Sadly, I don’t have access to the email from twenty years ago, this makes it even harder.

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You don’t necessarily need access to the mail itself, if you know the password :)

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If you haven’t tried yet: paste your steamid on here https://steamdb.info/calculator/

Maybe it shows your account name.

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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.

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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 :-(

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Damn, it’s going to be tough.

Have you tried https://www.steamidfinder.com/ ? I don’t think it would give more information than the calculator, but you can try.

What if you try adding the saving as a new friend? Maybe it will give some more information?

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