# Open the Steam Service using console command

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**Category:** Blueprint\
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**Created:** [April 13, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/open-the-steam-service-using-console-command/89872 "2017-04-13T14:35:59Z")\
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This requires programming to create a blueprint node that can do so.

This documentation talks about the Game Overlay.  
[https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/game\_overlay](https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/game_overlay)

You don’t need any callbacks or call results from steam to trigger them, so if you follow this guide, you should get an idea on how to create a blueprint node to bring the steam overlay, and to set the steam web browser to a specific url.

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Look at First Step with Steam.  
I’d do some changes to prevent crashes.  
From

```auto

if (SteamAPI_Init())
{
  const char* name = SteamFriends()->GetPersonaName();
  GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5, FColor::Red, name);
}

```

to

```auto

if (SteamFriends() != nullptr) //Check that the Steam Pointers are initialized previously
{
  FString SteamName = SteamFriends()->GetPersonaName();
  UE_LOG(LogSteamworks, Log, TEXT("Steam Name of User: %s"), *SteamName);
}

```

I read somewhere that SteamAPI\_Init() will try to recreate steam when you read it, so just checking the steam pointers are populateed should be enough. I think.  
UE\_LOG doesnt depend on the editor and is much better to print logs of what you are doing.

From the Steam API, what you are looking for is this

```auto

SteamFriends()->ActivateGameOverlay("Community"); //const char *pchDialog //Check the Steam Api for more Options.

```

Or

```auto

SteamFriends()->ActivateGameOverlayToWebPage("https://www.unrealengine.com"); //const char *pchURL

```

How to create a blueprint Library.

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If you want to pause the game when the steam overlay comes up, it’s more complicated, and involves more programming, but luckily for you, I struggled with that for a month and a half, and after I won, I wrote a throrough guide on how to achieve this.

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Hope this helps.

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