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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, this I understood. But there was the question from the original commenter @[email protected] which I tried to aim the second half at. I'll try to login with old email adresses :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, that was my only idea. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only the ID is shown.