Steam shortcuts to uninstalled games from other launchers

[ajojoreference]

Is it possible to have uninstalled games added to steam as shortcuts, and then launching it from steam will be able to install and play them? I use steam's big picture mode mainly, for its controller support, so this would be a great way to have everything in my library in one place without wasting disk space.

[bburky]

You're asking if it can also make shortcuts from uninstalled games? No it does not. I possibly could make it launch the installer, but you would have to re-run the extension and relaunch steam to update the shortcuts.

Currently the non-Steam shortcuts created by this extension launch the game executable directly, which makes complicated things lke this tricky. I had to do that though to make the steam overlay work correctly. I've tried to find other ways to get the overlay to work, but haven't found any other working options.