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Sean Boult
Sean Boult

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We Have Too Many Game Overlays 💀

Here are all the game overlays I know about. Some of them are built with web technology and others are written and native code.

Steam Overlay

The steam overlay works in almost every game and allows you to press SHIFT+TAB to reveal various things.

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Discord Game Overlay

Lets you see things like users in the voice chat as well as chat from a single channel. You can enabled the overlay with SHIFT+Backtick

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Guilded Game Overlay

Straight up copypasta'd from Discord 😂.

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Microsoft Windows Game Bar

The Windows game bar allows you to control and view many things during your PC gaming experience by pressing Windows+G.

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Nvidia Geforce Experience

Most useful things are the being able to record and a nice FPS counter. You can activate the overlay with ALT+Z.

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Overwolf

Overwolf is more or less a platform for developers build useful game overlays for their supported games.

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EA

It is pretty useless and there is no documentation 💀. You can activate this by pressing SHIFT+F1.

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If I missed any please drop a comment with some links to them 👇.

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