WhatALaunch
Discord Bot
Steam player counts, prices and sales in Discord, plus alerts for price changes, deals, free games, patch notes and the games you follow.
What it does
- Look up any Steam game's players, price and store details.
- Sales & Deals digests. Deals already posted are not repeated.
- Price changes on the Steam store.
- New free games: Free to Keep and Free Weekend promotions.
- Major patch notes and blog posts.
- Major release alerts for the most anticipated games on the release calendar. Off by default.
- Alerts for followed games: price changes, patches, sales and new DLC.
How notifications work
The bot checks for updates about once a minute. How often it posts depends on the frequency set with /setup.
- When new items appear: free games, patch notes and blog posts post right away. Sales and price changes are grouped into a digest about every six hours.
- Once per day: each category posts at most once every 24 hours.
- Sales: a deal is posted once. It can appear again only for a deeper discount or a new sale.
- Price changes: only real changes on the Steam store. Historical imports and data fixes are not posted.
- Followed games: alerts go to the follow channel, or the default channel. The same sale is never posted twice.
Setup
- Click Add to Discord and pick a server where you have Manage Server permission.
- Run
/setup channel:#your-channelto choose where updates post. - Turn on the updates you want, for example
/notify type:price state:on. Adult content is hidden unless you enable/notify type:NSFW state:on. - Optionally follow games with
/follow. - Check your settings with
/status.
Command reference
Look up a game
Anyone can use these, in a server or in a direct message with the bot. Games not yet on WhatALaunch are added automatically.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /players/players game:<name> | Current players, 24-hour peak, all-time peak and trend. |
| /steam/steam game:<name> [cc:<country>] | Store details: price, reviews, release date, developer, publisher and players. |
| /steamprice/steamprice game:<name> [cc:<country>] | Current price, discount and lowest recorded price. |
| /steamsale/steamsale [include-events:true] | The current or next Steam sale. Add include-events for Next Fest and themed fests. |
Server setup & alerts
These require the Manage Server permission.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /setup | Set the notification channel and how often updates post. |
| /notify | Turn price, sales, free games, patch notes, blog, major releases or NSFW on or off. |
| /channel | Send a notification type to a specific channel, or reset it. |
| /follow | Get price, patch, sale and DLC alerts for a game. |
| /unfollow | Stop following a game. |
| /following | List followed games. |
| /status | Show the current settings. |
| /help | List commands. |
Permissions
The bot needs View Channels, Send Messages, Embed Links, Read Message History and Use Application Commands. It does not read message content.
Privacy
For each installed server we store the guild id, chosen channel ids, notification toggles (including NSFW and frequency), delivery cursors, and the list of followed game ids. We do not read message content. See the Privacy Policy for site-wide practices.