How to Delete Your Steam Cache Data [Easy Guide]

There are many reasons anyone would want to clear and delete the Steam download cache data, with the best one being to speed up the client app and download other games faster. So if you want to make Steam a little bit faster, here's how to clear Steam download cache data:

1. Launch the Steam client
2. Click on the Steam logo at the top left corner 
3. In the drop-down menu, select "Settings"
4. Select the "Downloads" tab located on the left side
5. Find the "Clear Download Cache" button  in the menu on the right side and click it
6. Once prompted in the "Clear Download Cache" window, click on "Confirm" 

You should regularly delete Steam cache data, as it doesn't affect any of your installed games or your account, though know that the process will log you out of the Steam app. It'll also help you to fix slow Steam download speeds, so there's no harm to it! However, if you want to clear download cache data better, you might need to visit the Steam folder on your PC.

How to Find and Delete the Steam Cache Data Folder

Although the "Clear Download Cache" buttonin the settings of the Steam client will do most of the job for you, you might also want to check up and directly delete the cache folders. This way you can even see how much space they exactly take on your PC!

We'll be accessing the main Steam folder with this method, so if you haven't changed Steam's install location, you can find the default installation path below. Knowing that here's how to find and delete the Steam cache folders on your PC:

1. Open up File Explorer or This PC 
2. Go to the folder where you've installed Steam
3. The default installation path for Steam is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
4. Delete the "appcache" and "depotcache" folders entirely
5. You can also only select and delete all the files individually in each folder 

After you delete these folders, Steam will create them again after you open the client. But they won't have as many files as previously. Those download cache files will be created and collected in these folders as time goes on and you use Steam. 

Make sure you don't delete any other folders in the main Steam folder besides the "appcache" and "depotcache" we mentioned above. If you do that, there's a chance you'll mess up Steam and won't be able to open the best Steam games! 

And that's pretty much everything there is on how to clear Steam cache. You should definitely do it more often and clear Steam's download cache, because the more time you use it, the more cache data it will collect. If you don't want to delete and clear Steam download cache, maybe you're better off using some of the best Steam alternatives that don't collect a lot of cache files!