Questions worth answering properly

No. A junction is resolved by Windows inside the file system, below the level any application can see. Steam opens the path it recorded and gets the files from the other drive. Launching, updating, verifying game files and uninstalling from Steam all work exactly as before, because as far as Steam is concerned nothing changed.

Every game is brought home first. Uninstalling runs Bring everything home automatically: each game is moved back to its original drive and every junction is removed. Your libraries end up exactly as GameHydra found them. Nothing keeps working only because the app is installed.

The games on that drive become unavailable until you plug it back in, in the same way they would if you had installed them there directly. The junction remains and resolves again as soon as the drive returns. GameHydra will not move new games onto a drive it cannot see, and it flags any game whose drive is missing rather than letting Steam fail silently.

Games are only ever moved whole, never split across drives, and nothing moves while a game is running or while Steam is downloading or updating. Saves are safe either way: a game that keeps its saves inside its own folder moves with them, and the junction means the game still finds them at the path it expects. Saves kept outside the game folder, including Steam Cloud, are not touched at all.

Steam, today. The app has a picker listing Epic Games, Ubisoft Connect, EA App, GOG Galaxy and Xbox PC, but those integrations are not built yet. They are on the roadmap and unlock on the Paid tier as they ship. If you only use a launcher other than Steam, GameHydra has nothing to offer you right now.

Steam can move a game to another library folder, but then that game lives on the other drive as far as Steam is concerned, and you do it manually one game at a time. GameHydra keeps every game addressed from your main library and decides which drive it should physically sit on based on how recently you played it. On the Paid tier that happens without you doing anything.

Compression is only applied to games that have gone cold, and it uses LZX, which is built into Windows. Windows decompresses on read, so a compressed game still runs. GameHydra fully decompresses a game when you launch it again, so a game you have returned to is not left running compressed.

It sits in the tray and starts with Windows, which is how automatic sorting happens. If you close it, nothing breaks: the junctions are ordinary NTFS features and keep working whether or not the app is running.

One. GameHydra is cheap enough that a second PC is a second purchase rather than a bigger tier. Moving a licence between PCs is free and instant though — release it from your account and activate on the new machine. Reinstalling Windows or swapping a drive on the same PC does not use the licence up, and the free tier has no licence at all, so you can run that on as many machines as you like.

If you bought directly from this site, yes — a full refund within 14 days, no reason needed. Email support and Paddle returns it to the payment method you used. After 14 days a purchase is final unless GameHydra will not work on your machine and we cannot make it work, in which case write in however long it has been. Refunding a licence revokes it, so the key stops working and any activation on it is released. If you bought on Steam, Valve handles the refund and going to them directly is faster than emailing us.

The same app. Buying on Steam uses your Steam account as the licence, so there is no key to enter. Buying here emails you a licence key to activate in the app. Activating it needs an internet connection, and GameHydra re-checks about every two weeks. In between it works fully offline.

No. Junctions are an NTFS feature, so both the drive Steam installs to and the drive a game moves to have to be NTFS. exFAT and FAT32 drives cannot be used as destinations. Network drives and mapped network locations are not supported either.

Email support@bytesizefactory.dev and a person will reply. If a move failed, your game is still at its original location — that is the failure mode the app is built around. Include what you were doing and which drives are involved.