&gt; Yes but all of that is achievable without a bloated hog that steam interface is.<p>Steam uses ~120 MB of RAM on my system. Google Chrome uses 300+ MB of RAM with <i>just</i> the Google home page loaded.<p>&gt; ...with a task manager icon as only UI,<p>You can configure Steam to only display a system tray icon when you don&#x27;t have the Steam window open.