diff --git a/games-util/steam-launcher/Manifest b/games-util/steam-launcher/Manifest
index 300374786..eeede50a8 100644
--- a/games-util/steam-launcher/Manifest
+++ b/games-util/steam-launcher/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST steam_1.0.0.56.tar.gz 2899122 BLAKE2B a4955975b36d7916d634cd076356f61a90751bdda07aa87ea79ea2237c0b17b1377685f3d6ff41ad82e3921580dc4f3524fbfe45e5918a52c146ea4bd5393c5f SHA512 17fdd26b829a5860520d955326af88ebacda18183fbf9a70cbb38a9c593cc6c3e85237ec0be598e80a3e1d2bc4354a4933e372321ce0b8716ac481cfb3d7a5e0
+DIST steam_1.0.0.59.tar.gz 2899959 BLAKE2B e213cdd417b795f90b9ff6081a3b43b058068ba153b0fad8658d648d6ba8840a644956a666955a99dae2c3eae490059522053fd85a20046b95fd4c22d04255fa SHA512 c5cbe0849b93076bf375de86c78c351af5841163825f2581d54ef98d2501f002d35b18c93b95dba1a7c65444a137bdd5e30f63ca0e72ae6ad526b11a50018276
diff --git a/games-util/steam-launcher/files/libsteam-preload.c b/games-util/steam-launcher/files/libsteam-preload.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aeb621595
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games-util/steam-launcher/files/libsteam-preload.c
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/* Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors */
+/* Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+
+#include <dlfcn.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#define STEAM_PRELOAD_QUOTE(name) #name
+#define STEAM_PRELOAD_STR(macro) STEAM_PRELOAD_QUOTE(macro)
+#define GLIBDIR_STR STEAM_PRELOAD_STR(GLIBDIR)
+
+int (*execve_real)(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]) = NULL;
+
+int execve(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]) {
+	if (execve_real == NULL) {
+		execve_real = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "execve");
+	}
+
+	if (strcmp(filename, "./steamwebhelper") == 0) {
+		fputs("Gentoo caught steamwebhelper invocation\n", stderr);
+
+		unsigned int i;
+		for (i = 0; envp[i] != NULL; i++);
+		char **envp2 = malloc(sizeof(char*) * i);
+
+		if (envp2 == NULL) {
+			errno = ENOMEM;
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		int ret;
+		char *llp = NULL;
+
+		for (i = 0; envp[i] != NULL; i++) {
+			if (strncmp(envp[i], "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=", 16) == 0) {
+				const char *gl_ldpath = getenv("GL_LDPATH");
+
+				if (gl_ldpath) {
+					ret = asprintf(&llp, "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%s:" GLIBDIR_STR ":%s", gl_ldpath, envp[i] + 16);
+				} else {
+					ret = asprintf(&llp, "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=" GLIBDIR_STR ":%s", envp[i] + 16);
+				}
+
+				if (ret < 0) {
+					free(envp2);
+					errno = ENOMEM;
+					return -1;
+				}
+
+				fprintf(stderr, "Gentoo reinvoking steamwebhelper with %s\n", llp);
+				envp2[i] = llp;
+			} else {
+				envp2[i] = envp[i];
+			}
+		}
+
+		envp2[i] = NULL;
+		ret = execve_real(filename, argv, envp2);
+		free(envp2);
+		free(llp);
+		return ret;
+	} else {
+		return execve_real(filename, argv, envp);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/games-util/steam-launcher/files/steam-libraries.patch b/games-util/steam-launcher/files/steam-libraries.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5bc93829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games-util/steam-launcher/files/steam-libraries.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+diff -Naur a/steam b/steam
+--- a/steam	2019-03-24 23:05:23.035074609 +0000
++++ b/steam	2019-03-24 23:15:11.768471262 +0000
+@@ -17,6 +17,31 @@
+ # Set up domain for script localization
+ export TEXTDOMAIN=steam
+ 
++# Add paths to occasionally needed libraries not found in /usr/lib.
++export LD_LIBRARY_PATH+="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:}@@GENTOO_LD_LIBRARY_PATH@@"
++
++# Steam appends /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. We need to make sure that
++# OpenGL implementation dir goes before that, so we need to append it to
++# user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH ourselves. But that's needed only with the new
++# eselect-opengl that uses 000opengl file. GL_LDPATH is also used by
++# by Gentoo's execve wrapper.
++if [[ -f /etc/env.d/000opengl ]]; then
++	export GL_LDPATH=$(. /etc/env.d/000opengl >/dev/null; echo "${LDPATH}")
++
++	# Append only when GL_LDPATH is non-empty -- i.e. using nvidia or ati.
++	if [[ -n ${GL_LDPATH} ]]; then
++		LD_LIBRARY_PATH+=":${GL_LDPATH}"
++	else
++		unset GL_LDPATH
++	fi
++else
++	unset GL_LDPATH
++fi
++
++# Preload Gentoo's execve wrapper so that steamwebhelper prefers system
++# libraries over older bundled libraries.
++[[ ${STEAM_RUNTIME} = 0 ]] && export LD_PRELOAD+="${LD_PRELOAD+:}@@GENTOO_LD_PRELOAD@@"
++
+ function show_message()
+ {
+ 	style=$1
diff --git a/games-util/steam-launcher/steam-launcher-1.0.0.59.ebuild b/games-util/steam-launcher/steam-launcher-1.0.0.59.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90c88a133
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games-util/steam-launcher/steam-launcher-1.0.0.59.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+# Please report bugs/suggestions on: https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay
+# or come to #gentoo-gamerlay in freenode IRC
+
+inherit desktop linux-info prefix toolchain-funcs udev xdg-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Installer, launcher and supplementary files for Valve's Steam client"
+HOMEPAGE="http://steampowered.com"
+SRC_URI="http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/steam_${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
+LICENSE="ValveSteamLicense"
+
+RESTRICT="bindist mirror"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="+steamruntime"
+
+RDEPEND="
+		app-arch/tar
+		app-shells/bash
+		net-misc/curl
+		|| (
+			>=gnome-extra/zenity-3
+			x11-terms/xterm
+			)
+
+		steamruntime? (
+			virtual/opengl[abi_x86_32]
+			x11-libs/libX11[abi_x86_32]
+			x11-libs/libXau[abi_x86_32]
+			x11-libs/libxcb[abi_x86_32]
+			x11-libs/libXdmcp[abi_x86_32]
+			)
+		!steamruntime? (
+			>=games-util/steam-client-meta-0-r20190331[steamruntime?]
+			)
+
+		amd64? (
+			>=sys-devel/gcc-4.6.0[multilib]
+			>=sys-libs/glibc-2.15[multilib]
+			)
+		x86? (
+			>=sys-devel/gcc-4.6.0
+			>=sys-libs/glibc-2.15
+			)"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/steam/
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/steam-runtime-default.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/steam-set-distrib-release.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/steam-fix-joystick-detection.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/steam-libraries.patch
+)
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	linux-info_pkg_setup
+
+	if ! { linux_config_exists && linux_chkconfig_present INPUT_UINPUT; }; then
+		ewarn "If you want to use the Steam controller, please make sure"
+		ewarn "CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is enabled in your kernel config."
+
+		# Device Drivers
+		#  -> Input device support
+		#   -> Miscellaneous devices
+		#    -> User level driver support
+	fi
+}
+
+path_entries() {
+	local multilib=${1}
+	shift
+
+	while true; do
+		echo -n ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/${1}$(${multilib} && use amd64 && echo :${EPREFIX}/usr/$(ABI=x86 get_libdir)/${1})
+		shift
+
+		if [[ -n ${1} ]]; then
+			echo -n :
+		else
+			break
+		fi
+	done
+}
+
+native_path_entries() { path_entries false "${@}"; }
+multilib_path_entries() { path_entries true "${@}"; }
+
+src_prepare() {
+	xdg_environment_reset
+	default
+
+	sed -i 's:TAG+="uaccess":\0, TAG+="udev-acl":g' \
+		lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-input.rules || die
+
+	sed -i \
+		-e "s#@@GENTOO_LD_LIBRARY_PATH@@#$(multilib_path_entries debiancompat fltk)#g" \
+		-e "s#@@GENTOO_LD_PRELOAD@@#$(native_path_entries libsteam-preload.so)#g" \
+		-e "s#@@STEAM_RUNTIME@@#$(usex steamruntime 1 0)#g" \
+		steam || die
+
+	# use steam launcher version as release number as it is a bit more helpful than the baselayout version
+	sed -i -e "s,export DISTRIB_RELEASE=\"2.2\",export DISTRIB_RELEASE=\"${PVR}\"," steam || die
+
+	# Still need EPREFIX in the sed replacements above because the
+	# regular expression used by hprefixify doesn't match there.
+	hprefixify steam
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -fPIC -DGLIBDIR="${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)" -shared \
+				"${FILESDIR}"/libsteam-preload.c -ldl -Wl,-soname=libsteam-preload.so -o libsteam-preload.so || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin steam
+	dolib.so libsteam-preload.so
+
+	insinto /usr/lib/steam/
+	doins bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz
+
+	udev_dorules lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-input.rules lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-vr.rules
+
+	dodoc debian/changelog steam_subscriber_agreement.txt
+	doman steam.6
+
+	domenu steam.desktop
+
+	cd icons/ || die
+	for s in * ; do
+		doicon -s ${s} ${s}/steam.png
+	done
+
+	# tgz archive contains no separate pixmap, see #38
+	doicon 48/steam_tray_mono.png
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+	udev_reload
+
+	elog "Execute ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/steam to download and install the actual"
+	elog "client into your home folder. After installation, the script"
+	elog "also starts the client from your home folder."
+	elog ""
+
+	if use steamruntime; then
+		ewarn "You enabled the Steam runtime environment. Steam will use bundled"
+		ewarn "libraries instead of Gentoo's system libraries."
+		ewarn ""
+	else
+		elog "We disable STEAM_RUNTIME in order to ignore bundled libraries"
+		elog "and use installed system libraries instead. If you have problems,"
+		elog "try starting Steam with: STEAM_RUNTIME=1 steam"
+		ewarn ""
+		ewarn "Notice: Valve only supports Steam with the runtime enabled!"
+		ewarn ""
+	fi
+
+	if ! has_version "gnome-extra/zenity"; then
+		ewarn "Valve does not provide a xterm fallback for all calls of zenity."
+		ewarn "Please install gnome-extra/zenity for full support."
+		ewarn ""
+	fi
+
+	ewarn "The Steam client and the games are _not_ controlled by Portage."
+	ewarn "Updates are handled by the client itself."
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+}