Cannot Understand What is Going on With My Persona Games on Steam
Alright so let me give some context beforehand for this. I got Persona 5 Royal in November of 2025 and Persona 5 Strikers earlier this year. I then got Persona 4 Golden in early Feburary, and at the end of April/early May, I tried to download a mod for p4 (along with reloaded II) however I never did install the mods, I just had them downloaded and then deleted them. I then tried launching Persona 4 Golden, but the game wouldn't load. It would say it was running, game time would be recorded (I even got a Kanji card for the Steam market) but no game would load or anything like that.
Now, that same issue has transfered over to Persona 5, the demo of Persona 3, and Persona 5 Strikers. This ONLY is affecting those games (every issue you can see on the left, every one of those games launches with no issue) its ONLY the Atlus games that can't launch. I've tried making sure my graphics card is up to date, deleted stuff like Microsoft, looking through my drive for anything left over from reloaded II, I've spent over 5 hours trying to troubleshoot this and NOTHING works.
Now, I know this isn't an issue for p5r, since I already got all the Steam achivements. However I want to start Persona 4 Golden and Strikers this summer, and I don't think that will be possible if I can't figure out what is going on with my computer. I've tried searching this up and it seems that maybe some application on my windows is blocking everything, but this has ONLY been happening since early May, since I was able to play Royal from November-April without ANY issue, it's only NOW that something is going on.
I am literally at my wits end. I know this isn't a very common or normal post for this subreddit, but I don't know what to do. If anyone has an idea on what could be causing this issue, whether clearing my drive or doing ANYTHING can make the games launch, PLEASE let me know, however you wish to reach out. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, verifying game files, VC+++, clean boosts, nothing is working. I seriously want this issue to be resolved, and I appreciate any help that can make it come true.