The site has also expanded to offer much more than just a simple update service and storefront. Steam serves the whole gaming community and has a huge range of genres.Īt the end of 2019, Steam offered more than 34,000 titles for download and had an active community of more than 95 million monthly members. Since then, the service has developed into one of the world’s largest storefronts for online games. īasically, a digital distribution platform for online PC (and Mac, Linux and Steam OS) games, Steam was launched in 2003 as a way to share updates for gaming content. If you are a regular gamer then the Steam platform probably won’t be new to you but for those people who are new to digital gaming (or, who’ve been living under a rock for the last decade) we’ll fill you in.
