In the early days, many gamers were resistant to Steam and the requirement that some physical copies of games required
the Steam client installed in order to play.
This has rankled competing digital retailers of PC games due to fact that games which use Steam DRM, require gamers to also have
the Steam client installed even if they did not purchase through Steam.
Note: You should have
Steam client installed on any supported platform (Windows, Mac, Linux).
Not exact matches
I just
installed the Mac
client for
Steam and now I own 20 + games on my Mac — just like that.
GamersGate provides many of the same games that you will find on
Steam and Green Man Gaming, but unlike those services GamersGate does not require the use of a
client install in order to download and play.
Select the beta from the dropdown, then
Steam will download the beta
client with the co-op game mode
installed as well.
Download and
install the free
Steam Client 2.
For example, the
Steam client is a 32 - bit program, and it gets
installs properly into the C: \ Program Files (x86) \ folder by default.
You'll see the games
installed on your other PC in the
Steam client's library.
Luckily
Steam already includes local game streaming: just
install the
Steam client on another machine, plug in a controller, and you're ready to go.
That's a hardcore gaming rig!And if SteamOS is treated as any other Linux distro so you can
install other software and do non-gaming things, they why even bother with all of this when anybody's choice of Linux with the standard
Steam client will do the same job (except the game streaming)?