In a post, Valve said, Greenlight was introduced as a way to help our team figure out which games players most wanted, by having
those Steam users vote.
Not exact matches
Users vote on their favorite titles, and
Steam adds the most popular games to its service.
On Oct. 2,
Steam announced the new titles that, thanks to
user votes, will soon appear for purchase via the mega-popular
Steam platform.
It's now up to
Steam users to
vote whether or not they'd like to see the game land on
Steam.
But it also allows
users to buy some real gems that may not have made it through
Steam Greenlight, which saw
users vote on titles that should be published.
On
Steam Greenlight, small independent development studios submit their games for consideration, and the
users of
Steam, the massive PC games retailer / community,
vote on whether or not they'd like to see the game go up for sale.
Similarly to Kickstarter and even
Steam Greenlight,
Steam allows
users to fund and
vote on which games they want to see be developed, per se.