Meanwhile, Steam Machines pretty much failed, but Valve hasn't given up on Linux, with a recent Steam Play update making more games available on the open source OS, including Valve's SteamOS distribution. Valve has also pushed harder into the livestreaming space, including developer streams on game pages, and soft-launching, which c ould become a Twitch competitor in the coming years. We're just beginning to see what this might mean for Steam's future library. Steam Greenlight is gone, replaced now with Steam Direct which allows anyone to submit a game to the store, no community approval required.Īnd thanks to Steam's latest policy change, just about any game at all (so long as it isn't illegal or a 'troll') is allowed to appear on the platform, with new filtering tools in place so that users can choose to avoid or not avoid adult content. Steam doesn't look intensely different today than it did last year or the year before that, but boy is it.
