Steam goes green as Valve celebrate 20 years

By Liam Dawe - 12 September 2023 at 5:26 pm UTC | Views: 44,094

While we already marked the anniversary of Steam turning 20 in a previous article, Valve has now done their own announcement along with turning a bit green.

Valve has playfully updated the Steam store to match the original colour scheme of Steam when it launched, and it all looks a bit retro. Plus there's a fun timeline of events, which goes over various points in Steam's history along with the top games each year.

Almost all Valve games are now on sale too (there's a couple that aren't right now like Half-Life: Alyx - but it may just be a bit delayed). No big announcements so far, but Valve did say on the timeline that Counter-Strike 2 will be launching "soon". On top of that there's some additions to the Points Shop and a quick little thank you video below:

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Tags: Misc, Steam, Valve

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itscalledreality Sep 13, 2023

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Quoting: MayeulC
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Steam adds MacOS support; we also launch Steam Play to support Linux users.

Ehmmmm.....

Good catch. There was this thing/icon called SteamPlay that marked games that are playable not only on Windows... but Linux only came in 20132, and in 2015 they removed this thing/icon when they changed the Tux icon to SteamOS icon, because it all looked a bit too similar.

But to be frank, maybe there were some Linux versions of games even before the Steam client itself got ported? For example here they write "In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase."...

Yeah, I was about to point this mistake out too. But SteamPlay really was launched in 2010 IIRC, it was just Windows+Mac.

Incorrect, it was Windows, Mac, and Linux because games for Linux has existed pre-Steam Play, even Steam. Steam Play was just a promise that you would buy once and get a supported binary for one of those three platforms. Valve’s history is correct.

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StoneColdSpider Sep 13, 2023

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Man its great to see that old green colour back.......

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Brokatt Sep 13, 2023

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Without Valves efforts I would not be using Linux on my main machine. 2023 marks the year when I left Windows behind (for private use a least). I hope they continue to improve on all the tools that enable gaming on Linux. This last weekend I was somewhat disappointed that I could not play the CS 2 beta as that is Windows exclusive.

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ElectricPrism Sep 13, 2023

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderMan its great to see that old green colour back.......

Yeah I would be okay if this was default for a while lmao.

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based Sep 13, 2023

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Wish they would return the green theme with the modern design it currently has.
Or just skins support in general but with Steam being a browser now idk how safe that would be

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