Steam (gaming platform)
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Steam |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Valve Corporation |
| Dates: | 2003 - current |
| Type: | Digital Distribution Platform |
| Fandom: | Larger video game fandom, particularly Valve Fandom |
| URL: | Steam Storefront |
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Steam is a popular PC gaming digital distribution platform. Valve's extremely welcoming policies regarding fanac and remixing of their works are reflected in the many subsections for Steam Community, such as Steam Community Workshop and Steam Community Broadcasts.
Steam was was once a juggernaut for all PC video game digital distribution, though rivals Epic Game Store and Battle.net sprang up in the mid 2010s, leading some video game distributors to distribute their games elsewhere on such rival platforms. However, no rival platform have yet to feature hosting of community-made fanworks like Steam does.
Steam hosts custom 3D models, fanart, fan guides, video game forums, screenshots, player reviews, fan events, fan videos and much more for all games hosted on it, along with video games themselves. Steam is very important for fans of any PC games distributed on it regarding fanworks and general fanac. Most games have a Community Hub, where fanworkers can share their content along Steam guidelines. These guidelines largely prohibit ship content, whether Het, Slash or Femslash[citation needed].
Steam Community Workshop
The Steam Community Workshop is a go-to place for 3D models, skins and other miscellaneous downloadable content. Each game available for purchase in the Steam Store has its own Steam Workshop page if applicable, even if the fandom for it is incredibly small. The workshop is particularly full of fan engagement for some games, such as Team Fortress 2 and Skyrim, and some fanworks may be chosen to be added officially. Websites like Gamebanana[1] are also popular for sharing fanworks of this nature, even if the games are distributed on Steam.
Steam Community Market
The Steam Community Market, unlike the Workshop, exists only as a backend for in-game trading. Each game available for purchase in the Steam Store has its own Community Market section if applicable, even if the fandom for it is incredibly small. Most in-game trading communities prefer to trade on dedicated websites with community-made value listing for items, such as trade.tf for Team Fortress 2 and tradeit.gg for Counter-Strike.
Steam Community Forums
The Steam Community Forums host forums for Steam itself along with many of its games.
Steam Community Broadcasts
The Steam Community Broadcasting tab is the go-to place for overall community-made fan events, particularity E-sports tournaments and charity fundraisers.
Fandoms with Steam Communities
Most video games hosted on Steam have active community hubs. This is only a small selection of fandoms.
- Any game made by Valve Corporation.
- Pizza Tower, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Cuphead, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Danganronpa, with each game in the series having its own community hub.
- A Hat in Time, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Undertale, as seen in its Community Hub.
- VRChat, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Touhou, with each game in the series having its own community hub.
- Clannad, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Book of Travels, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Destiny 2, as seen in its Community Hub.
- PUBG, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Overwatch 2, as seen in its Community Hub.
- Palworld, as seen in its Community Hub.