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Welcome to Steamworks & Steam Distribution

Are you a developer or publisher interested in using Steam and Steamworks? Get started here! Or, if you are an existing Steamworks developer, sign in to access the Steamworks SDK and documentation

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Game Developer or Publisher

If you're ready to bring your gaming experience to Steam customers, this is the place to start. Sign up with your Steam account on the right to get started.

SteamVR Tracking Licensee

If you are ready to learn more about building tracked objects for SteamVR Tracking, click here to get more information and enroll as a SteamVR Tracking dev partner.

Steam Site License Program

If you represent a cybercafe, hospital, university, or other public site that wishes to offer Steam titles in one or more locations, please sign up to the right to get started. Click here to learn more about the Steam Site Licensing Program

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More about Steam and Steamworks

With millions of active daily players worldwide, support for 23 languages, 40+ payment methods, and pricing in 20 currencies, Steam is the place to reach a global audience and connect with customers.

Friends list and chat
Community hubs and discussion boards
User generated content
Pc, Mac, Linux, Desktop, Television

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Steamworks is a free suite of tools available to any developer to use in their game or software on Steam. Here is a small sampling of the available features:

Matchmaking
Steam Inventory Service
Anti-cheat technology
In-game economy with microtransactions
Management of user-generated content
Per-User cloud storage

With Direct Distribution, the distance to your customers is now even shorter. Just fill out some digital paperwork, pay a recoupable fee, and you'll be all set to upload your game and prepare for release.

You'll get access to Steamworks features, and your customers will benefit from all the features built into Steam.

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SteamVR Tracking

Whether you're building a VR golf club or an indoor quad-copter, 3D tracking is the heart of your product. Developed in-house at Valve, SteamVR Tracking is a hardware/software solution that lets your devices know in real time where they are, within a room. Valve is now making SteamVR Tracking fully available to other companies, without licensing fees.

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Steam Video

Steam is a great place for distributing video content, whether you have stand-alone videos and movies, or companion videos to accompany game releases.

Plus, with Steam 360 Video you can get your 360 video content in front of customers with SteamVR compatible headsets.

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Site Licensing Program

Signing up for a free site license allows you to operate Steam's content or services in a public setting. There are a couple different options available under the site license for how your patrons can access site license content, so be sure to check out the full details below.

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Documentation And FAQs

New to Steamworks?

New Steamworks Developer FAQ Getting Started Steamworks Technical Overview

Steamworks Documentation

API Overview Web API Overview Account Management Marketing SDK Reference

Steamworks Features

Achievements Cloud Inventory Service Workshop Steam VR