We've researched and seamlessly integrated the top ways players spend money in different countries around the world.

Submitting your game to Steam is easy. Fill out some digital paperwork, pay a small per-app fee, and you're ready to upload!

Localized currencies make purchases easier for customers. We have built-in support to help you configure prices correctly for each region.

With over 400 distributed servers worldwide and 1TB fiber backbone, Steam can quickly get your game to players anywhere in the world.

The Steam client has been optimized to support 30 core languages, making it easier and more enjoyable for global users to purchase games on Steam.

Real-time reports of your sales, player counts, and wishlist, all broken down by region–letting you work smarter.

You and your players are safer with Steam's automated handling of fraudulent purchases, including revoking content and preventing future abuse.

Use Steam's DRM (Digital Rights Management) tools to reduce piracy of your game, implement your own, or leave it out. The choice is yours.

Get your game to customers any way you can imagine. Use Steam keys to sell your game at retail, run discounts and bundle offers, or run betas.

Build excitement for your upcoming game by launching your store page as soon as you've got something to show your potential customers.

Make Steam an automated part of your normal build process to deploy your latest build to Steam servers for internal beta testing and easy public release.

Engage with your game's supporters by featuring streamers directly on your Steam page, offering potential buyers a preview of gameplay and community.

Put your game in its best possible light with full control over the content and images on your product's store page.

Release updates whenever and as often as needed, with tools to help you easily announce and distribute updates to your players.

Players who wishlist your game will be notified when the game gets a release or a discount—and you'll get data on how many players are interested.

Let your community experience your game while it's still under development—and safely set player expectations with direct player feedback.

Participate in regular Steam sales events open to all developers, or run your own discounts according to your marketing needs.

Keep in contact with your community using built-in tools, so your players are always up to date on your latest events, activities, and features.

Fans can congregate in your Community Hub, a built-in home for discussion and news—and they can create content that improves your game.

Your community hub has an automatically created forum where fans and potential buyers can discuss your game. No need to set one up yourself.

Get your game in front of the right influencers and Steam Curators to the largest possible audience of potential customers.

Games on Steam are reviewed by the people who matter most: the people who play them.

Friends lists and a redesigned chat system keep players engaged with Steam—and offer yet another way for potential customers to discover your game.

An in-game interface that allows your players to access a variety of community features—like user-made guides, Steam chat, achievement progress, and more.

Players can easily share their favorite moments in your game with their friends and the wider Steam community.

Fans can publish guides to deepen and improve the experience for others—highlighting interesting moments, explaining complex economies, or solving puzzles.

Stream your game live right to your store page to promote events, offer a window into game development, or simply engage with your community.

Steam Cloud can automatically store save files on our servers—so players can resume their game no matter where they are.

Players expect in-game achievements. Use them to reward dedicated fans, mark special events, and encourage particular activities.

Analyze in-game behavior to let players track their own progress and compare it to other players.

Rank player progress and skill globally and among their friends—with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of individual leaderboards.

Create and host dedicated servers yourself or allow your community to host them.

Automatically notify players who are waiting to take a turn or join a multiplayer match when they've got to get back to the game.

Safely connect to Steam via OpenID for a range of useful services that you can utilize on your website or in-game.

Enable voice chats and voice commands directly inside your game, without the need for third-party software.

Steam users can see a richer depiction of what their friends are doing in your game, making for a more enticing call to action.

Our networking backbone authenticates users and limits attackers' ability to disrupt your multiplayer servers.