Steamworks is a set of tools and services that help game developers and publishers build their games and get the most out of distributing on Steam.

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132 Million

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1 Trillion

Daily Impressions

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Reach a Global Audience

With over 132 million monthly active users across 249 countries, Steam gives you access to a worldwide community of players—and it's growing all the time.

80+ Payment Methods

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

Pricing in 35+ currencies

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

Distribution network and servers

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

28 Supported Languages

The Steam client has been optimized to support 28 core languages, making it easier and more enjoyable for global users to purchase games on Steam.

Easy sign up and distribution

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

Manage Your Game's Business

Steamworks makes your launch and management processes as simple as possible, allowing you to focus on your game.

Real-time sales data

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

Steam Playtest

Easily control access to a separate game build for early testing and feedback from players.

Conversion Tracking

Track the effectiveness of your own marketing campaigns via built-in UTM Analytics

Fraud prevention

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

Piracy/DRM options

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.

Steam keys

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.

Coming Soon pages

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

Automated build processes

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.

Custom Store page Content

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

Update whenever you want

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

Fast Networking

Use Valve's network backbone to route your network traffic for increased stability, speed, and resilience.

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Reach a Global Audience

With over 132 million monthly active users across 249 countries, Steam gives you access to a worldwide community of players—and it's growing all the time.

Manage Your Game's Business

Steamworks makes your launch and management processes as simple as possible, allowing you to focus on your game.

Boost Your Marketing Power

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Sign in to Steamworks

Join Steamworks

Reach a Global Audience

With over 132 million monthly active users across 249 countries, Steam gives you access to a worldwide community of players—and it's growing all the time.

Manage Your Game's Business

Steamworks makes your launch and management processes as simple as possible, allowing you to focus on your game.

Boost Your Marketing Power

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