Nov 04, 2019 Today we will quickly and easily show you how to install Steam on Mac so that you can play some of the most popular games online or offline, the choice is always yours. What Is Steam? Steam is an internet-based digital game distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer, and social networking platform developed by Valve Corporation. May 15, 2015 This tutorial will demonstrate how to install Windows based games from Steam, on a Mac though WineBottler. I've received way more responses to the video that I could ever imagine.
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This tutorial will show you how to use Wine to install the Windows version of Steam on your Mac. Why? Well, even though Steam runs on OS X and Windows, some games are Windows-only.
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This tutorial will not be able to troubleshoot how to get specific games to work. For that, check out Wine's App Database.
Downloading and Installing winetricks
Note: if you don't have curl installed, simply go to that website, save the page as 'winetricks', move it to the folder with all of your Wine binaries, then do the chmod +x winetricks.
Installing Steam
Now that winetricks is ready to go, installing Steam is no problem:
- Go to the Steam website and click 'Also available for Windows', beneath the green 'Install Steam Now' button.
- Save the 'SteamInstall.msi' file to your Downloads folder
- Open a Terminal and
cd ~/Downloads(or wherever you saved the Steam installer) - Enter
wine start SteamInstall.msito start the installation process - You may get an 'Installation ended prematurely because of an error' message while installing Steam, but don't worry about that.
- Once Steam installs,
cdto andopenits folder in Terminal to make sure it's there:cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam && open .
- Run
wine Steam.exe - Wait for Steam to update itself, and that's it!
Video Demonstration
Here's a video walk-through of the installation process:
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Hello everyone, you can now download Steam for Mac, before you do that, how are you all doing today? I am doing fine and I hope all of you are as well, if not, don’t worry, life is all about ups and downs, sort of like a mountain but sooner or later you will feel happy again, hang in there! In the meantime, perhaps playing some fun games on Steam will put a smile on that frown? Lets give it a try, read on…
Today we will quickly and easily show you how to install Steam on Mac so that you can play some of the most popular games online or offline, the choice is always yours.
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What Is Steam?
Steam is an internet-based digital game distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer, and social networking platform developed by Valve Corporation.
In simple terms, Steam is a program/software/application that allows you to download games on windows, mac and linux, it also allows you to play the games with other gamers online.
Instantly access your favorite games
Over 1,100 games are available to purchase, download for free, and play from any computer. Check out the new releases, indie hits, casual favorites and everything in between.
Chat with your friends while gaming
See when your friends are online or playing games and easily join the same games together. Chat with your buddies, or use your microphone to communicate in any game.
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Automatic game updates
Hunting for patches and downloading from unorganized web sites is so twentieth-century. On Steam, your games stay up-to-date by themselves. No hassles.
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Steam brings PC’s biggest gaming platform to the Mac! Download your games to your mac, play against your PC friends in multiplayer games.
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