TL;DR: As of November 2024, Valve's Steam client no longer supports Windows 7 or 8, affecting a small percentage of users. This change is due to reliance on an embedded version of Google Chrome and ...

Steam has been around since 2003, laying the groundwork for modern digital storefronts. Despite early backlash from PC players, it gradually became the go-to platform by putting users first and ...

Steam is no longer supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 as of January 1, with the company recommending users upgrade to a newer operating system. The gaming company warned last year that ...

Valve announced that Steam will no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 starting on January 1, 2024. Afterward, the Steam client won’t run on those versions of Windows anymore. “In ...

Valve has officially released Steam Game Recording, a new built-in feature that allows players to capture and share gameplay footage across PC, Mac, and Steam Deck devices. The feature recently exited ...

If you prefer to get stuck into your Steam PC games with a controller rather than the ol' mouse and keyboard, you're in luck - the Steam client beta just added a batch of extra support for Xbox ...

Valve announced that its Steam online game platform will officially drop support for the Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 platforms starting January 1st, 2024. Once it reaches the end-of-support ...

Given the next-gen consoles Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are now in many players' hands, Steam has begun adding support for the PS5's DualSense controller, and fixing issues with the Xbox Series X ...

Steam's client has seen a sizeable update on Windows, macOS, and Linux, bringing along with it a number of platform-specific features and fixes. Some of these additions were, until recently, in beta.

If you play Steam games on macOS 11 (Big Sur), you've got two months to upgrade your OS before the Steam Client stops working. While this rules out some older Macs, it'll continue to work on any ...