With Steam, you aren’t necessarily buying a game for a certain platform, you’re buying it for PC.
Depending on what OS each of your Steam games support, you’ll be able to play them on different platforms.
Steam games support certain platforms, which include Windows, Mac, and Linux. When you buy a game on Steam, you’re buying the game on Steam, and whatever you buy is then tied to your Steam account. Steam, however, has always worked a little differently. This has been changing in recent years with PS4/Xbox One games being compatible with PS5/Series S|X and regularly getting patches to improve performance, increase resolution, and up the graphical fidelity of older games on newer consoles. When people say ‘PC’ they tend to mean a Windows computer, though, so in this article we’re going to explain everything a Mac user needs to know about playing games on Steam Deck.įirst off, it’s important to understand that for most of gaming’s history when you bought a game you were buying a specific edition of the game exclusively on a single platform. Valve’s upcoming console/PC hybrid the Steam Deck launches this December, and Valve has been aggressively marketing the fact that the Steam Deck is more than just a console and is also a full-fledged PC.