Steam for Linux grew 900% in its first year
Steam is the largest digital content distribution platform in recent years. Little by little, it gains users and expands its catalog to offer better service to all its users. Not to be outdone, Valve bet a little over a year ago on Linux as a gaming platform and, throughout 2013, she worked to solidify her bet, with excellent results.
After several months in the closed beta phase, the February 14, 2013, Steam for Linux has been released in a public and stable manner for all of its users. Although its content is rather mediocre (few titles and almost none of great prestige), Valve has decided to bet on the free operating system as a gaming platform. The first games that were ported were their big titles such as Half Life, Portal, Counter Strike or Left4Dead and, little by little, other developers continued to port their games. for Linux, seeing titles known as Metro Last Light these last months. .
During its first 12 months of life, the Steam Linux Game Catalog went from just 50 to over 530 different games, as is currently the case.
SteamOS is Valve's big bet on Linux as well. With this operating system, he wants to market game consoles and encourage developers to port and publish their excellent titles on Linux so that users of Steam for Linux and SteamOS can enjoy its benefits.
It is estimated that in the middle of this year 2014 we will start to see new high prestige titles compatible with Linux and it is possible that we will also see cross-platform versions released at the same time for Windows, Linux and Mac. by the time we'll just see more Valve titles available for Linux since, although it has ported quite a few, there are still some like Left4Dead, Portal 2 or Counter Strike: GO.
2014 is going to be a good year for compatible video games Linux thanks to Steam. We hope that in a few months the forecast will come true and we will start to see new titles available in the game library for Linux.
Are you a Linux user? What titles do you hope to see in the near future?
Source: OMGUbuntu
