A company I’m working with sent me a redemption code for their new game on the Steam network. I’m a Mac guy, not a gamer. What do I do with it?
If you’re even a casual gamer, you know about Steam. It’s an amazing platform that lets you have all your games, all your saved game data, and all your buddies in one place, even across individual games. That’s how you can play The Sims 4, for example, as I’ve written about over on my dad blog.
Steam also works with Mac, Windows PC and Linux, so it’s impressively cross-platform. If you’re a computer gamer, it’ll run on your computer, and do a good job.
Like an iTunes Store redemption code, however, you can’t really redeem the Steam code without having Steam installed and running on your system, and without you then also signing up for a (free) Steam account. So let me show you how that goes…
- May 17, 2012 - You Can Now Download Games On Steam From Your Android & iOS. All you have to do is leave the Steam app running on your PC while.
- Steam will check the games files and only downloads the files that are missing. If the game shows up in your Steam library as uninstalled: Install the game to the same place where the game files are. Steam will scan the folder discover the files and only downloads the files that are missing.
- I purchased a game last night through the phone app and went on Steam this morning on my computer and cant seem to find the purchased game. Under activity it says that Ive bought it but I cant seem to figure out where or how I download.
To start, head over to Steam and click on that lovely download link (or just hit the one below):
Once it downloads, it’s a pretty typical Mac app installation process where you just drag the app into the Applications folder and it does whatever magic is needed on first launch:
https://renewfarm789.weebly.com/cant-download-from-play-store.html. You can do that!
Now double-click to launch the app and once it’s done its initial data download from the Steam server, it’ll ask you to log in to your existing Steam account or create a new one:
Since I have an account (on my PC), I’ll log in by clicking on “Login to an existing account”.
Then once I enter my account and password, it’s no surprise that, well, I don’t have much there as of yet: