This week marks the first 20 years of Steam. Although there are other alternatives, during these two decades Valve has made it the leading platform in the digital distribution of PC games.

What can I say you don’t know, player friend. Steam offers everything you’re looking for in a game store: a wide catalog in quantity and quality to support major manufacturers; ease of use when searching and purchasing games; dedicated application or online client; DRM Management; indie, flash and cheap games; support for alternative non-Windows systems; reward programs to build customer loyalty; community services such as forums or social networks; proper customer service and several annual bidding campaigns that reduce the official price.

It’s not the only site where you can buy PC games and in addition to third-party platforms, the world’s largest distributors/producers also offer game sales and special sites linked to their desktop client applications. But it is clear that the digital distribution platform of Valve Corporation has won the favor of a large part of the players, and according to the number of users and income, it has become a real industrial reference when purchasing PC games.

Valve celebrates two decades of Steam sa overview of the best yearly releases on the platform and historical moments from the world of technology in a retrospective that began on September 12, 2003 after an earlier announcement at the 2002 Game Developers Conference. Although Steam’s original role was to facilitate the distribution of updates to Valve games such as the fantastic Half-Life 2, the goals have increased and achieved a leadership position in digital gaming platforms for PC.

20 years of Steam: game deals

Of course. Valve celebrates anniversary with discounts on a large number of gamessome, the ones that have been highlighted in the roundup of the best releases on Steam since they hit the market.

For example, custom games like the Half-Life series are discounted by 90%, as well as others like Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike: Source. There are others that have equally attractive prices, such as 80% off Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

There are many more. Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Tekken 7 are 75% off the official price; Shadow of the Tomb Raider 89% or another staple of the strategy genre, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum edition, is down 91%. No less interesting are the discounts of up to 67% applied to the CoD series, which is also celebrating its first 20 years.

There are very good games on offer. Go for a walk. And congratulations Steam!