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All of Valve's PC games since ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' have required Steam and the retail versions come with it. The service is free to download as well, and allows gamers to integrate their games into the service, as well as download games that support the service natively.
Having the full support of pretty much every major publisher that makes PC titles except [[Blizzard]], Maxis (except for ''[[Spore]]'' and ''[[SimCity]]'') and
The program has its own [[Hatedom]], partly thanks to the service's self-imposed [[DRM]], but also due to surprisingly high prices, which Steam circumvents by offering weekly discounts on specific products. Further, as [[Digital Distribution]] has become more popular, [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_245/7285-Steam-A-Monopoly-In-the-Making some of the ways Steam does things have proven unfriendly to competition]. Ironically, the reaction to [[Electronic Arts]]' digital service ''Origin'' was highly negative, with a ''ton'' of people wishing they just stuck to Steam, though this is largely in part due to majority opinion that Origin is not only a vastly inferior service for a variety of reasons (it can be argued that Steam's success is because it provides a variety of useful services nobody else provides), but also due to Orgin's [[Internet Backdraft|highly controversial]] terms of service.
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== Games and series for download from Steam include ==
* ''[[Aaaaa a Aaaa AA Aaa AAA Aa AAAAAA Reckless Disregard For Gravity]]''
* ''[[Alan Wake]]''
* ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''
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* ''[[Back to the Future: The Game|Back to The Future]]''
* ''[[Bastion]]''
* ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield]]'' series<ref>Except ''[[Battlefield 3]]'' (which EA has made exclusive to their competing [[Origin (EA)|Origin]] service) and a few gimmick titles.</ref>
** ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company]]''
* ''[[Beat Hazard]]''
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* ''[[Call of Duty]]'' series
** ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]]'' series
** ''[[Call of Duty:
** ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops II
* ''[[Cave Story]]+''
* ''[[Champions Online]]: Free For All''
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* ''[[Counter-Strike]]''
* ''[[Crea Vures]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Critical Mass 2011 (video game)|Critical Mass 2011]]''
* ''[[Crusader Kings]] II''
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* ''[[Dota 2]]''
* ''[[Dragon Age]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]''
* ''[[Dungeon Defenders]]''
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* ''[[Star Wars: The Force Unleashed|The Force Unleashed]]''
* ''[[Fortune Summoners]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Front Mission]]: Evolved''
* ''[[Frozen Synapse]]''
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* ''[[Nuclear Dawn]]''
* ''[[Oddworld]]'' series
** ''[[Oddworld: Stranger's
* ''[[Orcs Must Die]]''
* ''[[Patrician]]'' series
* ''[[Payday: The
* ''[[Peggle]]''
* ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]''
* ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]''
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* ''[[Rochard]]''
* ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]] 3''
* ''[[
* ''[[Rusty Hearts]]''
▲* ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]''
* ''[[Scratches (video game)|Scratches]]''
* ''[[Second Sight (video game)|Second Sight]]''
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* ''[[Star Ruler]]''
* ''[[Starscape]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek Online]]''
* ''[[Star Wars: Battlefront (series)|Star Wars Battlefront]] II''
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* ''[[VVVVVV]]''
* ''[[The Walking Dead (video game)|The Walking Dead]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine|Warhammer 40000 Space Marine]]''
* ''[[Warhammer Online]]''
* ''[[Wasteland Angel]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[The Witcher]]: Enhanced Edition''
** ''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings|The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings]]''
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