Steam for Mac now available, 57 launch games including free Portal, and LucasArts classics

by Christopher Grant on May 12th 2010 2:44PM

[Update 3:15pm ET: And Valve has sent word that the service is now officially live, the store is operational (look at those deals!) and all is right with the world. There are 57 titles available for launch, and listed after the break. We've bolded out some of our picks, but don't let our recommendations stop you from downloading Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World.

Of note, the Diablo-esque Torchlight is only $9.99, a cool 50% off. Too pricey for you? Valve's own Portal – which it calls "the first of Valve's Source engine based games available on the Mac" – is available for the even cooler price of $0.00 on both Mac and PC until May 24th. Don't believe us? Look here.]

Tipsters are telling us that the Steam for Mac service is now live ... sort of. While the client makes the rounds, and the beta whitelist has been lifted, it appears Valve isn't quite ready to break out the cigars. The game store isn't live, and it's still not clear which titles will be available for launch. In this writer's case, games I had purchased on Steam for Windows previously (hello, The Dig!) downloaded just fine for me on Mac OS, though I'm unable to purchase new games in the app. (You can always use the web store!)

We'll update this post as the service prepares to takes its first steps, say its first words, and make its first million. Let us know how you fare in the comments!

Download Steam for Mac [DMG download]

And Yet It Moves
Atlantis Sky Patrol
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Bob Came in Pieces
Bookworm Deluxe
Braid
Brainpipe
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
Chuzzle Deluxe
City of Heroes: Architect Edition
Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Cooking Dash
Diaper Dash
The Dig
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
DinerTown Detective Agency
DinerTown Tycoon
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Escape Rosecliff Island
Fairway Solitaire
Fitness Dash
Football Manager 10
Galcon Fusion
Gemini Lost
Guns of Icarus
Hotel Dash Suite Success
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
KrissX
Loom
Luxor
Luxor 3
Luxor: Mahjong
Machinarium
Mahjong Roadshow
Max and the Magic Marker
My Tribe
The Nightshift Code
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
Parking Dash
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Nights
Portal
Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
Quantz
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
Toki Tori
Torchlight
Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
Unwell Mel
Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
Wandering Willows
Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
World of Goo
Zenerchi
Zuma Deluxe

Tags: Steam, Steam-Mac, Valve-Software

Reader Comments (74)

Let's hope this article is permanent :D

But yeah, if more than just Portal and Torchlight are available then I'll be getting my TF2 on.

Can you believe they're giving Portal away for FREE???...

TO EVERYONE!

i can't wait for PC vs Mac fanboy wars in TF2. that should be quite amusing.

I retract my statements from yesterday. 2 game launch is a slap in the face. 57 games? A little better. Still no Team Fortress 2.

Alas, Torchlight is still the only game here for me. I have World of Goo, Portal, Peggle, both Indiana Jones games, The Dig, and Braid in other capacities.

Still no Team Fortress 2, though.

Hmm... maybe I'll pick up Machinarium eventually, since it doesn't look like it's coming to 360.

But Torchlight 50% off! Yes!

But still no Team Fortress 2...

This is the treat I'm waiting for with mac users, hopefully that 57 games will grow. Reactions. http://2su.de/Dhl

Damn! Nobody has any excuse whatsoever anymore to not own Portal.

I'm looking at Torchlight and World of Goo myself, maybe Machinarium.

So Valve now that you've rewritten the entire source engine in openGL how about sticking it on the PS3? You know....the console that uses openGL and I'm pretty sure you'll sell more games there than on OSX!

That's just a pretty ignorant thing to say. It would be cool to see it on PS3 but you have no clue how many mac owners are out here.

You are kidding, right? I do hope you are kidding.

No I'm not kicking! Sure there are people on Mac who game. But I'm pretty sure that there's alot more gamers on PS3, its kind of the reason most of them bought it! I don't have a problem with source being on OSX, but not porting it to PS3 is a slap in the face to PS3 owners.

Kidding*

The idea that ANYONE would neglect a side of the console gamers is ridiculous, nowadays.

Orange Box was already released on the PS3. What are you asking for, exactly? Torchlight, maybe? Talk to Runic. Maybe you want Steam on the PS3? You think that's a simple port, huh? Getting openGL implemented is probably child's play compared the politics that would be involved establishing a competitor to PSN right on the PS3.

Scott, he says right in his post what he's asking for: the source engine. Of course, since the Orange Box is already out I guess he's asking for... L4D2? I guess?

Steam on the Mac only works with Intel based Macs; something that isn't listed anywhere including the Steam knowledge base until after you try to run the client.

When they release an x86 based PS3 then maybe Valve will port the Steam client over to it. In other words, it's not going to happen.

Wait? Now? Games? Mac? Steam?

Really this time?

More accurately, "forizzle". But yes.

So far, the only games in my library that are playable are Portal, Torchlight and Peggle Deluxe.

Hey, that's not a bad collection!

yay!

Downloaded Steam. Downloaded my Portal extremely fast, but can't play it. only game I have that is out for Mac. (Have all HL's, Bioshock, Guild Wars, & CSS) Can't wait to play!

Portal downloads but won't launch

There are only 6 officially confirmed titles (Torchlight, Portal, and 4 LucasArts adventures) but I sure hope that list of 50 games is good. Even though half of them were casual stuff that gamers won't care much about, their presence is important on OSX, particularly.

Anyways, I just really hope that Team Fortress 2 really does launch today so that I can finally frag my snobby Mac friends. amiright?

So far, The App downloaded and opened and Braid and Portal are downloading currently. Strangely, Team Fortress 2 does NOT show up in my Library (I own The Orange Box and All other games from it appear)

Downloaded, installed, excited, overjoyed.

I can't seem to find where you download this for mac. The one it downloaded was a .msi file... and my mac doesn't know what to do with it. Any pointers?

I don't think Valve has made it 'official' yet. You can download the disk image from the link in the article though, but it's still runs as it did during the closed beta.

I suppose I will have to wait a bit longer then. Thanks Granger.

I take that back, seems to have all been updated in the last 10 minutes or so. You can get the dmg from the steam store main page now (I assume it automatically choses which file based on your OS).

Gizmodo has a link to the mac .dmg on their website. It's kinda hard to find on steam's website.

braid is working as well

Just installed and played Torchlight! Steam on Mac is awesome! Can't wait to play my other PC games I have downloaded on my Mac.

Just played my first few rounds of SC2 and now Steam for Mac, this is a good day.

Momma cooked a breakfast with no hog?

When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle

Oh my god, they just made Portal free till the 24th of this month!!! Holy shit!!

I see that City of Heroes is up in Steam for Mac. I don't play the game, but seeing as it's a Cider port . . . I'm disappointed that it's allowed on Steam. I was hoping Steam for Mac would do away with Cider.

I guess Braid is Cider too.

Guys add me iStreamMac

Grant, you are back in my favor, except where did TF2 go?

ACK! I bought torchlight yesterday for windows yesterday in anticipation of Steamplay for $20. It is now on for $10! Just wanted to kick this Mac user in the crotch one more time, eh PC gaming?

This has been dubbed "The Steam Effect". Buying something and then having it go on sale the next day or soon after you purchased it.

LOL From the page:
Portal used to cost money. Until May 24th, it's free. End of story.
Well, technically speaking, there are some strings attached. Fortunately, they're entirely decorative. We just like the way they look, swaying in the gentle breeze created by a million people simultanously fainting from shock at the news that Portal is free. Now you have no reason not to try Portal.
"I have a reason," some of you are probably typing into an angry email. "You see, sir, I own a Mac."
Well guess what: For the first time ever, Portal is also available for the Mac.
"Capitol news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars."
You'd think that, especially since it actually won over 70 Game of the Year Awards. But, like we keep saying, Portal is free. Free on the Mac. Free on the PC. But only until May 24th. So you only have a few days to decide if your free copy of Portal is worth the price we're currently charging - which is you ever-so-slightly moving your index finger just barely enough to click the big red "download" button right there to the left.

Woohoo!

No TF2 makes me kind of sad since that's the only Windows game I have on Steam but Free Portal more then makes up for it.

Joystiq how can you not bold civ IV on that list its a classic

let's get casual, casual! I wanna get casual, let's get into casual...

Portal. For. Free.

Oh yes.

YAY thanks for the heads up joystiq!!!

Can people playing a steam game on a Mac play with people playing it on a PC?

As far as I know, yes, you would be able to.

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