How to Upload a Game to Steam - Step by Step Guide
1,909Are you wondering how to put your game on Steam? Like, in practice, how to take your game that you have in Unity or some other game engine and make it playable through Steam? You're in the right place! In this video I will go through the basics of how uploading game builds to Steam works and then also show in practice how you can upload your game to Steam.
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0:00 Intro
0:44 Quick terminology
0:57 Steam Depot
Depot is essentially a collection of files that Steam will deliver to players’ devices. You are the one who decides what any depot contains. In the simplest and probably most common case, you will have just one depot and that depot contains the latest version of your game. But, you can also have multiple depots. In that case, the first depot might contain a windows version of your game, the second depot could contain a linux version of your game, the third could contain DLC files for your game and a fourth one could contain some exclusive soundtrack files for your game. You will be able to decide which of your players get access to which depots.
1:57 Steam Build
Build is just a collection of depots. When you upload your files to Steam, so in other words, when you upload your depots to Steam, a new build is created within Steam. You can have as many builds as you want. In a simple example, build 1 could contain version 1.0 of your game and a newer build 2 could contain version 1.1 of your game.
2:34 Steam Branch
Branches are used to define which build of the game your players will get. By default, all games have just one branch, the default branch that every new player is on. So all your players will get delivered the same game build that you have set for that branch. But you can also add new branches. You could have for example a beta branch that has a newer build of the game and only let a few players access that branch. You yourself can define how many branches your game has and which build is active on each of those branches.
3:13 Steam Package
Packages are how players can get access to your game. The most common situation is that the player buys the game on your steam page, in other words, buys the default store package for your game and by doing that, gains access to a package that contains your game.
The default store package is usually enough and you don’t need to do anything special to get it working. But it’s good to know that you can also create additional packages and define what applications and/or what depots those packages contain.
4:08 Uploading game builds to Steam
In the video I show in practice how you can upload your game builds to Steam. There isn't enough space to include the whole thing as text here, sorry!
9:33 Updating your game
9:56 Giving access to your game
10:19 Adding a new branch
10:48 Having multiple depots