Steam

Name: Steam
Author: Valve Corporation

by Valve Corporation · Proprietary

Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

Record

These URLs are the ones Valve Corporation declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

nullsoftmachine scopecdn.akamai.steamstatic.com · publisher-owned

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Valve Corporation published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "SteamSetup.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "SteamSetup.exe"

Expected output

7d3654531c32d941b8cae81c4137fc542172bfa9635f169cb392f245a0a12bcb

Version on Homebrew: 6.0
Download URL: https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/client/installer/steam.dmg
Install with Homebrew: brew install --cask steam

Signal	Finding	Points
SHA-256 hash published	1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.	30 / 30
Binary provenance	1 on a domain owned by the publisherThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.	35 / 35
Served over HTTPS	1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.	15 / 15
Release recency	last release about 27 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.	3 / 15
Licence declared	ProprietaryA declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.	5 / 5

Every version with a published manifest, newest first. Useful when you need an older build for compatibility.

Windows manifest: github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/v/Valve/Steam/2.10.91.91
macOS cask: formulae.brew.sh/cask/steam