It’s only been a couple of weeks since Valve launched its Greenlight service for Steam. For those not in the know, Steam Greenlight is a community-driven program that allows game developers to submit their titles for the community to judge worthy of being sold on the Steam digital distribution platform.
Typically, negotiations between game developers and Valve go on behind closed doors, with the public remaining completely out of the picture. Due to the amount of submissions Valve receives for Steam, it’s difficult for Valve to weigh each and every single game. Through Greenlight, Valve has opened its doors a little wider for smaller developers to earn a chance at landing on Steam through the aid of the gaming community at large.
For over a period of two weeks, Steam Greenlight accrued dozens, if not hundreds of submissions from game developers excited to be on the service. Today, Valve has announced that ten games have been selected by the community to be on Steam. They include:
Black Mesa, Cry of Fear, Dream, Heroes & Generals, Kenshi, McPixel, No More Room in Hell, Project Zomboid, Routine, and Towns.
All these games will be made available on Steam as purchasable titles or as free downloads depending on how their developers choose to offer them. Some titles remain works in progress and may not be out for several months, but they are guaranteed to appear on Steam once they exit development.
Despite cynicism upon the service’s launch, it looks like Valve’s experiment is proving to be a major success with both the gaming community and those in indie development.
