Being a huge fan of games like Half Life or Portal I was really looking forward to having Steam available on my Mac.
When the news about Steam officially coming to the Mac was published first, I discovered the new UI beta on my PC. I hoped Valve might do something really nice on the Mac, but now that I have it, I’m a bit disappointed. The UI doesn’t feel anything like changed for the Mac. Sebastiaan de With, author of Cococia Blog, made a really nice redesign, which still makes me hope for some update to the Mac’s Steam client.
Currently there’s not really much to do. You can download Portal for free, browse your PC’s game library, take a look at the news and surf the community. That’s it. You don’t have anything like a store, so you can’t really get new games.
One thing I really dislike is the inability of using shortcuts like Cmd+W and Cmd+M. As far as I know, Steam roughly supports any of the Mac’s default shortcuts.
Overall there’s not really much to say about Steam on the Mac. We’ll see how it plays out, and maybe, just maybe, one day we’ll have a really nice addition to our Macs’ application library.
So what do you guys think about Steam for Mac?
