Save on the DOOM franchise from February 25th until March 2nd!

Soundtracks can now be managed independently of the game they belong to. You can buy and listen to a soundtrack without owning or downloading the base game. You can also control where your soundtrack content goes, including separating it from your game library if you want.

Additionally, we've added support for higher-quality audio formats. In addition to standard MP3s, many soundtracks now contain lossless audio files.

Lastly, we've been working with hundreds of partners to bring a huge variety of new soundtrack content to Steam for both Steam and non-Steam games. This process is ongoing.

Soundtracks show up in the Library automatically, but can also be filtered via the dropdown on the left-side of the Library view. Individual soundtracks can be managed like any other content in the Library. You can play, browse files, and view art from within Steam.

By default, every soundtrack contains a full set of MP3 files. Soundtracks can also contain a free secondary set of audio files (for example, FLAC) that offer higher quality than compressed MP3s. These files are often larger and many customers prefer just the MP3s, so downloading these additional files is optional. You can opt in to larger downloads on the Music page in Steam Settings.

You continue to own all Soundtracks that you owned before. You don't need to do anything to access the new features. When a developer converts from DLC to the new format, you'll see the soundtracks appear in the "Soundtracks" section in your Steam Library. Soundtrack content will automatically download into your Steam music folder.

Before releasing the new soundtrack features, Steam had thousands of soundtracks available as DLC. Developers have been actively updating their existing content but with such a huge backlog it takes a little time. Content will automatically update in your library as it gets converted.

For more details about the new content and the new Steam library interface, you can look at the Soundtracks & Steam Music Player support page.

Lunar New Year 2020 Sale - The Year of the Rat

The sale ran from 1000PST Jan 11th until 1000PST Jan 18th!

Yesterday we revealed the Top Selling and Top Played games of 2019 across all of Steam, and today we're continuing the look back at 2019 by highlighting some of the best games that you can play with a controller.

Whether you like to play from your couch or lean way back in your chair, there are a lot of great controller games on Steam. Throughout the year over thirty thousand titles were played with hundreds of different controller models including Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and Steam Controllers. While Xbox controllers are the devices most commonly supported by developers, you can still play any Steam game with PlayStation or Nintendo Switch controllers by enabling configuration support through Steam Input.

Many games on Steam are marked with full or partial controller support, but not all games with controller support have a large controller playerbase on PC. So, to generate this list we took the top 100 games as measured by the highest daily controller session count reached during the year. We then divided that list up into various common controller-friendly genres so that you can more easily find the kind of game you might be looking for.

See the top controller games now, here!