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Valve's charming triumph Portal is being given away for free to anybody who downloads Steam.

The deal runs until 24th May for PC and Mac.

Portal highlights Steam's new Steam Play functionality, whereby a game can be bought on either system but played across both.

Steam Play, in turn, heralds the arrival of a Mac version of Steam.

Every Wednesday "a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality" will be released for Mac.

Available today are:

And Yet It Moves
Atlantis Sky Patrol
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Bob Came in Pieces
Bookworm Deluxe
Braid
Brainpipe
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
Chuzzle Deluxe
City of Heroes: Architect Edition
Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Cooking Dash
Diaper Dash
The Dig
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
DinerTown Detective Agency
DinerTown Tycoon
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Escape Rosecliff Island
Fairway Solitaire
Fitness Dash
Football Manager 10
Galcon Fusion
Gemini Lost
Guns of Icarus
Hotel Dash Suite Success
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
KrissX
Loom
Luxor
Luxor 3
Luxor: Mahjong
Machinarium
Mahjong Roadshow
Max and the Magic Marker
My Tribe
The Nightshift Code
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
Parking Dash
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Nights
Portal
Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
Quantz
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
Toki Tori
Torchlight
Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
Unwell Mel
Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
Wandering Willows
Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
World of Goo
Zenerchi
Zuma Deluxe

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stampax #1 2 years ago

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Games? On a mac? It'll never work.......
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Dylbot #2 2 years ago

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Fucking get. Anyone that hasn't tried this game up until now, you no longer have any excuse not to.
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originaljohn #3 2 years ago

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Sweet. I've never played portal. I think my existing steam games will eventually be ported over too. Happy days
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altitude2k #4 2 years ago

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Is this free UNTIL 24th May or is it free and yours to keep if you download it before 24th May?
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GaryHoward #5 2 years ago

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And there will be cake..
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Blocky #6 2 years ago

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@#4 - You don't have to download it now. Once it appears in your game library, you have a license. Well at least that's what I have done!
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altitude2k #7 2 years ago

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@ Blocky

Nice. Got this on the 360 (Orange Box AND Still Alive), but I can't play my 360 at work
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ignatiusjreilly #8 2 years ago

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@altitude2k

Free to keep forever

Nice to have this story alongside EA's "we'll collapse unless we get paid twice" story. Reminds me that games aren't completely down the shitter yet.
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Retroid #9 2 years ago

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This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: Huge success!
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altitude2k #10 2 years ago

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You can never have too many copies of Portal.
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mungolikebeans #11 2 years ago

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Does Steam work on ipad?

Apologies if that is a stoopid question.
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ignatiusjreilly #12 2 years ago

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Does Steam work on ipad?

No.
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actionfitz #13 2 years ago

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"Available today are:"
loads of games mac heads probably already own on live arcade or PSN? (at least they probably do if they are reading Eurogamer )
hehe. Either way it's a nice start.
Any Mac users who haven't played Portal or Braid though... some fun times ahead.
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jonbwfc #14 2 years ago

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@actionfitz

Very few of those games are available on XBL or PSN. And even given that, certain styles of games still work better with a mouse & keyboard than with a pad. The reverse is true of Braid (IMO) for example though..

Works very well but was seriously being battered last night. Took me quite a while to d/l Portal& Torchlight last night but they got there in the end.
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MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #15 2 years ago

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Does Steam Play apply to anything other than Valve's games?

E.g. will I be able to play my PC-Steam-bought World of Goo on mac?

Edit: looked it up myself - yes I can. Now if it only supported Steam cloud for synchronising my progress. Games that can be played cross-platform have a little steam play icon in the store.

Edit 2: Full list of steam play ttles is here

[link url=https://support.steampowered.com/kb_arti cle.php?ref=9439-QHKN-1308#which
]https://s upport.steampowered.com/kb_arti...[/link]

looks quite similar to the list in the parent article.

Edited by 2 at 13/05/10 @ 10:36
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Mr.Monkey #16 2 years ago

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Bought Torchlight last night, not used steam since Half-Life 2 launched... (My desktop died and couldn't afford to fix it/get a new one) Did all my gaming on consoles and made do with basic internet browsing with my ancient Win 98 laptop right until last summer.
Macbook Pro user now, playing games again with keyboard & mouse... It's good to be back!

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Koborover #17 2 years ago

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Portal for free? Game get!

I'm downloading it now, but what's with the install size? 3.8 GB seems a bit much for this game.
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Jackface #18 2 years ago

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Is this free UNTIL 24th May or is it free and yours to keep if you download it before 24th May?

Aren't these exactly the same thing?
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ignatiusjreilly #19 2 years ago

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Aren't these exactly the same thing?

Steam often does promotion where you can play a game free for a few days, but after a deadline the game will no longer work anymore (they did this for MW2 last weekend). With this deal however, you get to keep and play the game forever.
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makeamazing #20 2 years ago

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Well steam was struggling last night. Portal was taking an age to download (and I had purchased it... thanks Valve for not segmenting all those freebies with those that had purchased ... but anyway, portal didnt work on my brand new mac... will have to try again tonight, but nothing to get me excited just yet.
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osh #21 2 years ago

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I love Valve. Now, if only they would look into a certain third episode...
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Stratix #22 2 years ago

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This list has just doubled the amount of games you can play on a Mac.
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el_pollo_diablo #23 2 years ago

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Do you have to download on each machine individually?

As in, I'm downloading Portal here at work on the super fast connection and would love to throw it onto my portable hard drive to take home. Can I do that?
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ignatiusjreilly #24 2 years ago

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@el_pollo_diablo

You can on a PC - not sure exactly how the Mac version works but as installing programs on OSX is even easier than Windows I'd guess you can.
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dr_faulk #25 2 years ago

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Quad Core Xeon Mac Pro and it tells me me graphics card isn't supported. What the hell, Valve! I'm sure it's not that old a card!
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Artemus #26 2 years ago

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Sadly Torchlight PC saves don't carry over.
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stampax #27 2 years ago

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Very curious to see how well this will play on my macbook.
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dave-on #28 2 years ago

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Nice one Valve.
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devilmyarse #29 2 years ago

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@ el_pollo_diablo

Yes you can, download it and then right click on the game you want to copy and choose Backup Game Files, click Next, choose a location to save it to (IE a thumbstick or some such device) then click Next. Robert's your mother's brother.
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dr_faulk #30 2 years ago

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@stampax

Don't be surprised if you get the same 'Graphics card not support' message, unless you have a very recent MacBook Pro.

My old Geforece 7300 GT 256 isn't. =(
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the_mtfr #31 2 years ago

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Good, hope they give Portal away also when they launch Steam for Linux.
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ignatiusjreilly #32 2 years ago

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Good, hope they give Portal away also when they launch Steam for Linux.

If you get it now (no need to install it, just register a Steam account), it will work on your Linux box when Steam/Source is released. So yes, free Portal for you too
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el_pollo_diablo #33 2 years ago

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Thanks for the help.
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devilmyarse #34 2 years ago

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Regarding the graphics card not supported nonsense. I have a 4 year old Macbook Pro (the second revision of the Core 2 Duo range) with an ATi X1600XT 256MB and it works with the following games that I own: Portal, Civilisation IV + Expansions, Galcon Fusion, Osmos, Toki Tori, Torchlight, World of Goo and Bob Came in Pieces.
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