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Glossary · Steam and games · checked Oct 24, 2026
Steamworks
Short answerSteamworks is Valve's developer side of Steam: the partner site for store pages, builds, pricing and events, and the SDK for achievements, cloud saves and multiplayer.
Why it matters
Everything about shipping on Steam happens there, including the $100 app fee per game and the review of your store page and build.
Our number
O'BLOCK and its $4.99 Supporter Pack DLC were set up through Steamworks.
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Where it shows up here
It appears on 7 pages of this site: 3 Articles, 3 Free tools, 1 The Manual. A few to start with:
- Borrow Balatro's UI grammar, not its cards: 5 builds in one night
- 2,077 claimed our free Steam game. 16 played it. 30 GB did that
- Q.Steam update visibility rounds, explained
- Steam capsule resizer.
- Steam revenue calculator.
Sources
- Steamworks documentation: partner.steamgames.com/doc/home (checked Oct 24, 2026)
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