Steam Actions
Let gamers enter with Steam, and reward them for playing your game, wishlisting it, or joining your Steam group.
Every Steam action asks entrants to sign in through the Gleam.io Steam app first. They'll see this before they give access:
Steam Entry opens your competition to anyone with a Steam account. They sign in with Steam and get their entry.
Don't Allow Limited Accounts is on by default. It cuts spam by only letting in accounts that have spent at least $5 USD on Steam.
Check whether entrants have played your game on Steam. It's a great way to promote your game, and to give extra entries to people who've put the hours in.
Paste your Game URL from the Steam Store. Set Hours Played if you want entrants to have played for a while before they qualify.
Check whether entrants are members of your Steam Community group. Use it to grow your group, or to reward the members you already have.
Paste your Group URL and add a Group Name. Don't Allow Limited Accounts works the same as on Steam Entry.
Wishlist on Steam checks whether entrants have added your game to their Steam wishlist before the entry counts. When your game launches, Steam tells everyone with it on their wishlist, so a bigger wishlist means more players hear about your release (how Steam's most wishlisted indie games built theirs).
In How to Enter, click Add a Way to Enter, search for Steam and pick Add to Wishlist. Paste your Game URL from the Steam Store, and we pull your game's art, release date and description into the widget. Leave Don't Allow Limited Accounts on, as it is by default, to keep out throwaway accounts that have spent less than $5 USD on Steam.
Your entrants sign in with Steam, click Add to Steam Wishlist, then Continue. We check their wishlist, and if your game is not on it yet, they can add it and try again.
We can only check wishlists Steam lets us see. Entrants whose Game details are set to Private in their Steam privacy settings need to make them public first, and the widget tells them which setting to change.
If you give away pre-release Steam keys, a wishlister who activates one loses your game from their wishlist, according to Valve’s Steam Keys documentation. Send keys after launch, or use Steam Playtest for early access.
You can use Wishlist on Steam on the Hobby Plan & above.
Our Promote Steam Game template puts these actions to work.
To cut spam, you can block Limited Steam profiles from some actions. We also run checks to spot profiles that look like they were made just to enter giveaways or grab free keys.
If entrants see this error, they'll need a profile that isn't limited and looks like a real player's.
Steam limits what we can see on private and limited profiles. Entrants with one can't complete some actions, and they'll see:
Sorry, we cannot check private profiles
Entrants still blocked by the error? See why Gleam shows a Steam limited or private profile error.