I’ve had this question looking at the Quake con sale, and Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is for sale on both platforms. I ended up buying it on GOG. What is your opinion?
I’ve had this question looking at the Quake con sale, and Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is for sale on both platforms. I ended up buying it on GOG. What is your opinion?
The Steam Store is just a website where a user style such as https://uso.kkx.one/style/219929 can be applied like any other. Game prices are just black on white using that theme:
The Steam Client itself is largely or perhaps even fully controllable via command line (https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_line_options#Steam) and you can set any color scheme to your terminal as you like:
The Steam Client also supports skins since forever: https://steamcustomizer.com/
Steam may not have color schemes for all kinds of visual impairments and that’s a legitimate criticism but Steam has a bag full of aforementioned features for customization, so with a little bit of research (I was curious about that myself, so I spent like 5 to 10 minutes) I found quite easy workarounds. As someone who does not like to be blasted in the face with light themes, I look for similar workarounds all the time.
That works for a browser but I would still need the client to install, uninstall, and manage game settings. Steam skins only work for a few areas of the client. Most of it will still be unreadable.
When you already own a game, the web interface turns the buy button into a play button and a not-installed game will be installed, so the user style is applied there. Also every single modern operating system has the ability to invert screen colors.
Windows (looks a bit weird because I had to use my camera because Windows itself does not screenshot the inversion):
SteamOS Desktop Mode (=Linux with Plasma Desktop):
Biggest problem was the photo of the Windows screen. Otherwise maybe 2 to 5 minutes invested to find this out. OS-wide accessibility settings exist for a reason.
I appreciate the help and it’s nice to know those settings exist, but I don’t think it is morally okay to support a company that is fine with discriminating against those with disabilities. If a PC game is only available on Steam, I will either purchase a console port and pirate the PC version or not play the game at all until it becomes available on a better service. If there is a Switch version, I’ll just play that instead.