

In such situation, an offline setup comes in handy. But in some cases you or your friend may need to quickly install steam on PC where internet connection is temporarily down or very slow.

Steam offers online installer rather than an offline installer merely to keep everyone with the latest update, no matter from where someone got the setup file. This means Steam installer needs internet connection to install Steam completely. The small web installer is typically 1 or 2 MB where the total size of Steam installation is nearly 300MB which are downloaded from internet. That’s why you see the message “Stream is updating” even for new installation. However, when you download Steam software on your PC, it provides you a little installer program which actually downloads all Steam installation files to the disk. To play a game that is available on Steam, you need to install Steam client software on your PC first, sign in to Steam account and then download the game via Steam to play it with your friends. Steam is one of the most popular platforms for multiplayer online games where gamers and games connect together.
