Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Steam Community
The 20 closest gaming community platform alternatives to Steam Community, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Steam Community? The closest matches are steampowered.com, SteamDB and GameBanana. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Steam Community
Steam Community steamcommunity.com
Steam Community
Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
Summary by Claude
The community section of Valve's Steam platform, with game hubs where users share screenshots, artwork, videos, guides, reviews, Workshop mods and discussions, plus user profiles and the item marketplace.
- Who it’s for
- PC gamers using Steam
- Business model
- Supports Steam game sales; marketplace transaction fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Steam Community’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Steam Community
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Steam Community, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to Steam
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
Very close cos 0.938 - 02
SteamDB
online video game database
Very close cos 0.921 - 03
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.911 - 04
DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Very close cos 0.895 - 05
World of Warcraft News and Guides
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
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video game website
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Minecraft Internet forum and fansite
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product discovery website
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Eldorado - Largest & Safest Game Items Marketplace
Buy game items, accounts, currency, top ups, boosting & gift cards safely. Shop millions of offers for hundreds of games. Legit sellers, always in stock.
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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stubhub.com
American ticket brokering company
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XBOX Official Site: Play Games Anywhere | XBOX
Play with XBOX on PC, console, & more. Explore Game Pass. Discover thousands of games. Shop controllers, handhelds, & consoles. Join players anywhere.
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photo sharing website
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Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
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Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
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WordPress Themes & Website Templates from ThemeForest
Discover 1000s of premium WordPress themes & website templates, including multipurpose and responsive Bootstrap templates, email templates & HTML templates.
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Yours for the making
Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!
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Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
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Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
Close cos 0.881
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to steamcommunity.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Steam Community uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Steam Community is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://community.fastly.steamstatic.com/public/javascript/jquery-1.11.1.min.js?v=gQHVlrK…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Mimecast MX us-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a7-66.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=vsUrXpDBPSpF6cqB24j-eo8q-GgNzs7MbSUP-6Ch8kc
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Steam Community adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on steamcommunity.com 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on steamcommunity.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on steamcommunity.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on steamcommunity.com 8/20
- jQuery 7/20
- SendGrid · not on steamcommunity.com 6/20
- nginx 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on steamcommunity.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on steamcommunity.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on steamcommunity.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on steamcommunity.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on steamcommunity.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on steamcommunity.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on steamcommunity.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on steamcommunity.com 3/20