Steam adds Apple Silicon support and new accessibility filters

In brief: In recent years, accessibility features designed to assist gamers with disabilities have become increasingly common, and Steam has now taken a significant step toward supporting them. Valve has also introduced an update that allows Mac users to run the client natively on Apple Silicon devices. This comes as the number of Steam games supporting Apple's homegrown Arm processors continues to grow steadily.

Users browsing Steam can now filter games in the store based on numerous accessibility features. The change will allow customers with disabilities to more easily find titles that they can play comfortably.

The new filters include features that have become commonplace in modern games, such as customizable text size, colorblind modes, descriptive audio, and text-to-speech (and vice versa). Users can also filter games based on whether they are playable with only the keyboard, only the mouse, or include mandatory timed button presses. Valve also added ...