Steam – Does PC version of Civ-5 on Steam entitle me to Mac version

As said by Brian Schkerke you cannot legally play Civilization5 without steam.

People have legitimate gripes about steam, and these questions come up regularly especially on 2K's official Civilization5 forum (2K Civ5 Forum)

However, since Steam is un-avoidable I find it more productive to offer advice to mitigate the effect steam has on your enjoyment and on your system, for in fact many gripes people have with steam are optional and can be disabled.

• You can disable all push pop-up advertising in steam. Instructions
• You can play Civ5 SinglePlayer/LAN offline without connecting to the steam server.Instructions
• You can disable steam collecting anonymous information about your system/software.Wiki
• You can disable steam from running on startup. Instructions

The four points above cover many reasons people dislike Steam. You will however still need to run the Steam client in the background as Civ5 plays. This may be un-palatable for your tastes but at least it is a 'neutered' version of Steam which does not connect to the internet or use up your system resources.

The disadvantages are

• You cannot save your games on the steam cloud while offline (useful for continuing games at different locations)
• You cannot receive patches for the game while steam is offline
• You cannot have your in game achievements ranked.
• You cannot communicate with your friends on Steam

Which you probably would not want to use anyway if you don't use Steam.

Hope this helps.

FYI: I am new to Steam. I have never used Steam before I bought Civ5 last week.

I have Steam, a Mac, and I own the Deluxe edition of Civ 5 that I got for Windows, so I thought I'd go digging around to see if I could find the soundtrack.

The directory you mention on my install contains a Soundtrack directory, in addition to Sounds, Gameplay, Behind the Scenes, and the Babylon Expansion files.

/Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization v/Assets/DLC/DLC_Deluxe

You might try right clicking on the game in your Steam library, and then click "View Downloadable Content" to see if you have "Civ V Digital Deluxe Content (Mac)" as one of your DLC packages. I pre-ordered the Deluxe edition for Windows, and got the Mac version via SteamPlay after that became a feature of Steam, so that might be a factor.

Previously I found another method of extracting the soundtrack, which you can find below:

I checked around and I found this thread on the Steam forums. It appears to have a sections of interest:

You can access the soundtrack files directly from the game contents. Mine were here:

/Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization v/assets/Sounds/Streamed/Music/

You'll have to use the Finder to get to this directory, and then you can copy these files out, which are in .ogg format.