Steam Audio SDK

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in Game Audio Middleware

Runs on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows.

Steam Audio SDK is ranked #5 of 23 in game audio middleware on The Geeks Club. It runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

Steam Audio SDK plans and pricing

Steam Audio SDK Free Available for free to all developers Free to all developers · License agreement applies valvesoftware.github.io · 3 Oct 2026

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Purpose: Steam Audio is a cross-platform toolkit for adding spatial audio to games and VR/AR apps.
Environmental effects: Its features include physics-based sound propagation, occlusion, reflections, and reverb.
Ambisonics: It can spatialize Ambisonics audio and rotate it according to listener orientation.
Custom HRTFs: Users can supply HRTFs in AES SOFA format.
Performance: Steam Audio can use multicore CPUs and supported GPUs to accelerate environmental simulation and rendering.
Integrations: The official site lists Unity, Unreal Engine, a C API, FMOD Studio, and Wwise integrations.
Supported systems: The C API documentation lists Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS support, with platform and version requirements.
Wwise requirement: The Wwise integration requires Wwise 2023.1.0 or later.
FMOD requirement: The FMOD Studio integration requires FMOD Studio 2.00 or later.
Unity requirement: The Unity integration requires Unity 2017.3 or later.
Unreal requirement: The Unreal Engine integration requires Unreal Engine 4.27 or later.
Intended users: The C API is intended for custom game engines, custom audio middleware, and digital audio workstations, and can be called from languages that use external libraries.
Support status: The official homepage invites feedback on Steam Audio and its development tools, which it describes as being in Beta.
Price from: Free

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