There is, however, a 16-page PDF reproduction of the boxed game’s manual which can be found by going to Spintires in your Steam games list and selecting “Manual” from the “LINKS” list to the right of the screen. Nor can it be opened from within the game itself. It’s simple, uncomplicated and effective.īecause it is delivered through the Steam platform, there is no obvious manual that comes with Spintires, which would otherwise usually be found by opening your Start menu and going to “Oovee” or “Spintires” or whatever. This is one of the nice features of Steam. \Steam\steamapps\common\Spintires directory of your computer, where “.” relates to your chosen path when installing the Steam client.Īs with all Steam titles, uninstallation comprises right clicking on the Spintires entry of your software list and selecting the option “ Delete Local Content…” I won’t go through the pros and cons of Steam here, that’s an entirely different topic, but it does mean that installation is as easy as clicking on ‘install’ if you purchased your key directly from Steam, or adding the key to your Steam account if you purchased it elsewhere.Īt the time of writing, Spintires uses 594MB of disk space, which is hardly the largest game in history and it can be found in the.
Regardless of where you purchase your license key for Spintires, you will have to install the title through Valve’s Steam system, which, depending on your view of Steam, can result in feeling that this is brilliant, through to being an utter disaster that rules out buying the software altogether. Hopefully forwards and not sidewards, this time!