Games not actually downloable?

[76561198879798855]

I was under the impression that purchased games would be downloadable to my computer as the word "download" was actually used while I was purchasing the Westward Collection on my Mac.
I was intending to move the games via flash drive to the Windows portion of my Mac. I don't see a way to do that. The Steam app that I added to my Mac simply says the games are not available on my platform. Did I just waste my money? If that's the case, is there a way to get a refund?

[kilicool64]

IIUC, Steam will only download games for the OS you're currently using. The Mac version will assume you can't run this game and therefore refuse to download it. If you have Windows installed on your PC as well, simply use the Windows version of Steam to download the game. You'd need it for DRM-protected games anyway.

If you can't do that for some reason, request a refund and avoid buying Windows-only games on Steam in the future. Steam will refund your games unconditionally if you purchased them less than two weeks ago and played them for less than two hours. Note that for bundles such at this one, it counts the combined playtime of all games in the bundle.

[76561198879798855]

Thanks.

[kilicool64]

Glad I could help.

Since you are one of the very few people still interested in this game, you may want to know that the Steam version of Westward has a minor bug that causes a non-fatal error message on every loading screen. This happens because the game tries to load a misnamed image file. If you want to fix this, download this and extract it in the game's directory: https://www.mediaREMOVETHISfire.com/file/af8ak790m6t9hf9/Westward.zip

Note that I had to edit the URL because Steam hates the site for some reason and automatically censors links to it. Should be pretty obvious what you need to remove to make it work.

Also, Westward II-IV received some free DLC on the developer's site. You can still get from here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110811184258/http://www.sandlotgames.com:80/w5/free_levels.html

Finally, if you want to get the whole series, note that the fifth entry, Westward Kingdoms, was never released on Steam. There should still be a few obscure websites that sell it, though.