You can do this : 1- Buy a game from steam store (unless it's free/demo) 2- On the game webpage url, you see a number, for example : http://store.steampowered.com/app/91200 3- Launch Steam like this : wine "Steam.exe" -applaunch 91200 If the game is not already in steamapps folder, it will download it, if it's already downloaded, it will launch it :D