Where are Steam games installed?

I want to buy a new notebook in the near future to play games on it. I'm looking forward for the new Steam for Linux client. My question is that where does the Steam install the games, on the home partition, or in the usr folder, or somewhere else? I do not use pre-release (i.e. beta) versions of either Steam or Ubuntu.

Solution 1:

In newer versions of Steam, games seem to be located at:

~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common

Don't know when this changed, but Steam is no longer in ~/.local/share

Solution 2:

The default install location appears to be ~/.local/share/Steam. This is where Valve games are installed by default, which can't be changed using the Steam Libraries system.

The setup of this directory mirrors how Windows Steam is laid out, with the SteamApps folder containing both the .gcf files shared across Steam accounts and the individual steam account directories.

Solution 3:

It install in this path:

/home/${USER}/Steam

Where ${USER} is the name of your ubuntu user.