Loom was a fantastic game. Really a extreme gem.

I never played the steam version of it but here are a few infos from dif. reviews:

• "While the VGA PC CD-ROM version does not quite match the handcrafted beauty of the original EGA DOS release with its stunning 16-bit color, dithered backgrounds, and painterly aesthetic, it still preserves the game's most remarkable feature: its music-based interface."

• "It takes a simple pressure of Alt+S to remove that ugly "modern" filter."

• "Unfortunately, the version offered here is the relatively worst of the existing ones. It's not about the VGA graphics, even if the higher quantity of details doesn't necessarily equal a better art direction, losing the sharpness and the amazing use of the few colors available of the EGA graphics, on top of all the close-up portraits. It's rather about technical limitations of the time that forced to cut content: as this version originally made use of CD audio tracks, to fit everything many dialogues ended up cut or simplified, and locations that had music now have silence or sound effects. This version is also is voiced but the voice acting is less than stellar, which makes for a further strike against the game's atmosphere.
  Another classic but not in its "optimal" form, so don't feel ashamed of looking up for those other versions online."

Thanks - this takes me back to the good old DOS days.

C:\GAMES\LOOM> LOOM.EXE