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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball
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Yes, that's quoted from the section pertaining to the peer to peer feature of Steamworks.
All we've been told though is "The game only uses SteamWorks for match-making..." The section pertaining to that Match-making feature is also listed on the page you linked to.
It seems highly likely one will require the other, and I have no doubt using any of these features will in fact require having a unique Steam ID.
But the question remains, in my mind at least, whether or not a boxed version of the game can be played offline, leaving the built-in multiplayer features effectively unavailable. Or put another way, the question remains whether setting up a Steam account will be required whether one decides to use the built-in multiplayer features or not. And I haven't seen an answer to that.
Which leads to the other question of,
if an active Steam account isn't required until after you try to play using the built-in multiplayer browser, can you decide to never use the built-in (Steam integrated) multiplayer browser and use a third party application which lists game servers that don't require Steam ID's and which themselves aren't connected to the Steam service?
The Steam downloaded games I've played (offline only) in the past, haven't required me to sign up with the online services included in the game (Yuplay and Games For Windows Live) unless I want to use those services. They have installed themselves automatically along with the rest of the game, but they have remained unactivated and all their features have remained unused, beyond the pop-up that asks me to register with them and activate an account with them if I want to play online. The question remains whether or not the boxed versions of CloDo will work the same way. I haven't tried to play online with any of those other games by using separate third party server-browsers and by-passing the built-in ones, so I don't know anything about that.