Steam articles

Nearly half of the 19,000 games released on Steam this year went almost unnoticed

Bottom line: Steam's flood of new releases in 2025 underscores an ongoing tension in PC gaming: a thriving ecosystem that also risks overwhelming its own creators. Data aggregated by SteamDB shows that Valve's digital storefront saw 19,112 games launch over the year. Nearly half of them – 9,327 titles – received fewer than 10 user reviews, suggesting they never reached a meaningful audience. For 2,229 games, the review count never rose above zero.

Steam is running on Windows 7 again, thanks to a fan-made backport

Valve is developing an Android-Linux bridge for Steam called "Lepton"

Steam could be headed to phones, tablets, and other Arm hardware

Epic's Tim Sweeney says AI labels on Steam are meaningless as generative tools become universal

Steam holds first-ever Black Friday sale, open through December 1

In context: Valve usually holds its autumn sale on Steam around this time of year, but in 2025 the company has instead launched a slightly shorter Black Friday sale, echoing other storefronts. The move has sparked speculation about a minor gap in Steam's event schedule next week. Read on for highlights on various hefty game discounts.

Indie games on Steam are getting cheaper, and the $10 hit is taking over

New PUBG spin-off game is a tactical extraction shooter, and you can try it next month

Steam is now a billion-dollar side business for PlayStation

Valve insists the Steam Machine outperforms 70% of gaming PCs despite 8GB GPU

Valve Steam Controller 2, new Steam Machine PC console, and Steam Frame VR coming in early 2026

72% of game developers say Steam is effectively a PC gaming monopoly

AMD CPUs and Linux hit record highs in latest Steam hardware survey

Steam's new Personal Calendar helps users keep track of new and upcoming games they might love

Data shows Steam wishlists have weak correlation with actual sales

PC gaming boom: Steam sets new record with 41.6 million concurrent players

Battlefield 6 hits 1.7 million Steam pre-orders, set for massive first-week sales

Too many games, not enough players: the industry's growing challenge

The takeaway: New technology and democratized development tools have supercharged the way games are created and sold. The result? An explosion of creativity like never before. But there's a catch: a marketplace so overcrowded that even the best games struggle to be seen. For players, this is a golden era. For developers and publishers, it's an escalating arms race where only a few titles manage to break through.

Steam beta helps players prep for games requiring Secure Boot or TPM

Steam user becomes first person to own 40,000 games on the platform

Secret Service investigating Steam account linked to suspected Charlie Kirk shooter

Borderlands 4 launches to 'Mixed' Steam rating due to performance issues and bugs

Big Steam update enables custom sorting, CPU temp monitoring, and much more

In a nutshell: The September 9 Steam client update is one of the largest in recent memory. It introduces dozens of bug fixes and several new features meant to improve the user interface, controller inputs, and performance monitoring. One notable addition is CPU temperature monitoring – but enabling it requires users to decide whether they trust Valve with access to the Windows kernel.

Hollow Knight: Silksong's launch crashed Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo stores

Valve files "Steam Frame" trademarks – Fremont console, new VR headset, or something else?