At the GDC 2025 developers' conference, Valve shared some data about Steam. Specifically, it revealed that in 2024, the Chinese language overtook English as the most popular language on the platform.
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According to Valve, last year, 33.7% of Steam users set simplified Chinese as the main language in their account settings. Another 1% of players chose traditional Chinese.
However, the share of players using Steam in English was only slightly less, at 33.5%.
The top 10 most popular languages on Steam also included:
- Russian — 8.2%;
- Spanish — 4.6%;
- Brazilian Portuguese — 2.8%;
- German — 2.5%;
- Korean — 2.2%;
- French — 2.1%;
- Japanese — 1.7%;
- Turkish — 1.7%.
The most popular languages on Steam in 2024
Analyst Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo pointed out separately that not all players set their native language as the main one on Steam. For instance, he estimates that approximately 5.3% of Steam users reside in Germany. Meanwhile, the share of the German language on the platform is 2.5%. In contrast, in France, these two indicators are nearly equal.