The Competition Appeal Tribunal in London has decided to forward a lawsuit against Valve to court. The company is accused of “profiteering off British gamers” through Steam.

Every day, more than 40 million people log into Steam. However, this doesn’t mean that this traffic is sufficient for everyone. Several tens of thousands of products compete for the attention of users, and this number continues to grow. Up to 2,000 new titles are added to the platform each month. In the context of this intense competition, we discussed with market experts how to generate organic reach. Our conversation was with Danila Kamenev, Head…

By gathering and analyzing data from various platforms, services, and analytical companies, we present a comprehensive final report featuring metrics on dozens of the most successful games of 2025. Inside — you’ll find numerous numbers and charts by specific platforms and countries.

Looking back at 2025, we couldn’t help but examine the state of Steam as a gaming platform. In today’s comprehensive report — records, median revenue of new releases, the most popular tags and engines, as well as chart leaders and other data. All traditionally accompanied by graphs and commentary.

Recently, the analytical service Steam250 published a list of 250 games that were best received by Steam users in 2025. They assigned each game a score based on the number of reviews and approval rating.

The year 2026 has already marked a new online record for Steam. According to the SteamDB service, on the evening of January 11, there were 42,042,778 people on the platform simultaneously.

The Steam team has published lists of the most successful games on the platform for 2025.

Analyzing the situation in the domestic digital PC distribution market: the main players, their approaches to monetization and user engagement, as well as the challenges they face in competing with the global platform monopoly.

In a new report, analysts from Alinea Analytics shared data on free-to-play games in Steam, alongside statistics on indie games.

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Alinea Analytics.

Steam has introduced a special page with personal year-end summaries for 2025. In addition to individual stats, it also displays certain general figures about the platform. For instance, you can see how users’ total gameplay time on Steam was distributed among projects from different years.

The past few days have been notable for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 due to an increase in online presence via Steam. Although not a record, it reached a significant level.

Exactly one month ago—on November 15, 2025—Escape from Tarkov had its full release. In light of this event, we decided to turn to VG Insights’ data to examine the extraction shooter’s performance on Steam.

As the New Year approaches, the service SteamDB shared its observations about Steam. It estimated that in the partial year of 2025, a record number of games were released on the Valve platform — 19,200. However, almost half of them barely piqued anyone’s interest.

The founder of the analytical service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, examined how the release of games on Steam unfolded after leaving Early Access in 2025. He discovered that the majority of them failed to surpass their initial performance.

Last year, VK announced ambitious plans to transform VK Play into the “one-stop entry point for gamers in Russia.” At that time, it started selling Steam keys on the platform and soon allowed users to add funds to their Steam wallets. Now VK Play has taken it a step further.

Meanwhile, the proportion of such games on Steam has increased to 8%. Now there are 10,258 of them.

The year 2025 has already become the best year in Steam’s history in terms of game revenue, claims the analytical company Alinea Analytics.

Let’s talk about the situation in the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam for the week from November 4 to November 11.