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.

Developers rarely publicly disclose the budget for their games. The lack of official data prompted the analytical portal HushCrasher to try to estimate the cost of creating games distributed on Steam.

Here is an overview of the best-selling products on Steam for the week from October 21 to 28.

By the end of 2025, quirky indie games with a focus on co-op and interaction with friends have firmly established themselves as one of the fastest-growing niches on Steam. In this new piece, we present our report on the state of this category, which many have already dubbed “friendslop,” as well as data on game revenue and other metrics.

The indie apocalypse continues.

Valve has announced a new enhancement for Steam. Games on the platform now have special pages that list all the bundles in which they are included.

The top spot in the latest Steam chart predictably went to Battlefield 6. The new release made a strong debut, surpassing all other games on the platform in revenue from October 7–14, both paid and free-to-play.

The analytical company VG Insights released a study on souls-likes on Steam. They examined all the games with the “similar to Dark Souls” tag, released on the platform from January 2015 to October 2025.

Predicting the success of a particular game can be challenging, but it’s often possible to foresee a lack of potential. Today, we’ll discuss the types of failed indie games and the mistakes developers make, supported by examples and data on the highest-grossing and “overcrowded” sub-genres on Steam.

Last week, the fall sale took place on Steam, resulting in a fresh chart where new releases stand alongside old hits. Here, we discuss the most notable changes in the rankings.

SteamDB published a list of the top-grossing games on Steam for the period of September 23-30. Here are the key takeaways.

On September 22, Idle Pixel Fantasy was released on Steam—a small free-to-play clicker game developed solo in a month and a half by German developer Max Ritters. According to the developer, the game turned out to be far more successful than he had anticipated.

During the week from September 16 to 23, Counter-Strike 2 reclaimed the top spot in the chart of highest-grossing games on Steam. It was joined in the top three by Dota 2 and Dying Light: The Beast.

Simon Carless of GameDiscoverCo shared data on the audience size of some hit games on Steam. His statistics include both paid and free-to-play projects.

Hollow Knight: Silksong was unable to hold the top spot in Steam’s best-selling games chart for long. As of the week ending September 9-16, it fell to fourth place, yielding its lead to another new release — Borderlands 4.

On the evening of September 11th, the release of Borderlands 4 took place. According to SteamDB, shortly after its launch, the looter-shooter managed to attract 207,479 concurrent players on Steam, marking the best result in the series.