During the presentation at GDC 2025, Valve representatives revealed statistics on games launched in Early Access on Steam. Below are the key figures.

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.

Valve has published Steam’s statistics for 2024. We’ve selected a few figures.

“Deal of the Day” is a promotion on Steam where games are featured on the store’s homepage and certain other sections for 24 hours. Valve has announced that now six games will be featured simultaneously in this promotion.

From 2022 to 2024, the largest handheld gaming PCs were sold in a total volume of 6 million units, reports The Verge, citing a study by IDC. The best-selling item was the Steam Deck.

In the Steam documentation for partner-developers, a dedicated section on in-game advertising has appeared. The store has listed which advertising practices it supports and which ones it does not.

Valve has summed up 2024 for Steam and published lists of the most successful games on the platform for the outgoing year.

A new development has emerged in the investigation of Steam’s alleged monopoly on the PC store market. The court has converted the lawsuit from Wolfire Games and Dark Catt Studios against Valve into a class action suit. This means that many other developers can now join the case.

Steam has introduced support for season passes—not for service games, but as bundles of already released and upcoming DLCs for games. This update was highlighted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.

The platform now tracks traffic more accurately. This will enable developers to receive more reliable data on who is visiting the pages of their games.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) examined the content distributed by users on Steam. They identified a vast amount of unacceptable material on Valve’s platform.

Valve has added a feature to Steam that allows developers to specify the anti-cheat systems used on game pages.

The analytical service VG Insights has shared the latest data on the number of additions of Deadlock to wishlists on Steam. According to their estimates, Valve’s upcoming game has already been wishlisted by 3.4 million people.

Valve has updated the Steam Subscriber Agreement. It has relaxed the rules for dispute resolution between the store and its users.

Valve has completely revamped the editor used for creating and editing game descriptions in the Steam store. They have named the updated tool “What You See Is What You Get.”

Expanded set of links to social networks is not the only new feature in Steam. Valve has introduced several more changes to the platform.

Valve has expanded the list of social networks to which developers can link in dedicated fields on game pages in Steam. The list has grown by 11 entries.

The number of people wanting to play Deadlock is approaching one million, according to data from the analytics service VG Insights. Analysts have calculated that to date, Valve’s multiplayer shooter has amassed 863 thousand wishlists on Steam.

Valve continues to enhance the reviews section in Steam. On August 22, Steam began displaying special badges on reviews written by users who have played the game “mostly” on Steam Deck.