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Nearly 6,000 Games on Steam Earned $100K+ in 2025, Valve Reveals

In 2025, Steam saw 5,863 games earn over $100K, with revamped Daily Deals and record user engagement fueling a major revenue surge for developers.

Player One

Google Play Games Expands to Windows, Brings Android Titles to PC With Cross-Buy Features

Google expands Play Games to Windows, adding cross-buy Android titles, premium PC games, and new discovery tools to bridge mobile and desktop gaming.

Player One

What is Pickmon? New Pokémon-like survival game explained

The legally questionable mash-up of Pokémon, Palworld, and Zelda is coming soon to Steam.

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Valve peels back the curtain in rare Steam presentation: "More games are finding success" than ever, and nearly 6,000 made over $100,000 last year

If Steam was on the Steam charts

GamesRadar

Steam expert advises devs stick to the "Little League" section of idle games and friendslop before attempting anything like Binding of Isaac or Mewgenics: "Then you can make your dream"

Start small, think friendslop

GamesRadar

Steam's Valve responds to lawsuit from New York Attorney General against its loot boxes, says they're like baseball cards — it's ready to fight

Valve, maker of Steam and games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and TF2, has responded to a New York lawsuit filed against the loot boxes in its games.

Windows Central

Valve speaks out about New York loot box lawsuit in rare attempt at damage control, saying ‘it would have been bad for users and other game developers’ to preempt situation

Valve isn't letting this one go, it seems.

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Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: 'The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers'

The state of New York sued Valve in February over allegations of illegal gambling.

PC Gamer

Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year

And "if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it."

PC Gamer

Valve clarifies what's required for a game to be Steam Machine and Steam Frame verified, but it just makes me worry about the Gabecube even more

Still, its advice for games being made with SteamOS in mind is all top-notch.

PC Gamer

Garry's Mod creator expected to only "make about $30,000" on the sandbox game – but some 25 million copies later, it's one of Steam's most iconic smash hits

With a spiritual successor on the way

GamesRadar

This bizarre indie game challenges you to ‘rizz’ monster girls in a fantasy dungeon

The bizarre indie game Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart just got a free demo.

TechRadar

Steam Machine could be partly to blame for PlayStation's reported plans to step back from PC, Bluepoint dev suggests, and it'd be ironic if "Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war"

"The Steam console could effectively offer the best of all worlds"

GamesRadar

Solasta 2 release countdown: Exact date and time

Roll the dice.

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The Pickmon controversy explained – is the game stealing art from Pokémon fans?

The plagiarism accusations keep getting worse.

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Your handheld PC might soon play old PlayStation 3 games better — here's why developers want your help

RPCS3 is asking handheld PC users for feedback as it works on improving the portable experience for its PlayStation 3 emulator. Planned updates include a redesigned in-game home menu, better button mapping, quick settings, and the ability to add games to Steam directly from the emulator.

GamesRadar

Overwatch senior dev says using Steam player counts to dunk on multi-platform releases like Marathon is "big unemployed, maidenless behavior"

He's got a point

PC Gamer

Garry Newman says he originally expected Garry's Mod to make 'about $30,000' as a 'best case scenario'

And his expectations for GMod successor s&box are similarly "rock bottom" when it launches next month.

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"It's hard to make sense of such a huge number" — Valve delivered 100 exabytes of data through Steam in 2025, and it's not showing any signs of slowing down

Valve's Year in Review breakdown for Steam shows off some mind-boggling numbers to do with data delivery. Can any other PC gaming platform ever hope to be as popular?

PC Gamer

Resident Evil 2 Remake descends into kaizo chaos in Resurgence of the Dead Shadows

Meet Mr X, Y, Z and the rest of the gang.

MusicRadar

PRS sues Steam for using music without a licence – for 23 years

They’ve never bothered to obtain one

Player One

'Pickmon' Hits Steam With Pokémon-Style Gameplay While Nintendo Battles US Government, IP Lawsuits

Pickmon's monster-taming survival gameplay appears on Steam, drawing attention as Nintendo juggles U.S. tariff disputes and aggressive IP lawsuits.

TechRadar

The Division 2 has set a new concurrent record on Steam, almost doubling its previous peak player count since 2019

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 has almost doubled its own all-time concurrent player record on Steam amid the series' 10th anniversary celebration.

PC Gamer

As the Marathon player count discourse reaches peak stupidity, Warframe and Overwatch devs speak up in solidarity: 'This is big unemployed, maidenless behavior'

'I tend to just laugh about SteamDB being used as a mic drop'.

GamesRadar

Valve hit with yet another lawsuit over the Steam market, with a class-action complaint claiming loot boxes "satisfy every element" of gambling by definition

They're dubbed a "deliberate, carefully engineered revenue model"

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