State of Steam as of the first half of 2025: 9,500 new releases, top tags, chart leaders, and key trends
Everything indicates that 2025 will be another record year for Steam. We decided to summarize the first six months by gathering information about games and the state of the platform as a whole. In today's article, you'll find many charts and data on new releases and key trends.
What the Article Will Cover
- The state of Steam as a platform: the number of new releases from January to June 2025, total revenue and sales in the store over six months, the most popular tags among the new releases, and more.
- Results of new releases on Steam: peak online presence of games depending on their type, leaders in subscriber numbers, as well as the performance of major new releases in the first half of the year in the global chart.
In preparing the material, we used both open data from Steam and assessments from analytical services like VG Insights.
The State of Steam as a Platform in the First Half of 2025
- In six months, 9,517 games were released on Steam, which is 9.5% more compared to the same period in 2024.
- March was the peak month with 1,817 releases, and on average, more than 1,500 new products appeared on the platform each month.
