Steam Report for 2025: 20,000 Releases, Growth in AI-Content Games, Top Tags, Chart Leaders and Main Trends

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.

Topics covered in this article:

the state of Steam as a platform: record metrics, the number of new releases, total revenue, and game sales in the store;
top tags and how they change according to the number of reviews;
median revenue of new releases, as well as the gulf between the performance of top hits and 95% of other titles on Steam;
the most popular engines among the 2025 newcomers;
top releases in 2025 by peak concurrent players, including the most popular indie novelties;
leaders of the global Steam chart: which 2025 releases spent the most weeks in the top 100;
which new releases managed to top the weekly ranking of the best-selling games on Steam.