Valve: 5,863 Games on Steam Earned More Than $100,000 in 2025
More games are reaching significant results despite the market saturation.
Valve shared data at GDC’26.
Peak concurrent users on Steam reached 42 million, with peak in-game CCU hitting 13.9 million.
Valve’s data shows that more games are finding their audience on the platform despite ongoing concerns about market oversaturation. In 2025, 5,863 games earned more than $100,000, an all-time record.
In 2025, Valve expanded the Daily Deals feature, increasing the number of slots to 1,500 (69% of featured games had never been featured before).
8.2 million people purchased a game through the Daily Deal program, with buyer count up 125% in 2025.
More than 50% of active Steam users in 2025 played on more than one device. Valve recommends that developers support Steam Cloud.
66% of Steam players have a primary language other than English. Valve considers localization the single most obvious and impactful investment a developer can make to achieve broad success.