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2024 Marked Steam’s Peak Year for New Game Sales—Yet the Era of Endless Play Persists

Yesterday, Valve published its yearly “Steam Year In Review” blog post, a retrospective highlighting Steam feature additions and customer data trends from 2024. Calling 2024 “a year of growth,” Valve said Steam’s number of peak concurrent users is nearly twice what it was in March 2020—and last year, all those users were playing more new games than ever.

“2024 was the Steam platform’s best year ever in terms of customers buying newly released games,” Valve said. In 2024, new release revenue on Steam, which Valve defines as sales revenue from the first 30 days after a product’s release and any pre-purchases, was ten times higher than it was in 2014. More than 500 games earned more than $250,000 in new release sales, with more than 200 of those earning more than $1 million—an increase of 27% and 15% from 2023’s numbers, respectively.

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Valve also provided a chart (see above) showing steady increases in yearly new release revenues since 2017.


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