Over 500 Games on Steam Earned $250K+ in First 30 Days Last Year, 27% Up From 2023

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More Than 200 Titles Earned Over $1Million!

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  • Valve has revealed new metrics for Steam in its 2024 report, confirming that over 500 new titles earned $250K in their first 30 days last year. 
  • This metric saw a rise of 27% compared to 2023, with more than 200 titles surpassing the $1 million revenue mark.
  • Steam Deck has also been performing well, gaining 330 million hours of playtime last year, a 64% increase from 2023. 

It’s no surprise that Steam has become the unquestioned hub of PC gaming over the last two decades, with a plethora of games and offers keeping players interested to no end. Now, it seems that Valve’s focus on satisfying gamers over profit-chasing has paid off yet again.

Valve has published the Steam Year in Review 2024 report, unveiling that over 500 new games earned over $250,000 in their first thirty days. This figure has grown up to 27% compared to 2023, showing that Steam is still growing massively.

Why it matters: One would expect Steam to have already hit its peak and become a stagnant market over the years, but Valve’s gamer-centric decision-making has been paying off wildly. 

The chart shared by Valve shows the growth of yearly new game release revenue since 2017 | Source: Valve

The report shows that over 200 new games made over $1 million in revenue during their first 30 days, rising above 15% from 2023. Additionally, new release revenue per year for games has grown nearly 10 times since the last decade.

2024 was a remarkable year for new releases, but that success is part of a trend stretching back many years, as we continue to create more opportunity for developers launching new titles.

-Valve

The Steam Year in Review 2024 also reveals that Steam Deck expanded to new regions and generated over 330 hours of playtime last year, a 64% increase from 2023. Now, 17,000 games either fall in the ‘playable’ or ‘verified’ categories for the handheld. 

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Steam recently also hit a historic milestone with 40 million concurrent users.

The report also shows that the platform nearly doubled its peak concurrent users since March 2020; the active player count was presumed to stagnate after the pandemic ended, but the opposite happened.

Do you think the new metrics revealed in Steam’s 2024 review suggest the store is still yet to reach new heights, or has Valve hit its peak? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, or join the discussion on the Tech4Gamers forum.

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