Nearly 5,900 Steam games earned more than $100,000 in 2025

At the Game Developers Conference on March 10, Valve presented Steam data in a talk led by communications lead Kaci Aitchison Boyle and business-side staffer Tom Giardino. Photographs of the slides were shared on BlueSky by GameDeveloper's Chris Kerr (first spotted by PCGN).

The headline figure: 5,863 games generated more than $100,000 in revenue on Steam in 2025. The slide showed steady growth over the past five years — in 2020 just over 3,000 games reached that level — and the total includes both large publishers and smaller developers finding considerable success on the platform.

The speakers also joked about a global RAM shortage as it relates to Valve's upcoming hardware, which the slides still list as arriving in 2026 despite a recent delay.

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