Year in Steam: in 2024, almost 19 thousand games were released on the service, and users spent more than 25 billion hours in virtual worlds
A fortnight ago, the Steam game service set a new record for peak online with almost 40 million people connected to it. However, several achievements became known towards the end of the year.
Here's What We Know
According to the SteamDB service, developers released 18,825 video games on Steam in 2024, which is 24% more than the previous year. Note that of this number, 14,888 games are classified as restricted. These games have restricted profiles because they don't meet a number of criteria, such as number of players or sales volume.
Graph of game releases on Steam since 2006
According to statistics, of all the new releases of the year, only 8,612 were created by independent developers. 14,311 projects are single-player, and 2,129 are multiplayer.
The average Steam user played four games in 2024, which is the same as the data for 2023, but one less than in 2022.
Steam users spent more than 25 billion hours playing games in 2024, equivalent to 2.85 million years. The most active regions were North America, Europe and Asia, with Asia seeing the highest growth in new users.
The most popular tags of the year were "Casual Games", "Adventure" and "Action".
Source: @SteamDB