Valve’s 12 months In Assessment for Steam just lately launched, and revealed an attention-grabbing metric about its platform’s playerbase.
Subsequent to a breakdown of the video games customers performed this yr is a factoid that solely 15 % of Steam gamers spent their time on video games launched in 2024. Conversely, 47 % of gamers devoted their time to video games from the previous 1-7 years (or “latest favorites”), and 37 % performed titles from eight or extra years in the past (“classics”).
For comparability, 17 % of Steam customers performed 2022’s then-current video games, and 2023 was decrease at 9 %. The ratio of latest favorites for 2022 and 2023 have been 19 % and 52 %, respectively, and classics for annually have been 62 % and 38 %.
All through 2024, video games like Helldivers 2, Marvel Rivals, and Balatro noticed giant participant numbers or gross sales (or each). Nevertheless, Steam’s most-played titles are at the moment led by older, free-to-play titles: 2023’s Counter-Strike 2, 2013’s Dota 2, and 2017’s PUBG.
Behind these are Marvel Rivals and Path of Exile II, which each launched earlier this month. Sky’s Banana is the third sport of the yr to spherical out Steam’s High 10 most-played, and it was additionally launched this previous December.
As PCGamer notes, Steam additionally homes 201,695 video games. In accordance with SteamDB, this yr had 18,687 releases, up 30 % from 2023’s 14,313 video games.
