Valve has released Steam Year in review of 2024The platform holder in which we all sink into beautiful stats and gives a snapshot of how we treat the de facto PC gaming standard. It turns out that people really love their steam decks!
The most interesting deep dive comes closer to the end of the dive, when the valve goes in detail on new users: basically it breaks why people create a steam account, and then their general behavior. Surprisingly, the valve has seen a “encouraging pattern” around the new users.
Valve Business Team writes, “Hit new releases are best in preparing buyers for the first time, and we have tried to make a lot of platform features to wander around these new users, find more excellent games and encourage friends.”
“We have returned to 2023 and identified the largest 20 releases this year’s largest release of this year. We saw every new first time manufactured by these products (ie, buying in an account, or releasing the key to the first time the steam key).”
So out of the 1.7 million new accounts generated from the largest release of 2023, from January 2024 to early March 2025, they did.
“The 1.7 million users who started with the release of 2023, enjoyed more than 141 million hours’ playtime in additional games, in the upper part of any play time from the game that brought them to the plane.
“And they were not just playing sports-they were buying new things too. That a group of players spend 20 million on sports transactions in hundreds of other sports.
In other words, not only did these 1.7 million new consumers move beyond their initial purchase, but they spent $ 93 million more in one year. This is about $ 55, which, if you are sensible when and what you buy on steam, can really grow too much (or you can only buy Sims extension).
Valve believes that such a state has proven that “steam is not just a store front-it provides a deep set of game enhancement features to attract and maintain and maintain and maintain and maintain these players, which will test new sports in the future.”
It is difficult to argue with it, though there is another nogate when the Valve first discusses one of the most successful launches of 2024 via the giant, TCG Card Shop Simulator Malaysian Studio Open by Malaysian. Valves are particularly interested in it because (a) it is a solo giant and (b) Malaysia is only 0.5 % of global steam traffic.
Basically, the success of the TCG card shop simulator is making it clear that anyone, anywhere, is shot at the steam success, even relatively smaller (in terms of number of players) for the first time a solo developer from the region. It sold more than a million copies in its first month, and the valve is particularly happy that the audience reflects on the global makeup platform: “The 10 largest game region of the game by units is Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Pakistan, Taiwan, and the United States.”
Cooker? “Remember the new customers we have mentioned above – those who made their first purchase on the first new release in 2023 and to buy more games around around around around around around around around around around around. There was a shopping here.
It may not seem like more than 10,000 out of 1.7 million, but, then, we’re talking about a very niche title here. You can, in fact, argue that 10,000 sales suggest how successful the steam is in retaining the new PC gamers, and somehow is the top of the content that takes a lot of interest in purchasing them.
I am in fact difficult to remember that when the steam was not part of my PC gaming experience, I am now a passionate old hand: the new blood flows, and somehow the broader message is clear. Not only is the steam rising at a tremendous rate, and “for most players and most players are breaking the record”, but those new users are very fond of their thing.
