New options on Steam make it easier for developers and mod authors to work together in ensuring compatibility of mods as games evolve. Extremely cool for games that have an active mod community! store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

Steam Replay 2025 is out!

"Due to breach in the Desimone Levee, this area is under a GO NOW evacuation notice. Leave immediately if you are in this area."

It's Steam Awards season again- go visit store.steampowered.com/steamawards/... (or via the Steam client or mobile app) to submit your nominations.

you had me at high-stakes volleyball roguelite store.steampowered.com/app/3861120/...

Welcome to fam, ya'll! -Steam Controller -Steam Machine -Steam Frame (Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)

smart little improvement for Steam Deck

In case you missed it: the top 50 demos from Steam Next Fest, October 2025 store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes...

New game discovery option from our team! We're launching this feature as a Steam Labs experiment. We'd like your feedback to help make the best possible version of this tool. Read on for more details. store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

Now that the October edition of Next Fest is officially closed, the Most-played demo recap is here! store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes... If you want to join the bandwagon, come check out everyone else's favorite demos. Some of the demos are still up!

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New from our team: see discount performance at a glance. Plus other useful stuff like revenue-per-day across the discount, and the number of times you've run that discount before. store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

"A game you followed in Steam Greenlight has just released!"

"When there are enough reviews written in a particular language, Steam will calculate a review score for that language. The Review Score displayed to users will be based on their primary language." Learn more about our process and tradeoffs here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

new for game devs: w i d e s t o r e plus a big improvement if you like putting GIFs into your game description. steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Feels weird to be talking about autumn and winter already, but: our big seasonal sale schedule looks a bit different this year. Game devs, check out the calendar if you want to plan ahead. store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

Useful resource for game developers thinking about Early Access for their next launch:

Steam Automation Fest is now live! Watch your head - this Fest is full of conveyor belts, factories, crafting, and all sorts of games that scratch the optimization itch. On now until July 21st! store.steampowered.com/category/aut...

This story first dropped months ago but it's a phenomenal read.

Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Thanks for hosting us, Busan Indie Connect! #BusanIndieConnect

New today: IPartnerFinancialsService is a simple new API which does pretty much what you'd expect: retrieves all the useful info about revenue, units, key activations, bundles, and in-game transactions. Read more: steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

"Is this tale a simple flight of gripping, well-written fancy? (No.) Or a chilling glimpse into a future that could arrive as soon as Wednesday, August 27th with a second part arriving right before Halloween? (Yes, see paragraph one.)" www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

The June 2025 edition of Steam Next Fest just kicked off. Hundreds of free demos for upcoming games, go nuts: store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

It's that magical time of year for game announcements and events. We built a showcase of all the showcases: store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_...

Next Fest (the June 2025 Edition) and its thousands of demos have arrived! For the next week, try out demos for upcoming games of all kinds, from gritty FPS titles to cozy farming titles. Be sure to wishlist your favorites! store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

The new "What You See Is What You Get" editor that we recently shipped for Steam store pages has now arrived for Steam Events, too. store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

We have a cool feature on Steam for studios and publishers to show off their games, and build up followers over time. Big update to that feature: we just made it way easier to link games and show off your company to players. More at steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Now including official support for the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S, plus a bunch more good stuff

Our Steam Charts display has existed for a while now, including monthly recaps of top releases. But this is a great improvement with even more data and transparency, take a look!

go collect some cute little guys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEe...

The official Steamworks bsky account is now live. Game devs, give us a follow over at @partner.steamgames.com to learn about new tools, features, updates, data, and more. You can also follow us directly within Steam at steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

The Steam store and desktop client will soon be able to help players find games that feature accessibility support. Game devs, learn more here (and go enter any relevant accessibility feature info for your games!) store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

Lots of productive and thoughtful conversations with game developers in San Francisco this week. Thanks to everybody who made time for us. Check out the Year in Review if you haven't already, and follow that Steamworks blog for future updates and info. steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Today we shared the 2024 Year In Review, a summary of all the cool new tools and features we added to Steam last year. (plus some interesting data points about how the platform is growing). store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

I loved the whole thing, but especially this part. Thank you to March of 2022, shout out to stepping away from a project so that you can return to it with gusto later. And thank you @localthunk.bsky.social .

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Next Fest wrap-up: bravo to the 50 most-played demos in this most recent fest. store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes... So many cool games here 👍

yes, yes it is

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Big news from us: steamcommunity.com/groups/steam... "2,843 games from 1,160 different developers and publishers were featured in Daily Deals. These games came from developers in 68 different countries around the world."

This action is a direct hit to our economy, because NOAA’s specialized workforce provides products and services that support more than a third of the nation’s GDP. (3/3)

People want things to work and they want to be safe. Talk about the direct consequences of things like cutting FAA staff for airline safety. It would be helpful for pilots, flight attendant and crew unions to be doing this publicly and also privately through lobbying

Focus on the very unpopular aspects of the cuts. You can't go to national parks if there are no park rangers and it's unsafe to go there. National parks are very popular!

Scheduling info for game devs! steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

The "Legion Go S - Powered by SteamOS" is the first officially licensed third-party handheld powered by SteamOS. steamcommunity.com/games/593110...

shout out to anybody assembling a bicycle tonight, updating the software on a console tonight, etc

Best of 2024 - New Releases store.steampowered.com/sale/bestof2... (see the other tabs for most played, top vr, etc)