The ever-helpful SteamDB stat tracker reveals that as we enter the final few hours of 2024, a massive 18,965 games (at the time of writing) have

Valve has published its Steam year in review 2024 along with a list of the top-selling and most-played games. The best sellers in terms of gross revenue include a lot of free-to-play titles like Counter Strike 2, PUBG Battlegrounds and Apex Legends. Paid for titles include Space Marine II, Black Myth Wukong, Elden Ring and Palworld.

The number of new games that hit Steam every year continues to jump to ridiculous figures, and this year has been no different.

Game releases on Steam have grown exponentially in recent years; image credit: SteamDB.

As 2024 draws to a close, Steam celebrates a remarkable year with its annual 'Best of Steam' list, highlighting the most successful games.

Steam sales used to be a big event. Logging in every day to check the flash sales and peruse the deep discounts was exciting and frequently rewarding. My friends and I would fill our carts with every co-op game under $5 we could find and spend the rest of Christmas break sampling our haul.