Steam's Fishing Fest is on now, with boatloads of deals and demos all week long. From now through June 23rd at 10am Pacific, you'll catch discounts on games that plop you right in those waders for fishing of all kinds.

Commercial fishing? Yep. Casual fishing? You betcha. Navigating sinister waters to find fish? Of course!

Check out the official trailer above, or head straight over to the event now! Steam Fishing Fest, on now through June 23rd at 10am Pacific.

Steam now surfaces information on games with accessibility features as we aim to make it easier for players to find games with the support they need. This update comes after gathering valuable feedback from developers as well as players with disabilities, and over 5,000 applications have added details about their accessibility support (with more developers updating their games each day).

This information is surfaced throughout the store to help players more easily find games with these features, or filter down to games that support necessary features.

Steam users can now search for games with specific accessibility features on the Steam search page

Accessibility features for a specific game are now visible on the right hand side of the store page

Q. Where can I find more information on the Accessibility Tags that Steam uses?

A. You can find more information HERE.

Q. Are developers required to add accessibility tags for their games on Steam?

A. It's not required, but highly recommended because of how much easier it will be for players with accessibility needs to find these games. We've worked to make it as easy as possible for developers to indicate these features are available by using feedback to standardize these options as much as possible.

Q. Can developers still add Accessibility information to their app?

A. Yes, they can always update or add information on accessibility for apps at any time through Steamworks.

The June edition of Steam Next Fest is on, with hundreds of free demos available to play between now and June 16th.

We host Next Fest three times a year (February, June, October) as a way to give developers from around the world a captive audience for their demos on games they haven't released yet. If you already have a bunch of genres that are your faves, feel free to search that way. BUT we also encourage you to try something new-- check out the video player at the top of the main Next Fest hub for a new sprinkling of demos each day and perhaps discover your NEW favorite genre or theme!

Several developers are hosting livestreams as well, so be sure to check those out. Play free demos all week, and wishlist your favorites so you can be notified when the full game officially launches at a later date!

Enjoy the June edition of Steam Next Fest, on now through June 16th at 10am Pacific.

Steam's Zombies vs Vampires Fest is May 26th through June 2nd and is filled with deals on games with blood and brains! Er, games that have zombies and vampires who typically NEED blood and brains, we mean.

We have discounts and demos on zombie games and vampire games of all kinds, from the gory to the hilarious and everything in-between. Take a look at our trailer if you dare, or just shuffle your way straight to brains-- I mean, the sale-- on the official sale page.

Steam's Zombies vs. Vampires Fest, on now through June 2nd at 10am Pacific!

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

General

• Improved controller hotplug detection for some third party devices.

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games or switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

• Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.

• Fixed game preloads showing 0bps disk activity.

• Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

Steam Overlay

• Fixed links opened from chat window showing in desktop browser rather than overlay browser.

Big Picture Mode

• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.

Server Browser

• Fixed bug causing bots to contribute to the player count.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare Dualsense Edge gyroscope related bug.

Linux

• Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed when necessary.

• Fixed game recordings containing a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width was not a multiple of 64.

• Fixed Game Recording and Remote Play video streams showing green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.

Steamworks API

• GameOverlayActivated_t is now sent to the current VR app when the SteamVR Dashboard is opened or closed.

VR

• Fix a case where the Steam Link VR client would get a key mismatch error on stream start.

• Steam will no longer occasionally reload itself when SteamVR closes.

Today we've launched a refreshed set of charts for highlighting the most popular games (based on revenue) released on Steam each month. Check out the latest chart: April 2025 top releases

With today's update, the charts now include 50 of the most popular releases of each month and also makes it possible to flip through past months... all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2 in November 2004.

Missed some of the big launches from last month, last year, or even the last decade? Now it's even easier to see what big hits landed on Steam last month and every month before.

The layout of these updated monthly reports starts with a trailer section, letting you explore that month's top releases one trailer at a time.

On each chart with at least 50 releases, you'll find three tiers so you can tell the biggest releases of the month from the other notable releases, split out into gold, silver, and bronze tiers.

If newly released DLC is popular enough, it can also appear as ranked among the top 50 games released in that month. And, we also display a section to highlight DLC released in the month for games you play. This "DLC For You" section can draw from the top 50 DLC released in the month to show you the most relevant new content for you.

If you're looking for something specific, you can also scroll to the bottom of the page and filter the top 50 releases down by genre, theme, style, supported features, or tags. Find your jam!

These Top Monthly Releases charts look at the first two weeks of revenue for each of the games released during the month. The top games are then split up into tiers, starting with the top 12 games as gold tier, the next 12 games as silver tier, and the remaining games as bronze tier.

Originally started in April 2019, monthly charts are another way for players to discover a variety of new games finding popularity on Steam. Unfortunately, we've been re-building them each month by hand, leading to a less-than-consistent publishing cadence as we waited to complete all of the necessary work each time.

Until now!

Automating the process means we can now release these charts exactly 14 days after the end of each month, meaning we can surface the most popular releases of the month sooner. It also freed up our ability to get in our time machine and go alllll the way back to 2004, running calculations for all games ever released on Steam; which means you can now do some monthly browsing from the olden days too.

Q. Why do some months have fewer than 12 items in the gold or silver tiers?

A. Some products may not be available in your region, and thus we cannot show them in the charts

Q. Are Early Access games included?

A. Yes, games making use of Steam Early Access may appear on the chart for the month they launch into Early Access as well as the month they transition to a full 1.0 release.

Q. Are DLC included in these charts?

A. Yes, DLC can qualify on it's own if the sales of a particular item of DLC is significant enough to reach the top 50 list. Plus, there is a dedicated "DLC For You" section that will display the top 50 DLC released in the month, filtered down to just those for games in your library.

You may have seen reports of leaks of older text messages that had previously been sent to Steam customers. We have examined the leak sample and have determined this was NOT a breach of Steam systems.

We’re still digging into the source of the leak, which is compounded by the fact that any SMS messages are unencrypted in transit, and routed through multiple providers on the way to your phone.

The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.

You do not need to change your passwords or phone numbers as a result of this event. It is a good reminder to treat any account security messages that you have not explicitly requested as suspicious. We recommend regularly checking your Steam account security at any time at 

https://store.steampowered.com/account/authorizeddevices

We also recommend setting up the Steam Mobile Authenticator if you haven’t already, as it gives us the best way to send secure messages about your account and your account’s safety. 

• Fixed installed DLC not being recognized by some games.
  
• Fixed Steam client window not setting maximized state correctly at startup.
  
• Disable spellcheck suggestions for CD-Key input fields.
  
• Increase timeout before Steam will consider a steamwebhelper process unresponsive to reduce spurious failures when launch time is longer than expected.

• Fixed crash initializing the Steam Overlay in some games when using Parallels.