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This community of Steamworks developers is intended for sharing information regarding Steam and Steamworks development.

Please use the Discussions to ask Steam and Steamworks related questions. You'll also find FAQs and responses to other common questions in there.

And we'll post announcements for relevant updates and changes involving Steamworks SDK.

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Expanding Monthly Top Releases Charts

Today's Steam update includes a big refresh of Steam's monthly top-releases charts. You can read the detail about the update here: New: Steam's monthly top-releases charts get a refresh

In brief:

  • The monthly charts have been expanded to include the 50 top releases of each month (was previously only 20)

  • There is a new layout for the chart pages, including browsing by trailers, personalized recommendations, DLC, and filter options

  • Like our year-end charts, these are now broken down into gold, silver, and bronze tiers

Check out the latest chart: April 2025 top releases

How the charts are compiled

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.

These monthly charts are published on the 15th of the following month, at 10am Pacific Time.

More charts for more games

Originally started in April 2019, the monthly top-release charts were intended to highlight the wide variety of new games finding popularity on Steam. In the six years since that first post, we highlighted the incredible work of first-time developers, developers from dozens of different countries, developers using Steam Early Access, and of course games of all genres, themes, styles, and lengths.

Up to now, these monthly reports have been hand-built, which means that there was often quite a delay before we could release the results while we built the page, created custom artwork, and got everything translated into 29 languages. By automating that process, we can now release these charts exactly two weeks after the end of the month, allowing us to recognize the launch revenue from every game released that month as soon as possible.

Automating the process also allows us to run the calculations for all games ever released on Steam, which means you can now browse through past months for all time, even way back to 2004.

Front page visibility

These charts are featured on Steam's homepage for around a week, helping players catch up on the most popular releases of the past month.

Check out the latest chart: April 2025 top releases

SteamOS Compatibility
FAQ

What hardware does SteamOS Compatibility apply to?
Any hardware running SteamOS that’s not a Steam Deck. Currently the only other officially supported device running SteamOS is Lenovo Legion Go S, but we see this expanding to more devices in the future.

Do I need to do anything as a developer?
No, results are automatically generated from Steam Deck verification results without additional testing. Any new titles being tested for Steam Deck Compatibility will have its SteamOS Compatibility rating generated at the same time.

Where will people see this?
When customers are using a SteamOS device that is not a Steam Deck (like the Legion Go S running SteamOS), they will be presented with SteamOS Compatibility results in the Steam Store and Steam Client. These customers will still have access to Steam Deck results, and vice versa. When not on a SteamOS device, it will fall back to existing behavior (i.e. they will not see compatibility ratings in their Steam Library).

When will these results show up for customers?
We’re currently generating this data and making updates to the UI in Steam clients and in the store. We expect to ship this in the next few weeks.

Can my SteamOS Compatibility test results be worse than Deck Verified?
No. SteamOS Compatibility results will all be the same or higher than Steam Deck Verified results.

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