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Expanding Monthly Top Releases Charts

May 15 - Alden | 8 Comments

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

May 12 - Lawrence | 48 Comments

Hello! Today we are announcing a new compatibility rating system for SteamOS devices. It’s an extension of the Steam Deck Verified process, which has been a useful tool for players to make decisions around what games to purchase and play on their Steam Decks. With the Legion Go S – Powered by SteamOS shipping soon, we are expanding Deck Verified and introducing SteamOS Compatibility ratings. These new ratings will roll out over the next few weeks.

The SteamOS Compatibility system covers any device running SteamOS that’s not a Steam Deck (currently only the Legion Go S falls under this category). SteamOS Compatibility ratings are based on a subset of the Steam Deck Compatibility testing results and are meant to show at a glance whether a game and all of its middleware is supported on SteamOS. This includes features like game functionality, launcher functionality, and anti-cheat support.

If a game and all of its middleware are supported on SteamOS, we will mark it as SteamOS Compatible. If not, it’s marked as SteamOS Unsupported. Please note that this rating does not include testing results for performance and input, since we will not know (and have not tested) how all titles will run on all potential hardware. We expect over 18,000 titles on Steam to be marked SteamOS compatible out of the gate.

Steam developers don't need to take any additional action. If your title already has a Steam Deck Compatibility rating, an automated process will use that data to give it a SteamOS Compatibility rating. For titles that have not yet been tested for Steam Deck Compatibility, the same queue system applies, and we will continue testing new and old titles based on community interest. Once a new title has been tested, both Steam Deck and SteamOS ratings will be generated simultaneously. When this feature is rolled out, SteamOS Compatibility results will show up on your partner dashboard next to Steam Deck Compatibility results.

Customers running SteamOS on non-Steam Deck devices will see these new ratings show up in the Store and in the Steam Client. It will look something like this:

We are excited about SteamOS coming to additional hardware and are continuing to work on ways for people to have a better understanding of how games will run on their specific devices. We see this as just the first step.

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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