Steam customers spent solely 15% of their whole gaming time on new releases in 2024, in keeping with the platform’s year-end evaluate, a rise from 9% in 2023 however beneath 2022’s 17%.
Legacy titles dominated playtime, with 47% spent on video games launched up to now seven years and 37% on titles older than eight years. New on-line video games like Helldivers 2 and Black Delusion: Wukong helped drive 2024’s modest uptick in new recreation engagement throughout Steam’s library of over 200,000 titles, whereas established service video games like Counter-Strike and Dota 2 maintained their long-standing reputation.