Valve’s Year In Review for Steam revealed that only 15% of Steam players spent their time on games released in 2024. 47% of players devoted their time to games from the past 1-7 years (or “recent favorites”), and 37% played titles from eight or more years ago (“classics”).

That 15% is a significant increase over the 9% of playtime spent in 2023 on new games released that year (though it’s down on the 17% of time folks spent in new games in 2022). So 2024 has actually seen a bit of a bounce back from last year.

Links:

• https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/15-percent-of-steam-users-played-2024-s-game-releases