New games performed really well on Steam last year - notably better than the year before.

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Right, get ready for some chatter about where the contents of our collective wallets have gone over the past year. Valve's list of the highest-grossing games on Steam in 2025 has emerged from the great mists, and in a nice revelation, features a larger number of fresh releases than last year's ranking. That's alongside all of the moderately to quite old stuff which more folks keep hopping on the train of with every passing 12 month period.

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When I looked back on 2025 to assemble my advent calendar votes, I was surprised how many of them were smaller titles, especially in a year that saw both a new Silent Hill and Doom hitting the shelves. But then I remembered this year the Steam algorithm's whispered in my ear like the Green Goblin Mask to Norman Osborn, guiding me to lovely indie gems (and telling me to squash that Spider-Man).

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Dressing up your little robot guy in the early access co-op horror title R.E.P.O. normally would involve players downloading and installing mods, which is fine but isn’t exactly the most ideal situation possible. However, that’s going to change in the game’s next major update, as developer semiwork has announced that cosmetics are on their way […]