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Steam just had its most profitable period in its entire 22-year history, raking in $11 billion in the last six months \u2014 and it’s mostly thanks to older games.<\/p>\n

As shown in data aggregated by Alinea Analytics<\/u><\/a>, this figure rivals what the platform grossed in the whole of 2020 during the peak of the pandemic ($7.2 billion), and much of it was due to purchases of older video games.<\/p>\n

In fact, only 21% of purchases from January – June were for titles released in 2026. That means a whopping 79% of games bought by players were from 2025 or older. This trend has only been increasing in recent years, with just 29% of 2024 revenue coming from games released that year, and 27% in 2025 from that year\u2019s titles.<\/p>\n

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Alinea Analytics\u2019 breakdown of games purchased on Steam in the last six months show that titles released in 2026 made up the platform\u2019s biggest earners thus far, with Forza Horizon 6<\/a>, Resident Evil Requiem<\/a>, and Crimson Desert<\/a> taking the top three spots, earning $197.6M, $194.5M, and $190.1M, respectively.<\/p>\n

While these are the most-purchased games on Steam in 2026, it seems a bevy of releases from years past are making up the bulk of its revenue right now. <\/p>\n

As told by Rhys Elliott in the Alinea Insights Newsletter, several trends are to thank for this explosive six month period: a surge of new users in Asia (specifically China), new games selling for higher prices, co-op titles like Meccha Chameleon<\/a> (Steam\u2019s sixth most-purchased game this year) going viral, third-party publishers switching back to Steam after attempting to peddle their own launchers, and more publishers re-releasing their back catalogues of older games.<\/p>\n

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Steam\u2019s 2026 earnings have already nearly outpaced what it made in 2021 ($11.4 billion), with Elliott stating the platform has almost quintupled its half-year revenue in ten years.<\/p>\n

With the Steam Machine\u2019s release<\/a> on the horizon, we could be looking at a massively dominant year for the company as more consoles edge toward digital-only releases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at <\/em>@TheeMissGlaze<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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