Boiling Steam

Following our recent article estimating the volume of Steam Machines currently sold on the market, I wanted to also go back to another very interesting piece of data and question: has the change of price of the Steam Deck in May 2026 had a big impact on the number of its sales? Not just in value, but in units sold? Turns out, we should be able to answer the question using a simi...

Between 2026-07-11 and 2026-07-18 we selected 14 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. Looks like game devs have stopped watching the World Cup as most teams are out and finally decided to ship their games! A LOT of good stuff in this past week - and if I had to pick two, that would ...

Valve is a fairly secretive company when it comes to how they perform: they have never published quarterly hardware sales figures for its consumer devices. They don’t track them in press releases, they don’t have earnings calls since they remain a private company, and they don’t treat unit volume as a front and center KPI on the store. There is maybe one exception: a few years b...

Between 2026-07-08 and 2026-07-15 there were 83 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 664 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.5 % of total released titles. It’s still summer and there’s not a lot of big games coming out, but there’s one about chopping trees that seems to be qui...

Between 2026-07-04 and 2026-07-11 we selected 4 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. We are still in the middle of summer so don’t expect a lot of big moves. We still get Palworld leaving Early Access with the 1.0, Verified for the Steam Deck. Let’s not forget Cat Mail Co., a game a...