Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! I n fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.

Techopedia explores the 10 most played games on Steam in 2025, analyzes their all-time player counts, and explains why they are so popular.

The PSP was an excellent handheld console with a library of games covering classic JRPGs, action, sports, and more. Thanks to handheld PCs like the Steam Deck and the emulation program EmuDeck, you can run digital copies of your favorite PSP games without using the UMDs.

The Steam Deck led to a surge of handheld gaming PCs, but GPD has been making its own options since before Valve entered the scene. Now the company has revealed a new laptop-handheld hybrid, the GPD Win Mini 2025.