@tomgiardino.bsky.social
Generally games, generally Steam. Business at Valve.
In case you missed it: the top 50 demos from Steam Next Fest, October 2025
store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes...
The games are: Keeper, Zaccaria Pinball, Dispatch, Isopod, Painkiller, Necesse, Ila, Fellowship, Duckov, Swap Meat, Darkenstein 3-D, and RV There Yet.
My "released in the last 7 days" section if you're looking for an example or a comparison:
22.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New game discovery option from our team!
We're launching this feature as a Steam Labs experiment.
We'd like your feedback to help make the best possible version of this tool. Read on for more details.
store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...
Now that the October edition of Next Fest is officially closed, the Most-played demo recap is here! store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes...
If you want to join the bandwagon, come check out everyone else's favorite demos. Some of the demos are still up!
s e a t t l e
m a r i n e r s
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22.09.2025 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of the Steamworks UI showing "quick links to more detail", where a game developer can see revenue details and traffic details for a given discount date range.
Also cool: you'll also see automatic quick links on each historical discount.
15.09.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New from our team: see discount performance at a glance. Plus other useful stuff like revenue-per-day across the discount, and the number of times you've run that discount before.
store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...
Obi Wan Kenobi saying "Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time."
"A game you followed in Steam Greenlight has just released! (Adventure of Samsara)
"A game you followed in Steam Greenlight has just released!"
04.09.2025 17:03 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0@ichiro.bsky.social you were so ahead of your time wrt number of A's
store.steampowered.com/app/15520/Aa...
'my mother is cooking the meatloaf as we speak' is excellent shorthand for this whole concept
27.08.2025 02:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"When there are enough reviews written in a particular language, Steam will calculate a review score for that language. The Review Score displayed to users will be based on their primary language."
Learn more about our process and tradeoffs here:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...
wishlisted
18.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
new for game devs:
w i d e s t o r e
plus a big improvement if you like putting GIFs into your game description.
steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...
Feels weird to be talking about autumn and winter already, but: our big seasonal sale schedule looks a bit different this year. Game devs, check out the calendar if you want to plan ahead.
store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...
Useful resource for game developers thinking about Early Access for their next launch:
21.07.2025 17:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Steam Automation Fest is now live! Watch your head - this Fest is full of conveyor belts, factories, crafting, and all sorts of games that scratch the optimization itch. On now until July 21st!
store.steampowered.com/category/aut...
This story first dropped months ago but it's a phenomenal read.
05.07.2025 17:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
30.06.2025 06:54 — 👍 137 🔁 76 💬 7 📌 10Thanks for hosting us, Busan Indie Connect! #BusanIndieConnect
27.06.2025 22:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New today:
IPartnerFinancialsService is a simple new API which does pretty much what you'd expect: retrieves all the useful info about revenue, units, key activations, bundles, and in-game transactions.
Read more:
steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...
"Is this tale a simple flight of gripping, well-written fancy? (No.) Or a chilling glimpse into a future that could arrive as soon as Wednesday, August 27th with a second part arriving right before Halloween? (Yes, see paragraph one.)"
www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...
The June 2025 edition of Steam Next Fest just kicked off.
Hundreds of free demos for upcoming games, go nuts:
store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
It's that magical time of year for game announcements and events. We built a showcase of all the showcases:
store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_...
Next Fest (the June 2025 Edition) and its thousands of demos have arrived! For the next week, try out demos for upcoming games of all kinds, from gritty FPS titles to cozy farming titles. Be sure to wishlist your favorites!
store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
The new "What You See Is What You Get" editor that we recently shipped for Steam store pages has now arrived for Steam Events, too.
store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...
The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid
27.05.2025 16:12 — 👍 3352 🔁 1400 💬 117 📌 75
Recent Steam updates have improved the Developer and Publisher Homepages to address feedback that we've been hearing from game creators. We've made it much easier to link new games with your existing developer or publisher homepage; enabled the display of social media accounts on your homepage; and are now showing the creators in more places.
We have a cool feature on Steam for studios and publishers to show off their games, and build up followers over time. Big update to that feature: we just made it way easier to link games and show off your company to players.
More at steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...
Now including official support for the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S, plus a bunch more good stuff
22.05.2025 21:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our Steam Charts display has existed for a while now, including monthly recaps of top releases. But this is a great improvement with even more data and transparency, take a look!
16.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
