In December 2025, Valve's Steam digital storefront reached a new single-month revenue record, generating $1.6 billion in sales, according to data from Alinea Analytics. The figure reflects transactions completed by more than 100 million gamers over the course of the month.
The December 2025 total represents a 22.7% increase compared with the same month a year earlier. The reported surge in spending underscores a particularly strong holiday period for the platform.
Data show that the highest volume of unit sales occurred in the stretch from December 21 to January 4, when copies of ARC Raiders were sold in the greatest numbers. Despite ARC Raiders topping the copy-sales chart for that interval, the top-grossing title for the month was Counter-Strike 2.
For context, one of Steam's previously most lucrative months was December 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the platform's monthly revenue reached $1.4 billion.