Valve revealed at the 2025 Game Developers Conference that 33.7% of Steam users have their primary language set to Chinese, surpassing English by 0.2%. This data was not obtained from hardware surveys but directly from Valve’s own report.
Interestingly, Thai language users account for 0.6%, ranking 14th among all 29 languages on Steam.
Other intriguing tidbits from Valve’s report include the continued popularity of Early Access games on Steam, with over 50% transitioning out of Early Access within a year. The Friend invite-only playtest system, which showed promising results with the game Deadlock, will soon be more widely available to developers.
Valve will soon upload the full video on Steamworks’ YouTube channel.
Source: r/Games
TLDR: Valve’s report at the 2025 Game Developers Conference shows a significant number of Chinese language users on Steam, with interesting trends in Early Access games and upcoming features for developers.
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