Note: this beta was re-released on March 18th with additional fixes

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games or switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

• Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games.

• Fixed SteamOS compatible devices showing SteamDeck Verified installation warnings instead of the SteamOS Compatible version.

Desktop Mode

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

• Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

• Deathmatch mode now allows unbalanced teams.

• Fixed a case where molotov and incendiary fire was visible through the AK-47 viewmodel.
• Fixed a case where stickers covering the gap on the front grip of the AK-47 weren't lit correctly in left hand mode.
• Fixed a case where inventory item icons rendered incorrectly while scoped in-game.

• Shortened front end of the AK-47 fire sound.
• Reduced delay for body shot impact sounds from the attacker perspective.
• Body shot impact sounds from the attacker perspective will momentarily reduce the volume of weapon fire and ambience to help ensure feedback remains audible.

Today we've launched a refreshed set of charts for highlighting the most popular games (based on revenue) released on Steam each month. Check out the latest chart: April 2025 top releases

With today's update, the charts now include 50 of the most popular releases of each month and also makes it possible to flip through past months... all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2 in November 2004.

Missed some of the big launches from last month, last year, or even the last decade? Now it's even easier to see what big hits landed on Steam last month and every month before.

The layout of these updated monthly reports starts with a trailer section, letting you explore that month's top releases one trailer at a time.

On each chart with at least 50 releases, you'll find three tiers so you can tell the biggest releases of the month from the other notable releases, split out into gold, silver, and bronze tiers.

If newly released DLC is popular enough, it can also appear as ranked among the top 50 games released in that month. And, we also display a section to highlight DLC released in the month for games you play. This "DLC For You" section can draw from the top 50 DLC released in the month to show you the most relevant new content for you.

If you're looking for something specific, you can also scroll to the bottom of the page and filter the top 50 releases down by genre, theme, style, supported features, or tags. Find your jam!

These Top Monthly Releases charts look at the first two weeks of revenue for each of the games released during the month. The top games are then split up into tiers, starting with the top 12 games as gold tier, the next 12 games as silver tier, and the remaining games as bronze tier.

Originally started in April 2019, monthly charts are another way for players to discover a variety of new games finding popularity on Steam. Unfortunately, we've been re-building them each month by hand, leading to a less-than-consistent publishing cadence as we waited to complete all of the necessary work each time.

Until now!

Automating the process means we can now release these charts exactly 14 days after the end of each month, meaning we can surface the most popular releases of the month sooner. It also freed up our ability to get in our time machine and go alllll the way back to 2004, running calculations for all games ever released on Steam; which means you can now do some monthly browsing from the olden days too.

Q. Why do some months have fewer than 12 items in the gold or silver tiers?

A. Some products may not be available in your region, and thus we cannot show them in the charts

Q. Are Early Access games included?

A. Yes, games making use of Steam Early Access may appear on the chart for the month they launch into Early Access as well as the month they transition to a full 1.0 release.

Q. Are DLC included in these charts?

A. Yes, DLC can qualify on it's own if the sales of a particular item of DLC is significant enough to reach the top 50 list. Plus, there is a dedicated "DLC For You" section that will display the top 50 DLC released in the month, filtered down to just those for games in your library.

You may have seen reports of leaks of older text messages that had previously been sent to Steam customers. We have examined the leak sample and have determined this was NOT a breach of Steam systems.

We’re still digging into the source of the leak, which is compounded by the fact that any SMS messages are unencrypted in transit, and routed through multiple providers on the way to your phone.

The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.

You do not need to change your passwords or phone numbers as a result of this event. It is a good reminder to treat any account security messages that you have not explicitly requested as suspicious. We recommend regularly checking your Steam account security at any time at 

https://store.steampowered.com/account/authorizeddevices

We also recommend setting up the Steam Mobile Authenticator if you haven’t already, as it gives us the best way to send secure messages about your account and your account’s safety. 

• Fixed a bug where weapons purchased with "Buy & Throw" could be refunded after firing.

• Season Two world and regional leaderboards are now populated.

• Added HUD "Glow Weapon with Rarity Color" setting.
• Minimally scraped stickers now cover over the gap on the front grip of the AK-47.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed battery percentage not showing in the header when the battery is full.

• Clicking on the battery header icon now navigates to Settings->Power.

• Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed based on Steam Deck compatibility testing results.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

• Fixed game preloads showing 0bps disk activity.

Big Picture

• Remove empty Power settings page.

Linux

• Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed when necessary.

• Fixed a bug where searching for Defusal Group Alpha would lead to Anubis and Defusal Group Delta would lead to Vertigo.

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes).

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes).

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes).

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes).

• Remastered various UI sounds.

• Various crash fixes and stability improvements.
• Various fixes for running on Linux with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland.

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Preview channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed a launch failure with DOOM: The Dark Ages

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

Note: This update was re-released with additional changes.

General

• Fixed controller not working intermittently after Steam restart.

• Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.

Desktop Mode

• Fixed regression causing friends and chat windows to not load properly when Steam shows the login window at startup.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

Note: This update was re-released with additional changes.

General

• Fixed regression causing friends and chat windows to not load properly when Steam shows the login window at startup.

• Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.

• Fixed a case where mission progress appeared to be reset when reconnecting to a match in-progress.

• Grail:
• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes).

• Fixed a case where fire was visible through smoke.

• Various UI sound bug fixes and tweaks.

• Various crash fixes and stability improvements.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Added Battery Charge Limit control to Settings->Power

  • This option allows you to set a maximum charge limit for your Steam Deck.

  • Limiting the charge limit to 80% can be beneficial for long term battery health. This can be useful if your Steam Deck is constantly being charged (i.e. docked), or very rarely has its battery depleted.

• Moved display dim and suspend timeout settings to Settings->Power.

• Moved 'Show Battery Percentage' setting to Settings->Power.

• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare DualSense Edge gyroscope related bug.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

Steam Overlay

• Fixed links opened from chat window showing in desktop browser rather than overlay browser.

Big Picture Mode

• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare Dualsense Edge gyroscope related bug.

Steamworks API

• GameOverlayActivated_t is now sent to the current VR app when the SteamVR Dashboard is opened or closed.

VR

• Fix a case where the Steam Link VR client would get a key mismatch error on stream start.

Linux

• Fixed game recordings containing a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width was not a multiple of 64.

• Added Weekly Missions, which can be entered though the main menu or play menu.
• Players receive one mission each week.
• The weekly mission expires after 7 days and rewards XP for completion.

• Removed community maps Basalt, Edin, Palais, and Whistle from all game modes.
• Added community maps Jura, Grail, and Agency to Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes.
• Added community maps Dogtown and Brewery to Wingman mode.
• Re-organized Casual and Deathmatch map groups.
• Defusal Group Alpha: Dust 2, Mirage, Inferno, Vertigo.
• Defusal Group Delta: Train, Anubis, Ancient, Overpass, Nuke.
• Community Map Group: Jura, Grail, Agency.
• Hostage Group: Office, Italy.

• Added "Main Menu Ambience Volume" setting.
• Fixed some cases where shooting visible enemies over the top of smoke would not play an attacker feedback sound.
• Fixed some cases where gameplay sounds were inaudible or would skip.
• Removed snd_setmixer, snd_setmixlayer, snd_soundmixer_setmixlayer_amount, and snd_soundmixer_set_trigger_factor console commands.

• Fixed a bug where input bindings to scancode56 (US English key "/") wouldn't persist across app launches.
• Lobby invites from players marked with "Block All Communication" in Steam will now be ignored in-game.

• Added three all-new weapon collections to the Weekly Care Package drop list: Ascent, Boreal, and Radiant
• Removed four weapon collections from the Weekly Care Package drop list: Bank, Italy, Lake, and the original Train collection

• Added new Armory Content:
• The Train 2025 Collection
• The Fever Case
• A new Limited Edition Item: the XM1014 | Solitude

• Adjusted Banana to more closely match the size of the CS:GO version
• Simplified background behind T ramp
• Simplified view into Pit
• Simplified background of Bombsite B
• Removed step on sides of Arch hallway
• Removed pixel gap at Coffin
• Adjusted crates on steps up to balcony so players step up reliably
• Adjusted or removed props throughout map
• Adjusted Player and Grenade collision throughout map

• Fixed a bug where player shadows would render through windows above A main
• Fixed some holes in the world
• Simplified back wall by door to Z
• Simplified background by upper B entrance
• Shortened overhead roof rail in A site, to make it easier to throw utility into site
• Replaced see-through grating on catwalk outside of Z door
• Replaced see-through fences at top if Ivy with solid version
• Simplified brick wall by Ivy
• Fixed grenade collision on upper B arch

• Updated Basalt to the latest version from Steam Workshop (Update Notes)

• Added ability to author and submit patterns for the Missing Link Charm to Counter-Strike 2 Steam Workshop.

• Inferno
• Fixed roof geometry at church that was visible from boiler entrance.

• Fixed a case where voice chat would break after unloading a Steam Workshop map.
• Fixed a case where game client would crash if certain community server plugins were restricting networking of player entities.
• Fixed several bugs in applying patches UI.

• Fixed sizing and scaling of UI elements shared between buy menu and in-game HUD.
• Fixed a bug with armor display for CSTV spectators.
• Updated alternate AK-47 inspect animation.

• Increased supported upload size for Counter-Strike 2 Steam Workshop Maps to 3 GB.

• Adjusted the logic that determines when players are too far apart in CS Rating to participate in matchmaking together as a party. In most cases, players who used to play together as a party in Premier Season One will be able to party together in Premier Season Two.

• Added "Get Service Medal" UI element directly to the main menu profile card.
• Fixed a case where main menu profiles were missing display medals.
• Updated Dust II radar image to be more accurate.

• Fixed a case where inspect or reload button presses could cause prediction errors.

• Fixed AUG scope stencil filter bug near water surfaces.
• Fixed Premier progress bar not displaying properly in low resolutions.
• Fixed certain UI panels not rendering transparently when using CMAA2 and HDR performance settings simultaneously.
• Improved dynamic radar scale to snap size when a newly discovered enemy/C4 enters radar view, but still shrink gradually when enemy/C4 disappears and enough time passes.
• Fixed radar scale settings UI to support full range of radar scale from 0.25 to 1.0 values.
• Fixed sounds from Train inspect scenery not getting cleared when going back to the main menu.
• Fixed misprediction error smoothing near walls to avoid clipping through walls.
• Fixed cloth simulation bug on loopback=1 local servers.

• Basalt - updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes).

• Activated Premier Season Two progress indicator in the play menu.
• Fixed regressions with AUG/SG scope graphics.

• Premier Season Two is here, and Premier matchmaking has resumed
• Every player who earned a CS Rating during Season One will receive a commemorative Premier Season One Medal which includes detailed Season Statistics
• Every player will have their CS Rating recalibrated based on their Season One performance, and will need to re-establish their CS Rating by winning 10 matches
• Train has been added to the Active Duty map pool
• Vertigo has been removed from the Active Duty map pool

• M4A4 price reduced to $2,900
• FAMAS accuracy improved and price reduced to $1,950
• Reduced crouching accuracy for the MP9, MP5-SD, and MP7
• Adjusted scope dot on AUG/SG to be more useable at range

• Added a new radar dynamic zoom option that will grow or shrink the radar to include your team mates, bomb and other detected elements
• Adjusted grenade order in spectator UI to match weapon selection order
• Increased brightness of carried C4 in UI

• Removed a boost angle from Long Dog to Bombsite A
• Fixed lighting artifacts on double-sided materials

• Added fallback logic to allow playing incomplete demo files, either copied from an ongoing live match or recovered after a game server crash
• Fixed an exploit where users could use secondary fire on R8 Revolver and then sell it back
• Counter-strafe summaries are now available in game server log data distributed via log address in addition to console logs

• Premier Season One is now over, and Premier matchmaking has been temporarily disabled.

• Minor performance optimization for some CPU-bound cases.
• Follow recoil setting during spectating will now obey spectator target's crosshair setting if target's crosshair is shown.
• Added support for updating existing map annotations on Steam Workshop. For example use "workshop_annotation_submit 123456" to update your submission ID=123456 found in the workshop URL. Passing an ID that does not belong to you will create a brand new submission. After the first update the ID will get embedded in the annotation file and you can submit more changes without having to provide the ID again.

• Updating Steam libraries for Linux game servers to the latest version of Steam Client Beta
• Improved Linux game servers ability to reconnect to Steam after a disconnection
• Stability improvements

• Shanghai 2024 Major sticker capsules are now on sale for 75% off

• Desert Eagle | Heat Treated is no longer available to claim from The Armory

• Fixed finger placement during Huntsman knife in-game inspect animation
• Fixed a bug where grenade icons weren't disappearing on the spectator map
• Fixed a case when spectator icon could show up at the wrong time on the radar
• Fixed a bug related to changing inspect scenery while inspecting knives

• Train
• Fixed various minor visual bugs and gaps in world
• Added dirt and wetness onto crates and tarps where appropriate
• Widened opening on A site between Hell and Tunnels
• Opened container door on back of the train near Ivy/Tunnels
• Added dumpster by Ivy
• Added barrels in A site cubby
• Pushed back T spawns a little

• Fixed a case where ragdolls could get created with extreme initial velocities
• Added markup for individual matches in Steam Game Recording timeline
• Fixed a regression where deploying weapons weren't allowing immediate inspecting
• Fixed fingers crossing into butterfly knife geometry during inspect animation
• Fixed weekly care package preview of weapon cases not having a close button
• When moving away from annotation nodes, required grenade is no longer removed