Alden Kroll

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Oh, fun! To celebrate the launch of the Steam Controller, we get special coffee art in the Valve office today ☕

Hey game devs! If you have questions about Steam Next Fest, there's a good chance that we answered it in our virtual Q&A session on Tuesday. Here is a recording, complete with easy bookmarks to jump around to specific questions. youtube.com/watch?v=tcI4jP…

Something people miss about Steam Link is that you can remote into your PC easily from anywhere in the world as long as Steam is still running I’m miles away from my home, headset connected to my phone’s hotspot. And able to play certain games quite fluidly

Game dev Cakez77 and his wife react after finding out his game earned $250,000 after going viral

Congratulations to Hollow Knight: Silksong for winning Game of the Year in the 2025 Steam Awards! store.steampowered.com/steamawards/20… Visit the page to see the full list of winners, including Arc Raiders, Hades 2, PEAK, Dispatch, Clair Obscur, and more.

Steam's Best of 2025 Chart is now available! Sort by top sellers, new releases, player count, and more - how did your favorites stack up against the rest? store.steampowered.com/charts/bestofy…

More fun updates from the Steam Team!

Another little addition to the Steam shopping experience: See all of the bundles that a game is in. store.steampowered.com/news/group/414…

Game devs: A new Steamworks update gives you neat summary of the revenue generated and units sold in each of your past discounts. store.steampowered.com/news/group/414…

@deathtaxesacid Yeah, I've definitely seen game developers put buttons in the main menu of their demo with calls to action like wishlist, report bugs, etc. If you want to link to your full game's store page, you can use a steam API call to open the steam overlay to that page.

@aldenkroll hey man thanks for the next fest info session today. I had a question that I didn't see covered anywhere. are there any best practises to implement in our demo for encouraging player action outside the game? e.g. asking for wishlists or follows on socials

Seattle-area game devs (and devs coming to town for PAX): I’ll be doing a Steam Q&A at a new one-day B2B game developers conference in Seattle two days ahead of PAX. Wednesday, August 27. SeattleSLICE.org

Video: Steam Early Access in 2025 We talked with a number of game developers that have been using Steam Early Access for their games. This video highlights some of the key advice that these developers shared with us. youtube.com/watch?v=qNYkK1…

So many neat games announced over the past week or so in all the various showcase events. Steam has a nice way to explore them all here: store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_sh…

Here are 20 ways to run a game marketing campaign without a marketing budget 💸 Keep scrolling 🧵👇

A few of us that work on Steam will be at gamescom latam, May 1 and 2 to meet with game developers! We’ll be giving talks Thursday morning, Stage 1 and open to chat at our booth in the business area in the afternoons. Come say hi! b2b.latam.gamescom.global/talks/14/1237 @gamescomlatam

What has the Steam Team been doing in the past year? quite a bit! store.steampowered.com/news/group/414…

Steam has now reached 40 million concurrently online users for the first time. 12.6M users are currently are in-game.

We are publishing a new game @STOREBOUND_ and it gathered 30K wishlists in its first 2 weeks. How did we do it? 🧵

A few of us from the Steam team will be in Brazil for Gamescom Latam. If you're in the area, come listen to our talks and meet us in the business area.

I love this a lot: pcgamer.com/games/if-2024-…