In May of 2007, there were around 150 digital games available to purchase on Steam. Earlier this year, Steam hit 50,ooo games. It’s estimated that every year since 2018 between 8,000 to 10,000 new games are uploaded to the storefront.

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I went digging through my Steam library and as far as I can tell, based on my memories and release dates, the very first games I bought on Steam were Day of Defeat Source and Half-Life 2. That seems about right.

Today, Steam might face competition from Epic and other publisher stores, but it’s still easily the biggest and most popular way for most PC gamers to get new games. But back in 2003, Steam seemed like a weird experiment from those Counter-Strike and Half-Life devs.