Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! I n fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.

The best things in life are free, including these 25 amazing Steam games you can play without spending a dime on in 2025.

A massive 2025 release on Steam has been verified on Steam Deck by Valve a month before its release next month.

Hit the arrow next to the big Install button, and a pop-up will appear. Select the name of your PC (in my case, it’s MagnaCarter-PC) and hit A. The button will now say Stream. Hit that and Remote Play will begin to work its magic.

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The Steam Deck led to a surge of handheld gaming PCs, but GPD has been making its own options since before Valve entered the scene. Now the company has revealed a new laptop-handheld hybrid, the GPD Win Mini 2025.