With Lenovo's announcement at CES 2025 of the Lenovo Legion Go S, we are pleased to share that their "Powered by SteamOS" model is the first handheld officially licensed to ship with Valve's SteamOS. We built this operating system to provide a seamless user experience optimized for gaming, while retaining access to the power and flexibility of a PC. SteamOS is the same operating system we run on Steam Deck, and the team is making updates to ensure it fully supports the Lenovo Legion Go S and provides the same seamless experience customers expect.

In addition, the same work that we are doing to support the Lenovo Legion Go S will improve compatibility with other handhelds. Ahead of Legion Go S shipping, we will be shipping a beta of SteamOS which should improve the experience on other handhelds, and users can download and test this themselves. And of course we'll continue adding support and improving the experience with future releases.



SteamOS is an operating system built by Valve. It features a seamless user experience optimized for gaming, while retaining access to the power and flexibility of a PC, and plays tens of thousands of games on Steam. SteamOS currently officially ships on Steam Deck and will soon ship with certain Legion Go S models. Valve is working on SteamOS support for more devices in the future.


SteamOS is optimized for gaming and provides a console-like experience that's meant to be used with a controller. It offers features like quick suspend / resume to get you quickly in and out of games, and offers seamless system and game updates.

SteamOS puts the player directly into Steam, with access to the full Steam ecosystem - your Steam Library, Steam Cloud, Steam Chat, Steam Game Recording, and more. The user interface is optimized for controller use and it's easy to install and play Steam games. Best of all, users don't have to worry about driver updates and hardware tweaks - all of this is handled seamlessly through built in system updates.

SteamOS is Linux based, and the vast majority of the Steam library runs on SteamOS, thanks to the Proton compatibility layer Valve ships. This allows developers to ship games for Windows without worrying about porting to Linux, and games will seamlessly work on SteamOS. When a game doesn't run well on SteamOS, we call it out with our Verified program so customers know what will and won't work well.

Yes, it's the same operating system that Steam Deck runs.

No, if players wish to they can go to desktop mode and install other game launchers and software if they wish. 

We're excited to unveil Steam's Best of 2024 lists. Each list gives a unique look at what made 2024 such a fun year for players, so take a look back and see where your favorites landed.

At the bottom of each list, you'll find notes explaining how the games made it, and the criteria for how each list is organized.

Happy Holidays from everyone at Steam!

From now until NEXT YEAR, you'll find thousands of games of all kinds on sale as the Steam Winter Sale takes us out of 2024 and into 2025!

The Steam Winter Sale runs through January 2 (2025!) at 10am PST, happening just in time to grab last minute holiday gifts for friends and family (or a lil' treat for yourself)!

Explore your Discovery Queue to find all sorts of hidden (and in-plain-sight) gems, and earn Winter Sale stickers as you go (three stickers each time you go through it), up to three times during the entire sale!

While you're here, don't forget now is the time to vote in the annual Steam Awards! Your nominations came in during the Steam Autumn Sale, and now the top nominees in each of the 11 categories are available for you to vote on. Earn a Steam Awards sticker for each category you vote in, with voting continuing up until December 31st at 10am PST (and winners announced shortly after).

Speaking of your favorite games, what did you spend most of your time on Steam playing this past year? Can't remember? We got you! Your Steam Replay is live; check it out, share it with your friends, and take a trip down gaming memory lane.

Don't forget to check out the Steam Points Shop for all new content:

• New seasonal badge for winter
  
• New Winter Sale items
  
• New, tiled, profile backgrounds

The Steam Points Shop now respects your ignored Store tags and will filter out items from games matching these tags. You can update your ignored tags in account preferences.

If this is you, we got you: Steam Gift Cards are available here.

The third annual Steam Year In Review Steam Replay has arrived, and your very own jaunt down gaming memory lane awaits! It's a fun-filled, fact-filled, friend-filled (because you can share it!) look back at what you played in 2024.

Ok, you got us. We called it Steam Replay when we launched it in 2022. Then last year, some of us thought "Hey! What if we changed it to Steam Year In Review for giggles?" Then we all giggled and did it.

Then this year, someone said, "Um, that was a dumb idea we had last year. Are we crazy if we change it back to the better name for it?" And we all said "Shut up, Gabe, that's too much work." HA HA we kid, it was actually Chris. Or Eric? No wait it was Jane. Or maybe Tom? And we actually said "That's a great, collaborative idea, fellow teammate!" and here we are.

How many games did you play, and how does that compare to last year? Did you unlock a bunch of achievements? What about your longest streak? These fun numbers and more are in your Replay.

...graphs. Spider GRAPHS, we mean, showing in spider language what kinds of games you played.

There are so many fun ways to look at your year in Steam gaming: playtime by month; playtime by what you played on; even playtime across your Steam Family if you're part of one!

Each Steam Replay is different, so what will yours look like? Take a look at your own, and share it both on and off Steam with your friends (and see what theirs look like too!)

Today's Steam Client Beta update includes a few improvements that give you more control over when Steam will download updates for your installed games.

When downloading game updates, Steam continues to try to strike a balance between keeping your games ready to play and efficiently using your bandwidth. For games you recently played, Steam will download game updates shortly after they are released. For games that you haven't played in a while, Steam might wait a few days to bundle multiple updates together or choose to download the update while you are asleep.

While this default behavior works in most cases, there are times when you need more control of when updates are applied. Some users might want to delay updating a 200GB game until they are ready to play it again in a few months, especially if they are on metered connections or have monthly bandwidth caps. For others who play the same game every night, they might want updates downloaded as soon as they are available.

We've added a new section to control the default behavior for when game updates are applied, under "Downloads" in the Steam Client settings. You can set the default to: let Steam decide when to update the game (based on factors like when you last played the game, bandwidth availability, etc.) or wait to update until the game is launched.




To set specific game overrides, go to Library > Game> Game Properties (the gear icon). The options remain the same, with cleaned up descriptions.




To see which games have specific overrides, head back to the Steam Client "Downloads" settings and click "Manage Exceptions".




These new settings join a robust set of existing download options that can be found under "Downloads" in the Steam Client settings. Head there to limit your download speed, pause downloads while you play or stream a game, and more. If there is a setting you would like to see and can't find, please let us know!.

Learn how to opt into the Steam Client Beta to help test new features like these.