
Steam was initially created by game developer Valve to solve the company’s problems with updating their online games, such as Counter-Strike. By late 2005, the platform was hosting third-party games which were made available for purchase and download. Soon after that, large developers such as Capcom started distributing their games on Steam as well. In mid-2022, there were over 46 thousand games available on the Steam, over 10 thousand games being published in 2021 alone.