Games published by Valve
30 census-tracked games, ranked by total Steam reviews.
Valve has published 30 games tracked by The Game Census, with 18M Steam reviews between them and an overall 88% positive rating. The most reviewed is Counter-Strike 2 (9.9M reviews, 86% positive). Its best-rated title with at least 1,000 reviews is Portal 2 at 99% positive. Releases span 1998 to 2022. 10 are free to play.
At the latest census sample, 1.2M people were playing its 6 games that report a live player count. Census health tiers across the catalog: 5 thriving, 20 healthy, 4 quiet.
Genres across the catalog: Action (24), Free To Play (8), Adventure (4), Casual (3), Strategy (3). Most common player tags: Action, First-Person, FPS, Shooter, Multiplayer, Singleplayer.
Games
30
Steam reviews
18M
Positive
88%
Players now
1.2M
| # | Game | Reviews | Rating | Players | Health | Price | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Counter-Strike 2 For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2. | 9.9M | 86% | 657k | Thriving | Free | 2012-08-21 |
| 2 | Dota 2 Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own. | 2.8M | 80% | 503k | Thriving | Free | 2013-07-09 |
| 3 | Garry's Mod Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play. | 1.3M | 97% | 13k | Thriving | $9.99 | 2006-11-29 |
| 4 | Team Fortress 2 Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats! | 1.3M | 91% | 56k | Thriving | Free | 2007-10-10 |
| 5 | Left 4 Dead 2 Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns. | 1.1M | 98% | 15k | Thriving | $9.99 | 2009-11-16 |
| 6 | Portal 2 The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends! | 468k | 99% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2011-04-18 |
| 7 | Half-Life 2 Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat. | 281k | 98% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2004-11-16 |
| 8 | Counter-Strike Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role. | 262k | 97% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2000-11-01 |
| 9 | Portal Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay. | 201k | 99% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2007-10-10 |
| 10 | Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology. | 194k | 96% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2004-11-01 |
| 11 | Half-Life Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world. | 165k | 96% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 1998-11-19 |
| 12 | Half-Life: Alyx Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. | 106k | 98% | 177 | Healthy | $59.99 | 2020-03-23 |
| 13 | Dota Underlords Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile. | 91k | 82% | — | Healthy | Free | 2019-06-20 |
| 14 | Left 4 Dead From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters. | 69k | 96% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2008-11-17 |
| 15 | Half-Life: Opposing Force Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. | 29k | 95% | — | Healthy | $4.99 | 1999-11-01 |
| 16 | Counter-Strike: Condition Zero With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content. | 28k | 91% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2004-03-01 |
| 17 | Aperture Desk Job Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games. | 25k | 95% | — | Healthy | Free | 2022-03-01 |
| 18 | Artifact Artifact now features two games: Artifact Classic, the original Dota 2 trading card game, and Artifact Foundry, a special edition with streamlined gameplay, new cards, new single-player content, and an improved new player experience. | 25k | 47% | — | Quiet | Free | 2018-11-28 |
| 19 | Day of Defeat: Source Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac. | 24k | 92% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2010-07-12 |
| 20 | Alien Swarm Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free. | 22k | 95% | — | Healthy | Free | 2010-07-19 |
| 21 | Half-Life: Blue Shift Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations. | 21k | 93% | — | Healthy | $4.99 | 2001-06-01 |
| 22 | Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Fast multiplayer action set in the Half-Life 2 universe! HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. Toss a toilet at your friend today! | 15k | 91% | — | Healthy | — | 2004-11-01 |
| 23 | Team Fortress Classic One of the most popular online action games of all time, Team Fortress Classic features over nine character classes -- from Medic to Spy to Demolition Man -- enlisted in a unique style of online team warfare. Each character class possesses unique weapons, items, and abilities, as teams compete online in a variety of game play modes. | 9.3k | 87% | — | Healthy | $4.99 | 1999-04-01 |
| 24 | Day of Defeat Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs. Allied teamplay set in the WWII European Theatre of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Missions are based on key historical operations. | 7.4k | 90% | — | Quiet | $4.99 | 2003-05-01 |
| 25 | The Lab Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free! | 6.7k | 95% | — | Healthy | Free | 2016-04-05 |
| 26 | Ricochet A futuristic action game that challenges your agility as well as your aim, Ricochet features one-on-one and team matches played in a variety of futuristic battle arenas. | 6.3k | 83% | — | Healthy | $4.99 | 2000-11-01 |
| 27 | Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Half-Life Deathmatch: Source is a recreation of the first multiplayer game set in the Half-Life universe. Features all the classic weapons and most-played maps, now running on the Source engine. | 5.6k | 76% | — | Healthy | $9.99 | 2006-05-01 |
| 28 | Deathmatch Classic Enjoy fast-paced multiplayer gaming with Deathmatch Classic (a.k.a. DMC). Valve's tribute to the work of id software, DMC invites players to grab their rocket launchers and put their reflexes to the test in a collection of futuristic settings. | 3.3k | 83% | — | Quiet | $4.99 | 2001-06-01 |
| 29 | Aperture Hand Lab Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before. | 1.6k | 87% | — | Quiet | Free | 2019-06-25 |
| 30 | Lepton Development | 10 | 100% | — | — | Free | — |
Reviews and ratings are Steam totals at the latest census snapshot. Players is the most recent concurrent-player sample recorded by the census and is blank where Steam exposes no count. Health is the census verdict for each game; the tiers are explained in the methodology. Game blurbs, genres and tags are the Steam store's own.