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.

The PSP was an excellent handheld console with a library of games covering classic JRPGs, action, sports, and more. Thanks to handheld PCs like the Steam Deck and the emulation program EmuDeck, you can run digital copies of your favorite PSP games without using the UMDs.

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.