Steam players by language

Region presets

Languages

English 39.0%
Simplified Chinese 22.0%
Russian 10.1%
Spanish - Spain 4.83%
Portuguese-Brazil 4.46%
German 2.89%
Japanese 2.47%
French 2.41%
Polish 1.73%
Korean 1.36%
Turkish 1.35%
Traditional Chinese 1.30%
Spanish - Latin America 0.89%
Thai 0.83%
Ukrainian 0.73%
Italian 0.64%
Czech 0.58%
Hungarian 0.39%
Portuguese - Portugal 0.36%
Dutch 0.27%
Swedish 0.27%
Danish 0.22%
Vietnamese 0.20%
Indonesian 0.16%
Finnish 0.15%
Romanian 0.13%
Norwegian 0.12%
Greek 0.06%
Bulgarian 0.05%
Arabic under 0.05%

Share of Steam users

39.0%

Estimated users

51,532,800

Users are the share of the October 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey times the 132 million monthly active users Valve reported in 2021, the last figure it published. Treat them as a 2021 scale, not a current count.

English comfort of the players

0% of the selected share speaks a language where English comfort is low or very low.

English United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia English comfort native 51,532,800 users

Method

The survey asks about the language of the Steam client, so a share is the Steam users running that language, not a count of native speakers. Each user has one language, so shares add up.

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