Steam Will No Longer Crash For Users With Over 25,000 Games

I didn’t even know that buying or downloading a thousand games was possible, let alone 25,000! Steam was apparently prone to crashing if you owned half of the total games on Steam. For reference, there are currently over 51,000 games on the platform. An update for Steam’s beta client was released to fix a possible crash for owners with a lot of games in their library. If an update like that was released by the developers, that means someone currently owns over 25,000 games and spotted the error:

Working out how many people this may even have affected is a little tricky. Steam analytics site Steamladder currently lists three people as having passed this threshold. Their public Steam profiles don't show quite as many, however, as it appears this number omits hidden games. SteamDB has its own chart of users who supposedly own over 25,000 games, using the associated badge to keep track, and reckons there's a good few hundred more. According to their SteamDB page, Steam user Sonix apparently owns a staggering 42,061 titles.

Of course, it's also possible that this was just a small issue discovered by Valve's own testing, making Steam more stable for folks with ludicrous library counts. Steam is only getting bigger, with 10,263 games added in 2020 alone. Collector's libraries are only going to increase in size—and while we can debate who actually owns the most games on the platform, collectors can be fairly sure the client won't buckle under the strain anymore.