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Issy van der Velde

English is no longer the biggest language on Steam as Chinese gamers embrace PC gaming even harder after Black Myth: Wukong

Black Myth: Wukong.

Steam is very much a global gaming platform, and now, Mandarin is the most-used language on it.

According to new Steam stats posted during its GDC 2025 talk (as reported by Game Discover), over 66% of Steam users have something other than English set as their primary language. The most-popular is now Mandarin, specifically Simplified Chinese, with 33.7% of gamers using it as their go-to dialect compared to 33.5% using English and 1% using Cantonese.

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