, documents from an antitrust suit against Valve show that the company consisted of 336 employees in 2021. That's a fraction of the size of most big game publishers, even as Steam continues to shape PC gaming as a whole.lawsuit arguing that Steam constitutes an unfair monopoly on PC digital distribution.
The Verge has a full chart of the year-by year number of employees and departmental payroll changes at Valve.
Wolfire games actually criticized this limited headcount in its lawsuit, arguing that Valve"devotes a miniscule percentage of its revenue to maintaining and improving the Steam Store.
I've listed a some publishers and developers of note with their respective headcounts to put Valve's into perspective:Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer.