Valve Software
84%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
1.8K
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
C++
is the most common language here, with 9 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because one flagship repo drives 58% of its visible star count.
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In Valve Software's case, the visible top three repositories account for about 84% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is C++ (9), Unknown (8), C (6). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | ⭐ Stars | 🍴 Forks | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | valvesoftware/Proton Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components | C++ | 30.8K | 1.4K | Today |
| 2 | valvesoftware/GameNetworkingSockets Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption. | C++ | 9.3K | 694 | Today |
| 3 | valvesoftware/gamescope SteamOS session compositing window manager | C++ | 4.7K | 337 | 5 days ago |
| 4 | valvesoftware/wine Wine with a bit of extra spice | C | 1.9K | 366 | Today |
| 5 | valvesoftware/Dota2-Gameplay Public Bug Tracker for Dota 2 | 1.6K | 100 | 10 months ago | |
| 6 | valvesoftware/Fossilize A serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types. | C++ | 747 | 69 | 1 months ago |
| 7 | valvesoftware/counter-strike_rules_and_regs CS:GO | 614 | 73 | 4 months ago | |
| 8 | valvesoftware/steamlink-sdk | C | 536 | 107 | 1 years ago |
| 9 | valvesoftware/IndexHardware | 535 | 28 | 6 years ago | |
| 10 | valvesoftware/dxvk dxvk tree containing branches used by Proton | C++ | 461 | 36 | Today |
| 11 | valvesoftware/unity-xr-plugin OpenVR plugin for Unity's XR API | C# | 331 | 66 | 5 months ago |
| 12 | valvesoftware/counter-strike_regional_standings | JavaScript | 296 | 53 | 6 days ago |
| 13 | valvesoftware/ArtifactDeckCode Reference code and documentation for Artifact deck codes | PHP | 275 | 28 | 7 years ago |
| 14 | valvesoftware/vkd3d | C | 214 | 16 | 1 years ago |
| 15 | valvesoftware/steam-devices List of devices Steam and SteamVR will want read/write permissions on, to help downstream distributions create udev rules/etc | 206 | 54 | 2 months ago | |
| 16 | valvesoftware/steamvr_unreal_plugin SteamVR Input Unreal Plugin - Documentation at: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unreal_plugin/wiki Sample project (UE4.15-4.23): https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unreal_plugin/wiki/sample/SteamVRInputPlugin.zip Sample Project (UE.424+): https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unreal_plugin/wiki/sample/SteamVRInputPlugin_UEIntegrated.7z | C++ | 185 | 30 | 2 years ago |
| 17 | valvesoftware/Moondust | C# | 166 | 28 | 7 years ago |
| 18 | valvesoftware/steamos-compositor SteamOS session compositing window manager | C | 163 | 397 | 2 years ago |
| 19 | valvesoftware/virtual_display An example OpenVR driver for demonstrating the IVRVirtualDisplay interface. | C++ | 92 | 38 | 7 years ago |
| 20 | valvesoftware/openxr_engine_plugins Contains Valve-provided plugins for using OpenXR extensions with various game engines | Mathematica | 56 | 15 | 3 years ago |
| 21 | valvesoftware/Unity | C# | 49 | 4 | 1 months ago |
| 22 | valvesoftware/ffts The Fastest Fourier Transform in the South | 34 | 8 | 5 years ago | |
| 23 | valvesoftware/eigen Fork of Eigen release version 3.4. Adds ability to use alternate threading systems from Open MP. | C++ | 32 | 4 | 3 years ago |
| 24 | valvesoftware/Dota-Underlords Tracker for issues specific to the Linux and macOS client of Dota Underlords | 29 | 6 | 5 years ago | |
| 25 | valvesoftware/ExoPlayer An extensible media player for Android | Java | 23 | 6 | 7 years ago |
| 26 | valvesoftware/tbb Valve mirror of Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) GitHub repository | C++ | 19 | 6 | 7 years ago |
| 27 | valvesoftware/OpenXR-Canonical-Pose-Tool A tool to help OpenXR runtime developers match their poses to other runtimes' poses. | C | 17 | 2 | 3 years ago |
| 28 | valvesoftware/embree Embree ray tracing kernels repository. | 16 | 8 | 5 years ago | |
| 29 | valvesoftware/libmysofa Reader for AES SOFA files to get better HRTFs | C | 12 | 6 | 4 years ago |
| 30 | valvesoftware/VR-Community-Bugs Repository for VR Bugs reported through tickets and community outreach | 8 | 0 | 7 years ago |
How to Read This Snapshot
Total stars are useful as a discovery signal, but they do not tell you whether a team maintains every repository equally. Pair this page with release cadence, maintainer activity, and the flagship concentration shown above before making adoption decisions.
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