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Valve Software

@valvesoftware • Open source projects from valvesoftware. Use this route to separate flagship concentration from portfolio breadth before you treat a publisher as broadly strong.

Portfolio concentration

84%

Top three share

Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.

Breadth

30 repos

Visible snapshot

10 repositories updated in the last 90 days.

Leading language

Unknown

Portfolio mix

Unknown (9), C++ (8), C (6)

Average size

1.8K

Stars per repository

Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.

Updated: 2026-05-17(10d ago)GitHub API fallback30 repositories

Portfolio Shape

84%

of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.

Average Repository Size

1.8K

stars per repository in this same snapshot.

Current Mix

Unknown

is the most common language here, with 10 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.

Flagship share 58%Breakout repo: Proton

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 Unknown (9), C++ (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.

Source: GitHub API fallback. This is the same cache-first snapshot used by the organization ranking list, so the summary view and the detail view should stay aligned.

Top Repositories

#RepositoryLanguage⭐ Stars
1valvesoftware/Proton

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

C++31.7K
2valvesoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.

C++9.6K
3valvesoftware/gamescope

SteamOS session compositing window manager

C++4.8K
4valvesoftware/wine

Wine with a bit of extra spice

C2K
5valvesoftware/Dota2-Gameplay

Public Bug Tracker for Dota 2

1.6K
6valvesoftware/Fossilize

A serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types.

C++751
7valvesoftware/counter-strike_rules_and_regs

CS:GO

618
8valvesoftware/steamlink-sdkC546
9valvesoftware/IndexHardware537
10valvesoftware/dxvk

dxvk tree containing branches used by Proton

C++468
11valvesoftware/unity-xr-plugin

OpenVR plugin for Unity's XR API

C#334
12valvesoftware/counter-strike_regional_standingsJavaScript315
13valvesoftware/ArtifactDeckCode

Reference code and documentation for Artifact deck codes

PHP275
14valvesoftware/steam-devices

List of devices Steam and SteamVR will want read/write permissions on, to help downstream distributions create udev rules/etc

224
15valvesoftware/vkd3dC217
16valvesoftware/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++186
17valvesoftware/steamos-compositor

SteamOS session compositing window manager

C169
18valvesoftware/MoondustC#166
19valvesoftware/openxr_engine_plugins

Contains Valve-provided plugins for using OpenXR extensions with various game engines

Mathematica58
20valvesoftware/UnityC#54
21valvesoftware/ffts

The Fastest Fourier Transform in the South

36
22valvesoftware/eigen

Fork of Eigen release version 3.4. Adds ability to use alternate threading systems from Open MP.

C++33
23valvesoftware/Dota-Underlords

Tracker for issues specific to the Linux and macOS client of Dota Underlords

29
24valvesoftware/ExoPlayer

An extensible media player for Android

Java24
25valvesoftware/tbb

Valve mirror of Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) GitHub repository

C++19
26valvesoftware/OpenXR-Canonical-Pose-Tool

A tool to help OpenXR runtime developers match their poses to other runtimes' poses.

C18
27valvesoftware/embree

Embree ray tracing kernels repository.

16
28valvesoftware/libmysofa

Reader for AES SOFA files to get better HRTFs

C12
29valvesoftware/VR-Community-Bugs

Repository for VR Bugs reported through tickets and community outreach

8
30valvesoftware/tracy

Frame profiler

3

Next step after the organization read

Open a flagship repository, compare a couple of portfolio leaders, or return to the organization map when you want a broader concentration read.

Learn and methodology

Keep trust-building context reachable, but behind the first data read instead of ahead of it.

How to read this organization 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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