{"id":80886,"date":"2026-08-31T03:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80886"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:27:01","slug":"a-decades-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-has-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80886","title":{"rendered":"A Decade&#8217;s Worth Of Steam Files Totaling More Than 12TB Has Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">The leak contains beta builds and finished games from Valve and third-party developers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap  lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2247128\/a-decade-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-leaked\/\" data-post-title=\"A decade's worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2247128\">\n<picture id=\"pb079162b3d876925eaad8aee14c10abf\">&#13;<source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/a-decades-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-has-leaked\/intro-1788115795.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/a-decades-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-has-leaked\/intro-1788115795.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/a-decades-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-has-leaked\/intro-1788115795.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2247128\/a-decade-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-leaked\/\" data-post-id=\"2247128\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"A decade's worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Steam logo in front of overlay of games\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Steam<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked, which seemingly contains everything that was published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. The leak totals more than 12TB in scale and includes beta builds and completely finished games from Valve&#8217;s own franchises, including Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal. A GitHub catalog has compiled most of the titles, which also includes games from major franchises like Call of Duty, Fallout and Civilization, as well as those from indie developers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone leaked 12 TB of Valve&#8217;s internal builds and game assets from 2003 to 2013. This includes early versions of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, CS:GO, F-Stop and potentially EP3. The community is still researching everything, so the next few days might be insane&#8230; There&#8217;s a Weaponizer&#8230; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sg7OqJjL2X\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Sg7OqJjL2X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200eGabe Follower (@gabefollower) August 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The sheer size of the leak means people are still combing through the details, but so far internet sleuths have uncovered details of the unreleased\u00a0<em>F-Stop<\/em> game from Valve that features gameplay revolving around a camera that can manipulate real world objects. Of course there are hints of the long-rumored conclusion of the Half-Life franchise in the leak, but it references\u00a0<em>Half-Life 2: Episode 3<\/em>, which was supposed to be the final game in the series but was later canceled. There are plenty of social media posts circulating about this Steam leak, but Valve hasn&#8217;t commented on this yet so we should take all this info with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Te zombie, kt\u00f3ry znalaz\u0142 si\u0119 w plikach Portal&#8217;a \u015bwiadczy o wczesnej wersji FStop. Tutaj jest stworzony ju\u017c do tego przyk\u0142adowy model wraz z animacjami. Czym tak naprawd\u0119 jest FStop? To gra, kt\u00f3rs mia\u0142a by\u0107 prequelem do Portal. Gra przesz\u0142a transformacj\u0119 jako sequel. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eeC1B66XWq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eeC1B66XWq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paplock (@PAPL0CK) August 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to X user Gabe Follower, the leak was made possible thanks to a publicly accessible endpoint. The X user explained that&#8217;s why we only see files dating up to 2013, since that&#8217;s when Valve switched over to another storage system. We reached out to Valve for comment about this and will update the story when we hear back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2247128\/a-decade-worth-of-steam-files-totaling-more-than-12tb-leaked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leak contains beta builds and finished games from Valve and third-party developers. &#13;&#13;&#13; &#13; Steam A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[29191,3700,10733,4048,3418,29190,78],"class_list":["post-80886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-12tb","tag-decades","tag-files","tag-leaked","tag-steam","tag-totaling","tag-worth","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}