Valve sustainability score: 24/100
Better than 1% of SaaS / Digital Services
Below expectations starts at 31. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Valve Corporation develops and operates Steam, a digital distribution platform for video games with 147 million monthly active users, alongside consumer hardware products including Steam Deck and Valve Index VR headsets. Founded in 1996, the privately held company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and employs approximately 336 staff.
Founded 1996Head office Bellevue, Washington, USAStaff ~336 (2021)Revenue ~$5-17B (estimated, private company)Website ↗
Valve publishes zero environmental data across operations, supply chain, and energy. A $5B+ platform operator serving 147 million users with expanding hardware lines discloses no emissions, targets, or sustainability governance. Complete transparency failure combined with growing footprint and no climate strategy.
Valve scores 24/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified May 2026.
That places Valve joint 903rd of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 66th of 69 in SaaS / Digital Services.
What is Valve doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (7/10, 3/10). Weakest on Targets & Commitments and Transparency & Accountability (0/10, 0/10).
Where Valve lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Its climate targetsSet emissions reduction targets.
- How openly it reportsPublish sustainability information.
- Emissions from its own operationsPublish emissions figures for its own operations, even an estimate from energy bills.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations1/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chain1/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling1/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is1/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature3/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste2/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water3/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets0/10No emissions reduction targets.
- How openly it reports0/10No sustainability information published.
- Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Valve's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Valve's score changed?
Valve's score has moved from 34 to 24 across 3 recorded reviews, down 10 points.
- 34 → 24-107 November 2026
Sources replaced with the company's own or independent reports. With no published emissions figure, the 0.70x size step now applies.
- 34 → 347 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed an unsourced emissions figure. Score unchanged.
- Scored 3411 April 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is Valve's score based on?
8 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
13% of them were published by Valve itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 11 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
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How does Valve compare with other saas / digital services companies?
Where Valve sits among saas / digital services peers.
Among the 69 major saas / digital services brands we've scored, Valve is tied =66th of 69, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in SaaS / Digital Services?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Valve.
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