Source Filmmaker
The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa.
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, Source Filmmaker has 885 concurrent players online and in-game. This is 49% lower than its previous all-time peak of 1,752 players achieved on 11/11/2023.

Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for Source Filmmaker. It has received a total of 40,142 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 91 (Very Positive).
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for Source Filmmaker and its growth over time. It currently has 132,160 followers on its community page.
About Source Filmmaker
Source Filmmaker is a Video Production, and Animation & Modeling game developed by Valve. On 7/10/2012, it was released on the Steam Store by Valve.
Players have rated Source Filmmaker as "Very Positive" out of 40,142 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 37,317 positive reviews and 2,825 negative reviews — an overall 93% positive review rating.
It can be played and ran on Windows systems. At the moment, it is not possible to play or run Source Filmmaker on the Steam Deck.
According to Steam’s category system, Source Filmmaker supports the following features:
- Steam Workshop
From the Steam community, Source Filmmaker has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Moddable
- Singleplayer
- Memes
- Survival Horror
- Character Customization
- Movie
- Souls-like
- Difficult
- Great Soundtrack
- Games Workshop
- Video Production
- Sandbox
- Free to Play
- 3D
- Comedy
- Animation & Modeling
- Hentai
- Sexual Content
- Family Friendly
- Funny
- Software
- Anime
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for Source Filmmaker and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.

Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
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Source Filmmaker data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2025, March 13). Source Filmmaker on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1840
- Valve Corporation. (2025, March 13). Source Filmmaker. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1840
- Valve. (2023, July 20). Source Filmmaker. Source Filmmaker. http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/