Steam Game Statistics

We track 170,000+ games on Steam - about 121,000 released and 49,000 unreleased. The released catalog grows by 15,000-19,000 titles a year, and the pace is still accelerating, which is why discoverability is the biggest challenge for a new release.

Steam does not publish per-game revenue, but review counts closely track sales. The median released game has only about 20 reviews (a few hundred copies), just ~7.6% ever pass 1,000 reviews, and under 2% reach 10,000. Earnings are concentrated in a small set of hits; the typical game earns very little.

Among paid released games the median price is $3.59 and roughly two-thirds sell for under $5. Only a small share charge $20 or more, and about 19% of released games are free-to-play. Indie games, which make up ~71% of the catalog, price lowest of all.

The median released Steam game has around 20 reviews. The distribution is extremely skewed: most games sit in the single or double digits, while a tiny fraction accumulate tens of thousands. Because reviews track sales, this is the clearest available signal of how few games find a real audience.

It is more crowded every year - annual releases went from under 9,000 in 2020 to over 19,000 in 2025 - so getting noticed is harder than getting built. It is not closed, but it rewards a clear niche, wishlist-building before launch, and realistic expectations. The saturation and wishlist-demand breakdowns show exactly how the odds have shifted.