Steam Game Statistics

Profitable tracks 170,000+ games on Steam, roughly 120,000 released and 50,000 unreleased. The released catalog grows by 15,000 to 19,000 titles a year and the pace is still accelerating, which is why discoverability is the biggest challenge facing a new release.

Valve takes 30% of gross sales, falling to 25% on revenue above $10 million and 20% above $50 million for a single game. Those tiers reset per title, not per studio, so most developers never leave the 30% band. Regional pricing, refunds and local sales tax come out on top of that, so the share a developer actually keeps is well under 70% of the estimates shown here.

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.