Data on Steam releases - as of 1st of September 2017. Early Access and Steam Direct

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T H O M A S B I D A U X
Former MMO publishing person
(France Telecom, NCsoft Europe)
Consultant @ ICO Partners
Data person:
- Crowdfunding trends
- PR Intelligence
- Weekly Steam Newsletter
I N T R O D U C T I O N

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D I S C L A I M E R
M E T H O D O L O G Y
• All data from the Steam API + pinches of black magic ✨
• Lots of other great sources of Steam data:
• Steam Spy
• Steam Charts
• Steam DB
• If you only want one:
EnhancedSteam browser extension

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T O P N U M B E R S
G A M E S AVA I L A B L E
• 16,271 games released directly
• 2,713 games used in early access
• 1,710 games still in early access

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U S E R R E V I E W S A S A N I N D I C A T O R
T O P N U M B E R S
• 3% of all Steam games have 0 user review
• 26% of all Steam games have less than 10 user reviews
• 49% of the Steam games released in 2017 have less than 10
user reviews

10. STEAM EARLY ACCESS

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G A M E S AVA I L A B L E
• 2,713 games released in early access
• 1,710 games still in early access
• 17% of all Steam games went through Early Access
• 37% of the games that went through Early Access have been released
• Average game stays 200 days in Early Access
• Median game stays 135 days in Early Access

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S T E A M D I R E C T I M P A C T

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S T E A M D I R E C T N U M B E R S
• 2016 – avg. # of games released: 69 per week
• 2017 – avg. # of games released: 77 per week
• 2017 – avg. # of games released: 114 per week
B E F O R E S T E A M D I R E C T
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