For the primary time, greater than 700 video games had been launched on Steam in a single week; nonetheless, 74% acquired fewer than 10 critiques.
Based on knowledge from ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux, 720 video games launched on the platform final week – “a month sooner than anticipated.”
Of those, 530 titles had zero to 9 critiques, whereas 190 acquired ten or extra. Additional evaluation reveals 95 video games acquired 50+ critiques, 62 had 100+ critiques, and 10 had 1,000+ critiques.
These figures overlap, as video games with 1,000 critiques are included within the 50+ and 100+ classes.
As Amir Satvat famous during Gamescom Dev’s opening keynote last week, Steam noticed roughly 12,000 releases within the first half of 2026, a 19% year-on-year enhance.
In the meantime revenue for the period reached $11.1 billion, based on Alinea Analytics.
In 2025, 20,000 video games had been launched on Steam. Satvat famous that “solely 3% of these video games, about 600, have 100 or extra peak CCU.”
Final 12 months, a whitepaper from PC distribution platform Rokky discovered that over half of developers felt they relied too heavily on Steam, and 72% believed the platform holds a monopoly within the video games market.
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