Around 40% of games on Steam were released in 2016
Steam Spy, the service that reports all sorts of data on Steam and the games that release on it, has recently revealed some interesting stats about the busy release schedule that is 2016.
4207 games have been released on Steam so far this year, which is around 38 percent of all games available on the service. Steam Spy posted this pie chart on Twitter to highlight the number of games released on Steam since 2005.
To put these numbers in perspective, Steam saw the release of 2964 games in 2015, and 1,772 games in 2014. These figures don’t even include the various bits of DLC, or other items such as movies.
There’s no doubt the platform continues to see growth, but 2015 and 2016 in particular saw a deluge of releases that only exist as a means to profit from the trading cards economy. A lot of these games are essentially made with nothing more than stock assets found on the Unity store.
Valve’s hands-off approach also isn’t helping, as Steam’s frontpage has shown many times: terrible games will sell. Valve does not currently provide any quality control and will allow almost anything on the service.
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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2016/12/01/around-40-of-games-on-steam-were-released-in-2016/
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SupervisorPosted:
Strokes Steam deserves a lot more popularity than it's currently getting
I agree with you there Steam doesn't seem to be that popular.
SleepPosted:
Halo That's crazy, a lot of these games barely receive any downloads though which sort of sucks.
A lot of the games also suck.
HaloPosted:
That's crazy, a lot of these games barely receive any downloads though which sort of sucks.
AzirPosted:
My wallet still aches from Steam 2016. And we still have the Holiday sales rolling out around the 21st....
EarnPosted:
I didn't release that many new games were released in 2016. A lot must have been indie games which is great to see.
BondsPosted:
Wulca Not too bad of the game rate, I thought it would be more than 4k. Still a huge amount of games though.
Most of the games release were no so great like they said Steam should have a team looking at all of the games to make sure people aren't paying for broken/unfinished games.
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