When should I ship?
Every week in your range scored by how many games in your genre already sit there, and which heavyweights you would be standing next to.
50 – 901dated releases per week over the next 12 weeks — week 37 is the crowded one
Who else ships that week?
The whole window as one picture: every game dated for it, sized by demand, with its chart rank, wishlist standing and followers.
Halloween: The Game · 45,279 Anime Shop Simulator ✨ · 9,335 When does my genre actually ship?
The month each genre really lands in, measured across every year we hold — not the month everyone assumes.
Is my niche already crowded?
How many games carry the tag, how many arrived in the last year, and what their releases actually ended up with — failures included, on purpose.
Am I late to this market?
How fast Steam itself is growing: releases per year, players per release, and which tags owned which era.
Do studios like mine get a second game?
What happens after a launch: how many studios ever ship again, what experience is worth in reviews, and whether a publisher changes the outcome.
77%of the 89,653 studios on Steam released exactly one game and never came back