Building games on Steam
Building on Steam: 7,458 released games, 2,632 in the last 12 months, 4,255 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 18. 41% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Building is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included3,257 releasesp100
p250
median18
p75125
p90975
41% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $9.99 · 9% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
206med 159 · 17% unseen
2020
398med 30 · 31% unseen
2021
567med 29 · 31% unseen
2022
573med 35 · 27% unseen
2023
770med 29 · 32% unseen
2024
918med 22 · 36% unseen
2025
1,121med 25 · 35% unseen
2026
1,461med 0 · 58% unseen · 505 too fresh
Best known here
by lifetime reviews
Latest releases
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