Economy games on Steam
Economy on Steam: 4,927 released games, 2,546 in the last 12 months, 3,013 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 21. 40% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Economy 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 included2,153 releasesp100
p250
median21
p75142
p90728
40% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $7.99 · 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
86med 244 · 19% unseen
2020
178med 55 · 20% unseen
2021
246med 54 · 25% unseen
2022
258med 37 · 27% unseen
2023
307med 47 · 25% unseen
2024
486med 40 · 28% unseen
2025
791med 31 · 32% unseen
2026
1,427med 0 · 59% unseen · 652 too fresh