Game Development games on Steam
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Game Development on Steam: 1,043 released games, 336 in the last 12 months, 312 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 7. 55% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 22%. Game Development 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 included431 releasesp100
p251
median7
p7531
p90112
55% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $9.99 · 22% 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
42med 49 · 17% unseen
2020
66med 21 · 32% unseen
2021
93med 15 · 34% unseen
2022
95med 24 · 27% unseen
2023
94med 14 · 37% unseen
2024
112med 16 · 42% unseen
2025
154med 6 · 58% unseen
2026
244med 3 · 64% unseen · 96 too fresh
