Indie games on Steam
Indie on Steam: 85,231 released games, 24,639 in the last 12 months, 28,880 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 0. 56% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Indie 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 included29,889 releasesp100
p250
median0
p7530
p90142
56% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $4.99 · 11% 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
5,488med 18 · 38% unseen
2020
5,909med 19 · 37% unseen
2021
5,453med 16 · 40% unseen
2022
5,526med 16 · 39% unseen
2023
6,023med 14 · 44% unseen
2024
8,674med 11 · 49% unseen
2025
10,765med 2 · 53% unseen
2026
15,043med 0 · 69% unseen · 6,532 too fresh
Best known here
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Latest releases
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