Software games on Steam
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Software on Steam: 1,791 released games, 744 in the last 12 months, 488 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 61% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 21%. Software 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 included776 releasesp100
p251
median6
p7523
p90101
61% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $6.00 · 21% 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
39med 129 · 8% unseen
2020
80med 31 · 19% unseen
2021
121med 25 · 33% unseen
2022
113med 28 · 27% unseen
2023
163med 15 · 37% unseen
2024
188med 9 · 51% unseen
2025
247med 7 · 58% unseen
2026
607med 3 · 72% unseen · 311 too fresh
