Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything
A new analysis of 99,206 paid games on Steam reveals that the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of the estimated revenue, with half of all paid games earning less than $4,000 lifetime. The report, which excludes free-to-play titles, highlights extreme revenue disparities and a rapidly growing Steam catalog that outpaces revenue growth.
- Entities
- Company: Valve
- Topic: Game Economy
- Topic: FPS
- Topic: Platformer
- Game: Factorio
- Topic: Revenue Analysis
- Game: Counter-Strike
- Game: Palworld
- Game: Terraria
- Game: Vampire Survivors
- Topic: RPG
- Topic: Sandbox Game
- Topic: Visual Novel
- Game: Among Us
- Game: Valheim
- Game: Half-Life 2
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