2024 is sort of over. Within the remaining throes of what has been a horrible yr for the video games business and the media that covers it, however a great one when it comes to the variety of high quality video games that had been launched, we are able to lastly look again at some uncooked information about our favorite interest.
Nicely, not less than so far as Steam is worried. Which, contemplating how dominant Valve’s platform is on PC, it’s a reasonably correct image of the business.
Steam information aggregator SteamDB, a website that everybody (ourselves included) has used to trace how effectively each new launch has been doing, and whether or not this or that highly-anticipated sequel managed to match or beat its predecessor in participant numbers, has launched its end-of-year outcomes.
The stats web page offers a reasonably transient, normal have a look at the state of sport releases on Steam in 2024. In line with SteamDB, 18,949 new video games had been launched on Steam this yr, beating final yr’s 14,310 by fairly a margin. In reality, with one exception, the variety of new video games annually has climbed effectively above the yr prior.
The bounce between 2023 and 2024, nevertheless, would be the largest but for a single yr, indicating that the litter and discoverability issues will stay in 2025 and past. These figures, in fact, embody every thing launched that yr, together with free video games, experiments, joke video games, scholar tasks and video games you and I’ll by no means hear of.
The report additionally reveals that of the practically 19,000 new video games, solely 3,973 had been fashionable sufficient to be rolled into Steam profile options, permitting them to supply collectible Buying and selling Playing cards, emojis and different customisation objects. Solely these video games’ achievements might depend in the direction of a person’s whole, too.
In essence, solely 3,973 managed to get observed by gamers for Valve to permit them to entry these prolonged options, which is a bit of over 20% of all video games launched in 2024 on the platform. The excellent news is that it’s a determine that has been rising yearly, too, so the viewers’s capability for brand spanking new titles is rising, if solely barely.
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