For the primary time, greater than 700 video games have been launched on Steam in a single week; nonetheless, 74% obtained fewer than 10 critiques.
Based on knowledge from ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux, 720 video games launched on the platform final week – “a month sooner than anticipated.”
Of those, 530 titles had zero to 9 critiques, whereas 190 obtained greater than ten. Additional evaluation reveals 95 video games obtained over 50 critiques, 62 had greater than 100, and 10 exceeded 1,000 critiques.
These figures overlap, as video games with 1,000 critiques are included within the 50+ and 100+ classes.
As Amir Satvat famous during Gamescom Dev’s opening keynote last week, Steam noticed roughly 12,000 releases within the first half of 2026, a 19% year-on-year improve.
In the meantime revenue for the period reached $11.1 billion, in accordance with Alinea Analytics.
In 2025, 20,000 video games have been launched on Steam. Satvat famous that “solely 3% of these video games, about 600, have 100 or extra peak CCU.”
Final yr, a whitepaper from PC distribution platform Rokky discovered that over half of developers felt they relied too heavily on Steam, and 72% believed the platform holds a monopoly within the video games market.