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Almost 19,000 games were released on Steam in 2024. Up from 14k in the previous year
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LectureMaster
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SweetTooth
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Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
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Magic Carpet
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5000 extra games, if each game sold 10 copies at 70 bucks, 30% is 1 million dollars in the Steam bank account.
MrTroubleMaker
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Nintendo's Witch
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90% are shit.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
nah, probably more
Nintendo's Witch
Member
True.
Cakeboxer
Member
Hidden gems you probably never heard of:
store.steampowered.com
Steam Curator: Hidden Gem Discovery
We mostly focus on the niche and mid-range indie games. Please note that I decline most of the copies, I won't recommend something I won't play myself (also, sometimes I already own the game)
geary
Member
even if 95% are shit, you still have 900 game to play....
Heck, even if 99% are shit, you still have 190 new games
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HerjansEagleFeeder
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Just like with every other medium in existence.
Lots of games released is a good thing.
The problem I rather see is how we are supposed to filter through them. Steam has a pretty good set of options for finding games already, but it's not enough. They need to innovate in this area, it's getting harder and harder to find what you're looking for.
March Climber
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The sad thing is that there are more findable curation communities and services like what you’ve just linked, but the jaded ones here won’t care. They see the monumental number, only focus on the bad, and then say that ‘nothing came out this year’. It’s like a loop.Hidden gems you probably never heard of:
Steam Curator: Hidden Gem Discovery
We mostly focus on the niche and mid-range indie games. Please note that I decline most of the copies, I won't recommend something I won't play myself (also, sometimes I already own the game)
All I know is that we are going to see some massive hoop jumping and excuses next year from those same people.
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YeulEmeralda
Linux User
I hate the low effort indie games that capitalize on nostalgia. Fuck your metroidvania.
But there are good ones.
But there are good ones.
Steam games on sales won't be touched anyway.
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18900 of them
LordOcidax
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Laptop1991
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Too much shovel ware, I'd rarther have 10 really good games a year than loads of bad ones with a few exception's here and there, and no one can go through them all plus hardly any stand out anyway, Steam was better before it opened it's doors to everything from around 2016/17 onwards for me.
nemiroff
Gold Member
Even if that was true, unless 100% are shit, it's still more good games.
Anyway, I was expecting to see the usual "ratio take" in this thread, it never fails. People enjoy looking dumb.
Sooner
Member
It's 1% good.
The artful mincer
Member
But the game industry is stagnating/crashing!!!!
Source
A bunch of fuckwit grifters on youtube!
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A bunch of fuckwit grifters on youtube!
The artful mincer
Member
If that is is indeed true that would still mean there's 190 to 1900 games worth playing. Who the hell has time or money for that lol.
Christ it could be 0.1% worth playing and that would still be more games than I've bought this year!
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
PC has games. 
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
The health of the games industry depends on professional publishers/developers making a profit, not on the number of games released by amateurs. The vast majority of those 19,000 new Steam games is crappy shovelware that no one buys and no one plays.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Wildebeest
Member
That's about 19000 new games that steam users find less compelling than "banana".
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Ironically the last crash was kind of related to flooding the market with too many titles, more than what people were looking to buy…
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Fess
Member
Yup! Going by Steam Replay I played 30 games this year, 19 new. So 19/19000=0,001. *100 for percentage right? So I literally played 0,1% of the new games released on Steam in 2024.
Tams
Member
Overall bad I'd say.
There's a finite market and there are too many games competing for it. That doesn't just mean many developers struggle to make enough money and recognition, it also means skilled developers that could have been helping make other games better are instead struggling to get their small games even noticed.
I for one no longer even bother looking through small indie games these days, or even curated lists. I either play something from an established developer, or occasionally something recommended on the likes of here that I come across by chance. Some days I just give up and do something else in my set aside gaming time.
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KuraiShidosha
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Can't name 3 of them.
DaciaJC
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But would those 10 really good games be considered as such by everyone else on the platform? Would everybody's tastes be catered to with just 10 games?
FalconPunch
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No it's not. If you know exactly what you're looking for, you can search by title. What I'm assuming you mean is it's getting harder to find what you might like. This is also true of other mediums.
Denton
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So many moronic "99% shovelware" posts as usual. Granted, most are indie games and weak or mediocre. But you fuckers have no idea what that percentage is, and might easily be surprised. There are tons of actually good quality games you never heard of. Hell just watching the John Linneman GOTY list there were like 5 fantastic looking indie games I never heard of.
Holammer
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Get off your fainting couch. None of you will see all those 19k games. Steam's algorithm will sort them for you and the good stuff will rise to the top.
*I* do see them as I check upcoming and new games daily. IMO, there's an overall trend of games starting to look better.
This site shows past two days of releases (super handy site, also allows you to sort by genres or trending).
www.weloveeverygame.com
store.steampowered.com
*I* do see them as I check upcoming and new games daily. IMO, there's an overall trend of games starting to look better.
This site shows past two days of releases (super handy site, also allows you to sort by genres or trending).
Every Single Launch on Steam - We Love Every Game
www.weloveeverygame.com
Steam Search
diffusionx
Gold Member
I started through it and 90% of this list was 30 minute visual novels about being gay or having mental illness and stupid half formed puzzle games. If these are the hidden gems on Steam then the situation is worse than I thought.Hidden gems you probably never heard of:
Steam Curator: Hidden Gem Discovery
We mostly focus on the niche and mid-range indie games. Please note that I decline most of the copies, I won't recommend something I won't play myself (also, sometimes I already own the game)
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Hawk The Slayer
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PC is already the biggest by far and it will continue to grow at a faster rate.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Right. More trash. Bigger landfill