Steam releases over 700 games for the first time in a week, but there’s little demand

For the first time, more than 700 games were released on the Steam digital distribution store in one week. The record was set between August 24 and 30 – the service’s library was immediately replenished with 720 new items.

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Thomas Bidaux, CEO of analyst firm ICO Partners, said that of all the new products launched last week, only 10 games had more than 1,000 user reviews.

At the same time, a large number of releases (530 at the time of release instructions in “Medium”) Weibo) have 9 or fewer reviews—that’s about 73% of new products. Only 62 of 720 games yielded more than 100 points.

Let us remind you that early experts on the We Love It service found that only 1% of games on Steam earned 84.5% of the revenue. In 2025, a total of 23,107 games were released, and more than 5,000 of them didn’t even recoup the $100 fee placed on Valve’s website.