Steam is making more money than ever before, but before you prepare your game and prepare your game, you should know that only about 500 games a month after their release earned more than 250,000, so not everyone is getting faster.
According to the 2024 of Steam Year in the review What was just published, the company is now generating ten times more revenue on the new release than 2014. The way its new release revenue is calculated is that looking at the total data in 30 days after the game is launched on the platform, as well as pre -order cash.
An important warning to note is that on the first date a game is counted. Therefore, when something starts to reach early access, the new revenue revenue is calculated in the next 30 days. The 1.0 release is not considered as a new data point.
This is definitely good news for developers, but according to the 18,908 games on steam last year Stem dbWhich means only 2.6 % of them earned more than 250,000 in their first month, and 200 games earned more than 1 million in their first 30 days, which is only 1 %.
Obviously, many sports have long tail and revenue is generating after their initial release, but for hard margin studios, it is a tough market. However, if you are a solo developer and you manage to make it in this top 500, you should consider yourself very successful.
Says the retired CEO of Anemiak Games are at risk to make these days How much time and money they spend to make, and steam data supports it. Still, all the time and then, you get like a breakout hit Balatro, selling 000 more than 600,000 In the first few hours on steam, copies are valuable.
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