Steam breaks record with over 18,000 new titles released in 2024
Steam breaks record with over 18,000 new titles released in 2024
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Steam breaks record with over 18,000 new titles released in 2024
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Discoverability is a huge problem on Steam because there's so many games releasing, you can't really keep up.
18,000 games is almost 50 per day on average. That's 50 titles fighting for your attention and wallet every single day.
If you don't get noticed because you didn't spend half of your development budget on marketing, or your game didn't pick up well with influencers or more traditional media like reviews, you're just kinda fucked. No matter how good your game might be.
Speaking about quality, how many of those 18k titles were uninspiring, asset flipping slop?
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It doesn't help that Steam store is a nightmare to navigate.
Releasing demos is a great way to succeed. It doesn't take me more than 5 minutes to decide if it's something I want to continue playing.
Putting videos of nothing but cut-scenes is a great way to ensure I keep scrolling but every title seems to take this approach.
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The Steam Next Fest is how I found most of the good indie games I've played. Making a good demo will put you above 99% of the cruft out there.
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I have picked up the same habit. I'll download and test a couple of dozen demos every next fest, and then wishlist/buy the ones that are good. I played 108 demos this year, and some of my favorite games this year were demos like this: Kill Knight, Last Plague Blight, Karate Survivor, Empty Shell...
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that and word of mouth or just cool gameplay vids. dude parrying an explosion got me to withlist va proxy
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All excellent, I'm sure.
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Guys we have soooo much shovelware, asset flips and softcore porn that's barely a game. This is very much a good thing!!!
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So much absolute garbage.
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That's what happens when you have a monopoly.
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You act like Epic, GoG and itch.io don't exist. Steam has plenty of competition. They just suck in comparison.
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What happens? Many games get released?
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On a single platform. Giving a single company complete control over the marketplace, forcing any company looking to sell their game to a large audience to go through steam.
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Do you seriously have nothing better to do on a holiday than just bash Valve? Jfc, go outside and touch grass you terminally online neckbeard
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It’s because they got rid of their game standards
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On a scale from 1 to 10, how many of those games aren't absolute shit and/or money grab scams?
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How many of those are $0.99 hentai titles with like an hour of gameplay, though.
And how many are nearly entirely AI generated?
Idk, AI is usually very good at translation into English, and most of the translations are garbage.
Some of the most-played steam games are "Banana" and "Cats" where you literally click it every few hours and get steam item drops. Basically NFTs where people try to get rare items, but even more braindead because the developer, at any time can make more tokens.
Only around 17,000 or so. The rest are minimum effort Unity asset flips.
I do appreciate that it used to be too much effort to get a game onto Steam, but this situation is hardly better.
Dude, I legit read that as "hentai titties" 😂
Also true
That's like 20 gameplay sessions for 99¢, that's only like 5¢ per.