In 2024, 19 thousand games were released on Steam, this is a record for the entire existence of the store.
Moreover, almost all of these games are single-player.
SteamDB summed up the results of 2024 and recorded a noticeable increase in the number of new releases on the Valve platform.
According to analysts, over 12 months, about 19 thousand games appeared on the service, this is a record for the entire existence of the store; in 2023, this figure was 14 thousand games. Most of the new products turned out to be focused on single playthroughs, and only a small share accounted for multiplayer. It is curious that approximately 8 thousand projects were released by indie studios.
Among the genres, action continues to lead; more than 7 thousand projects have been released with this tag. It is also worth noting the popularity of first-person shooters: their number exceeded 3 thousand, while projects with a third-person view amounted to about 2 thousand.
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