66% of games released this year haven’t recouped Steam’s $100 registration fee: Gamalytic
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Key points
- Gamalytic has revealed that 66% of the games released this year have not recouped Steam’s $100 registration fee.
- Steam refunds the registration fee once a game earns $1,000 in revenue.
- There have been 12,875 games released this year so far.
The Steam Analytics chart on Gamalytic revealed that more than 60% of the games that were uploaded on the storefront since the start of this year haven’t recouped the $100 Steam registration fee. They can receive the fee back once their games reach $1,000 in revenue.
Of the 12,875 games that have been released since Jan. 1, 2025, 8,502, or 66% of the games, have less than $1,000 in revenue. Additionally, around 6,127 games had fewer than 100 sales, which constitutes 47.6%.
Other information from the site includes the average playtime, which was 3.9 hours; average game prices, which were $8; and the median revenue, which only amounted to $202.
The largest number of games launched in a single month this year was recorded in March at 1,628 games. As of now, aside from the current month of October, the lowest number of games launched in a month was 1,011, which was recorded in February.
