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Last year, 13,971 new games were released on Steam, and these are the 10 biggest games that brought in over 60% of sales
At the beginning of the year, Steam published a lot of data for 2023. In particular, we find the top 10 games with the highest sales and, without much surprise, they alone account for more than 60% of the total sales of the 14,000 other titles released.
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2023 was a record year for PC gaming and for Steam: a total of 13,971 new games were released on the Valve platform, but very few of them actually made a lot of money like Baldur's Gate 3 or Hogwarts Legacy.
How much money have new games made on Steam?
The website Venturebeat published a major report on Steam. Total gaming sales on Steam (Full Game Sales Revenue) have doubled from $4.5 billion to $4.5 billion since 2019 9 billion dollars in 2023. In 2023, sales increased significantly again after a long break, while they remained almost the same between 2020 and 2022.
Of that $9 billion, about $3 billion comes from “new games.” And of those 3 billion, almost all of them come from the 100 biggest new titles of the year, or 91% of sales. The sales distribution is even more detailed: the top 10 share 61% of the pie.
The 10 biggest grossing new releases on Steam
The biggest new game of 2023 on Steam was Baldur's Gate 3. The epic role-playing game grossed an estimated $657 million on Steam. This represents 21% of the revenue generated when new games are released.
Of 14,000 new games on Steam, only 5% gross over $100,000. However, only 181 of them were AAA or AA games, i.e. games with high production values.