Steam In the 2023 has established a new record in terms of number of games published on Valve's platform.
As reported by SteamDB they were well 14,535, around 40 per day, with a substantial increase compared to previous years. As Matt Piscatella, a well-known analyst at Circana, points out, no other platform comes even remotely close to these numbers in the US. In fact, in second place is Nintendo Switch which in 2023 welcomed “only” 2,360 titles.
These are impressive numbers even taking into consideration those recorded by Steam previously, which denote practically constant growth every year. In fact, in 2022 there were 12,562, in 2021 there were 11,389 and in 2020 there were 9,746. Going further back, ten years ago, the total is only 435 games.
A bit of everything comes on Steam, for better or for worse
One of the reasons for these mind-boggling numbers is certainly due to a expansion of the videogame market and greater accessibility to development tools, which has allowed the proliferation of more and more independent products.
However, there are those who also point the finger at a greater superficiality on the part of Valve in the approval phase, with the consequence that many interesting games arrive on Steam, but also many of poor quality or “broken”.
If on the one hand it is enough to simply ignore the “shovelware”, on the other it becomes increasingly difficult for the user to navigate among the thousands of games on Steam. At the same time, even for the most deserving titles it becomes increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd.
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