The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra's community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. As a career indie developer, I tend to think a lot about market viability for different kinds of games. It might sound like a strange hobby, but I enjoy browsing the steam store and trying to analyze games, approximate how well they're selling, and try to unpack the reasons behind their success or failure. So one fateful day I got to thinking: Wouldn't it be nice to have a spreadsheet of every game on steam, its tag, genre, release date, and approximate revenue? I thought it might be fun to look for patterns in the data, particularly in the tags. Well I set out to collect this data.

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Best 40,479  games on Steam starting from $680 million in net revenue by reviews number, reviews score, price. Average, median and total revenues of all games

The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra's community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Back in 2014, before SteamSpy, I wrote this article