Don’t want to play even after spending money? Nearly 80% of games on Steam will be uninterested in 2024

Recently, there is news that the Steam platform seems to be broken in 2024, with nearly 19,000 new games added, far exceeding the 14,310 games in 2023. However, nearly 80% of these games are almost unknown. Either no one buys it, or people who buy it don’t play it.

According to SteamDB data, Steam launched a total of 18,992 new games last year, of which only 4,041 sales reached the "Profile Features Limited" restrictions set by Steam.

　Profile Features "Limited" is Steam's preventive measure to prevent certain types of abuse. If the game's sales are not strong and player participation is not up to standard, then the profile page display functions, such as trading card drops, etc. will be affected.

It is worth mentioning that although the number of games launched in the Steam store in 2024 far exceeds that in 2023, there are still very few works that have truly entered the field of vision of "players", except for those who have joined the The Steam configuration system has a total of 3973 new games with collection cards, personalized decorations, community workshops, achievement statistics and other functions.