A terrifying 20,282 games were released on Steam in 2025, and just 608 managed to get 1,000 reviews, expert finds: "We might be in a bit of an indie golden age"

Agent_Karyo@piefed.world · 1 day ago

A terrifying 20,282 games were released on Steam in 2025, and just 608 managed to get 1,000 reviews, expert finds: "We might be in a bit of an indie golden age"

Echo Dot@feddit.uk · 2 hours ago

No that’s just filtering out successful games from the unsuccessful ones.

I want to filter out the shovelware from the data set so we actually know what the ratio of successful to unsuccessful ones are. Since it’s not useful for me to know that shovelware isn’t successful.