It's no wonder your Steam backlog keeps growing: the platform is releasing more games than ever before. According to analyst Daniel Ahmad, of Niko Partners, the number of games released on the platform so far this year has already surpassed the total for the whole of 2015.
Around 1,300 games have popped up since June's launch of Steam Direct, the replacement for Steam Greenlight that lets developers publish on Steam without passing through an approval process. If that pace carries on then the number of games released this year could top 5,000 for the first time.
That would mean there were more games released this year on Steam than in the eight years between 2006 and 2014. Pretty staggering.
Updated the number of Steam games released per year chart. 2017 already higher than 2015. Over 1,300 new games since Steam Direct launched pic.twitter.com/KySFREY44wSeptember 8, 2017
Number of Steam games released in CY2017 is set to exceed the total amount of games released between 2006 and 2014 on Steam. whewSeptember 8, 2017
I'm split on whether that's a good or bad thing. It means that a lot of dross gets through the net, and it can make it harder for the best titles to stand out in the growing crowd. But it also allows users to buy some real gems that may not have made it through Steam Greenlight, which saw users vote on titles that should be published. What do you think?
Cheers, PCGamesN.
