700+ Games Released On Steam Just Last Week

Steam has a lot of games on it. You seemingly already knew that. However you could be shocked by simply how briskly Steam’s stock is increasing week by week. New knowledge exhibits that just lately, over 700 video games have been launched on Steam in a single week, setting a brand new report that may seemingly be overwhelmed within the close to future.

On August 31, as noticed by GamesIndustry, ICO Companions CEO Thomas Bidaux, who has been monitoring Steam releases for a while now, shared a brand new bit of knowledge. Within the week spanning Aug 24 via the 30, ICO tracked 720 new recreation releases on Steam. That averages out to about 102 video games launched every day of the week, or about 4 each hour. For context: In 2013, solely 436 video games have been launched on Steam the whole 12 months.

Issues get bleak whenever you dig extra deeply into the info. Practically 75 p.c of those new video games have 10 opinions or much less. 530 video games reportedly have zero to 9 participant opinions, whereas solely 10 had greater than 1,000 opinions. It’s seemingly that a lot of the 720 video games that launched final week on Steam haven’t been performed by quite a lot of household and pals of the developer. So not solely is Steam filling up with numerous video games rapidly, however most of them aren’t being bought or performed a lot.

In early August, Biduax posted that 670 video games launched on Steam in a single week, setting a report that has now already been overwhelmed. On the time, Biduax predicted there can be per week on Steam when over 700 video games launch. That prediction got here true, with Biduax posting on Bluesky that this new report of 720 video games in a single week got here “a month sooner than anticipated.”

At this charge, it appears seemingly that there’ll come per week sooner or later that sees 800 video games launched on Steam.

In 2024, data showed that over 19,000 games were released on Steam that year. And round 80 p.c of these titles have been mainly unplayed. 2026 isn’t slowing down. Over 12,000 games have launched on Valve’s digital PC retailer within the first half of 2026, which is a 19-percent enhance in comparison with 2025. Last year, around 21,000 games were released on Steam.