700+ Games Released On Steam Just Last Week, Setting A New Record - Kotaku
Steam has a lot of games on it. At the time, Biduax predicted there would be a week on Steam when over 700 games launch. Last year, around 21,000 games were released on Steam.
Steam has a lot of games on it. You likely already knew that. But you might be shocked by just how fast Steam’s inventory is expanding week by week. New data shows that recently, over 700 games were released on Steam in a single week, setting a new record that will likely be beaten in the near future.
On August 31, as spotted by GamesIndustry, ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux, who has been tracking Steam releases for some time now, shared a new bit of data. In the week spanning Aug 24 through the 30, ICO tracked 720 new game releases on Steam. That averages out to about 102 games released each day of the week, or about 4 every hour. For context: In 2013, only 436 games were released on Steam the entire year.
Things get bleak when you dig more deeply into the data. Nearly 75 percent of these new games have 10 reviews or less. 530 games reportedly have zero to nine player reviews, while only 10 had more than 1,000 reviews. It’s likely that most of the 720 games that launched last week on Steam haven’t been played by more than a few family and friends of the developer. So not only is Steam filling up with lots of games quickly, but most of them aren’t being purchased or played much.
And we have now past 700 releases a week on Steam.
A month earlier than I expected.
— Thomas BIDAUX 👁️ 🔜 gamescom (@icotom.icopartners.com) 2026-08-31T08:19:30.402Z
In early August, Biduax posted that 670 games launched on Steam in one week, setting a record that has now already been beaten. At the time, Biduax predicted there would be a week on Steam when over 700 games launch. That prediction came true, with Biduax posting on Bluesky that this new record of 720 games in one week came “a month earlier than expected.”
At this rate, it seems likely that there will come a week in the future that sees 800 games launched on Steam.
In 2024, data showed that over 19,000 games were released on Steam that year. And around 80 percent of those titles were basically unplayed. 2026 isn’t slowing down. Over 12,000 games have launched on Valve’s digital PC store in the first half of 2026, which is a 19-percent increase compared to 2025. Last year, around 21,000 games were released on Steam.
Don’t miss the latest reviews, news and tips. Sign up for our free newsletter.
The tracker also features a slur leaderboard, and one person is at the top of two of the available three categories
SteamDB's owner explained that the 'rise of AI' and 'mental burnout' led to his decision to sell the site: 'The internet we once loved is gone, and with it my passion'
People are playing a never-released Scream game online after it leaked over the weekend
It's been just 48 hours since the 13TB 'Steam2' depot leak dropped, and fans are unearthing a small treasure trove of previously undiscovered content
The alleged Steam depot data reportedly spans from 2003 to 2013, and contains pre-release builds of potentially thousands of first and third-party games
Valve's decision to slap the PEGI 12-rated indie game Future? No Thanks! with an adults-only rating on Steam has led its developer to seek support from 'top German regulators'