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steamdb says that over 19000 games were released in 2025.
5863/19000 represents roughly 30% of the games released on the platform.
I honestly thought this percentage was going to be way lower. Almost 1/3 is being able to earn over 100k? This seems like a success ratio way bigger than other content creation platforms, unless my math is ignoring a key factor.
I don't think the 5863 is limited to games released in 2025
that changes the math... a bit...
100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn't call this the success threshold.
He conceded that earning $100,000 could mean wild success for one team or "total disaster" for another, but reiterated his belief that "dramatically more games" are finding success on the PC storefront.
I don't know with that. I think most teams would be happier getting more than 100k. If you're an indie team and you're driven by how well you want your game to go, I would think you'd like to make more than 100k. Especially given how games bigger than yours go to multi-million statuses.
Also he never described what number of said team that 100k would be good for. I think maybe a 2-person team. But more than 2, like 10, then making 100k would be considered a total disaster scenario.
Only making 100k for a small indie dev's first game is great.
Only making 100k for a AAA Electronic Arts or Ubisoft game would be fucking hilarious.
Sad Skull and Bones noises
They had every chance to take Sea of Thieves, listen to what players hated about it, and make something better. They chose a different path.
Enough for one dev for a year ...such success.
and considering that there were over 120k games released on steam as of 2025 😵💫
game development is not the goldmine some think it is, i think there’s even a stat that half the games on steam don’t ever make more than 500$
i’d love to see a graph of the number of steam games VS the money they made. i’d guess that graph would be very exponential looking
And somehow that's actually better odds than getting a good job after university 1.2m applicants for 17k graduates
I feel like you'd have to control for the obvious asset flips or just random, I guess, spam games thrown out on a daily basis. I don't think it'd move the needle that much tho