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Rise of the Co-Op Games
Cooperative video games have emerged as a dominant force on the Steam platform, significantly overperforming relative to their total volume of releases.
- Cooperative games significantly outperform the market, accounting for 36% of all units sold on Steam in 2023 despite representing only 6% of total releases.
- The average co-op game on Steam sells 40,000 units, which is eight times the 5,000-unit average achieved by non-cooperative titles.
- Market success is highly concentrated, with Palworld alone accounting for nearly half of the 40 million co-op units sold during the first half of 2024.
Video Game InsightsJan 2024
Report16 pages
State of Free-to-Play on Steam in 2024
The free-to-play (F2P) market on Steam represents a dominant but increasingly consolidated segment of the PC gaming industry.
- Free-to-play titles dominate Steam engagement, accounting for 51% of all player hours despite representing only a small fraction of the platform's total game library.
- The F2P market is highly consolidated, with the top 25 titles capturing 88% of all F2P playtime.
- Market entry is increasingly difficult, as the average age of a top-ten F2P game is seven years, and only two new titles have successfully maintained a top-ten position over the last three years.
Video Game InsightsJan 2024
Article
Is a Supermarket Simulator Revolution Coming From Turkey?
The emergence of Turkish development studios marks a significant shift in the PC simulator genre, challenging the long-standing dominance of Polish publisher PlayWay.
- Turkish development studios, led by Nokta Games, are disrupting the PC simulator market by applying hypercasual mobile development speed to titles like Supermarket Simulator, which peaked at 23,000 concurrent Steam users.
- Car For Sale Simulator 2023 has demonstrated the financial viability of this new wave of simulators, generating approximately $5 million in gross revenue.
- Established simulator publisher PlayWay is losing its market dominance as recent releases like Builders of Greece struggle with technical polish and 'Mixed' user reviews.
GameDiscoverCoMay 2023