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Wyznaczenie daty premiery gry Bulletstorm VR
- Bulletstorm VR (formerly codenamed "Thunder") is scheduled for official release on 14 December 2023.
- The title will be available across three major VR platforms: META Oculus Store, Sony PlayStation Store, and Steam.
- The release announcement was issued by the board of PCF Group S.A. on 22 August 2023.
PCF Group
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Raport Bieżący Nr 28/2025: Wyznaczenie Daty Rozpoczęcia Sprzedaży Gry „Lost Rift”
- PCF Group S.A. has scheduled the early access release of its new title, 'Lost Rift' (formerly codenamed 'Victoria'), for September 25, 2025.
- The game will launch globally on the Steam platform as part of the company's 2025 fiscal year operational objectives.
- The release utilizes an early access model to facilitate iterative development and gameplay refinement based on direct player feedback.
PCF Group
Report18 pages
The State of PC Game Distribution
- Steam maintains a dominant market position, generating $10.8 billion in 2024 revenue with concurrent users increasing from 25.4 million in 2021 to 40.5 million by September 2025.
- Developer reliance on Steam is extreme, with 88% of studios deriving over 75% of their revenue from the platform and 37% relying on it for more than 90%.
- Despite 72% of developers labeling Steam a monopoly, diversification is underway, with 48% of studios utilizing the Epic Games Store and the Xbox PC store for distribution.
RokkyJun 2025
Report25 pages
The Big Game Engine Report: 2025
- Proprietary in-house engines have seen their market share of new game releases decline to approximately 13% by 2024.
- Unreal Engine 5 has established itself as the industry standard for high-fidelity, large-scale AAA projects.
- Unity maintains market dominance by volume, particularly within the indie and smaller-scale development sectors.
VG InsightsJan 2025
Report20 pages
The Importance of Wishlists in 2025: Do Wishlists Matter?
- Steam wishlists are a primary indicator of commercial success, showing a 70% correlation between pre-launch counts and first-month unit sales.
- The 100,000-wishlist threshold is the critical benchmark required to reliably forecast a breakout performance for a new title.
- The vast majority of games launch with fewer than 10,000 wishlists, reflecting a highly top-heavy distribution of pre-launch momentum.
Video Game InsightsJan 2025
Report25 pages
The Big Game Engine Report: End of the Era of In-House Engines
- Proprietary in-house engine usage has declined significantly, accounting for only 13 percent of new game releases by 2024.
- Unreal Engine has become the industry standard for high-budget AAA productions, particularly following the release of Unreal Engine 5.
- Unity maintains the highest total volume of game releases, primarily driven by adoption among indie and smaller-scale developers.
Video Game InsightsJan 2025
Report20 pages
The Importance of Wishlists in 2025
- Crossing the 100,000 wishlist threshold is the primary indicator of success, as these titles have a 71% probability of strong first-month sales compared to only 17% for those with fewer than 100,000.
- Wishlist accumulation is highly top-heavy, with only 9% of games reaching the 100,000-wishlist milestone and over 90% of all titles failing to exceed 10,000.
- 85% of total pre-launch wishlists are collected at least four months before a game's release, emphasizing that audience commitment must be secured well in advance of launch.
Sensor TowerJan 2025
Report13 pages
Rise of the Co-Op Games
- 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
- Free-to-play (FtP) games dominate Steam engagement, accounting for 51% of total hours played in 2023 despite being outnumbered by premium releases.
- Market engagement is highly concentrated, with the top 25 FtP titles capturing 88% of all FtP activity and the top five titles holding nearly 60% of concurrent users.
- The FtP sector is stagnant for new entrants, as the top ten FtP games have a mean age of seven years and only two new titles have broken into that tier since 2021.
Video Game InsightsJan 2024
Report16 pages
State of Free-to-Play on Steam in 2024
- 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