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Steam breaks record with over 18,000 new titles released in 2024 (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Discoverability is a huge problem on Steam because there's so many games releasing, you can't really keep up.

18,000 games is almost 50 per day on average. That's 50 titles fighting for your attention and wallet every single day.

If you don't get noticed because you didn't spend half of your development budget on marketing, or your game didn't pick up well with influencers or more traditional media like reviews, you're just kinda fucked. No matter how good your game might be.

Speaking about quality, how many of those 18k titles were uninspiring, asset flipping slop?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It doesn't help that Steam store is a nightmare to navigate.

Releasing demos is a great way to succeed. It doesn't take me more than 5 minutes to decide if it's something I want to continue playing.

Putting videos of nothing but cut-scenes is a great way to ensure I keep scrolling but every title seems to take this approach.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (11 children)

How many of those are $0.99 hentai titles with like an hour of gameplay, though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And how many are nearly entirely AI generated?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My friend is a connoisseur, and he says both the quantity and quality has been declining this year.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's unironically the reason I don't even attempt to find games on Steam anymore.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I'll only go looking if I see a cool game in a YouTube video or see a cool article about something coming out soon that looks interesting. Otherwise, same.

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