The document provides statistics and information about Steam, the digital video game distribution platform. It shares that there are currently over 16,000 games available on Steam, with over 2,700 games having been released through Steam's early access program and 1,710 games still in early access. It also notes that Steam Direct, which lowered the cost of publishing games on Steam, has increased the average number of weekly game releases from 69 games before Steam Direct to 114 games after its introduction.

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• All data from the Steam API + pinches of black magic ✨
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• Steam Spy
• Steam Charts
• Steam DB
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G A M E S AVA I L A B L E
• 16,271 games released directly
• 2,713 games used in early access
• 1,710 games still in early access

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U S E R R E V I E W S A S A N I N D I C A T O R
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• 3% of all Steam games have 0 user review
• 26% of all Steam games have less than 10 user reviews
• 49% of the Steam games released in 2017 have less than 10
user reviews

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G A M E S AVA I L A B L E
• 2,713 games released in early access
• 1,710 games still in early access
• 17% of all Steam games went through Early Access
• 37% of the games that went through Early Access have been released
• Average game stays 200 days in Early Access
• Median game stays 135 days in Early Access

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S T E A M D I R E C T N U M B E R S
• 2016 – avg. # of games released: 69 per week
• 2017 – avg. # of games released: 77 per week
• 2017 – avg. # of games released: 114 per week
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