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Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Half of all paid games on Steam have earned less than an estimated $3,622 in their entire lifetime," the report reads. "A game at the 90th percentile has earned about $236,184, and the 99th percentile starts at $15,872,031."

10% making over $235k paints a very different picture tho...

Especially considering how 8/10 games seem to be utter slop lately.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Especially considering how 8/10 games seem to be utter slop lately.

'Platformer', 'roguelike', 'survival', 'base building'

Four horsemen of steam slop.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

roguelike is a pretty cool genre with so many good games. Some of the best indie games are roguelikes. I wouldn't call the genre "slop".