Steam Sales Analysis

[Morkar Left]

You probably have heard from SteamSpy which allows to track some Steam statistics about all the games and sales there. The guy who created it, Sergey Galyonkin, now made an interesting blog post where he anyli anal makes sense of all this numbers with a lot of interesting results:

For months Early Access was lauded by developers as having two launch events on Steam — one for an incomplete version of the game and the second one for the final version.

Well, I’ve got bad news for you: Every game still has only one launch event and if you’re going to release it in Early Access that date will it be.

I would state that Germans are more different when it comes to game themes. If you have a game with “Simulator” in its title, then expect a lot of people from Germany (up to 15 percent) to buy your game — and prepare by localizing your game and your website. It is not limited to weird games like “Farming Simulator” or “EuroTruck Simulator”, they also love simulations in other genres, like first-person shooters (e.g. “ArmA 3”) or city-building games (e.g. “Cities: Skylines”). Germans also are the most active users on Steam with 92 percent of the existing accounts from Germany being active since 2009.

He gave the blog post some odd title:
Some things you should know about Steam

Because the only thing you should really know about Steam is that it is the EVIL.
Check it out anyway.