Valve made the right decision when making an easy an accessible platform for PC Gamers and developers. Steam has been a market leader as years have passed. In fact, It’s one of the most accessible storefronts on the entire PC platform.
One of the main attractions to the PC Gaming storefront is definitely the amount of games available in it. Every day, the gigantic game library continues expanding. However, a few days ago, Valve shattered yet another record. With the latest game releases, Steam has reached over 30,000 games which are available for purchase.
Steam Breaks Records, Reaches 30,000 games on sale.
It’s important to note that the quantity of Steam games in the platform do not include software, videos or DLC. Separately, the amount of additional software that Steam has reaches over 20,000 products. While the Epic Games Store is definitely a worthy competitor to Steam; Valve’s platform is still one of the most important in the industry.
Moreover, Valve’s platform also has one of the biggest user bases in history; with over 90,000,000 active users each month. It’s also estimated that Steam got over 9,300 games across 2018. This is much more compared to 2017’s 6,700 games. Every one of these release records include AAA releases and indie developer titles published through Steam Direct.
Valve is definitely going to have to make more efforts to continue their stay as an important game distributor. With competitors like Discord and Epic Games, a very interesting competition for the PC Gaming market will happen across 2019. However, Valve has also made several updates to the Steam client, one of which is a better way to find DLC.
Valve expects to continue helping developers as well. So much so that they have agreed on giving a bigger profit share. They are also dedicated to increasing the security in the platform while respecting privacy laws.
What do you think about Valve’s newest record? Do you believe that Epic Games and Discord are going to offer great competition to Valve? Are you excited about the upcoming games on Steam? Let us know your thoughts on the VGR forums.