2023 has rapidly been inserted into the dialogue for the yr with the very best choice of new recreation releases, with video games like Baldur’s Gate 3, The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, and Alan Wake 2 headlining the yr. For Steam customers specifically, there’s quite a bit to contemplate, as stories say over 14,000 video games launched on the service final yr.
SteamDB, an impartial web site devoted to analyzing Steam exercise, states that 14,535 distinctive video games launched on the platform in 2023, which marks a virtually 2,000-game improve from the earlier yr. VGC, by way of Circana (previously NPD), additionally notes that Steam’s 14,000+ launch determine dwarfs the second-place platform–the Nintendo Swap, which noticed 2,360 video games added to its library.
The quantity of new releases on Steam is staggering when in comparison with a decade earlier than; 2013 noticed solely 435 new Steam video games for the complete yr. It additionally almost doubles the service’s output in 2018, when 8,900 video games had been launched.
In math phrases: Should you tried to play each recreation that launched on Steam final yr, you’d have needed to play video video games each minute of each day of 2023. Oh, and also you’d solely be capable to dedicate, at most, 37 minutes of taking part in time to every recreation.
2024 would not appear to be slowing down both, as SteamDB stories almost 100 video games have already launched as of the writing of this sentence, with the quantity set to eclipse the century mark by the top of the day. Notable Steam launches in January 2024 embody Tekken 8, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Prince Of Persia: The Misplaced Crown.