Steam Spy Reviews and details

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• Is there a way to see the average time spent per user of a game?

  If you still want an estimate you can check on Steam Spy. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

  I think Valve will shut it down once it learns about the monetization. AFAIK that is what happened to https://steamspy.com/ when they introduced paid subscription tier. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Is there a site that shows the sales numbers of Visual Novels?

  If you still want to see numbers, you can try with Steam Spy with VN available on steam. Most of the developers say that those numbers are false. Source: over 1 year ago

• A general formula that makes a successful game?

  Research popular game genres, for example on https://steamspy.com, and find a genre that currently sells well. Source: almost 2 years ago

• where I could get data for market research?

  Steam Spy - must have tool for anyone who wants to get some data about Steam games. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Hello, fellow dev! I'm working on a website called moneymadeonsteam.com to give analytics data about steam games (estimated revenues, average playtime, summary of user reviews, and much more). Did you have any idea how the website could be improved? :D

  Ya, I just use vginsights.com and steamspy.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a way to sort steam games by the average amount of time people played them? I don't mean my play time in my own library of games, I mean the average play time of steam games in general. So like I can sort by time and see "ohh, on average people spent 500 hours on this game".

  SteamSpy. Choose "Top by playtime" to see a list of games sorted by mean average and median time spent in the last 2 weeks. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Steam Wishlist Conversion Rate for Indie Studio: Question About Sells and How Indie Studio Can Survive

  At best you might be able to estimate a figure with the help of websites like https://steamcharts.com/ or https://steamspy.com/, but that only accounts for Steam and not any other platforms the game is released on. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I am just popping in and curious about the sales numbers of indie games and not entirely sure where else to ask.

  I don't know about consoles, but when it comes to PC Steamspy is probably the most accurate. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a page to see indie games revenue?

  That's really interesting website. Would also like to know how trustworthy it is. I have only used SteamSpy. Paid version shows more detailed information but still those numbers are owned copies and accuracy especially with the games that have not done so well is not good and I've used it only to get an idea how well some games have done. Source: about 2 years ago

• Elden Ring to sell minimum 10 million copies on PC alone three days after release

  It literally refers to Steam in the article; https://steamspy.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Warhammer 3 is a 6th (or 8th) Global Top Seller 4 weeks before release, above Elden Ring

  The closest is account on https://steamspy.com/ Otherwise only CA can release information about how much copies they sold on all platforms. Source: over 2 years ago

• Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work

  > evidence We are talking about a somewhat subjective topic here, so first you'd have to establish criteria to measure this, which works the other way around as well. Do you have evidence to show that the majority of games are "amazing and innovative"? However let's try to make a logcial argument: The example I replied to claims that "So many amazing and innovative games have come out in the last 5 years",... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Do Walking Simulators work on Steam?

  I only know of Steamdb, as you can see, and SteamSpy. But yes, most of this info is quite superficial. I would recommend a more per-case deep dive in the titles you feel you should have as a reference. Either by graphic style, narrative vibe, or anything else you may find relevant... Source: over 2 years ago

• A rough draft prototype for my random game idea. Is it worth continuing?

  Without any marketing budget then PC is your best bet and you can use https://steamspy.com or https://www.gamedatacrunch.com/ to help point you in the right direction of an underserved market. Source: over 2 years ago

• What does linking Epic Games and Steam do?

  Of course, now that Epic knows you have a Steam account, they can check the account you just linked for any public information. However, it was already possible for them to do that even without linking, which is what they've already been doing for years now. Source: over 2 years ago

• Show Me the Money!

  Https://steamspy.com used to have some good reports, but they all now require access to their Patreon and it's been a couple years so I can't say if they're still the same level of quality. There's a couple other sites out there that also scrape Steam stats but they seemed to mostly just be average # of players. Source: over 2 years ago

• After 1 full year of game dev on my own I've learned a few things and I thought I should share the most important things.

  Some resources that will help: VGInsights, SteamDB, SteamSpy (fun fact, the creator of SteamSpy was hired by Epic a few years ago, and has helped guide their content strategy for the Epic Games Store). Source: over 2 years ago

• Highfleet financial success?

  Between 100.000 and 200.000 copies sold according to steamspy.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to see how many times a game was bought?

  You can use sites like https://steamspy.com/, but the more popular a game is, the more difficult it will be to get a precise number. SteamSpy estimates Terraria to have between 20.000.000 and 50.000.000. Source: over 2 years ago

• How about new version of SteamSpy? Worth doing??

  So I came up with a potential solution and was wondering if u think it is worth pursuing? Basically it would be the same as SteamSpy, just much much more accurate. So you could see what games are gaining in popularity and which game types are trending. Source: almost 3 years ago