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How S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 muscled its way to success

How Sulfur sold 50k real fast - and the 'breakout indies' of Steam

Charting the rise of (Vampire) Survivors-likes

Revealed: the biggest Switch eShop games of 2024

Physical video games: how big a deal in 2024?

Analysis: why some Steam wishlists won't make players hit 'buy'

Steam Deck: quantifying the PC handheld's favorite games

How Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month!

Why 'different' sequels are discovery 'hard mode'...

Which games hit big in Steam's Oct. 2024 Next Fest?

How three tiny social games inverted Steam interest curves...

How 'fake streamers' steal your Steam keys - and why!

Which PC games have the highest % of U.S. (or Japanese) players?

Roblox gets Hindenburg-ed: should we take it seriously?

How 'long tail' has changed for PC games - PlayWay edition!

Does UGC power sales & retention for games?

How early is 'too early' for Steam Early Access?

TCG Card Shop Simulator: the second 'surprise hit' Steam sim of 2024?

How many wishlists rank you on Steam's top 'hype' charts?

Tactical Breach Wizards: how this tiny team sold >100k in weeks

Havoc Hotel 2: how Fortnite UGC's being disrupted by a roguelike

How Shapez 2 surged to 250k copies sold in <a month!

How long should you discount your game for?

Why specialist publishers win with Steam's new cross-promo rules!

Concord: what its failure says about game discovery in 2024

How Rusty's Retirement idle-farmed its way to 300k+ Steam sales!

Black Myth: Wukong - behind the numbers on the phenom!

How this tiny-dev narrative game sold almost 50k in a month

Steam's big changes: New & Trending, cross-promo & more...

Which Steam games 'won' the first half of 2024?

Plus: Five Nights At Freddy's goes 'Into The Pit' in style...

How Abiotic Factor sold 600k copies in just 3 months!

Plus: what were July 2024's biggest Steam debuts - and why?

Summer special: what generative AI could do... for Pac-Man?

Plus: what are the hottest unreleased PC games right now?

What's the country split for players of hit Steam games?

Plus: why did (or didn't) this week's Steam launches 'take off'?

How Little Kitty, Big City purred into millions of homes!

Plus: June's top Steam launches, deconstructed...

How much busier is Steam for 'significant' games?

Plus: The First Descendant debuts (notably!) strong on Steam

How this solo-dev parkour game sold >70k in a few weeks!

Does Steam 'price fix', and does that make them an unfair monopoly?

Plus: Riven's remake tops a slower 'Steam debuts' week..

What PC game genres have the most 'Hype' in 2024?

How The Planet Crafter hit 1 million sold, post-1.0!

Plus: let's look at Fallen Aces, Chained Together's successes?

When games don't sell - and what happened next...

Which games hit big in Steam's June 2024 Next Fest?

Plus: Kingdom Hearts, Shin Megami Tensei top quiet Steam debuts

How Hypercharge scaled its Xbox version to a Top 10 win!

Steam's quarterly mega-sales $ increases, revealed...

Plus: what surprises (& disappointments) hit Steam in May?

How Jump Ship added nearly 300k wishlists in just 2 months

How Crow Country spooked its way to 50k sold

Plus: Soulmask, Multiversus relaunch lead this week's debuts

Are conversion rates dipping over time on Steam?

Deep dive: inside Manor Lords' 2 million-selling success

Plus: Hellblade II - more niche on Steam than we thought?

How Rabbit & Steel raided its way to 125k+ sales in two weeks

2024: what the ****'s going on? (In PC games?)

Plus: here comes Hellblade II - how will it do?

How Another Crab's Treasure goofed its way to 250k sales in <a month!

What's the state of Switch, leading into 'Switch 2'?

Plus: a spectacular week for indie debuts on Steam!

What those studio closures mean for Xbox's future

How Sker Ritual's 1.0 release redefined 'sleeper hit'

Plus: which of April 2024's Steam debuts have 'staying power'?

How user reviews affect your game's Month 1 sales

Which countries dominate Steam bandwidth usage in 2024?

Plus: yes, Manor Lords is a smash hit - but how big?

How Backpack Battles sold 650k copies in its first month

What do Devolver's results tell us about game discovery in 2024?

Plus: No Rest For The Wicked starts big, as Manor Lords looms...

What are Fortnite's top 'third-party IP' skins?

Revealed: the state of Steam wishlist conversions & 'long tail' in 2024

Plus: Infection Free Zone, Gigantic, Spirit City go places on Steam

Why you should 'create the same game, over and over'?

Plus: Infection Free Zone comes in 'hot' to Steam next week

Why older games rule - and new games drool - in Discoveryland

How the iii initiative shakes up the 'streaming showcase' space

Plus: Outpost: Infinity Siege blends genres like a champ

Summerhouse & the rise of the 'chill game' on Steam

Exclusive: the numbers behind Epic's 12% store cut

Plus example: Outpost: Infinity Siege blends genres like a champ

Plus: Dragon's Dogma 2 stumbles into MTX controversy during big launch

SEO on game platforms: why don't we talk about it?

How Balatro hit 1 million sales in less than a month!

Plus: here comes Dragon's Dogma 2, world conqueror?

Revealed: Tim Sweeney's 'Epic' rant to Valve re: 30% platform cut

What Electronic Arts thinks about the future of game discovery

Plus: Backpack Battles rides its demo to Steam success!

How Escape Simulator hit 'escape velocity' & sold 2 million copies

How many PC games get bought - but not played?

Plus: is a (Supermarket) Simulator revolution coming from Turkey?

Analysis: the state of F2P games on Nintendo Switch

Where's the squeeze, if more games 'succeed' on PC?

Plus: Nightingale, Balatro, Pacific Drive all score on Steam

What's behind Xbox’s platform (& subscriber) moves?

How Paralives 'life sim'-ed it to 750k Steam wishlists

Plus: which 'new in 2024' games are people still playing?

What Sony’s results mean for PlayStation’s future!

Which games hit big in Steam's February Next Fest?

Plus: a great Steam start for Helldivers 2, huh?

Which countries played PC and console games... recently?

Making a successful video game Kickstarter in 2024

Plus: Granblue Fantasy, Persona 3 go out big on Steam!

PC game discovery in China: how does it work?

Which Steam games 'won' revenue again in 2023?

Plus: why data can't predict success for PC/console games

What Palworld's success tells us about 2024's game biz

How this solo-dev 'incremental' game hit 100k+ sales!

Plus: Palworld sold a million copies... already?

Is the latest game subscription 'moral panic' justified?

Revealed: why Steam's new Daily Deal system might help you!

Plus: what were December's top-grossing PC/console debuts?

House Flipper 2: how the sequel 'cleaned up' in the charts

Just how big have PC & console game catalogs got?

Plus: what's Q1 2024 got in store on Steam?

Introducing the GameDiscoverCo Pitch Deck archive!