Clay John, a board member of Godot Foundation, shared intriguing statistics about the engine on the Godot blog. Among other things, he counted how many games made with Godot were released on Steam in recent years.
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John immediately clarified that he obtained some information from open sources, as he did not have all the official data on hand. In the case of Steam, he turned to the SteamDB service, which showed the current situation on the platform.
As John noted, each year sees an increase in the number of Godot games on Valve's store. If in 2019 only 56 projects made with this engine were released on Steam, then in 2020 there were 106. By 2025, the number of such new releases had reached 1,229. Thus, over the past six years, the popularity of Godot among Steam developers surged 22 times.
However, John pointed out that a significant number of developers still prefer to release Godot-made games not on Steam but on the indie store itch.io due to its low entry barrier. According to the specialist's estimates, by February 2026, 36,500 Godot games had been released on itch.io. Incidentally, this is also an increase from before—the number grew by 2.4 times compared to February 2024.
John did not discuss developments on other platforms. However, it is quite likely that the number of such projects is gradually increasing there too. It's worth recalling that a couple of years ago, following a scandal over Unity monetization, many developers switched engines, choosing Godot. Among them were the creators of Slay the Spire 2 and Road to Vostok.