Valve has announced the official release of two new features on Steam at once. Playtest and simplified game search came out of beta. We share details about each of them.

Indie game marketing specialist Logan Williams decided to find out if there was a “race of concessions” on Steam in 2015-2020. In other words, did the developers reduce the prices of new games because of competition with each other? We share the results.

Developers often make demos for Steam short in order to give players only a basic idea of the project and mechanics. However, some almost do not limit users by time, allowing them to play trial versions for hours. Excellent examples are the demos of Loop Hero and The Riftbreaker, which showed the effectiveness of such a strategy and interested the hardcore audience even before the release.Loop Hero

The leader of the last two weeks Outriders could not hold positions in the weekly list of the best—selling Steam games – the title went to the fifth line of the rating. This time the first place was taken by the cooperative It Takes Two. Also in the top 10 was the addition Stellaris: Nemesis, released four days ago.

Last week’s best-selling games on Steam were Outriders and It Takes Two again. But Cyberpunk 2077 and Evil Genius 2: World Domination did not enter the chart this time.

Important news for developers and publishers on Steam. Now the UTM analytics menu has appeared in the Valve store, with which you can track advertising campaigns on the game page. Tags will allow you not only to find out the sources of traffic, but also to track the number of purchases and additions to vishlists.The new service is currently in open beta testing mode and is available on all accounts with permission to view marketing…

Valheim dominated the list of the best-selling Steam games for two months. However, now the first line was taken by the Polish action Outriders, showing excellent online at the start. Also in the top ten is Cyberpunk 2077, for which a major patch has recently been released.According to the results of the week that ended on April 4, Valheim dropped immediately to fourth place.

Yesterday, the release of the cooperative action Outriders from the studio People Can Fly took place. The online project instantly exceeded 100 thousand people. This is the best start among all Square Enix games released on Steam.Already three hours after the release, 111,953 people were playing Outriders at the same time, according to SteamDB.

Pancake Week, a festival-sale of games by Eastern European developers, was held on Steam from March 8 to 14. It was initiated and organized by Meta Publishing. We talked with Ilya Salamatov and Ilya Grabelnikov, top managers of the publishing house, about how the sale was being prepared and held.

The Russian bagel Loop Hero has performed well in sales. The game has sold over 500 thousand copies sold in just a week since its release.

Loop Hero is a bagel with indirect control from the Russian indie studio Four Quarters and publisher Devolver Digital. In just a day after the release, more than 150 thousand people played the game, and its peak online was almost 40 thousand.

The Sinking City scandal continues. The game was again withdrawn from sale on Steam. It is unknown whether Frogwares studio has anything to do with this, but Valve had to delete this version of the project after receiving a DMCA complaint.Now the link to The Sinking City page on Steam automatically redirects users to the main page of the store.

The Ukrainian studio Frogwares commented on the situation around the re-release of The Sinking City on Steam. The developers claim that Nacon has spiraled and modified a copy of the game. At the same time, the publisher believes that the studio, to which she allegedly has already paid over € 10 million, refuses to make contact.

The Sinking City recently returned to Steam and immediately received a lot of negative feedback from players. The Ukrainian studio Frogwares, whose proceedings with the publisher Nacon are continuing, urges users to refuse to purchase. The developers themselves have nothing to do with this version of the game.On February 26, The Sinking City unexpectedly became available for purchase on Steam again.

Valheim survival simulator continues to conquer the Steam charts. This time, the project entered the top hundred of the highest-rated games of the service. All this against the background of sales of three million copies of the title.

The number of games on Steam has reached the mark of 50 thousand. This number does not include add—ons, soundtracks, videos, programs and other products – there are about 39 thousand more in the store.

Valheim can compete for the title of Steam‘s biggest viral hit. The Viking survival simulator has already sold over two million copies. His peak online has completely exceeded 392.8 thousand people — this is more than Rust, GTA V and PUBG had yesterday.

Yesterday, the online survival simulator Valheim exceeded 360 thousand people. The project not only continues to hold the lead in the Steam chart, but has already entered the top ten most popular games by the number of simultaneous users in the history of the store.Valheim, developed by Iron Gate Studio, continues to gain popularity.

The Viking survival Valheim, which recently conquered the Steam charts, has crossed the milestone of one million copies sold. It took the game only one week.