How Steam Direct, PUBG and the growth of China affected the largest PC gaming market in 2017, – Sergey Galenkin, director of publishing strategy at Epic Games and author of the Steam Spy service, told in his blog on Medium. We have translated the material into Russian.

As part of his speech at GDC 2018, Sergey Galenkin, director of publishing strategy at Epic Games and author of the SteamSpy service, said that 2017 was a record year in terms of financial indicators for Steam. The digital store of desktop games earned $4.3 billion during this period.

Director of Publishing Strategy Epic Games and the author of the SteamSpy service Sergey Galenkin said App2Top.ru , which events and projects he considers the main ones in 2017.

Cuphead’s two-dimensional shooter from MDHR Studio sold 125 thousand copies in three days of sales on Steam.

The head of the publishing division of Epic Games in Eastern Europe and the author of the analytical service Steam Spy, Sergey Galenkin, presented data according to which the average income of indie developers on Steam has decreased by 50% over the past 2 years.

Sergey Galenkin in his blog on Medium spoke in detail about the results of 2016 on Steam. With the author’s permission, we publish a translation of his article.

Over the current year, more than 4,000 games have been published in the Steam digital game store. This is more than a third of the total number of projects on Steam.

About the most trending Steam games — in our report. This time the Top 10 is headed by Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location.

About the most trending Steam games – in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Seasons after Fall. In second place is the domestic development – The Final Station.

On the official Twitter page of the SteamSpy service, which is led by the founder of the service Sergey Galenkin, two gaming tops have appeared. One shows the games that have lost the largest part of their active audience in two weeks since the release, and the second shows the games that, on the contrary, have acquired the largest number of online users in relation to the first day.

About the most trending Steam games this week in our weekly report. This time the top is again (!) headed by Kingdom: New Lands. As for the editorial board, we recommend paying attention to Reigns and Overcooked.

About the most trending Steam games this week in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Kingdom: New Lands, and we are sad about the poor sales of the excellent Tricky Towers.

About the most trending Steam games this week in our weekly report. This time we pay attention to the ABZU from the author of Journey, the Moscow Half Dead, and also calculate the Steam sales of This is the Police.

With the approval and on the SteamSpy database (Sergey Galenkin’s statistical service that collects a wide range of data from Steam) the site App2Top.ru begins to regularly analyze and publish the Top 10 trending games of the Valve digital distribution platform.

As part of the almost two-week summer Steam sale, users spent almost $ 80 million more on games than during the winter sale, despite the fact that discounts have become less.