The price range for 80% of video games launched on Steam since 2022 doesn’t exceed a million {dollars} — analytics

Developers hardly ever publicly disclose the price range for his or her video games. The lack of official knowledge prompted the analytical portal HushCrasher to attempt to estimate the price of creating video games distributed on Steam.

When estimating the price range, HushCrasher thought of the expertise of sport studios and publishers, the variety of specialists talked about within the credit, the variety of supported languages, and “dozens of other variables.” According to their evaluation, the margin of error was about 10%.

In their analysis, analysts targeted solely on titles launched on Steam from 2022 to 2025 that acquired no less than 10 opinions. This amounted to 19,634 titles.

Here are the principle findings.

• The price range for a lot of the video games analyzed by HushCrasher ranges from $10,000 to $1 million. More particularly, builders on Steam usually create video games for $50,000 to $200,000.
• Only 20% of video games had a price range exceeding $1 million.

• Publishers launched 23% of the analyzed video games. The relaxation have been self-published by builders. Only half of the video games printed below publishers had a price range exceeding $100,000.

• On common, video games with 3D graphics have a price range 16 instances bigger than these with 2D graphics.

• Only 16% of all releases from 2022-2025 are multiplayer video games. However, if we think about solely video games with a price range exceeding $10 million, they comprise 50%.

• “Cheaper” video games are sometimes made with Unity. For occasion, this engine was chosen by the creators of 60% of video games with budgets beneath $100,000 and 62% of video games with budgets from $100,000 to $1 million. However, it is usually well-liked amongst builders with budgets of $1-10 million, at 48% utilization.
• Godot was the muse for 8% of video games with budgets below $100,000. Another 8% of such video games have been developed utilizing GameMaker.
• Unreal Engine is usually used within the mid and higher segments. It was utilized in 41% of video games with budgets of $1-10 million and accounts for 60% of video games with budgets of $10-50 million.
• For video games with budgets exceeding $50 million, the engine breakdown is as follows: 47% use Unreal Engine, 7% use Unity, and the remaining 46% are created on different engines, primarily proprietary ones.