Tags · Data as of October 12, 2026
How much do Exploration games make on Steam?
Median revenue
$1.9K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$280–$18.4K
Top 10% earn over
$219K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
13%
All Steam: 10%
Games
19,576
How revenue is spread
Under $1K
8,120
$1K–10K
5,570
$10K–100K
3,297
$100K–1M
1,398
$1M–10M
858
$10M+
333
Median revenue by price
Under $5
$3998,135 games
$5–10
$2.3K5,572 games
$10–15
$11.1K2,586 games
$15–20
$57.6K1,857 games
$20–30
$291.5K926 games
$30+
$387.1K500 games
Median revenue by release year
2005
$2.2M1 games
2006
$574.3K6 games
2007
$1.4M3 games
2008
$1.7M14 games
2009
$81K34 games
2010
$71.1K16 games
2011
$119.4K15 games
2012
$332.2K29 games
2013
$1.1M54 games
2014
$71.7K119 games
2015
$49.5K197 games
2016
$35.9K252 games
2017
$15K344 games
2018
$9.9K448 games
2019
$8.4K491 games
2020
$4.3K928 games
2021
$1.9K1,750 games
2022
$2.2K1,926 games
2023
$1.8K2,255 games
2024
$1.5K3,228 games
2025
$1.2K3,776 games
2026
$6993,681 games
2027
$04 games
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- 21Satisfactory$453.5M
- 22Deep Rock Galactic$437.4M
- 23It Takes Two$421.6M
- 24Sons Of The Forest$411.7M
- 25Crimson Desert Enhanced$392.2M
Top developers
- CD PROJEKT RED1 games · $2.6B
- Ubisoft Montreal12 games · $2B
- Ubisoft Shanghai6 games · $1.3B
- Playground Games3 games · $1.1B
- FromSoftware, Inc.3 games · $1.1B
- Ubisoft Kiev3 games · $1B
- Bethesda Game Studios9 games · $1B
- Endnight Games Ltd2 games · $970.7M
- Hello Games1 games · $915.1M
- SCS Software3 games · $892.7M
Top publishers
- CD PROJEKT RED3 games · $2.6B
- Ubisoft36 games · $2.5B
- Xbox Game Studios19 games · $2.3B
- Coffee Stain Publishing7 games · $1.6B
- PlayStation Publishing LLC12 games · $1.5B
- Bethesda Softworks21 games · $1.5B
- Electronic Arts11 games · $1.2B
- FromSoftware, Inc.3 games · $1.1B
- Bandai Namco Entertainment6 games · $1B
- Hello Games1 games · $915.1M