Steam Revenue Calculator
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How much do Investigation games make on Steam?

Median revenue
$1.8K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$359–$12K
Top 10% earn over
$113.5K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
11%
All Steam: 10%
Games
3,401
Clear

How revenue is spread

Under $1K
1,402
$1K–10K
1,086
$10K–100K
548
$100K–1M
235
$1M–10M
109
$10M+
21

Median revenue by price

Under $5
$4781,319 games
$5–10
$2.2K1,125 games
$10–15
$9.3K442 games
$15–20
$10.2K369 games
$20–30
$234.4K104 games
$30+
$419.5K42 games

Median revenue by release year

2008
$136.3K1 games
2009
$57.3K12 games
2010
$35.6K3 games
2011
$142.9K5 games
2012
$2.3M1 games
2013
$1.7M3 games
2014
$15.6K11 games
2015
$21.3K12 games
2016
$37.5K19 games
2017
$14.4K40 games
2018
$7.7K35 games
2019
$31K53 games
2020
$2.5K214 games
2021
$3K341 games
2022
$3K344 games
2023
$1.6K410 games
2024
$1.4K606 games
2025
$1.2K626 games
2026
$658665 games

Top games

  1. 1Phasmophobia$657.7M
  2. 2PEAK$118M
  3. 3Indiana Jones and the Great Circle$45.3M
  4. 4Magical Girl Witch Trials$44.9M
  5. 5Big Walk$36.7M
  6. 6Content Warning$34.3M
  7. 7L.A. Noire$30.6M
  8. 8MECCHA CHAMELEON$28.4M
  9. 9Police Simulator: Patrol Officers$27.9M
  10. 10Heavy Rain$26.4M
  11. 11Blue Prince$26M
  12. 12Demonologist$18.6M
  13. 13Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter$17.8M
  14. 14Escape Simulator$16.2M
  15. 15The Forgotten City$13.7M
  16. 16Judgment$13.6M
  17. 17Fate Seeker II$12.6M
  18. 18Strange Horticulture$11.7M
  19. 19Murders on the Yangtze River$11.7M
  20. 20Lost Judgment$10.8M
  21. 21Unheard - Voices of Crime$10.6M
  22. 22Sanfu$9.3M
  23. 23We Were Here Together$9.2M
  24. 24The Precinct$8.6M
  25. 25LOCKDOWN Protocol$8.2M

Top developers

  1. Kinetic Games1 games · $657.7M
  2. Team PEAK1 games · $118M
  3. Frogwares13 games · $49.9M
  4. MachineGames1 games · $45.3M
  5. Acacia1 games · $44.9M
  6. Re,AER1 games · $44.9M
  7. House House1 games · $36.7M
  8. Philip1 games · $34.3M
  9. Skog1 games · $34.3M
  10. thePetHen1 games · $34.3M

Top publishers

  1. Kinetic Games1 games · $657.7M
  2. Evil Landfall?2 games · $152.3M
  3. Aggro Crab1 games · $118M
  4. Frogwares13 games · $49.9M
  5. Bethesda Softworks1 games · $45.3M
  6. CIRCLE LINE GAMES1 games · $44.9M
  7. Re,AER1 games · $44.9M
  8. Raw Fury12 games · $38.1M
  9. Panic1 games · $36.7M
  10. Rockstar Games2 games · $31.2M

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