Tags · Data as of October 12, 2026

How much do Programming games make on Steam?

Median revenue
$2.1K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$300–$21K
Top 10% earn over
$179.5K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
13%
All Steam: 10%
Games
578
Clear

How revenue is spread

Under $1K
244
$1K–10K
154
$10K–100K
102
$100K–1M
51
$1M–10M
24
$10M+
3

Median revenue by price

Under $5
$399209 games
$5–10
$1.8K194 games
$10–15
$15.2K88 games
$15–20
$129.5K55 games
$20–30
$50.7K24 games
$30+
$146.4K8 games

Median revenue by release year

2006
$764.4K1 games
2011
$947.3K1 games
2014
$143.9K5 games
2015
$855.3K9 games
2016
$144.7K13 games
2017
$4.3K22 games
2018
$29.5K22 games
2019
$35.2K23 games
2020
$1.3K46 games
2021
$4.1K64 games
2022
$7.1K53 games
2023
$1.3K52 games
2024
$1.2K76 games
2025
$71873 games
2026
$529118 games

Top games

  1. 1Stormworks: Build and Rescue$80.9M
  2. 2Baba Is You$15.5M
  3. 3Mad Games Tycoon 2$10.7M
  4. 4Hacknet$8.3M
  5. 5Starbase$7.8M
  6. 6Software Inc.$6.3M
  7. 7Opus Magnum$4.3M
  8. 8Turing Complete$4.1M
  9. 9while True: learn()$3.5M
  10. 10The Farmer Was Replaced$3.4M
  11. 11Autonauts$2.6M
  12. 12Juno: New Origins$2.2M
  13. 13Desynced$2M
  14. 14SHENZHEN I/O$2M
  15. 15Mad Games Tycoon$2M
  16. 16Arctic Eggs$1.9M
  17. 17Human Resource Machine$1.8M
  18. 18Duskers$1.7M
  19. 19Infinifactory$1.6M
  20. 20Hacker Simulator$1.5M
  21. 21Screeps: World$1.4M
  22. 22Grey Hack$1.3M
  23. 23City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins$1.3M
  24. 24Braid, Anniversary Edition$1.3M
  25. 25Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor$1.3M

Top developers

  1. Geometa1 games · $80.9M
  2. Hempuli Oy1 games · $15.5M
  3. Eggcode2 games · $12.7M
  4. Zachtronics7 games · $10.9M
  5. Team Fractal Alligator1 games · $8.3M
  6. Frozenbyte1 games · $7.8M
  7. Coredumping1 games · $6.3M
  8. LevelHead1 games · $4.1M
  9. Luden.io2 games · $3.7M
  10. Timon Herzog1 games · $3.4M

Top publishers

  1. Geometa1 games · $80.9M
  2. Hempuli Oy1 games · $15.5M
  3. Eggcode2 games · $12.7M
  4. Zachtronics7 games · $10.9M
  5. Fellow Traveller1 games · $8.3M
  6. Frozenbyte1 games · $7.8M
  7. Coredumping1 games · $6.3M
  8. LevelHead1 games · $4.1M
  9. Luden.io2 games · $3.7M
  10. Metaroot1 games · $3.4M

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